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Nanjing to Seoul

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Nanjing to Seoul. From €80.38, fastest 4h 50m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Nanjing to Seoul runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:10 and the last around 14:52. One passenger pays between €80.38 and €86.28, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 4h 50m over 995 km, on services run by 2 operators across 1 mode.

Checked 15 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 2 operators and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares

€80.38 to €86.28

  • 137%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Nanjing

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.

  • 06:10First departure
  • 14:52Last departure
  • 5Services per day
  • 80%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €190.71Wed16
  2. about €225.52Thu17
  3. about €151.77Fri18
  4. about €189.53Sat19
  5. about €165.93Sun20
  6. about €144.99Mon21
  7. about €104.57Tue22
  8. about €110.34Wed23
  9. about €139.97Thu24
  10. about €131.12Fri25
  11. about €145.28Sat26
  12. about €118.14Sun27
  13. about €101.03Mon28
  14. about €86.28Tue29
  15. about €96.04Wed30
  16. about €105.16Thu1
  17. about €103.98Fri2
  18. about €98.67Sat3
  19. about €102.21Sun4
  20. about €87.24Mon5
  21. about €80.38Tue6

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

A hotel room

A room in Seoul for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Seoul 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 Nanjing to Seoul

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

  1. €85.6990 days
  2. €83.9260 days
  3. €93.3645 days
  4. €97.1430 days
  5. €80.3821 days
  6. €86.2814 days
  7. €104.577 days
  8. €151.773 days
  9. €190.711 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €80.38.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 137 percent. The dearest point is €190.71, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€190.71€80.381371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 21 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

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

Clocks

1 hours ahead on arrival. The clock moves even though you do not.

The shape of it

995 km

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

Who lives at each end

9,314,68510,349,312

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

NanjingNanjingSeoulSeoul
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
50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 995 km against 966 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 Weihai, Qingdao, Wuxi, Nantong. 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. 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 Seoul Station

Most of the points near Seoul Station open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about Nanjing to Seoul

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 Nanjing to Seoul?

The fastest journey from Nanjing to Seoul takes 4h 50m door to door, of which 1h 40m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 4h 56m, 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 Nanjing to Seoul?

The cheapest fare from Nanjing to Seoul is €80.38, as of 15 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €131.71. 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 Nanjing to Seoul?

The cheapest way from Nanjing to Seoul is by flight, at €86.28 for one passenger on 6 October 2026. That journey takes 4h 50m 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 Nanjing to Seoul?

Fares from Nanjing to Seoul bottom out around 21 days before departure, at €80.38. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 137 percent, measured on 15 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

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

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Nanjing to Seoul, at €86.28. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 15 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Nanjing to Seoul?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Nanjing to Seoul, at €67.99 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 Nanjing to Seoul?

2 operators sell services from Nanjing to Seoul across 1 mode: Asiana Airlines, 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 Nanjing to Seoul?

50 percent of the services we sell from Nanjing to Seoul are direct. The rest connect at Weihai, Qingdao, Wuxi, Nantong, 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 Nanjing to Seoul use?

Services from Nanjing to Seoul by flight leave from Nanjing NKG and arrive at Seoul ICN. 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 Nanjing to Seoul?

0 of the 2 operators we sell from Nanjing to Seoul 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 Nanjing to Seoul on 15 September 2026: 995 km of route against 966 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €80.38, and 4h 50m 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 Seoul 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 Seoul and across South Korea

Day trips that leave Seoul in the morning and cover a good part of South Korea by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Nanjing reaches 121 places in 14 countries on services we hold, over distances from 44 to 11,363 km. Seoul reaches 195 places in 55 countries, from 42 to 12,052 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Nanjing

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

Arriving in Seoul

Leaving Seoul

  • 195Places you can leave for
  • 55Countries
  • 83Operators

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