Chiang Mai to Hua Hin train

Trains from Chiang Mai to Hua Hin start at €96.04 and take 7h 42m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Chiang Mai to Hua Hin starts at €96.04 and takes 7h 42m door to door, run by 1 operator over 727 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 23 September 2026Priced for 14 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 42mDoor to door
  • 5h 43mMoving
  • €105.94 to €272.04From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 25.6 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 14 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€105.94 to €272.04 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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Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €272.04Thu24
  2. about €203.29Fri25
  3. about €215.94Sat26
  4. about €177.44Sun27
  5. about €115.29Mon28
  6. about €113.09Tue29
  7. about €170.29Wed30
  8. about €160.39Thu1
  9. about €109.79Fri2
  10. about €130.69Sat3
  11. about €137.84Sun4
  12. about €111.44Mon5
  13. about €105.94Tue6
  14. about €110.89Wed7

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

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 14 October 2026

Cheapest€96.04
  1. การรถไฟแห่งประเทศไทย S-203007:304h 37m12:07Chiang Mai Railway StationPradiphat
  2. การรถไฟแห่งประเทศไทย S-513813:221h 6m14:28PradiphatHua Hin Railway Station

Changes at Bangkok, with 75 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 42mCO2 24.0 kgChanges 1Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

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
การรถไฟแห่งประเทศไทยNoneNone140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Hua Hin for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Hua Hin Railway 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 Chiang Mai to Hua Hin

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

  1. €98.2490 days
  2. €82.8460 days
  3. €86.1445 days
  4. €97.6930 days
  5. €96.0421 days
  6. €110.8914 days
  7. €170.297 days
  8. €215.943 days
  9. €272.041 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €82.84.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 228 percent. The dearest point is €272.04, 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. €137.84Sun
  2. €111.44Mon
  3. €105.94Tue
  4. €110.89Wed
  5. €160.39Thu
  6. €109.79Fri
  7. €130.69Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Chiang Mai

Rail
  • Chiang Mai Railway Station
  • Saraphi railway station

Hua Hin

Rail
  • Hua Hin Railway Station
  • Khao Tao Railway Station
  • Nong Kae Railway Station
The journey

What the journey looks like

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 727 km against 699 km in a straight line, a detour of 11 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Bangkok, Nong Khaem. The gap between arriving and leaving is 75 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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 Chiang Mai at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Chiang Mai to Hua Hin

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 Chiang Mai to Hua Hin take?

The Train from Chiang Mai to Hua Hin takes 7h 42m door to door, of which 5h 43m is spent moving. The route runs 727 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 Chiang Mai to Hua Hin cost?

The Train from Chiang Mai to Hua Hin starts at €96.04 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €102.09. 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 Chiang Mai to Hua Hin?

1 operators run the Train from Chiang Mai to Hua Hin: การรถไฟแห่งประเทศไทย. Between them they file around 2 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 Chiang Mai to Hua Hin use?

The Train from Chiang Mai to Hua Hin leaves from Chiang Mai Railway Station and arrives at Hua Hin Railway 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 Chiang Mai to Hua Hin?

Fares for the Train from Chiang Mai to Hua Hin bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €82.84. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 228 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Chiang Mai to Hua Hin produce?

The Train from Chiang Mai to Hua Hin produces about 25.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 727 km, which works out at roughly 35 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 Chiang Mai to Hua Hin?

Operators on the Train from Chiang Mai to Hua Hin publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 42m 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.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Chiang Mai to Hua Hin on 23 September 2026: 727 km of route against 699 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €96.04, and 7h 42m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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