City to city
Paris to Venice by train
Gare de Lyon → Venezia Santa Lucia
- Fastest
- ≈ 10h 26m
- Typical
- ≈ 11h 30m
- Direct trains
- No
- Fewest changes
- 2
- Operators
- SNCF VOYAGEURS, TRENITALIA, Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB
Trains link Paris (Gare de Lyon) and Venice (Venezia Santa Lucia) in about 10h 26m at best, with at least 2 changes along the way. The corridor is part of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (1,270 km, typically ≈ 21 h), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Paris to Venice take?
The fastest trains cover Paris to Venice in about 10h 26m; a typical journey takes around 11h 30m.
Is there a direct train from Paris to Venice?
Usually not; expect at least 2 changes on this journey.
Is the train or a flight faster from Paris to Venice?
A typical flight works out roughly 7h 10m quicker door to door (about 4h 40m against 11h 50m by train, once airport time is counted) — but the train emits about 3× less CO₂e, even on conservative official emission factors.
- Train, door to door
- ≈ 11h 50m
- Flight, door to door
- ≈ 4h 40m (est.)
- CO₂e per passenger
- ~36 kg train · ~115 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
- Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Belmond’s restored Art Deco sleepers of the 1920s–30s: black tie encouraged as the Alps slide past the champagne bar.
Legendary routes through Paris or Venice
- Eurostar London → Paris
- TGV inOui Paris → Marseille
- Eurostar (Thalys) Paris → Amsterdam
- TGV inOui Paris → Bordeaux
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 · Switzerland · Austria.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.