Trains across The Balkans
772 routes and 9 operators across 7 countries Fares and journey times below come from the same engine that answers the search box.
772 Trains routes run across The Balkans, reaching 53 places in 7 countries through 9 operators On the 16 busiest of them, priced on 7 October 2026, the cheapest fare is €11.88 and the fastest journey is 1h 18m door to door. A median route runs 109 km.
Trains in The Balkans, in numbers
What we actually sell, counted rather than claimed.
- 772Routes we sell
- 193Corridors
- 53Places served
- 7Countries
- 9Operators
- 652Domestic routes
- 108Cross border routes
- 12Routes out of the region
- 109 kmMedian route
- 408 kmLongest route
How the modes compare across The Balkans
Every mode measured on the same 16 corridors in The Balkans, priced on 7 October 2026 for one passenger.
| Mode | Corridors priced | From | Door to door | CO2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | 12 | €10.07 | 2h 31m | 4.2 kg |
| Train | 16 | €17.39 | 1h 51m | 5.7 kg |
The corridors that matter in The Balkans
Ranked by how much service runs, then priced. The country and city pages carry the rest.
| Route | From | Fastest | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Belgrade to Novi Sad train | €11.88 | 1h 21m | 68 km |
| Sombor to Subotica train | €11.88 | 1h 18m | 56 km |
| Kruševac to Kragujevac train | €11.88 | 1h 20m | 59 km |
| Valjevo to New Belgrade train | €11.89 | 1h 24m | 72 km |
| Kikinda to Subotica train | €11.89 | 1h 23m | 69 km |
| Šabac to Užice train | €15.74 | 1h 36m | 100 km |
| Čačak to Zemun train | €16.29 | 1h 40m | 106 km |
| Užice to Belgrade train | €17.39 | 1h 51m | 116 km |
| Novi Pazar to Podgorica train | €17.39 | 1h 50m | 128 km |
| Kraljevo to Zemun train | €19.59 | 1h 55m | 127 km |
| Čačak to Podgorica train | €23.99 | 2h 16m | 184 km |
| Valjevo to Podgorica train | €26.74 | 2h 27m | 210 km |
| Novi Pazar to Zemun train | €27.84 | 2h 21m | 190 km |
| Kikinda to Čačak train | €27.84 | 2h 32m | 216 km |
| Split to Zagreb train | €32.79 | 2h 59m | 259 km |
| Sombor to Novi Pazar train | €39.39 | 3h 24m | 314 km |
Countries in The Balkans
Every country in The Balkans we sell in, most routes first.
| Country | Routes | Places | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serbia | 564 | 23 | 3 |
| Croatia | 96 | 9 | 2 |
| North Macedonia | 72 | 10 | 2 |
| Montenegro | 60 | 16 | 3 |
| Kosovo | 60 | 10 | 1 |
| Albania | 24 | 7 | 1 |
| Bulgaria | 4 | 2 | 1 |
When to book in The Balkans
The same search run at seven lead times across 3 corridors in The Balkans.
- €38.843 days
- €21.797 days
- €13.5421 days
- €14.0945 days
- €14.6484 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Across the routes we sampled the typical fare is lowest around 21 days ahead, at €13.54.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 65 percent. At the dearest point the typical fare is €38.84, 3 days out.
How far people travel to get here
Every origin we sell by Trains, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.
| Distance | Routes | Share | Nearest of them |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 200 km | 628 | 81% | Čačak, 40 km |
| 200 to 600 km | 144 | 19% | Belgrade, 201 km |
Train operators
The carriers with the largest networks inside The Balkans.
Train destinations
Other ways to travel across The Balkans
Common questions about Trains across The Balkans
How many Trains routes does Orlero sell across The Balkans?
772 of them, across 7 countries reaching 53 places through 9 operators
How much does travelling by Trains cost in The Balkans?
On the 16 busiest Trains corridors in The Balkans, priced on 7 October 2026, the lowest fare is €11.88 and the median is €17.39.
Is Trains the fastest way across The Balkans?
On the corridors we priced, train takes a median of 1h 51m door to door, against 2h 31m by Coach. Both figures include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the other end.
Which countries in The Balkans have Trains routes we sell?
Serbia, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, Bulgaria.
Who runs the Trains services in The Balkans?
Србија Воз, MÁV-Start, Željeznički prevoz Crne Gore, HŽPP, Trainkos, Hekurudha Shqiptare, among 9 carriers we sell across The Balkans.
When should I book travel across The Balkans?
Fares on the corridors we sampled bottom out about 21 days before departure. Booking then rather than 3 days ahead was 65 percent cheaper on this sample.
How far apart are the places we sell in The Balkans?
The median route runs 109 km in a straight line and the shortest is 40 km. The longest we sell is 408 km, from Podgorica to Subotica.
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.
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
- Regions
- A region is a set of countries, and a route counts for it when either end is inside it. Countries are grouped from their ISO code alone, so the map grows with the data and nothing here is drawn by hand.
- The sample
- Fares, journey times and carbon are measured on the 16 highest ranked corridors in this region, spread across it rather than taken from the top, so the figures describe the region and not its busiest country.