City to city
Warsaw to Vienna by train
Warszawa Centralna → Wien Hauptbahnhof
- Fastest
- ≈ 7h 45m
- Typical
- ≈ 8h 41m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- PKP Intercity, Leo Express, OEBB Personenverkehr AG Kundenservice, Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko, a.s.
Trains link Warsaw (Warszawa Centralna) and Vienna (Wien Hauptbahnhof) in about 7h 45m at best, with no changes needed. The corridor is part of the Chopin (690 km, typically ≈ 9 h 30 min), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Warsaw to Vienna take?
The fastest trains cover Warsaw to Vienna in about 7h 45m; a typical journey takes around 8h 41m.
Is there a direct train from Warsaw to Vienna?
Yes: direct trains run between Warszawa Centralna and Wien Hauptbahnhof.
Is the train or a flight faster from Warsaw to Vienna?
A typical flight works out roughly 4h 45m quicker door to door (about 4h 15m against 9h 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
- ≈ 9h
- Flight, door to door
- ≈ 4h 15m (est.)
- CO₂e per passenger
- ~24 kg train · ~76 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
- Chopin The Chopin sleeper has linked Vienna and Warsaw since at least the 1980s, slipping through the Moravian Gate by night and finishing down Poland’s CMK fast line into the capital before six.
Legendary routes through Warsaw or Vienna
- EIP Pendolino Warsaw → Kraków
- Railjet Vienna → Budapest
- Semmeringbahn Vienna → Graz
- Nightjet Vienna → Zurich
Sleepers too: night trains from Warsaw · night trains from Vienna.
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 Austria · Czechia · Poland.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.