City to city
Prague to Vienna by train
Praha hlavní nádraží → Wien Hauptbahnhof
- Journey time
- ≈ 4h 12m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- České dráhy, a.s., OEBB Personenverkehr AG Kundenservice, Ceske Drahy, RegioJet a.s.
Trains link Prague (Praha hlavní nádraží) and Vienna (Wien Hauptbahnhof) in about 4h 12m at best, with no changes needed. The corridor is part of the Railjet (404 km, typically ≈ 4 h), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Prague to Vienna take?
Trains cover Prague to Vienna in about 4h 12m, with little variation between departures.
Is there a direct train from Prague to Vienna?
Yes: direct trains run between Praha hlavní nádraží and Wien Hauptbahnhof.
This corridor in the atlas
- Railjet Follows the Habsburg Empire’s first steam railway of 1839. Prague, Brno and Vienna strung like pearls.
Legendary routes through Prague or Vienna
- Railjet Vienna → Budapest
- Semmeringbahn Vienna → Graz
- Nightjet Vienna → Zurich
- European Sleeper Brussels → Prague
Sleepers too: night trains from Prague · night trains from Vienna.
More trains from Prague
- Prague → Dresden ≈ 2h 17m · direct
- Prague → Brno ≈ 2h 36m · direct
- Prague → Berlin ≈ 3h 58m · direct
- Prague → Bratislava ≈ 4h 34m · direct
- Prague → Kraków ≈ 5h 50m · direct
- Prague → Munich ≈ 6h 08m
More train routes in Czechia · Austria · Hungary.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.