Panipat to Karnāl train

Trains from Panipat to Karnāl start at €21.77 and take 2h 52m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Panipat to Karnāl starts at €21.77 and takes 2h 52m door to door, run by 1 operator over 168 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 23 September 2026Priced for 13 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 2h 52mDoor to door
  • 1h 21mMoving
  • €21.78 to €47.64From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 4Per day
  • 5.4 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 13 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€21.78 to €47.64 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.

Departure times on this route

12Go lists the departures it sells between Panipat and Karnāl.

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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 €47.64Thu24
  2. about €38.84Fri25
  3. about €36.64Sat26
  4. about €31.14Sun27
  5. about €26.19Mon28
  6. about €31.69Tue29
  7. about €28.93Wed30
  8. about €29.49Thu1
  9. about €30.58Fri2
  10. about €25.63Sat3
  11. about €26.19Sun4
  12. about €23.43Mon5
  13. about €25.63Tue6
  14. about €21.78Wed7

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

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 13 October 2026

Cheapest€21.77
  1. Northern Railway NR639307:3040m08:10Panipat railway stationMuzaffarnagar railway station
  2. Northern Railway NR161208:5741m09:38Muzaffarnagar railway stationKarnal railway station

Changes at Muzaffarnagar, with 47 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 2h 52mCO2 5.5 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
Northern RailwayNoneNone140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • Northern Railway

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

A hotel room

A room in Karnāl for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Karnal 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 Panipat to Karnāl

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

  1. €21.7890 days
  2. €21.7760 days
  3. €21.7745 days
  4. €23.4330 days
  5. €21.7721 days
  6. €21.7814 days
  7. €28.937 days
  8. €36.643 days
  9. €47.641 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.77.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 119 percent. The dearest point is €47.64, 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. €26.19Sun
  2. €23.43Mon
  3. €25.63Tue
  4. €21.78Wed
  5. €29.49Thu
  6. €30.58Fri
  7. €25.63Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Panipat

Rail
  • Panipat railway station
  • Asan railway station
  • Diwana railway station

Karnāl

Rail
  • Karnal railway station
  • Bazida Jatan railway station
  • Bhaini Khurd railway station
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 168 km against 34 km in a straight line, a detour of 382 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Muzaffarnagar, Sahāranpur, Sonīpat, Narela. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 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 Panipat at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Panipat to Karnāl

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 Panipat to Karnāl take?

The Train from Panipat to Karnāl takes 2h 52m door to door, of which 1h 21m is spent moving. The route runs 168 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 Panipat to Karnāl cost?

The Train from Panipat to Karnāl starts at €21.77 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €21.78. 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 Panipat to Karnāl?

1 operators run the Train from Panipat to Karnāl: Northern Railway. Between them they file around 4 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 Panipat to Karnāl use?

The Train from Panipat to Karnāl leaves from Panipat railway station and arrives at Karnal 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 Panipat to Karnāl?

Fares for the Train from Panipat to Karnāl bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.77. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 119 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Panipat to Karnāl produce?

The Train from Panipat to Karnāl produces about 5.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 168 km, which works out at roughly 32 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 Panipat to Karnāl?

Operators on the Train from Panipat to Karnāl publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 2h 52m 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 names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

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 Panipat to Karnāl on 23 September 2026: 168 km of route against 34 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €21.77, and 2h 52m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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