Cheapest€45.99
- Indian Railway IR454406:143h 17m09:31Gaya Junction railway stationKolkata railway station
Door to door 4h 1mCO2 14.0 kgChanges 0Refundable
Gaya to Kolkata train
Trains from Gaya to Kolkata start at €49.29 and take 4h 1m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Gaya to Kolkata on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Trains from Gaya to Kolkata starts at €49.29 and takes 4h 1m door to door, run by 1 operator over 423 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 4h 1mDoor to door
- 3h 17mMoving
- €49.29 to €129.04From
- 06:14 to 07:30First and last departure
- 5Per day
- 14.0 kgCO2
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 6 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€49.29 to €129.04 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.
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €107.59Wed16
- about €129.04Thu17
- about €95.49Fri18
- about €107.04Sat19
- about €88.34Sun20
- about €79.54Mon21
- about €69.09Tue22
- about €67.99Wed23
- about €87.79Thu24
- about €83.94Fri25
- about €70.74Sat26
- about €81.19Sun27
- about €57.54Mon28
- about €49.29Tue29
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 cheapest and the fastest on 6 October 2026
Train operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Indian Railway | €45.99 | 3h 40m | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power sockets, Wi-Fi |
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A room in Kolkata for the night the train gets in
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When to book Gaya to Kolkata
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €54.7990 days
- €41.4460 days
- €46.1645 days
- €48.7430 days
- €45.9921 days
- €49.2914 days
- €62.097 days
- €86.873 days
- €103.391 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €41.44.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 149 percent. The dearest point is €103.39, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €66.81Sun
- €57.54Mon
- €49.29Tue
- €67.99Wed
- €85.69Thu
- €69.17Fri
- €70.74Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Gaya
Rail
- Gaya Junction railway station
- Kastha railway station
- Paimar railway station
Kolkata
Rail
- Kolkata railway station
- Sagnik Pramanik
- Kona railway station
What the journey actually looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 423 km against 423 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Āsansol, Dhanbad, Durgapur, Bokāro. The gap between arriving and leaving is 62 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 Gaya at 06:14 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.
Trains against the other ways to make this journey
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 4h 1m | 3h 17m | 44m | €49.29 | 14.0 kg | 5 |
| Flight | 4h 11m | 1h 1m | 3h 10m | €54.42 | 107.0 kg | 1 |
Questions about Gaya to Kolkata
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 Gaya to Kolkata take?
The Train from Gaya to Kolkata takes 4h 1m door to door, of which 3h 17m is spent moving. The route runs 423 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 Gaya to Kolkata cost?
The Train from Gaya to Kolkata starts at €49.29 for one passenger, as of 15 September 2026. A typical fare is €58.64. 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 Gaya to Kolkata?
1 operators run the Train from Gaya to Kolkata: Indian Railway. 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 Gaya to Kolkata use?
The Train from Gaya to Kolkata leaves from Gaya Junction railway station and arrives at Kolkata 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.
Is the Train the best way from Gaya to Kolkata?
The Train is both the cheapest and the fastest way from Gaya to Kolkata, at €49.29 and 4h 1m door to door, against 1 other modes that also run the corridor. On this route there is no trade to make between the money and the hours.
When should I book the Train from Gaya to Kolkata?
Fares for the Train from Gaya to Kolkata bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €41.44. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 149 percent, measured on 15 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Train from Gaya to Kolkata produce?
The Train from Gaya to Kolkata produces about 14.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 423 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 Gaya to Kolkata?
Operators on the Train from Gaya to Kolkata publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 1m 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 shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
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 Gaya to Kolkata on 15 September 2026: 423 km of route against 423 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €49.29, and 4h 1m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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