City to city
Venice to Vienna by train
Venezia Santa Lucia → Wien Hauptbahnhof
- Fastest
- ≈ 7h 09m
- Typical
- ≈ 8h 09m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- Trenitalia, ÖBB
Trains link Venice (Venezia Santa Lucia) and Vienna (Wien Hauptbahnhof) in about 7h 09m at best, with no changes needed. The corridor is part of the Railjet Wien–Venezia (612 km, typically ≈ 7 h 10 min), one of 1516 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Venice to Vienna take?
The fastest trains cover Venice to Vienna in about 7h 09m; a typical journey takes around 8h 09m.
Is there a direct train from Venice to Vienna?
Yes: direct trains run between Venezia Santa Lucia and Wien Hauptbahnhof.
Is the train or a flight faster from Venice to Vienna?
A typical flight works out roughly 4h 25m quicker door to door (about 4h 05m against 8h 30m 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
- ≈ 8h 30m
- Flight, door to door
- ≈ 4h 05m (est.)
- CO₂e per passenger
- ~18 kg train · ~59 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
- Railjet Wien–Venezia One seat Vienna to Venice: over the Semmering, through the new Koralm tunnel to Klagenfurt and Villach, then the 1879 Pontebbana across the Julian Alps.
Legendary routes through Venice or Vienna
- Railjet Vienna → Budapest
- Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Paris → Venice
- Semmeringbahn Vienna → Graz
- Nightjet Vienna → Zurich
Sleepers too: night trains from Vienna.
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 → Milan ≈ 2h 56m
- Venice → Rome ≈ 3h 51m · direct
More train routes in Austria · Italy · Hungary.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.