Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Lyon to Sétif. From €94.94, fastest 4h 57m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Lyon to Sétif costs €94.94 at the cheapest and takes 4h 57m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 1,096 km. Cheapest is by Flight, fastest is by Flight.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 5h 4m | 1h 54m | 3h 10m | €119.91 | 269.6 kg | 5 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Marseille, with 47 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 6h 10mCO2 209.4 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 5h 4mCO2 269.6 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
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 Lyon to Sétif | WedSep 9 | ThuSep 10 | FriSep 11 | SatSep 12 | SunSep 13 | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | €210.18 | €251.48 | €216.67 | €203.69 | €196.61 | €152.95 | €135.84 | €131.12 | €181.86 | €162.98 | €139.97 | €126.99 | €132.30 | €119.91 |
| Train | €270.39 | €281.39 | €258.29 | €176.89 | €181.29 | €157.09 | €160.39 | €131.79 | €158.19 | €170.84 | €172.49 | €153.24 | €141.14 | €144.44 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-29 · €94.94
The trip ends at Sétif train station. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
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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.
The fare from QSF into Sétif is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
Settled in advance, so the ride into Sétif costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 VOLOTEA Airways | €99.85 | 4h 57m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €84.50 | 89% |
| Taxes | €8.45 | 9% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 2% |
| Total you pay | €94.94 | 100% |
Check-in is at three and you will be in Sétif well before then. Lockers are not something we run.
Most of the points near Sétif train station open before the first train and close after the last one.
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The fastest journey from Lyon to Sétif takes 4h 57m door to door, of which 1h 54m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 5h 4m, 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 Lyon to Sétif is €94.94, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €149.12. 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 Lyon to Sétif is by Flight, at €119.91 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 5h 4m 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 Lyon to Sétif bottom out around 90 days before departure, at €91.09. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 138 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 Lyon to Sétif, at €119.91. 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 Lyon to Sétif, at €73.89 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 Lyon to Sétif across 1 modes: VOLOTEA Airways. 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.
33 percent of the services we sell from Lyon to Sétif are direct. The rest connect at Marseille, Constantine, Algiers, Béjaïa, with about 47 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Lyon to Sétif by Flight leave from Lyon LYS and arrive at Sétif QSF. 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.
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Lyon to Sétif 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.
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.
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The trip is the easy half to plan. The days in Sétif are the half people leave until last.
Day trips that leave Sétif in the morning and cover a good part of Algeria by evening.
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