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Kollam to Mumbai

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Kollam to Mumbai. From €91.09, fastest 6h 27m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Kollam to Mumbai runs about 2 times a day, with the first departure around 07:30 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €91.09, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 6h 27m over 1,232 km, on services run by 2 operators across 1 mode.

Checked September 23, 2026Priced for October 13, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €91.09, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for October 13, 2026

€91.09

  • 183%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Kollam

Typical first and last departure on this corridor.

  • 07:30First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 2Services per day
  • 0%Run direct

Departure times on this route

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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 €271.49Thu24
  2. about €258.84Fri25
  3. about €221.99Sat26
  4. about €174.14Sun27
  5. about €198.34Mon28
  6. about €162.04Tue29
  7. about €158.74Wed30
  8. about €196.14Thu1
  9. about €174.14Fri2
  10. about €190.64Sat3
  11. about €125.19Sun4
  12. about €122.44Mon5
  13. about €132.89Tue6
  14. about €121.89Wed7
  15. about €135.09Thu8
  16. about €125.19Fri9
  17. about €112.54Sat10
  18. about €121.34Sun11
  19. about €92.74Mon12
  20. about €91.09Tue13
  21. about €116.39Wed14

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

The train gets you into Mumbai. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Mumbai for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Mumbai Central railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Kollam to Mumbai

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

  1. €127.3990 days
  2. €112.5460 days
  3. €96.0445 days
  4. €112.5430 days
  5. €116.3921 days
  6. €121.8914 days
  7. €158.747 days
  8. €221.993 days
  9. €271.491 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €96.04.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 183 percent. The most expensive point is €271.49, 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.
€271.49€96.04137142130456090

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This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Kollam to Mumbai 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

1,232 km

1,201 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north.

Who lives at each end

367,10712,691,836

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

The route

IndiaSaudi ArabiaMyanmar (Burma)ChinaThailandYemenOmanKarachiKarachiDhakaDhakaBengaluruBengaluruHyderabadHyderabadAhmedabadAhmedabadBangkokBangkokKolkataKolkataYangonYangonRiyadhRiyadhDubaiDubaiMedanMedanPatnaPatnaKallakurichiKallakurichiMaduraiMaduraiRajkotRajkotJamshedpurJamshedpurKollamKollamMumbaiMumbaiMap data: Natural Earth, GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)Map data: Natural Earth, GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
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
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,232 km against 1,201 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 Kochi, Kozhikode. The gap between arriving and leaving is 101 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 10 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.

Mumbai is large, and the road in from BOM can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Mumbai

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

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Who runs this route

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

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Mumbai Central railway station

Most of the points near Mumbai Central railway station open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Questions about Kollam to Mumbai

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 Kollam to Mumbai?

The fastest journey from Kollam to Mumbai takes 6h 27m door to door, of which 3h 2m is spent moving, on the train. Most services take around 7h, 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 Kollam to Mumbai?

The cheapest fare from Kollam to Mumbai is €91.09, as of September 23, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €141.97. 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 Kollam to Mumbai?

The cheapest way from Kollam to Mumbai is by train, at €91.09 for one passenger on October 13, 2026. That journey takes 6h 40m 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 Kollam to Mumbai?

Fares from Kollam to Mumbai bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €96.04. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 183 percent, measured on September 23, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Kollam to Mumbai?

Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Kollam to Mumbai, at €121.89. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 23, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Kollam to Mumbai?

December is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Kollam to Mumbai, at €97.69 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 Kollam to Mumbai?

2 operators sell services from Kollam to Mumbai across 1 mode: IndiGo Airlines, Southern Railway. 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 Kollam to Mumbai?

0 percent of the services we sell from Kollam to Mumbai are direct. The rest connect at Kochi, Kozhikode, with about 101 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 Kollam to Mumbai use?

Services from Kollam to Mumbai by train leave from Kollam Junction railway station and arrive at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport BOM. Allow about 1h 57m 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 Kollam to Mumbai?

1 of the 2 operators we sell from Kollam to Mumbai 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.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Kollam to Mumbai on September 23, 2026: 1232 km of route against 1201 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €91.09, and 6h 27m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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The two ends, compared

Kollam reaches 53 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 35 to 2,502 km. Mumbai reaches 327 places in 47 countries, from 26 to 12,754 km.

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