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Iași to Chisinau

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Iași to Chisinau. From €12.99, fastest 1h 34m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Iași to Chisinau runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:48 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €12.99, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 1h 34m over 111 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 17 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €12.99, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for 6 October 2026

€12.99

  • 254%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Iași

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.

  • 06:48First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 5Services per day
  • 20%Run direct

cfr runs this service and does not sell it here. 12Go takes the payment.

Buying this journey

12Go sells in Moldova. Enter Iași and Chisinau on their side to see what is running.

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Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €42.14Fri18
  2. about €38.29Sat19
  3. about €37.74Sun20
  4. about €20.14Mon21
  5. about €26.74Tue22
  6. about €28.39Wed23
  7. about €32.79Thu24
  8. about €19.59Fri25
  9. about €19.59Sat26
  10. about €18.49Sun27
  11. about €20.69Mon28
  12. about €21.79Tue29
  13. about €16.84Wed30
  14. about €22.89Thu1
  15. about €15.74Fri2
  16. about €16.29Sat3
  17. about €14.64Sun4
  18. about €14.09Mon5
  19. about €12.99Tue6
  20. about €13.54Wed7
  21. about €22.34Thu8

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 Chisinau. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Chisinau for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Chișinău 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 Iași to Chisinau

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

  1. €17.3990 days
  2. €11.8960 days
  3. €14.0945 days
  4. €16.2930 days
  5. €22.3421 days
  6. €22.8914 days
  7. €32.797 days
  8. €37.743 days
  9. €42.141 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.89.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 254 percent. The dearest point is €42.14, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€42.14€11.89137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Iași to Chisinau 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

111 km

97 km as the crow flies, 14% further by the route services take. The bearing runs east.

Who lives at each end

378,954635,994

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

IaşiIaşiChisinauChisinau
The journey

What the journey 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 111 km against 97 km in a straight line, a detour of 14 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Bacău, Roman, Piatra Neamţ, Bârlad. The gap between arriving and leaving is 56 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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.

The fare from RMO into Chisinau is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Chisinau

Settled in advance, so the ride into Chisinau 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 lockers

Left luggage near Chișinău railway station

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

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Questions about Iași to Chisinau

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 Iași to Chisinau?

The fastest journey from Iași to Chisinau takes 1h 34m door to door, of which 57m is spent moving, on the train. Most services take around 1h 38m, 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 Iași to Chisinau?

The cheapest fare from Iași to Chisinau is €12.99, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €20.14. 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 Iași to Chisinau?

The cheapest way from Iași to Chisinau is by train, at €12.99 for one passenger on 6 October 2026. That journey takes 1h 41m 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 Iași to Chisinau?

Fares from Iași to Chisinau bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €11.89. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 254 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Iași to Chisinau?

Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Iași to Chisinau, at €16.84. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 17 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Iași to Chisinau?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Iași to Chisinau, at €13.54 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 Iași to Chisinau?

No operator record names Iași to Chisinau directly. cfr publish service areas covering both ends and may serve it, so we list them as possible operators rather than confirmed ones.

Is there a direct service from Iași to Chisinau?

20 percent of the services we sell from Iași to Chisinau are direct. The rest connect at Bacău, Roman, Piatra Neamţ, Bârlad, with about 56 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 Iași to Chisinau use?

Services from Iași to Chisinau by train leave from Iași Railway Station and arrive at Chișinău 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 Iași to Chisinau?

1 of the 1 operators we sell from Iași to Chisinau 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 Iași to Chisinau on 17 September 2026: 111 km of route against 97 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €12.99, and 1h 34m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

The train is the simple part. What you do once you are in Chisinau is somebody else's catalogue.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Chisinau and across Moldova

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

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The two ends, compared

Iași reaches 69 places in 20 countries on services we hold, over distances from 58 to 2,602 km. Chisinau reaches 73 places in 29 countries, from 51 to 3,374 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Iași

  • 69Places you can leave for
  • 20Countries
  • 16Operators

Arriving in Chisinau

Leaving Chisinau

  • 73Places you can leave for
  • 29Countries
  • 29Operators

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