City to city
Zagreb to Budapest by train
Zagreb Glavni kolodvor → Budapest-Keleti
- Fastest
- ≈ 10h 23m
- Typical
- ≈ 12h 19m
- Direct trains
- No
- Fewest changes
- 1
- Operators
- OEBB Personenverkehr AG Kundenservice
Trains link Zagreb (Zagreb Glavni kolodvor) and Budapest (Budapest-Keleti) in about 10h 23m at best, with at least 1 change along the way. The corridor is part of the EuroCity Budapest–Zagreb (340 km, typically ≈ 6 h), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Zagreb to Budapest take?
The fastest trains cover Zagreb to Budapest in about 10h 23m; a typical journey takes around 12h 19m.
Is there a direct train from Zagreb to Budapest?
Usually not; expect at least 1 change on this journey.
Is the train or a flight faster from Zagreb to Budapest?
A typical flight works out roughly 8h 45m quicker door to door (about 3h 55m against 12h 40m 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
- ≈ 12h 40m
- Flight, door to door
- ≈ 3h 55m (est.)
- CO₂e per passenger
- ~13 kg train · ~41 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
- EuroCity Budapest–Zagreb The only Hungary–Croatia day train: along Balaton’s southern shore, over the Drava at Gyékényes and down through Zagorje to Zagreb.
Legendary routes through Zagreb or Budapest
- Railjet Vienna → Budapest
- EN Ister Budapest → Bucharest
- ICN Zagreb–Split Zagreb → Split
- Balaton InterCity Budapest → Siófok
More trains from Zagreb
- Zagreb → Ljubljana ≈ 2h 22m · direct
- Zagreb → Rijeka ≈ 4h 17m · direct
- Zagreb → Split ≈ 7h 01m · direct
More train routes in Hungary · Croatia · Austria.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.