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Irkutsk to Novosibirsk

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Irkutsk to Novosibirsk. From €113.42, fastest 5h 26m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Irkutsk to Novosibirsk runs about 19 times a day, with the first departure around 06:04 and the last around 19:34. One passenger pays between €113.42 and €125.22, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 5h 26m over 1,477 km, on services run by 3 operators across 1 mode.

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

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 3 operators and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares · Priced for 6 October 2026

€113.42 to €125.22

  • 171%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Irkutsk

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.

  • 06:04First departure
  • 19:34Last departure
  • 19Services per day
  • 79%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €281.57Fri18
  2. about €278.03Sat19
  3. about €206.05Sun20
  4. about €179.50Mon21
  5. about €179.50Tue22
  6. about €185.99Wed23
  7. about €197.20Thu24
  8. about €180.09Fri25
  9. about €180.68Sat26
  10. about €175.37Sun27
  11. about €147.05Mon28
  12. about €141.74Tue29
  13. about €151.18Wed30
  14. about €150.00Thu1
  15. about €157.08Fri2
  16. about €147.05Sat3
  17. about €130.53Sun4
  18. about €117.55Mon5
  19. about €113.42Tue6
  20. about €121.09Wed7
  21. about €147.64Thu8

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

A hotel room

A room in Novosibirsk for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Novosibirsk-Yuzhny and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Irkutsk to Novosibirsk

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

  1. €121.6890 days
  2. €103.9860 days
  3. €109.8845 days
  4. €131.1230 days
  5. €147.6421 days
  6. €150.0014 days
  7. €197.207 days
  8. €206.053 days
  9. €281.571 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €103.98.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 171 percent. The dearest point is €281.57, 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.
€281.57€103.98137142130456090

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

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Irkutsk to Novosibirsk and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

1 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.

The shape of it

1,477 km

1,434 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs west.

Who lives at each end

623,8691,612,833

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

IrkutskIrkutskNovosibirskNovosibirsk
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
79% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 21% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,477 km against 1,434 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 Krasnoyarsk, Bratsk, Barnaul, Tomsk. The gap between arriving and leaving is 60 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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.

Novosibirsk is large, and the road in from OVB can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Novosibirsk

Settled in advance, so the ride into Novosibirsk costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

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 Novosibirsk-Yuzhny

Most of the points near Novosibirsk-Yuzhny open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about Irkutsk to Novosibirsk

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 Irkutsk to Novosibirsk?

The fastest journey from Irkutsk to Novosibirsk takes 5h 26m door to door, of which 2h 16m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 5h 35m, 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 Irkutsk to Novosibirsk?

The cheapest fare from Irkutsk to Novosibirsk is €113.42, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €197.20. 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 Irkutsk to Novosibirsk?

The cheapest way from Irkutsk to Novosibirsk is by flight, at €113.42 for one passenger on 6 October 2026. That journey takes 5h 26m 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 Irkutsk to Novosibirsk?

Fares from Irkutsk to Novosibirsk bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €103.98. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 171 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 Irkutsk to Novosibirsk?

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Irkutsk to Novosibirsk, at €141.74. 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 Irkutsk to Novosibirsk?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Irkutsk to Novosibirsk, at €95.72 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 Irkutsk to Novosibirsk?

No operator record names Irkutsk to Novosibirsk directly. Globus, IrAero Airlines, S7 Airlines 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 Irkutsk to Novosibirsk?

79 percent of the services we sell from Irkutsk to Novosibirsk are direct. The rest connect at Krasnoyarsk, Bratsk, Barnaul, Tomsk, with about 60 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 Irkutsk to Novosibirsk use?

Services from Irkutsk to Novosibirsk by flight leave from Irkutsk IKT and arrive at Novosibirsk OVB. 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 Irkutsk to Novosibirsk?

0 of the 3 operators we sell from Irkutsk to Novosibirsk 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 Irkutsk to Novosibirsk on 17 September 2026: 1477 km of route against 1434 km in a straight line, 19 services a day, 3 operators a cheapest fare of €113.42, and 5h 26m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Novosibirsk and across Russia

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

Partner links. We do not sell tours or tickets. We earn a commission on a booking, and it never changes the price.

The two ends, compared

Irkutsk reaches 48 places in 10 countries on services we hold, over distances from 67 to 5,802 km. Novosibirsk reaches 104 places in 22 countries, from 48 to 5,417 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Irkutsk

  • 48Places you can leave for
  • 10Countries
  • 17Operators

Arriving in Novosibirsk

Leaving Novosibirsk

  • 104Places you can leave for
  • 22Countries
  • 28Operators

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