City to city
Seville to Madrid by train
Sevilla-Santa Justa → Madrid-Puerta de Atocha
- Fastest
- ≈ 2h 38m
- Typical
- ≈ 2h 41m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- OUIGO Espana, RENFE OPERADORA
Trains link Seville (Sevilla-Santa Justa) and Madrid (Madrid-Puerta de Atocha) in about 2h 38m at best, with no changes needed. The corridor is part of the AVE (471 km, typically 2 h 20 min), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Seville to Madrid take?
The fastest trains cover Seville to Madrid in about 2h 38m; a typical journey takes around 2h 41m.
Is there a direct train from Seville to Madrid?
Yes: direct trains run between Sevilla-Santa Justa and Madrid-Puerta de Atocha.
Is the train or a flight faster from Seville to Madrid?
Door to door, the train typically wins: about 3h 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
- ≈ 3h
- Flight, door to door
- ≈ 4h (est.)
- CO₂e per passenger
- ~17 kg train · ~53 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
- AVE Spain’s first AVE, built for Expo ’92 in standard gauge, the line that reset Spanish railways.
- Al Ándalus A rolling Belle Époque palace whose 1929 sleeping cars once carried the British court from Calais to the Riviera: now easing from Seville to Madrid in seven days.
Legendary routes through Seville or Madrid
More trains from Seville
- Seville → Córdoba ≈ 41 min · direct
- Seville → Málaga ≈ 2h 05m · direct
- Seville → Granada ≈ 2h 23m · direct
- Seville → Valencia ≈ 4h 22m · direct
- Seville → Barcelona ≈ 6h 07m · direct
More train routes in Spain.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.