Trains from Paarl to Makhanda start at €102.09 and take 6h 11m at their fastest.
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Paarl to Makhanda on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Trains from Paarl to Makhanda starts at €102.09 and takes 6h 11m door to door, run by 1 operator over 807 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.
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.
€102.09 to €235.19 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.
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
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.
Changes at Kariega, with 65 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 7h 53mCO2 27.0 kgChanges 1Refundable
Door to door 6h 11mCO2 26.6 kgChanges 0Refundable
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shosholoza Meyl | €91.64 | 6h 10m | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power sockets, Wi-Fi |
The train gets you into Makhanda. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
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.
The Train from Paarl to Makhanda takes 6h 11m door to door, of which 5h 27m is spent moving. The route runs 807 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.
The Train from Paarl to Makhanda starts at €102.09 for one passenger, as of 15 September 2026. A typical fare is €86.14. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Train from Paarl to Makhanda: Shosholoza Meyl. 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.
The Train from Paarl to Makhanda leaves from Paarl and arrives at Atherstone 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.
Fares for the Train from Paarl to Makhanda bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €85.04. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 103 percent, measured on 15 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Train from Paarl to Makhanda produces about 26.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 807 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.
Operators on the Train from Paarl to Makhanda publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 11m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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
The train is the simple part. What you do once you are in Makhanda is somebody else's catalogue.
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