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Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon. From €21.08, fastest 4h 3m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon runs about 6 times a day, with the first departure around 06:32 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €21.08 and €48.74, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 4h 3m over 484 km, on services run by 4 operators across 2 modes.

Checked September 18, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 4 operators and 2 ways of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares · Priced for October 5, 2026

€21.08 to €48.74

  • 170%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Cergy-Pontoise

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:32First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 6Services per day
  • 33%Run direct

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Buying this trip

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Buying this trip

Bookaway lists departures for Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon on your date, and you pay on their side.

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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 €52.43Sat19
  2. about €44.73Sun20
  3. about €33.18Mon21
  4. about €43.63Tue22
  5. about €40.33Wed23
  6. about €51.33Thu24
  7. about €35.38Fri25
  8. about €44.73Sat26
  9. about €34.28Sun27
  10. about €37.03Mon28
  11. about €30.98Tue29
  12. about €29.33Wed30
  13. about €36.48Thu1
  14. about €25.48Fri2
  15. about €33.18Sat3
  16. about €24.38Sun4
  17. about €21.08Mon5
  18. about €25.48Tue6
  19. about €22.73Wed7
  20. about €29.33Thu8
  21. about €30.43Fri9

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

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

A hotel room

A room in Lyon for the night the bus gets in

Sort by distance from Lyon Part Dieu and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon

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

  1. €32.6390 days
  2. €19.9860 days
  3. €19.4345 days
  4. €27.1330 days
  5. €30.4321 days
  6. €25.4814 days
  7. €35.387 days
  8. €33.183 days
  9. €52.431 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €19.43.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 170 percent. The most expensive point is €52.43, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€52.43€19.43137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 45 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.

The shape of it

484 km

421 km as the crow flies, 15% further by the route services take. The bearing runs south-east.

Who lives at each end

183,430520,774

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

0/4

4 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.

The route

Cergy-PontoiseCergy-PontoiseLyonLyon
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

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 484 km against 421 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 Dijon, Clermont-Ferrand, Marne La Vallée, Saint-Étienne. The gap between arriving and leaving is 54 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. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.

The fare from LYS into Lyon is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Lyon

Settled in advance, so the ride into Lyon costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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Who runs this route

The bus gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Lyon Part Dieu

Most of the points near Lyon Part Dieu open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Questions about Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 it take to get from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon?

The fastest journey from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon takes 4h 3m door to door, of which 3h 22m is spent moving, on the train. Most services take around 5h 56m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon?

The cheapest fare from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon is €21.08, as of September 18, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €54.99. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon?

The cheapest way from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon is by coach, at €21.08 for one passenger on October 5, 2026. That journey takes 7h 26m 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.

What is the fastest way to get from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon?

The fastest way from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon is by train, at 4h 6m door to door. Only 3h 22m of that is spent moving; the remaining 44m is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. The cheapest fare on that mode is €48.74.

When should I book Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon?

Fares from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €19.43. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 170 percent, measured on September 18, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon?

Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon, at €29.33. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 18, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon, at €18.88 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.

Who runs service from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon?

No operator record names Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon directly. BlaBlaCar, Eurostar, SNCF, TER Pays de la Loire publish service areas covering both ends and may serve it, so we list them as possible operators rather than confirmed ones.

Is there a direct service from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon?

50 percent of the services we sell from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon are direct. The rest connect at Dijon, Clermont-Ferrand, Marne La Vallée, Saint-Étienne, with about 54 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

How much CO2 does the journey from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon produce?

Traveling from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon by coach produces about 13.1 kg of CO2 per passenger, the lowest of any mode on this corridor. The same journey by Train produces about 16.0 kg, roughly 1 times as much for one passenger.

Which station or terminal do services from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon use?

Services from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon by train leave from Cergy-le-Haut and arrive at Lyon Part Dieu. 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.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon?

4 of the 4 operators we sell from Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon 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.

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 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.

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, The booking window, Carbon, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Cergy-Pontoise to Lyon on September 18, 2026: 484 km of route against 421 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 4 operators a cheapest fare of €21.08, and 4h 3m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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Day trips out of Lyon and across France

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

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The two ends, compared

Cergy-Pontoise reaches 33 places in 2 countries on services we hold, over distances from 47 to 721 km. Lyon reaches 211 places in 45 countries, from 50 to 9,001 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Cergy-Pontoise

  • 33Places you can leave for
  • 2Countries
  • 10Operators

Arriving in Lyon

Leaving Lyon

  • 211Places you can leave for
  • 45Countries
  • 73Operators

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