Irkutsk to St Petersburg runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:49 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €344.70 and €369.48, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 9h 21m over 4,548 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.
Typical fares · Priced for October 6, 2026
€344.70 to €369.48
- 273%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Irkutsk
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.
- 06:49First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 5Services per day
- 20%Run direct
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €1,023.20Fri18
- about €920.54Sat19
- about €901.07Sun20
- about €580.70Mon21
- about €567.72Tue22
- about €600.17Wed23
- about €764.78Thu24
- about €606.66Fri25
- about €588.96Sat26
- about €570.67Sun27
- about €443.82Mon28
- about €472.14Tue29
- about €463.88Wed30
- about €622.59Thu1
- about €475.09Fri2
- about €421.40Sat3
- about €439.10Sun4
- about €427.89Mon5
- about €344.70Tue6
- about €384.23Wed7
- about €434.97Thu8
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 flight gets you into St Petersburg. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in St Petersburg for the night the flight gets in
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When to book Irkutsk to St Petersburg
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €414.3290 days
- €274.4960 days
- €346.4745 days
- €409.0130 days
- €434.9721 days
- €622.5914 days
- €764.787 days
- €901.073 days
- €1,023.201 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €274.49.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 273 percent. The most expensive point is €1,023.20, 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.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Irkutsk to St Petersburg and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
5 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.
The shape of it
4,548 km
4,415 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north-west.
Who lives at each end
623,869 → 5,351,935
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
How we know
0/2
2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.
The route
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
- 20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 4,548 km against 4,415 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 Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg. The gap between arriving and leaving is 50 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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.
St Petersburg is large, and the road in from LED can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.
A car waiting when you land in St Petersburg
Settled in advance, so the ride into St Petersburg costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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Who runs this route
The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Baggage storage near Sankt-Peterburg Glavnii
Most of the points near Sankt-Peterburg Glavnii open before the first train and close after the last one.
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Questions about Irkutsk to St Petersburg
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 Irkutsk to St Petersburg?
The fastest journey from Irkutsk to St Petersburg takes 9h 21m door to door, of which 6h 49m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 9h 37m, 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 Irkutsk to St Petersburg?
The cheapest fare from Irkutsk to St Petersburg is €344.70, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €646.78. 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 Irkutsk to St Petersburg?
The cheapest way from Irkutsk to St Petersburg is by flight, at €344.70 for one passenger on October 6, 2026. That journey takes 9h 59m 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 Irkutsk to St Petersburg?
Fares from Irkutsk to St Petersburg bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €274.49. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 273 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Irkutsk to St Petersburg?
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Irkutsk to St Petersburg, at €443.82. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 17, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Irkutsk to St Petersburg?
February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Irkutsk to St Petersburg, at €297.50 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 Irkutsk to St Petersburg?
No operator record names Irkutsk to St Petersburg directly. S7 Airlines 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 Irkutsk to St Petersburg?
20 percent of the services we sell from Irkutsk to St Petersburg are direct. The rest connect at Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, with about 50 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 Irkutsk to St Petersburg use?
Services from Irkutsk to St Petersburg by flight leave from Irkutsk IKT and arrive at Saint Petersburg LED. 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 Irkutsk to St Petersburg?
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Irkutsk to St Petersburg 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 Irkutsk to St Petersburg on September 17, 2026: 4548 km of route against 4415 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €344.70, and 9h 21m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Being on the water gives St Petersburg a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of St Petersburg and across Russia
Day trips that leave St Petersburg in the morning and cover a good part of Russia by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Irkutsk reaches 48 places in 10 countries on services we hold, over distances from 67 to 5,802 km. St Petersburg reaches 185 places in 42 countries, from 42 to 8,745 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Irkutsk
- 48Places you can leave for
- 10Countries
- 17Operators
Arriving in St Petersburg
Leaving St Petersburg
- 185Places you can leave for
- 42Countries
- 74Operators