Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Geneva to Winterthur. From €32.24, fastest 2h 41m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Geneva to Winterthur costs €32.24 at the cheapest and takes 2h 41m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 280 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 | 2h 51m | 2h 7m | 44m | €38.83 | 9.2 kg | 5 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Köniz, with 78 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 4h 16mCO2 9.3 kgChanges 1Refundable
Door to door 2h 51mCO2 9.2 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.
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.
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 Geneva to Winterthur | 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 | ThuSep 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | €82.29 | €77.34 | €53.14 | €47.64 | €48.19 | €54.79 | €52.59 | €49.84 | €50.39 | €44.34 | €43.23 | €38.83 | €41.59 | €48.19 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-29 · €32.24
Winterthur is small enough to walk across, so almost anywhere downtown works. We still do not sell the room.
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 SBB | €34.99 | 2h 41m | 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 | €27.50 | 85% |
| Taxes | €2.75 | 9% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 6% |
| Total you pay | €32.24 | 100% |
Check-in is at three and you will be in Winterthur well before then. Lockers are not something we run.
Priced by the bag and by the day, booked before you get there, and insured while it sits.
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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.
The fastest journey from Geneva to Winterthur takes 2h 41m door to door, of which 2h 7m is spent moving, on the Train. Most services take around 2h 50m, 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 Geneva to Winterthur is €32.24, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €49.84. 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 Geneva to Winterthur is by Train, at €38.83 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 2h 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 Geneva to Winterthur bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €24.54. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 235 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 Geneva to Winterthur, at €38.83. 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.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Geneva to Winterthur, at €32.79 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 Geneva to Winterthur across 1 modes: SBB. 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 Geneva to Winterthur are direct. The rest connect at Thun, Bern, Köniz, Lausanne, with about 67 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Geneva to Winterthur by Train leave from Geneve Cornavin and arrive at Eglisau. 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 Geneva to Winterthur 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.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
Plenty of what is worth seeing sits outside Winterthur and elsewhere in Switzerland. None of it is ours to sell.
The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.
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