Coventry to Portsmouth train

Trains from Coventry to Portsmouth start at €23.43 and take 2h 24m at their fastest.

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Leaving Portsmouth

The Trains from Coventry to Portsmouth starts at €23.43 and takes 2h 24m door to door, run by 1 operator over 208 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 17 September 2026Priced for 7 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 2h 24mDoor to door
  • 1h 40mMoving
  • €27.28 to €53.14From
  • 06:09 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 6.9 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 7 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€27.28 to €53.14 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Cross Country runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Coventry to Portsmouth 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

  1. about €53.14Fri18
  2. about €49.29Sat19
  3. about €39.94Sun20
  4. about €31.69Mon21
  5. about €37.74Tue22
  6. about €41.59Wed23
  7. about €36.64Thu24
  8. about €32.79Fri25
  9. about €31.69Sat26
  10. about €31.68Sun27
  11. about €27.28Mon28
  12. about €28.39Tue29
  13. about €28.38Wed30
  14. about €30.03Thu1

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.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 7 October 2026

Cheapest€23.43
  1. Avanti West Coast AW780107:3057m08:27Coventry railway stationHigh Wycombe railway station
  2. Brittany Ferries BF715710:053h 14m13:19Harbour ToursPORTSMOUTH

Changes at High Wycombe, with 98 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 6h 56mCO2 15.3 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€25.09
  1. Cross Country CC823006:091h 40m07:49Coventry railway stationPortsmouth Harbour

Door to door 2h 24mCO2 6.9 kgChanges 0Refundable

Lowest CO2€30.58
  1. Cross Country CC369007:3059m08:29Coventry railway stationReading Station
  2. Cross Country CC639809:3439m10:13Reading StationPortsmouth Harbour

Changes at Reading, with 65 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 3h 27mCO2 6.8 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
Cross Country€23.992h 13m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

The train gets you into Portsmouth. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Portsmouth for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Portsmouth Harbour and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Coventry to Portsmouth

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

  1. €24.5490 days
  2. €20.1460 days
  3. €24.5445 days
  4. €26.7330 days
  5. €31.1421 days
  6. €30.0314 days
  7. €36.647 days
  8. €39.943 days
  9. €53.141 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €20.14.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 164 percent. The dearest point is €53.14, 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. €31.68Sun
  2. €27.28Mon
  3. €28.39Tue
  4. €28.38Wed
  5. €31.14Thu
  6. €32.79Fri
  7. €31.69Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Coventry

Rail
  • Coventry railway station
  • Coventry Arena railway station
  • Canley railway station

Portsmouth

Rail
  • Portsmouth Harbour
  • Fratton
  • Portsmouth & Southsea
The journey

What the journey looks like

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 208 km against 181 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 Reading, Swindon, High Wycombe, Southampton. The gap between arriving and leaving is 65 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Coventry at 06:09 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 Coventry to Portsmouth

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 Coventry to Portsmouth take?

The Train from Coventry to Portsmouth takes 2h 24m door to door, of which 1h 40m is spent moving. The route runs 208 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 Coventry to Portsmouth cost?

The Train from Coventry to Portsmouth starts at €23.43 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €26.74. 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 Coventry to Portsmouth?

1 operators run the Train from Coventry to Portsmouth: Cross Country. 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 Coventry to Portsmouth use?

The Train from Coventry to Portsmouth leaves from Coventry railway station and arrives at Portsmouth Harbour. 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 Coventry to Portsmouth?

Fares for the Train from Coventry to Portsmouth bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €20.14. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 164 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Coventry to Portsmouth produce?

The Train from Coventry to Portsmouth produces about 6.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 208 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 Coventry to Portsmouth?

Operators on the Train from Coventry to Portsmouth publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 2h 24m 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 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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Coventry to Portsmouth on 17 September 2026: 208 km of route against 181 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €23.43, and 2h 24m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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