Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod train

Trains from Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod start at €108.14 and take 7h 34m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod starts at €108.14 and takes 7h 34m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,016 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 34mDoor to door
  • 6h 50mMoving
  • €129.04 to €259.39From
  • 06:43 to 14:01First and last departure
  • 6Per day
  • 33.5 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.

€129.04 to €259.39 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

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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 €259.39Mon21
  2. about €228.04Tue22
  3. about €225.29Wed23
  4. about €246.19Thu24
  5. about €219.24Fri25
  6. about €236.84Sat26
  7. about €190.64Sun27
  8. about €129.04Mon28
  9. about €130.14Tue29
  10. about €173.04Wed30
  11. about €174.69Thu1
  12. about €175.24Fri2
  13. about €171.94Sat3
  14. about €156.54Sun4

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

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 6 October 2026

Lowest CO2€140.59
  1. АО «ФПК» S-496406:436h 50m11:33Yekaterinburg-Sortirovochniy435 km

Door to door 7h 34mCO2 33.5 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
АО «ФПК»€108.147h 34m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Nizhny Novgorod for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from 435 km and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod

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

  1. €115.7890 days
  2. €108.1160 days
  3. €94.5445 days
  4. €81.5630 days
  5. €105.7521 days
  6. €141.7414 days
  7. €165.347 days
  8. €193.073 days
  9. €198.971 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €81.56.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 144 percent. The dearest point is €198.97, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €141.74Sun
  2. €126.99Mon
  3. €105.75Tue
  4. €152.36Wed
  5. €144.69Thu
  6. €160.03Fri
  7. €131.71Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Yekaterinburg

Rail
  • Yekaterinburg-Sortirovochniy
  • Yekaterinburg Railway station
  • Botanicheskaya platform, Yekaterinburg

Nizhniy Novgorod

Rail
  • 435 km
  • Rekshino
  • Kustovaya
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,016 km against 1,016 km in a straight line, a detour of 2 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Cheboksary, Izhevsk, Yoshkar-Ola, Kazan. The gap between arriving and leaving is 53 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Yekaterinburg at 06:43 and the last at 14:01, across 6 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
Flight5h1h 50m3h 10m€81.56218.8 kg2
Train7h 34m6h 50m44m€108.1433.5 kg6

Questions about Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod

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 Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod take?

The Train from Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod takes 7h 34m door to door, of which 6h 50m is spent moving. The route runs 1,016 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 Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod cost?

The Train from Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod starts at €108.14 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €136.47. 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 Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod?

1 operators run the Train from Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod: АО «ФПК». Between them they file around 6 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 Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod use?

The Train from Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod leaves from Yekaterinburg-Sortirovochniy and arrives at 435 km. 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 Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod?

Travelling from Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod by Flight costs €81.56 and takes 5h door to door, against 7h 34m 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 Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod?

Fares for the Train from Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €81.56. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 144 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod produce?

The Train from Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod produces about 33.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1016 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 Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod?

Operators on the Train from Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 34m 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 Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod on 20 September 2026: 1016 km of route against 1016 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €108.14, and 7h 34m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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