One passenger pays between £56.37 and £104.24, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. Services cover 1,097 km and are run by 4 operators across 2 modes.
What one seat costs
The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 0 operators and 2 ways of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.
Typical fares · Priced for 26 October 2026
£56.37 to £104.24
- 226%Moves across the booking window
226%Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about £156.26Wed7
- about £133.64Thu8
- about £123.28Fri9
- about £141.18Sat10
- about £122.80Sun11
- about £101.60Mon12
- about £106.31Tue13
- about £84.64Wed14
- about £93.12Thu15
- about £103.96Fri16
- about £95.47Sat17
- about £97.83Sun18
- about £72.38Mon19
- about £70.50Tue20
- about £62.96Wed21
- about £83.22Thu22
- about £85.10Fri23
- about £74.27Sat24
- about £79.46Sun25
- about £56.37Mon26
- about £69.09Tue27
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
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A room in Helsinki for the night the train gets in
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When to book Oslo to Helsinki
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- £47.8890 days
- £79.4660 days
- £58.7245 days
- £68.6230 days
- £69.0921 days
- £70.5014 days
- £106.317 days
- £123.283 days
- £156.261 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £47.88.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 226 percent. The dearest point is £156.26, 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.
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This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Oslo to Helsinki 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
1,097 km
787 km as the crow flies, 39% further by the route services take. The bearing runs east.
Who lives at each end
1,082,575 → 658,864
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 1,097 km against 787 km in a straight line, a detour of 39 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Stockholm, Copenhagen. The gap between arriving and leaving is 60 minutes, of which about 14 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.
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 Helsinki Central
Most of the points near Helsinki Central open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Oslo to Helsinki
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 Oslo to Helsinki?
Oslo to Helsinki covers 1,097 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 Oslo to Helsinki?
The cheapest fare from Oslo to Helsinki is £56.37, as of 6 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £109.06. 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 Oslo to Helsinki?
The cheapest way from Oslo to Helsinki is by train, at £56.37 for one passenger on 26 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.
When should I book Oslo to Helsinki?
Fares from Oslo to Helsinki bottom out around 90 days before departure, at £47.88. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 226 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 Oslo to Helsinki?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Oslo to Helsinki, at £70.50. 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 Oslo to Helsinki?
January is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Oslo to Helsinki, at £54.48 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 Oslo to Helsinki?
4 operators sell services from Oslo to Helsinki across 2 modes: Finnlines, Silja Line, Sj, Thomsonfly. 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 Oslo to Helsinki?
0 percent of the services we sell from Oslo to Helsinki are direct. The rest connect at Stockholm, Copenhagen, with about 60 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
How much CO2 does the journey from Oslo to Helsinki produce?
Travelling from Oslo to Helsinki by train produces about 22.9 kg of CO2 per passenger, the lowest of any mode on this corridor. The same journey by Flight produces about 124.4 kg, roughly 5 times as much for one passenger.
Which station or terminal do services from Oslo to Helsinki use?
Services from Oslo to Helsinki by train leave from Oslo Sentralstasjon and arrive at HELSINKI. Allow about 1h 7m 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 Oslo to Helsinki?
3 of the 4 operators we sell from Oslo to Helsinki 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 Helsinki a set of days out that do not start at a station.
Day trips out of Helsinki and across Finland
Day trips that leave Helsinki in the morning and cover a good part of Finland by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Oslo reaches 58 places in 28 countries on services we hold, over distances from 53 to 9,687 km. Helsinki reaches 55 places in 30 countries, from 82 to 9,272 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Oslo
- 58Places you can leave for
- 28Countries
- 46Operators
28
46Arriving in Helsinki
Leaving Helsinki
- 55Places you can leave for
- 30Countries
- 4Operators