Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Alcorcón to Santander. From €44.89, fastest 3h 28m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Alcorcón to Santander costs €44.89 at the cheapest and takes 3h 28m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 399 km. Cheapest is by Train, fastest is by Train.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on September 29, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 3h 51m | 3h 7m | 44m | €51.49 | 13.2 kg | 5 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Burgos, with 89 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 5h 27mCO2 13.2 kgChanges 1Refundable
Door to door 3h 51mCO2 13.2 kgChanges 0Refundable
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
| Operator | Service | Departs | Arrives | Takes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renfe Cercanias3 changes | C5 | 10:55 | 16:10 | 5h 24m |
| Renfe Cercanias4 changes | C5 | 11:03 | 19:10 | 8h 16m |
| Renfe Cercanias4 changes | C5 | 11:41 | 19:45 | 8h 13m |
| Renfe Cercanias5 changes | C5 | 12:16 | 19:10 | 7h 3m |
| Renfe Cercanias6 changes | C5 | 13:35 | 19:45 | 6h 19m |
| Renfe Cercanias3 changes | C5 | 21:07 | 08:10 | 11h 12m |
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Alcorcón to Santander | ThuSep 10 | FriSep 11 | SatSep 12 | SunSep 13 | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 | WedSep 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | €120.79 | €98.24 | €121.89 | €80.64 | €64.69 | €73.49 | €78.43 | €77.34 | €78.44 | €81.74 | €71.29 | €64.14 | €51.49 | €58.64 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-29 · €44.89
Santander sits on the water, which usually settles which side of town you want to wake up on. Rooms are not ours to sell.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
The fare from SDR into Santander is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
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Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Renfe Feve | €47.64 | 3h 28m | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power outlets, Wi-Fi |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €39.00 | 87% |
| Taxes | €3.90 | 9% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 4% |
| Total you pay | €44.89 | 100% |
The train gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Stores, cafes and hotels that take luggage, with the hours on the map so you know what is still open when you come back.
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The fastest journey from Alcorcón to Santander takes 3h 28m door to door, of which 3h 7m is spent moving, on the Train. Most services take around 3h 41m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Alcorcón to Santander is €44.89, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €71.29. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Alcorcón to Santander is by Train, at €51.49 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 3h 51m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
Fares from Alcorcón to Santander bottom out around 90 days before departure, at €43.79. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 178 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Alcorcón to Santander, at €51.49. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 29, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Alcorcón to Santander, at €37.74 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
1 operators sell services from Alcorcón to Santander across 1 modes: Renfe Feve. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
20 percent of the services we sell from Alcorcón to Santander are direct. The rest connect at Valladolid, Alcalá de Henares, Bilbao, Burgos, with about 51 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Alcorcón to Santander by Train leave from Alcorcón station and arrive at Santander. Allow about 44m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Alcorcón to Santander allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.
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Being on the water gives Santander a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.
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