Lingao to Sanya train

Trains from Lingao to Sanya start at €25.64 and take 2h 20m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Lingao to Sanya starts at €25.64 and takes 2h 20m door to door, run by 1 operator over 213 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

  • 2h 20mDoor to door
  • 1h 36mMoving
  • €29.49 to €59.19From
  • 06:21 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 7.0 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.

€29.49 to €59.19 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.

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

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Lingao to Sanya 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 €59.19Fri18
  2. about €58.64Sat19
  3. about €51.49Sun20
  4. about €38.84Mon21
  5. about €44.34Tue22
  6. about €38.84Wed23
  7. about €44.89Thu24
  8. about €40.49Fri25
  9. about €38.29Sat26
  10. about €38.29Sun27
  11. about €33.34Mon28
  12. about €32.79Tue29
  13. about €29.49Wed30
  14. about €33.34Thu1

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€25.64
  1. China Railway CR502807:301h 4m08:34Lingao South railway stationWuzhishan station
  2. China Railway CR679809:4335m10:18Wuzhishan stationSanya railway station

Changes at Wuzhishan, with 69 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 3h 32mCO2 7.1 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€26.19
  1. China Railway CR539606:211h 36m07:57Lingao South railway stationSanya railway station

Door to door 2h 20mCO2 7.0 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
China Railway€26.192h 17m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • China Railway

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

A hotel room

A room in Sanya for the night the train gets in

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

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Booking window

When to book Lingao to Sanya

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

  1. €29.4890 days
  2. €21.7860 days
  3. €26.7445 days
  4. €28.9430 days
  5. €33.3321 days
  6. €33.3414 days
  7. €44.897 days
  8. €51.493 days
  9. €59.191 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.78.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 172 percent. The dearest point is €59.19, 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. €38.29Sun
  2. €33.34Mon
  3. €32.79Tue
  4. €29.49Wed
  5. €33.34Thu
  6. €40.49Fri
  7. €38.29Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Lingao

Rail
  • Lingao South railway station

Sanya

Rail
  • Sanya railway station
  • Yalongwan railway station
  • Phoenix Airport 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 213 km against 185 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 Yinggen, Wuzhishan, Nada, Dacheng. 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 Lingao at 06:21 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 Lingao to Sanya

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 Lingao to Sanya take?

The Train from Lingao to Sanya takes 2h 20m door to door, of which 1h 36m is spent moving. The route runs 213 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 Lingao to Sanya cost?

The Train from Lingao to Sanya starts at €25.64 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €28.39. 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 Lingao to Sanya?

1 operators run the Train from Lingao to Sanya: China 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 Lingao to Sanya use?

The Train from Lingao to Sanya leaves from Lingao South railway station and arrives at Sanya 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.

When should I book the Train from Lingao to Sanya?

Fares for the Train from Lingao to Sanya bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.78. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 172 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Lingao to Sanya produce?

The Train from Lingao to Sanya produces about 7.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 213 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 Lingao to Sanya?

Operators on the Train from Lingao to Sanya publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 2h 20m 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 Lingao to Sanya on 17 September 2026: 213 km of route against 185 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €25.64, and 2h 20m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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