Graz to Zurich train

Trains from Graz to Zurich start at €39.94 and take 4h 17m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Graz to Zurich starts at €39.94 and takes 4h 17m door to door, run by 1 operator over 521 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 16 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 17mDoor to door
  • 3h 33mMoving
  • €44.34 to €114.74From
  • 06:15 to 17:24First and last departure
  • 6Per day
  • 17.2 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.

€44.34 to €114.74 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.

ÖBB-Personenverkehr runs this service and does not sell it here. Trainline takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Trainline lists departures for Graz to Zurich 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 €114.74Thu17
  2. about €102.64Fri18
  3. about €85.04Sat19
  4. about €75.14Sun20
  5. about €55.89Mon21
  6. about €63.59Tue22
  7. about €72.94Wed23
  8. about €70.74Thu24
  9. about €65.79Fri25
  10. about €64.14Sat26
  11. about €61.39Sun27
  12. about €44.34Mon28
  13. about €50.39Tue29
  14. about €60.29Wed30

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 6 October 2026

Fastest€56.99
  1. ÖBB-Personenverkehr BB876311:483h 33m15:21Graz HauptbahnhofZurich Hauptbahnhof

Door to door 4h 17mCO2 17.2 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
ÖBB-Personenverkehr€54.794h 17m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Zurich for the night the train gets in

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

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Booking window

When to book Graz to Zurich

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

  1. €23.8390 days
  2. €22.7360 days
  3. €26.5845 days
  4. €23.8330 days
  5. €23.8321 days
  6. €29.3314 days
  7. €43.637 days
  8. €51.883 days
  9. €65.081 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.73.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 186 percent. The dearest point is €65.08, 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. €35.38Sun
  2. €28.78Mon
  3. €28.23Tue
  4. €29.33Wed
  5. €37.03Thu
  6. €36.48Fri
  7. €35.38Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Graz

Rail
  • Graz Hauptbahnhof
  • Graz Hbf
  • Graz Ostbahnhof-Messe

Zürich

Rail
  • Zurich Hauptbahnhof
  • Zürich HB
  • Zürich Altstetten
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
73% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 27% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 521 km against 521 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 Salzburg, Bolzano, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. The gap between arriving and leaving is 48 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. 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 Graz at 06:15 and the last at 17:24, across 6 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Trains against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Train4h 17m3h 33m44m€39.9417.2 kg6
Flight4h 19m1h 9m3h 10m€52.06132.1 kg2
Coach7h 45m7h 1m44m€22.1814.1 kg7

Questions about Graz to Zurich

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 Graz to Zurich take?

The Train from Graz to Zurich takes 4h 17m door to door, of which 3h 33m is spent moving. The route runs 521 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 Graz to Zurich cost?

The Train from Graz to Zurich starts at €39.94 for one passenger, as of 16 September 2026. A typical fare is €64.14. 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 Graz to Zurich?

1 operators run the Train from Graz to Zurich: ÖBB-Personenverkehr. Between them they file around 6 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 Graz to Zurich use?

The Train from Graz to Zurich leaves from Graz Hauptbahnhof and arrives at Zurich Hauptbahnhof. 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 Graz to Zurich?

Travelling from Graz to Zurich by Coach costs €22.18 and takes 7h 45m door to door, against 4h 17m by Train. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.

When should I book the Train from Graz to Zurich?

Fares for the Train from Graz to Zurich bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.73. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 186 percent, measured on 16 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Graz to Zurich produce?

The Train from Graz to Zurich produces about 17.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 521 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 Graz to Zurich?

Operators on the Train from Graz to Zurich publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 17m 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 Graz to Zurich on 16 September 2026: 521 km of route against 521 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €39.94, and 4h 17m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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