Cirebon to Surabaya runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:02 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €60.29 and €70.74, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 4h 24m over 537 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
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
€60.29 to €70.74
- 161%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Cirebon
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.
- 06:02First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 5Services per day
- 20%Run direct
KAI runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.
Buying this journey
Bookaway lists departures for Cirebon to Surabaya on your date, and you pay on their side.
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €135.64Mon14
- about €126.29Tue15
- about €117.49Wed16
- about €122.44Thu17
- about €107.04Fri18
- about €127.94Sat19
- about €114.74Sun20
- about €70.74Mon21
- about €71.29Tue22
- about €80.64Wed23
- about €99.89Thu24
- about €97.69Fri25
- about €90.54Sat26
- about €88.89Sun27
- about €68.54Mon28
- about €60.29Tue29
- about €62.49Wed30
- about €81.19Thu1
- about €73.49Fri2
- about €77.34Sat3
- about €65.24Sun4
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 train gets you into Surabaya. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Surabaya for the night the train gets in
Sort by distance from Surabaya Kota railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Cirebon to Surabaya
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €78.9990 days
- €65.7960 days
- €52.0445 days
- €52.0430 days
- €65.2421 days
- €88.8914 days
- €114.747 days
- €117.493 days
- €135.641 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €52.04.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 161 percent. The dearest point is €135.64, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Cirebon to Surabaya 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
537 km
467 km as the crow flies, 15% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs east.
Who lives at each end
344,851 → 3,018,022
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
How we know
0/2
2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.
The route
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 537 km against 467 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Pekalongan, Semarang, Pemalang, Tegal. The gap between arriving and leaving is 96 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 10 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
Surabaya is large, and the road in from SUB can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.
A car waiting when you land in Surabaya
Settled in advance, so the ride into Surabaya costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.
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Who runs this route
The train gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Left luggage near Surabaya Kota railway station
Most of the points near Surabaya Kota railway station open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Cirebon to Surabaya
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 Cirebon to Surabaya?
The fastest journey from Cirebon to Surabaya takes 4h 24m door to door, of which 4h 13m is spent moving, on the train. Most services take around 4h 41m, 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 Cirebon to Surabaya?
The cheapest fare from Cirebon to Surabaya is €60.29, as of 13 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €98.79. 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 Cirebon to Surabaya?
The cheapest way from Cirebon to Surabaya is by train, at €70.74 for one passenger on 29 September 2026. That journey takes 4h 57m 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 Cirebon to Surabaya?
Fares from Cirebon to Surabaya bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €52.04. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 161 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 Cirebon to Surabaya?
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Cirebon to Surabaya, at €70.74. 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 Cirebon to Surabaya?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Cirebon to Surabaya, at €44.89 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 Cirebon to Surabaya?
1 operators sell services from Cirebon to Surabaya across 1 mode: KAI. 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 Cirebon to Surabaya?
20 percent of the services we sell from Cirebon to Surabaya are direct. The rest connect at Pekalongan, Semarang, Pemalang, Tegal, with about 96 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 Cirebon to Surabaya use?
Services from Cirebon to Surabaya by train leave from Cirebon railway station and arrive at Surabaya Kota railway station. Allow about 44m 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 Cirebon to Surabaya?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Cirebon to Surabaya 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.
Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.
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 Cirebon to Surabaya on 13 September 2026: 537 km of route against 467 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €60.29, and 4h 24m 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 Surabaya a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Surabaya and across Indonesia
Day trips that leave Surabaya in the morning and cover a good part of Indonesia by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Cirebon reaches 49 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 45 to 612 km. Surabaya reaches 89 places in 8 countries, from 42 to 8,662 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Cirebon
- 49Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 2Operators
Arriving in Surabaya
Leaving Surabaya
- 89Places you can leave for
- 8Countries
- 23Operators