Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Shenzhen to Ashgabat. From €517.57, fastest 10h 43m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Shenzhen to Ashgabat costs €517.57 at the cheapest and takes 10h 43m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 5,696 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 28, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 11h 40m | 8h 30m | 3h 10m | €581.29 | 843.0 kg | 5 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Hanoi, with 87 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 13h 12mCO2 966.7 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 11h 40mCO2 843.0 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 Shenzhen to Ashgabat | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 | WedSep 23 | ThuSep 24 | FriSep 25 | SatSep 26 | SunSep 27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | €944.14 | €908.15 | €850.33 | €1,032.64 | €984.85 | €941.78 | €734.10 | €589.55 | €608.43 | €581.29 | €860.36 | €781.89 | €750.62 | €703.42 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-28 · €517.57
Ashgabat is big enough that where you sleep decides what the days look like. We sell the seat, not the room.
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Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turkmenistan Airlines | €519.34 | 10h 43m | 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 | €431.00 | 83% |
| Taxes | €77.58 | 15% |
| Supplier fees | €7.00 | 1% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 0% |
| Total you pay | €517.57 | 100% |
We cannot promise Ashgabat railway station still has a baggage check, because plenty of stations closed theirs.
Most of the points near Ashgabat railway station open before the first train and close after the last one.
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The fastest journey from Shenzhen to Ashgabat takes 10h 43m door to door, of which 8h 30m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 11h 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.
The cheapest fare from Shenzhen to Ashgabat is €517.57, checked on September 13, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €777.76. 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 Shenzhen to Ashgabat is by flight, at €581.29 for one passenger on September 28, 2026. That journey takes 11h 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.
Fares from Shenzhen to Ashgabat bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €384.82. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 145 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Shenzhen to Ashgabat, at €581.29. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 13, 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 Shenzhen to Ashgabat, at €417.27 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 Shenzhen to Ashgabat across 1 mode: Turkmenistan Airlines. 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 Shenzhen to Ashgabat are direct. The rest connect at Ürümqi, Delhi, Almaty, Hanoi, with about 55 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Shenzhen to Ashgabat by flight leave from Shenzhen SZX and arrive at Ashgabat ASB. 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 Shenzhen to Ashgabat 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 Ashgabat are the half people leave until last.
Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Ashgabat, with free cancellation on most of it.
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