Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Dakar to Lyon. From €341.75, fastest 8h 47m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Dakar to Lyon costs €341.75 at the cheapest and takes 8h 47m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 4,154 km. Cheapest is by Flight, fastest is by Flight.
Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included
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.
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.
Mode
Door to door
Moving
At the ends
From
CO2
Per day
Flight
9h 20m
6h 10m
3h 10m
€407.83
614.8 kg
6
9h 20mFastest, by Flight
€407.83Cheapest, by Flight
614.8 kgLowest CO2, by Flight
4,154 kmDistance traveled
Real services
The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Cheapest€341.75
Royal Air Maroc RA267707:303h 34m11:04Dakar DSSCasablanca CMN
Air Arabia Maroc AA589012:422h 39m15:21Casablanca CMNLyon LYS
Changes at Casablanca, with 98 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 11h 1mCO2 1023.6 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Fastest€386.00
Transavia France TF370406:016h 10m12:11Dakar DSSLyon LYS
Door to door 9h 20mCO2 614.8 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
SNCF SN344213:303h 41m17:11Barcelona SantsLyon Part Dieu
Changes at Barcelona, with 58 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 11h 38mCO2 553.9 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Today's real departures
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.
No live timetable for this trip yet.
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.
Prices over the next three weeks
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
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Booking window
When to book Dakar to Lyon
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
€335.8590 days
€249.1260 days
€352.9645 days
€368.3030 days
€397.2121 days
€466.8314 days
€555.927 days
€650.323 days
€773.631 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €249.12.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 211 percent. The most expensive point is €773.63, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.
Day of the week
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
€502.82Sun
€446.18Mon
€407.83Tue
€437.92Wed
€466.83Thu
€561.82Fri
€521.70Sat
Across the year
How the fare moves month by month
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
€505.18Sep
€392.49Oct
€347.65Nov
€324.64Dec
€319.33Jan
€262.69Feb
The route
The journey
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 4,154 km against 4,033 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Barcelona, Casablanca, Toulouse, Madrid. The gap between arriving and leaving is 58 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 Dakar at 06:01 and the last at 14:14, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Terminals
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Dakar
Rail
Dakar station
Hann station
Colobane station
Bus
Terminus Dakar Dem Dikk Liberté 5
Gare Routière Petersen
Air
DSS
DKR
Ferry
Dakar
Casamance;Dakar
Lyon
Rail
Lyon Part Dieu
Lyon Part-Dieu
Dardilly le Jubin
Bus
Lyon Perrache
Gare routière internationale Lyon Gerland
Air
LYS
Ferry
Confluence
Subsistances
The fare from LYS into Lyon is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
Getting from LYS into Lyon?
A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.
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Questions about Dakar 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 Dakar to Lyon?
The fastest journey from Dakar to Lyon takes 8h 47m door to door, of which 6h 10m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 9h 15m, 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 Dakar to Lyon?
The cheapest fare from Dakar to Lyon is €341.75, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €545.89. 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 Dakar to Lyon?
The cheapest way from Dakar to Lyon is by Flight, at €407.83 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 9h 20m 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.
When should I book Dakar to Lyon?
Fares from Dakar to Lyon bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €249.12. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 211 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Dakar to Lyon?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Dakar to Lyon, at €407.83. 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.
Which month is cheapest for Dakar to Lyon?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Dakar to Lyon, at €262.69 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 Dakar to Lyon?
1 operators sell services from Dakar to Lyon across 1 modes: Transavia France. 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.
Is there a direct service from Dakar to Lyon?
33 percent of the services we sell from Dakar to Lyon are direct. The rest connect at Barcelona, Casablanca, Toulouse, Madrid, with about 58 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Which station or terminal do services from Dakar to Lyon use?
Services from Dakar to Lyon by Flight leave from Dakar DSS and arrive at Lyon LYS. Allow about 3h 10m 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 Dakar to Lyon?
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Dakar 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
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
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.
Every figure above was computed for Dakar to Lyon on September 10, 2026: 4154 km of route against 4033 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €341.75, and 8h 47m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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