Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre train

Trains from Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre start at €15.74 and take 1h 17m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre starts at €15.74 and takes 1h 17m door to door, run by 1 operator over 62 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 21 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 1h 17mDoor to door
  • 33mMoving
  • €11.88 to €19.59From
  • 06:33 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 2.0 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 21 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€11.88 to €19.59 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 Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre 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 €15.74Mon21
  2. about €17.94Tue22
  3. about €19.59Wed23
  4. about €17.94Thu24
  5. about €19.04Fri25
  6. about €18.49Sat26
  7. about €17.94Sun27
  8. about €13.54Mon28
  9. about €11.88Tue29
  10. about €11.89Wed30
  11. about €11.89Thu1
  12. about €13.54Fri2
  13. about €14.09Sat3
  14. about €14.09Sun4

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

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 21 September 2026

Fastest€15.74
  1. FC FC144406:3333m07:06Santiago de Cuba railway stationContramaestre station

Door to door 1h 17mCO2 2.0 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
FC€11.881h 15m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Contramaestre for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Terminal de Ómnibus Nacionales de Contramaestre and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre

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

  1. €10.0790 days
  2. €10.0760 days
  3. €10.0745 days
  4. €10.0730 days
  5. €10.0721 days
  6. €10.0714 days
  7. €10.077 days
  8. €10.083 days
  9. €10.071 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €10.07.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 0 percent. The dearest point is €10.08, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits outside the cheap window, which opens around 90 days before departure. There is no advantage to booking this minute.
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. €10.07Sun
  2. €10.07Mon
  3. €10.07Tue
  4. €10.07Wed
  5. €10.07Thu
  6. €10.07Fri
  7. €10.07Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Santiago de Cuba

Rail
  • Santiago de Cuba railway station
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 62 km against 54 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 Bayamo, Guantánamo, Holguín, Cacocum. The gap between arriving and leaving is 57 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 Santiago de Cuba at 06:33 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.
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
Train1h 17m33m44m€15.742.0 kg5
Coach1h 41m57m44m€10.072.1 kg1

Questions about Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre

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 Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre take?

The Train from Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre takes 1h 17m door to door, of which 33m is spent moving. The route runs 62 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 Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre cost?

The Train from Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre starts at €15.74 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €42.69. 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 Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre?

1 operators run the Train from Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre: 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 Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre use?

The Train from Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre leaves from Santiago de Cuba railway station and arrives at Contramaestre 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.

Is the Train the best way from Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre?

Travelling from Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre by Coach costs €10.07 and takes 1h 41m door to door, against 1h 17m 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 Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre?

Fares for the Train from Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €10.07. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 0 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre produce?

The Train from Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre produces about 2.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 62 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 Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre?

Operators on the Train from Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 17m 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 Santiago de Cuba to Contramaestre on 20 September 2026: 62 km of route against 54 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €15.74, and 1h 17m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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