Geneva to St. Gallen train

Trains from Geneva to St. Gallen start at €37.74 and take 3h 8m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Geneva to St. Gallen starts at €37.74 and takes 3h 8m door to door, run by 1 operator over 323 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 17 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 3h 8mDoor to door
  • 2h 24mMoving
  • €43.24 to €87.79From
  • 06:33 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 10.7 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 5 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€43.24 to €87.79 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.

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

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Geneva to St. Gallen 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 €87.24Fri18
  2. about €87.79Sat19
  3. about €62.49Sun20
  4. about €60.29Mon21
  5. about €53.14Tue22
  6. about €58.63Wed23
  7. about €63.59Thu24
  8. about €59.74Fri25
  9. about €58.64Sat26
  10. about €55.89Sun27
  11. about €45.44Mon28
  12. about €43.24Tue29
  13. about €50.39Wed30
  14. about €52.59Thu1

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 5 October 2026

Cheapest€37.74
  1. SBB SB685607:301h 42m09:12Geneve CornavinAlpnach Dorf Bahnhof
  2. SBB SB226310:2551m11:16Alpnach Dorf BahnhofRorschach

Changes at Luzern, with 73 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 4h 30mCO2 10.7 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€38.29
  1. SBB SB250406:332h 24m08:57Geneve CornavinRorschach

Door to door 3h 8mCO2 10.7 kgChanges 0Refundable

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
SBB€38.293h 1m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • SBB

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

A hotel room

A room in St. Gallen for the night the train gets in

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

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Booking window

When to book Geneva to St. Gallen

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

  1. €42.6990 days
  2. €27.8460 days
  3. €38.8445 days
  4. €42.1430 days
  5. €48.1921 days
  6. €52.5914 days
  7. €63.597 days
  8. €62.493 days
  9. €87.241 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €27.84.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 213 percent. The dearest point is €87.24, 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. €55.89Sun
  2. €45.44Mon
  3. €43.24Tue
  4. €50.39Wed
  5. €52.59Thu
  6. €59.74Fri
  7. €58.64Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Geneva

Rail
  • Geneve Cornavin
  • Geneva-La Praille station
  • Geneva Airport railway station

Sankt Gallen

Rail
  • Rorschach
  • Rorschach Hafen
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 323 km against 281 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 Köniz, Lausanne, Luzern, Thun. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Geneva at 06:33 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 Geneva to St. Gallen

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 Geneva to St. Gallen take?

The Train from Geneva to St. Gallen takes 3h 8m door to door, of which 2h 24m is spent moving. The route runs 323 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 Geneva to St. Gallen cost?

The Train from Geneva to St. Gallen starts at €37.74 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €37.74. 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 Geneva to St. Gallen?

1 operators run the Train from Geneva to St. Gallen: SBB. 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 Geneva to St. Gallen use?

The Train from Geneva to St. Gallen leaves from Geneve Cornavin and arrives at Rorschach. 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 Geneva to St. Gallen?

Fares for the Train from Geneva to St. Gallen bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €27.84. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 213 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Geneva to St. Gallen produce?

The Train from Geneva to St. Gallen produces about 10.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 323 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 Geneva to St. Gallen?

Operators on the Train from Geneva to St. Gallen publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 8m 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 Geneva to St. Gallen on 17 September 2026: 323 km of route against 281 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €37.74, and 3h 8m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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