City to city
Warsaw to Berlin by train
Warszawa Centralna → Berlin Hauptbahnhof
- Journey time
- ≈ 7h 29m
- Direct trains
- No
- Fewest changes
- 1
- Operators
- PKP Intercity, NEB Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn, DB Regio AG Nordost, DB Regio AG
Trains link Warsaw (Warszawa Centralna) and Berlin (Berlin Hauptbahnhof) in about 7h 29m at best, with at least 1 change along the way. The corridor is part of the Berlin-Warszawa-Express (570 km, typically 5 h 25 min), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Warsaw to Berlin take?
Trains cover Warsaw to Berlin in about 7h 29m, with little variation between departures.
Is there a direct train from Warsaw to Berlin?
Usually not; expect at least 1 change on this journey.
Is the train or a flight faster from Warsaw to Berlin?
A typical flight works out roughly 3h 40m quicker door to door (about 4h 10m against 7h 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
- ≈ 7h 50m
- Flight, door to door
- ≈ 4h 10m (est.)
- CO₂e per passenger
- ~22 kg train · ~70 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
- Berlin-Warszawa-Express Six EuroCitys a day across the North European Plain, with the cult WARS dining car serving pierogi between the Oder and the Vistula.
Legendary routes through Warsaw or Berlin
- ICE Sprinter Berlin → Munich
- EIP Pendolino Warsaw → Kraków
- ICE Hamburg → Berlin
- EIP Pendolino Warsaw → Gdańsk
Sleepers too: night trains from Warsaw · night trains from Berlin.
More trains from Warsaw
- Warsaw → Łódź ≈ 1h 05m · direct
- Warsaw → Poznań ≈ 2h 18m · direct
- Warsaw → Gdańsk ≈ 2h 25m · direct
- Warsaw → Katowice ≈ 2h 30m · direct
- Warsaw → Kraków ≈ 2h 47m · direct
- Warsaw → Wrocław ≈ 3h 35m · direct
More train routes in Germany · Poland.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.