City to city
Paris to Strasbourg by train
Gare de l'Est → Gare Centrale
- Fastest
- ≈ 1h 45m
- Typical
- ≈ 1h 52m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- Trains Express Régionaux, Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français, SNCF VOYAGEURS
Trains link Paris (Gare de l'Est) and Strasbourg (Gare Centrale) in about 1h 45m at best, with no changes needed. The corridor is part of the TGV Est (439 km, typically 1 h 46 min), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Paris to Strasbourg take?
The fastest trains cover Paris to Strasbourg in about 1h 45m; a typical journey takes around 1h 52m.
Is there a direct train from Paris to Strasbourg?
Yes: direct trains run between Gare de l'Est and Gare Centrale.
Is the train or a flight faster from Paris to Strasbourg?
Door to door, the train typically wins: about 2h 10m city centre to city centre, against roughly 4h 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
- ≈ 2h 10m
- Flight, door to door
- ≈ 4h (est.)
- CO₂e per passenger
- ~17 kg train · ~54 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 Est Where a modified TGV hit 574.8 km/h in 2007: still the world rail speed record for steel wheels.
Legendary routes through Paris or Strasbourg
- 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.