City to city
Paris to Montpellier by train
Gare de Lyon → Montpellier Saint-Roch
- Fastest
- ≈ 3h 29m
- Typical
- ≈ 3h 53m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français, SNCF VOYAGEURS, Trenitalia, RENFE OPERADORA
Trains link Paris (Gare de Lyon) and Montpellier (Montpellier Saint-Roch) in about 3h 29m at best, with no changes needed. The corridor is part of the TGV inOui (750 km, typically 3 h 10 min), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Paris to Montpellier take?
The fastest trains cover Paris to Montpellier in about 3h 29m; a typical journey takes around 3h 53m.
Is there a direct train from Paris to Montpellier?
Yes: direct trains run between Gare de Lyon and Montpellier Saint-Roch.
Is the train or a flight faster from Paris to Montpellier?
Door to door, the train typically wins: about 4h 15m city centre to city centre, against roughly 4h 20m for a typical flight once airport time is counted. The train also emits about 3× less CO₂e, even on conservative official emission factors.
- Train, door to door
- ≈ 4h 15m
- Flight, door to door
- ≈ 4h 20m (est.)
- CO₂e per passenger
- ~25 kg train · ~81 kg plane
Flight time and emissions are transparent estimates, not airline schedules — method, factors and all 109 compared pairs on Train vs plane in Europe.
This corridor in the atlas
- TGV inOui Races down the Rhône on the LGV Méditerranée, then rides the 2017 Montpellier bypass, the first new stretch of French high-speed line in a decade, to the edge of the Camargue.
Legendary routes through Paris or Montpellier
- Eurostar London → Paris
- TGV inOui Paris → Marseille
- Eurostar (Thalys) Paris → Amsterdam
- Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Paris → Venice
Sleepers too: night trains from Paris.
More trains from Paris
- Paris → Reims ≈ 46 min · direct
- Paris → Lille ≈ 1h 17m · direct
- Paris → Brussels ≈ 1h 22m · direct
- Paris → Rennes ≈ 1h 30m · direct
- Paris → Nancy ≈ 1h 35m · direct
- Paris → Dijon ≈ 1h 38m · direct
More train routes in France · United Kingdom · Belgium.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.