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Baotou to Nanjing

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Baotou to Nanjing. From €107.52, fastest 5h 11m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Baotou to Nanjing runs about 4 times a day, with the first departure around 06:40 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €107.52 and €134.07, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 5h 11m over 1,282 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 13 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares

€107.52 to €134.07

  • 205%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Baotou

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:40First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 4Services per day
  • 25%Run direct

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €266.82Mon14
  2. about €193.66Tue15
  3. about €249.71Wed16
  4. about €231.42Thu17
  5. about €224.34Fri18
  6. about €197.20Sat19
  7. about €227.29Sun20
  8. about €160.03Mon21
  9. about €134.07Tue22
  10. about €139.97Wed23
  11. about €191.89Thu24
  12. about €186.58Fri25
  13. about €180.68Sat26
  14. about €159.44Sun27
  15. about €107.52Mon28
  16. about €111.65Tue29
  17. about €116.37Wed30
  18. about €151.77Thu1
  19. about €132.30Fri2
  20. about €124.63Sat3
  21. about €121.68Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

The flight gets you into Nanjing. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Nanjing for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Nanjing railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Baotou to Nanjing

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €166.5290 days
  2. €121.6860 days
  3. €113.4245 days
  4. €87.4630 days
  5. €121.6821 days
  6. €159.4414 days
  7. €227.297 days
  8. €249.713 days
  9. €266.821 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €87.46.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 205 percent. The dearest point is €266.82, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€266.82€87.461371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Baotou to Nanjing and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.

The shape of it

1,282 km

1,244 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south-east.

Who lives at each end

2,761,7009,314,685

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

Observed

Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.

The route

BaotouBaotouNanjingNanjing
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,282 km against 1,244 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Zhengzhou, Shijiazhuang, Yan’an, Taiyuan. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.

Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Nanjing railway station

Most of the points near Nanjing railway station open before the first train and shut after the last one.

Partner links. We do not run these networks. We earn a commission on a booking, and the price is the same as going direct.

Questions about Baotou to Nanjing

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does it take to get from Baotou to Nanjing?

The fastest journey from Baotou to Nanjing takes 5h 11m door to door, of which 2h 13m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 5h 20m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Baotou to Nanjing?

The cheapest fare from Baotou to Nanjing is €107.52, as of 13 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €184.22. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Baotou to Nanjing?

The cheapest way from Baotou to Nanjing is by flight, at €134.07 for one passenger on 28 September 2026. That journey takes 5h 23m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Baotou to Nanjing?

Fares from Baotou to Nanjing bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €87.46. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 205 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Baotou to Nanjing?

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Baotou to Nanjing, at €134.07. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 13 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Baotou to Nanjing?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Baotou to Nanjing, at €86.28 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs services from Baotou to Nanjing?

1 operators sell services from Baotou to Nanjing across 1 mode: China Eastern Airlines. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from Baotou to Nanjing?

20 percent of the services we sell from Baotou to Nanjing are direct. The rest connect at Zhengzhou, Shijiazhuang, Yan’an, Taiyuan, with about 49 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Baotou to Nanjing use?

Services from Baotou to Nanjing by flight leave from Baotou BAV and arrive at Nanjing NKG. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Baotou to Nanjing?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Baotou to Nanjing allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Baotou to Nanjing on 13 September 2026: 1282 km of route against 1244 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €107.52, and 5h 11m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Being on the water gives Nanjing a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Nanjing and across China

Day trips that leave Nanjing in the morning and cover a good part of China by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Baotou reaches 31 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 94 to 1,976 km. Nanjing reaches 121 places in 14 countries, from 44 to 11,363 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Baotou

  • 31Places you can leave for
  • 1Countries
  • 11Operators

Arriving in Nanjing

Leaving Nanjing

  • 121Places you can leave for
  • 14Countries
  • 41Operators

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