City to city
Warsaw to Kraków by train
Warszawa Centralna → Kraków Główny
- Fastest
- ≈ 2h 47m
- Typical
- ≈ 2h 53m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- PKP Intercity, Leo Express
Trains link Warsaw (Warszawa Centralna) and Kraków (Kraków Główny) in about 2h 47m at best, with no changes needed. The corridor is part of the EIP Pendolino (293 km, typically 2 h 21 min), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Warsaw to Kraków take?
The fastest trains cover Warsaw to Kraków in about 2h 47m; a typical journey takes around 2h 53m.
Is there a direct train from Warsaw to Kraków?
Yes: direct trains run between Warszawa Centralna and Kraków Główny.
This corridor in the atlas
- EIP Pendolino Rides Poland’s 1970s Central Main Line (CMK), engineered decades ahead of its time and now being upgraded to 250 km/h.
Legendary routes through Warsaw or Kraków
- EIP Pendolino Warsaw → Gdańsk
- Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper Kyiv → Warsaw
- Express InterCity Premium Warsaw → Katowice
- Express InterCity Warsaw → Poznań
Sleepers too: night trains from Warsaw.
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 → Wrocław ≈ 3h 35m · direct
- Warsaw → Berlin ≈ 7h 29m
More train routes in Poland · Ukraine.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.