Taiping to George Town runs about 4 times a day, with the first departure around 06:37 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €13.54 and €14.09, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 1h 25m over 88 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.
Typical fares
€13.54 to €14.09
- 120%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Taiping
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.
- 06:37First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 4Services per day
- 25%Run direct
Keretapi Tanah Melayu runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.
Buying this journey
Bookaway lists departures for Taiping to George Town on your date, and you pay on their side.
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €21.24Tue15
- about €28.39Wed16
- about €26.19Thu17
- about €23.44Fri18
- about €19.04Sat19
- about €18.49Sun20
- about €17.39Mon21
- about €16.29Tue22
- about €16.29Wed23
- about €20.69Thu24
- about €16.29Fri25
- about €18.49Sat26
- about €17.94Sun27
- about €14.09Mon28
- about €14.09Tue29
- about €14.64Wed30
- about €17.94Thu1
- about €16.29Fri2
- about €16.84Sat3
- about €15.74Sun4
- about €13.54Mon5
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 George Town. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in George Town for the night the train gets in
Sort by distance from Komtar station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Taiping to George Town
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €12.9990 days
- €12.4460 days
- €14.6445 days
- €11.8830 days
- €13.5421 days
- €14.0914 days
- €17.397 days
- €26.193 days
- €21.241 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €11.88.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 120 percent. The dearest point is €26.19, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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 Taiping to George Town 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
88 km
76 km as the crow flies, 16% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs north-west.
Who lives at each end
217,647 → 158,336
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
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
- 25% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 75% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 88 km against 76 km in a straight line, a detour of 16 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Ipoh, Kampung Manjoi, Bercham. The gap between arriving and leaving is 50 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 PEN into George Town is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
A car waiting when you land in George Town
Settled in advance, so the ride into George Town 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 Komtar station
Most of the points near Komtar station open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Taiping to George Town
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 Taiping to George Town?
The fastest journey from Taiping to George Town takes 1h 25m door to door, of which 42m is spent moving, on the train. Most services take around 1h 28m, 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 Taiping to George Town?
The cheapest fare from Taiping to George Town is €13.54, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €17.39. 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 Taiping to George Town?
The cheapest way from Taiping to George Town is by train, at €14.09 for one passenger on 5 October 2026. That journey takes 1h 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 Taiping to George Town?
Fares from Taiping to George Town bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €11.88. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 120 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Taiping to George Town?
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Taiping to George Town, at €14.09. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 14 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Taiping to George Town?
November is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Taiping to George Town, at €11.88 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 Taiping to George Town?
1 operators sell services from Taiping to George Town across 1 mode: Keretapi Tanah Melayu. 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 Taiping to George Town?
25 percent of the services we sell from Taiping to George Town are direct. The rest connect at Ipoh, Kampung Manjoi, Bercham, with about 50 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 Taiping to George Town use?
Services from Taiping to George Town by train leave from Taiping railway station and arrive at Komtar 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 Taiping to George Town?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Taiping to George Town 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 Taiping to George Town on 14 September 2026: 88 km of route against 76 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €13.54, and 1h 25m 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 George Town a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of George Town and across Malaysia
Day trips that leave George Town in the morning and cover a good part of Malaysia by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Taiping reaches 12 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 41 to 76 km. George Town reaches 35 places in 12 countries, from 43 to 5,639 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Taiping
- 12Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 1Operators
Arriving in George Town
Leaving George Town
- 35Places you can leave for
- 12Countries
- 23Operators