Bad Homburg to Marburg train

Trains from Bad Homburg to Marburg start at €11.88 and take 1h 21m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Bad Homburg to Marburg starts at €11.88 and takes 1h 21m door to door, run by 3 operators over 75 km, with around 10 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 1h 21mDoor to door
  • 37mMoving
  • €11.88 to €19.59From
  • 06:15 to 14:33First and last departure
  • 10Per day
  • 2.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 29 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€11.88 to €19.59 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

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DB Fernverkehr runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

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Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €18.49Mon21
  2. about €16.29Tue22
  3. about €17.39Wed23
  4. about €19.59Thu24
  5. about €16.84Fri25
  6. about €16.84Sat26
  7. about €19.59Sun27
  8. about €13.54Mon28
  9. about €11.88Tue29
  10. about €12.44Wed30
  11. about €13.54Thu1
  12. about €12.99Fri2
  13. about €12.99Sat3
  14. about €12.44Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

Cheapest€11.88
  1. DB Fernverkehr DB168906:1538m06:53Wehrheim stationCölbe station

Door to door 1h 22mCO2 2.5 kgChanges 0Refundable

Fastest€11.88
  1. HLB Hessenbahn HL306914:0237m14:39Wehrheim stationCölbe station

Door to door 1h 21mCO2 2.5 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

The train gets you into Marburg. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Marburg for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Cölbe 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 Bad Homburg to Marburg

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

  1. €11.8990 days
  2. €11.8860 days
  3. €11.8845 days
  4. €11.8830 days
  5. €12.4421 days
  6. €12.4414 days
  7. €19.597 days
  8. €17.393 days
  9. €18.491 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 65 percent. The dearest point is €19.59, 7 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.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €12.44Sun
  2. €13.54Mon
  3. €11.88Tue
  4. €12.44Wed
  5. €13.54Thu
  6. €12.99Fri
  7. €12.99Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Bad Homburg vor der Höhe

Rail
  • Wehrheim station
  • Bad Homburg station
  • Imperial station Bad Homburg

Marburg an der Lahn

Rail
  • Cölbe station
  • Bürgeln station
  • Marburg station
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
60% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 40% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 75 km against 66 km in a straight line, a detour of 14 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Siegen, Schweinfurt, Fulda, Kassel. The gap between arriving and leaving is 59 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. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Bad Homburg at 06:15 and the last at 14:33, across 10 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Bad Homburg to Marburg

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 the Train from Bad Homburg to Marburg take?

The Train from Bad Homburg to Marburg takes 1h 21m door to door, of which 37m is spent moving. The route runs 75 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Train from Bad Homburg to Marburg cost?

The Train from Bad Homburg to Marburg starts at €11.88 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €14.37. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Bad Homburg to Marburg?

3 operators run the Train from Bad Homburg to Marburg: DB Fernverkehr, DB Regio Mitte, HLB Hessenbahn. Between them they file around 10 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Train from Bad Homburg to Marburg use?

The Train from Bad Homburg to Marburg leaves from Wehrheim station and arrives at Cölbe station. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Train from Bad Homburg to Marburg?

Fares for the Train from Bad Homburg to Marburg bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 65 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Bad Homburg to Marburg produce?

The Train from Bad Homburg to Marburg produces about 2.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 75 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Bad Homburg to Marburg?

Operators on the Train from Bad Homburg to Marburg publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 21m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

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 The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Bad Homburg to Marburg on 20 September 2026: 75 km of route against 66 km in a straight line, 10 services a day, 3 operators a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 1h 21m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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