Bocoio to Sumbe train

Trains from Bocoio to Sumbe start at €22.89 and take 1h 58m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Bocoio to Sumbe starts at €22.89 and takes 1h 58m door to door, run by 1 operator over 166 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 9 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 1h 58mDoor to door
  • 1h 14mMoving
  • €22.89From
  • 5.5 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€20.14
  1. Caminho de Ferro de Benguela CF233606:521h 14m08:06Bocoio stationSumbe station

Door to door 1h 58mCO2 5.5 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Caminho de Ferro de Benguela€20.141h 56m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

That is the travelling done. What happens after you walk out into Sumbe is not something we sell.

A hotel room

Where to sleep in Sumbe

Hotels and flats near the centre, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Bocoio to Sumbe

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

  1. €20.6990 days
  2. €19.5960 days
  3. €25.0945 days
  4. €26.1930 days
  5. €25.0921 days
  6. €27.8414 days
  7. €34.447 days
  8. €34.443 days
  9. €54.791 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €19.59.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 180 percent. The dearest point is €54.79, 1 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. €37.19Sun
  2. €32.24Mon
  3. €25.09Tue
  4. €27.84Wed
  5. €42.14Thu
  6. €32.79Fri
  7. €34.44Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

We do not hold named terminals for either end of this corridor yet.

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
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 166 km against 144 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Balombo, Lobito, Catumbela, Porto Amboim. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Bocoio at 06:52 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Bocoio to Sumbe

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 Bocoio to Sumbe take?

The Train from Bocoio to Sumbe takes 1h 58m door to door, of which 1h 14m is spent moving. The route runs 166 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 Bocoio to Sumbe cost?

The Train from Bocoio to Sumbe starts at €22.89 for one passenger, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare is €30.03. 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 Bocoio to Sumbe?

1 operators run the Train from Bocoio to Sumbe: Caminho de Ferro de Benguela. Between them they file around 5 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 Bocoio to Sumbe use?

The Train from Bocoio to Sumbe leaves from Bocoio station and arrives at Sumbe 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 Bocoio to Sumbe?

Fares for the Train from Bocoio to Sumbe bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €19.59. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 180 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Bocoio to Sumbe produce?

The Train from Bocoio to Sumbe produces about 5.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 166 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 Bocoio to Sumbe?

Operators on the Train from Bocoio to Sumbe publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 58m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

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.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Bocoio to Sumbe on 9 September 2026: 166 km of route against 144 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €22.89, and 1h 58m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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