One passenger pays £36.10, every fee included. Services cover 394 km and are run by 2 operators across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at £36.10, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares · Priced for 27 October 2026
£36.10
- 201%Moves across the booking window
201%Departure times on this route
Departure times on this route12Go lists the departures it sells between Mainz and Amsterdam.
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about £93.12Wed7
- about £101.60Thu8
- about £83.69Fri9
- about £77.10Sat10
- about £65.31Sun11
- about £57.31Mon12
- about £57.31Tue13
- about £44.59Wed14
- about £58.72Thu15
- about £48.35Fri16
- about £53.06Sat17
- about £57.77Sun18
- about £37.98Mon19
- about £49.77Tue20
- about £42.23Wed21
- about £50.23Thu22
- about £51.18Fri23
- about £50.71Sat24
- about £41.76Sun25
- about £38.93Mon26
- about £36.10Tue27
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
The train gets you into Amsterdam. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
A room in Amsterdam for the night the train gets in
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When to book Mainz to Amsterdam
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- £30.9290 days
- £50.2360 days
- £38.4645 days
- £40.3430 days
- £36.1021 days
- £49.7714 days
- £57.317 days
- £83.693 days
- £93.121 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £30.92.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 201 percent. The dearest point is £93.12, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 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 90 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Mainz to Amsterdam 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
394 km
356 km as the crow flies, 11% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north-west.
Who lives at each end
222,889 → 741,636
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
The route
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
- 0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 394 km against 356 km in a straight line, a detour of 11 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Köln, Brussels, Bonn. The gap between arriving and leaving is 62 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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.
The fare from AMS into Amsterdam is set by whoever drives it.
A car waiting when you land in Amsterdam
Settled in advance, so the ride into Amsterdam 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 Amsterdam Centraal
Most of the points near Amsterdam Centraal open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Mainz to Amsterdam
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 Mainz to Amsterdam?
Mainz to Amsterdam covers 394 km. Each operator's own departure and arrival times for the date you pick are in the search at the top of this page, beside the total price.
How much does it cost to travel from Mainz to Amsterdam?
The cheapest fare from Mainz to Amsterdam is £36.10, as of 6 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £57.77. 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 Mainz to Amsterdam?
The cheapest way from Mainz to Amsterdam is by train, at £36.10 for one passenger on 27 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.
When should I book Mainz to Amsterdam?
Fares from Mainz to Amsterdam bottom out around 90 days before departure, at £30.92. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 201 percent, measured on 6 October 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Mainz to Amsterdam?
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Mainz to Amsterdam, at £38.93. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 6 October 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Mainz to Amsterdam?
March is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Mainz to Amsterdam, at £29.98 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 Mainz to Amsterdam?
2 operators sell services from Mainz to Amsterdam across 1 mode: DB Fernverkehr, Eurostar. 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 Mainz to Amsterdam?
0 percent of the services we sell from Mainz to Amsterdam are direct. The rest connect at Köln, Brussels, Bonn, with about 62 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 Mainz to Amsterdam use?
Services from Mainz to Amsterdam by train leave from Mainz Hbf and arrive at Amsterdam Centraal. 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 Mainz to Amsterdam?
2 of the 2 operators we sell from Mainz to Amsterdam allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs £4.28. 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 names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
Being on the water gives Amsterdam a set of days out that do not start at a station.
Day trips out of Amsterdam and across Netherlands
Day trips that leave Amsterdam in the morning and cover a good part of Netherlands by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Mainz reaches 22 places in 7 countries on services we hold, over distances from 65 to 621 km. Amsterdam reaches 223 places in 63 countries, from 22 to 12,142 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Mainz
- 22Places you can leave for
- 7Countries
- 13Operators
7
13Arriving in Amsterdam
Leaving Amsterdam
- 223Places you can leave for
- 63Countries
- 99Operators