Havana to Sancti Spíritus train

Trains from Havana to Sancti Spíritus start at €39.39 and take 3h 23m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Havana to Sancti Spíritus starts at €39.39 and takes 3h 23m door to door, run by 1 operator over 380 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 3h 23mDoor to door
  • 2h 39mMoving
  • €52.04 to €100.99From
  • 06:20 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 12.5 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.

€52.04 to €100.99 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.

Buying this journey

Tickets for Havana to Sancti Spíritus are bought at the station or from a local agent.

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €87.24Mon21
  2. about €71.84Tue22
  3. about €76.24Wed23
  4. about €98.24Thu24
  5. about €74.04Fri25
  6. about €100.99Sat26
  7. about €69.09Sun27
  8. about €56.44Mon28
  9. about €52.04Tue29
  10. about €61.94Wed30
  11. about €61.94Thu1
  12. about €60.84Fri2
  13. about €59.74Sat3
  14. about €54.24Sun4

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

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 5 October 2026

Cheapest€39.39
  1. FC FC638406:202h 39m08:59Havana Central railway stationSancti Spíritus station

Door to door 3h 23mCO2 12.5 kgChanges 0Refundable

Lowest CO2€49.29
  1. FC FC425207:301h 54m09:24Havana Central railway stationSanta Clara railway station
  2. FC FC422010:4843m11:31Santa Clara railway stationSancti Spíritus station

Changes at Santa Clara, with 84 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 4h 45mCO2 11.5 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
FC€39.393h 21m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Sancti Spíritus for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book Havana to Sancti Spíritus

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

  1. €58.0990 days
  2. €48.7460 days
  3. €37.1945 days
  4. €37.7430 days
  5. €43.7921 days
  6. €54.2414 days
  7. €69.097 days
  8. €76.243 days
  9. €87.241 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €37.19.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 135 percent. The dearest point is €87.24, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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. €54.24Sun
  2. €56.44Mon
  3. €52.04Tue
  4. €61.94Wed
  5. €61.94Thu
  6. €60.84Fri
  7. €59.74Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Havana

Rail
  • Havana Central railway station
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 380 km against 330 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 Ciego de Ávila, Matanzas, Santa Clara, Cienfuegos. The gap between arriving and leaving is 64 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. 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 Havana at 06:20 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 Havana to Sancti Spíritus

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 Havana to Sancti Spíritus take?

The Train from Havana to Sancti Spíritus takes 3h 23m door to door, of which 2h 39m is spent moving. The route runs 380 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 Havana to Sancti Spíritus cost?

The Train from Havana to Sancti Spíritus starts at €39.39 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €49.29. 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 Havana to Sancti Spíritus?

1 operators run the Train from Havana to Sancti Spíritus: FC. 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 Havana to Sancti Spíritus use?

The Train from Havana to Sancti Spíritus leaves from Havana Central railway station and arrives at Sancti Spíritus 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 Havana to Sancti Spíritus?

Fares for the Train from Havana to Sancti Spíritus bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €37.19. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 135 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Havana to Sancti Spíritus produce?

The Train from Havana to Sancti Spíritus produces about 12.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 380 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 Havana to Sancti Spíritus?

Operators on the Train from Havana to Sancti Spíritus publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 23m 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 The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.

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 Havana to Sancti Spíritus on 20 September 2026: 380 km of route against 330 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €39.39, and 3h 23m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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