Le Havre to Bordeaux train

Trains from Le Havre to Bordeaux start at €72.94 and take 4h 19m at their fastest.

Le HavreLe HavreBordeauxBordeaux
Elegant view of Pont de Pierre bridge in Bordeaux, France on a sunny day.

The Trains from Le Havre to Bordeaux starts at €72.94 and takes 4h 19m door to door, run by 1 operator over 520 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.

Checked 15 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 19mDoor to door
  • 3h 35mMoving
  • €72.94 to €162.04From
  • 06:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per 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.

€72.94 to €162.04 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

  1. about €136.19Wed16
  2. about €162.04Thu17
  3. about €125.74Fri18
  4. about €143.89Sat19
  5. about €136.19Sun20
  6. about €114.19Mon21
  7. about €72.94Tue22
  8. about €74.59Wed23
  9. about €100.44Thu24
  10. about €87.79Fri25
  11. about €93.84Sat26
  12. about €113.64Sun27
  13. about €81.19Mon28
  14. about €73.49Tue29

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€61.39
  1. SNCF SN722206:303h 35m10:05HarfleurBordeaux Saint Jean

Door to door 4h 19mCO2 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
SNCF€52.044h 17m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • SNCF

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A room in Bordeaux for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book Le Havre to Bordeaux

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. €28.2360 days
  3. €24.9345 days
  4. €25.4830 days
  5. €22.1821 days
  6. €30.4314 days
  7. €30.987 days
  8. €41.983 days
  9. €57.381 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €22.18.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 159 percent. The dearest point is €57.38, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 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. €34.83Sun
  2. €33.18Mon
  3. €30.43Tue
  4. €33.18Wed
  5. €49.84Thu
  6. €39.23Fri
  7. €38.68Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Le Havre

Rail
  • Harfleur
  • Trouville - Deauville
  • Blonville-sur-Mer - Benerville

Bordeaux

Rail
  • Bordeaux Saint Jean
  • Bordeaux St-Jean
  • Ludon
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
56% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 44% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 520 km against 520 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 Niort, Fontenay-le-Comte, Rochefort, Angers. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Le Havre at 06:30 and the last at 07:30, across 2 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 19m3h 35m44m€72.9417.2 kg2
Flight4h 19m1h 9m3h 10m€51.47131.9 kg1
Coach7h 35m6h 51m44m€30.4314.0 kg2
Ferry18h 31m17h 1m1h 30m€36.0959.8 kg4

Questions about Le Havre to Bordeaux

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 Le Havre to Bordeaux take?

The Train from Le Havre to Bordeaux takes 4h 19m door to door, of which 3h 35m is spent moving. The route runs 520 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 Le Havre to Bordeaux cost?

The Train from Le Havre to Bordeaux starts at €72.94 for one passenger, as of 15 September 2026. A typical fare is €64.69. 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 Le Havre to Bordeaux?

1 operators run the Train from Le Havre to Bordeaux: SNCF. Between them they file around 2 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 Le Havre to Bordeaux use?

The Train from Le Havre to Bordeaux leaves from Harfleur and arrives at Bordeaux Saint Jean. 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 Le Havre to Bordeaux?

Travelling from Le Havre to Bordeaux by Flight costs €51.47 and takes 4h 19m door to door, against 4h 19m 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 Le Havre to Bordeaux?

Fares for the Train from Le Havre to Bordeaux bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €22.18. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 159 percent, measured on 15 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Le Havre to Bordeaux produce?

The Train from Le Havre to Bordeaux produces about 17.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 520 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 Le Havre to Bordeaux?

Operators on the Train from Le Havre to Bordeaux publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 19m 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 Le Havre to Bordeaux on 15 September 2026: 520 km of route against 520 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €72.94, and 4h 19m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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