Travel to Butterworth

Every way to reach Butterworth: 1 mode compared, with fares.

Butterworth is reachable from 9 places across 1 country by 1 mode, on services run by 1 operator. The cheapest arrival costs €11.88 and the fastest takes 1h 13m door to door. The nearest origin is 44 km away.

Priced for 9 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

Arriving

How people reach Butterworth

One row per mode that calls here. Reach is the furthest origin that mode serves in a straight line.
ModeOriginsFromFastestReachOperators
Train18€11.881h 13m121 km1
  • 9Places you can arrive from
  • 1Countries
  • 1Operators

The train gets you into Butterworth. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Butterworth for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Butterworth railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km18100%Yan Besar, 44 km
Origins

Which countries you can arrive from

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
Malaysia18100%
Terminals

Stations, airports and ports in Butterworth

Butterworth

Rail
  • Butterworth railway station
  • Penang Sentral
  • Penang Sentral LRT Station
Coach
  • Penang Sentral Intercity Bus Platform (L1)
  • Penang Sentral Stage Bus Platform (L1)
Fares

The cheapest journeys into Butterworth

Cheapest fare and fastest journey into Butterworth, over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Yan Besar to Butterworth train€11.881h 13m44 km
Simpang Empat to Butterworth train€11.881h 18m58 km
Pendang to Butterworth train€12.441h 23m67 km
Taiping to Butterworth train€13.541h 24m74 km
Alor Star to Butterworth train€14.641h 30m80 km
Jitra to Butterworth train€17.391h 38m97 km
Kampung Manjoi to Butterworth train€20.141h 46m117 km
Bercham to Butterworth train€20.691h 45m120 km
Ipoh to Butterworth train€21.241h 53m121 km

Butterworth is small enough to see in an afternoon, which is easier without the luggage. Storing it is not our business.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Butterworth railway station

Most of the points near Butterworth railway station open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Popular journeys to Butterworth

Common questions about Travel to Butterworth

How can I get to Butterworth?

Butterworth is reachable by 1 mode on our network, from 9 places, across 1 countries, on services run by 1 operators. The table on this page compares those modes on the cheapest fare, the fastest journey, how far each reaches and how many carriers run it.

What is the cheapest way to get to Butterworth?

The cheapest way into Butterworth is by train, from €11.88 for one passenger. That is the lowest fare across all 9 origins we sell into Butterworth over the next three weeks, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee.

What is the fastest way to get to Butterworth?

The fastest journey into Butterworth is by train, at 1h 13m door to door. The nearest origin we sell is 44 km away in a straight line, which is why a short fast journey exists at all on this list.

Which stations and airports does Butterworth have?

Butterworth has 5 named terminals on our network, including 3 rail stations and 0 airports. Among them are Butterworth railway station, Penang Sentral, Penang Sentral LRT Station. Every journey time on this page allows for reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

Where can I travel to Butterworth from within 200 km?

18 of the routes we sell into Butterworth start within 200 km. The nearest is Yan Besar, 44 km away in a straight line. Short corridors like these are usually the ones where a train or coach beats a flight door to door.

Where else can I go from Butterworth in Malaysia?

Butterworth connects to 9 places on our network across 1 country the furthest of them 121 km away in a straight line. Malaysia routes are listed on this page, and the country pages carry the rest of the network around 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.

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 Catchment, Fares, Door to door, Distances

Elsewhere in Malaysia

The wider region

The train is the simple part. What you do once you are in Butterworth is somebody else's catalogue.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Butterworth and across Malaysia

Day trips that leave Butterworth in the morning and cover a good part of Malaysia by evening.

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