City to city
Venice to Milan by train
Venezia Santa Lucia → Centrale FS
- Fastest
- ≈ 2h 56m
- Typical
- ≈ 3h 26m
- Direct trains
- No
- Fewest changes
- 1
- Operators
- TRENITALIA, Trenord
Trains link Venice (Venezia Santa Lucia) and Milan (Centrale FS) in about 2h 56m at best, with at least 1 change along the way. The corridor is part of the Frecciarossa Milan–Venice (267 km, typically 2 h 13 min), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Venice to Milan take?
The fastest trains cover Venice to Milan in about 2h 56m; a typical journey takes around 3h 26m.
Is there a direct train from Venice to Milan?
Usually not; expect at least 1 change on this journey.
This corridor in the atlas
- Frecciarossa Milan–Venice 300 km/h out of Milan, then Verona, Vicenza and Padua: finishing with the causeway glide across the lagoon to Santa Lucia’s doorstep on the Grand Canal.
Legendary routes through Venice or Milan
- Frecciarossa Milan → Rome
- Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Paris → Venice
- Gotthard Express Zurich → Milan
- Frecciarossa Turin → Milan
More trains from Venice
- Venice → Verona ≈ 1h 31m · direct
- Venice → Bologna ≈ 1h 35m · direct
- Venice → Florence ≈ 2h 15m · direct
- Venice → Trieste ≈ 2h 15m · direct
- Venice → Rome ≈ 3h 51m · direct
- Venice → Vienna ≈ 7h 09m · direct
More train routes in Italy · France · Switzerland.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.