Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Shenzhen to Tehran. From €522.29, fastest 11h 33m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Shenzhen to Tehran costs €522.29 at the cheapest and takes 11h 33m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 6,341 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 30, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 12h 31m | 9h 21m | 3h 10m | €671.56 | 938.5 kg | 4 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Guangzhou, with 101 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 13h 15mCO2 926.6 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 12h 31mCO2 938.5 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 Tehran | 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 | WedSep 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | €1,390.74 | €1,213.09 | €1,208.14 | €807.74 | €795.09 | €1,009.04 | €944.69 | €1,088.24 | €702.14 | €769.79 | €731.29 | €756.04 | €609.19 | €586.09 |
| Flight | €1,590.19 | €1,308.17 | €1,439.74 | €1,000.78 | €862.72 | €945.91 | €986.62 | €785.43 | €873.34 | €904.02 | €810.21 | €703.42 | €671.56 | €684.54 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-30 · €522.29
Tehran is big enough that where you sleep decides what the days look like. We sell the seat, not 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.
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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.
Landing at IKA after the trains have stopped is the case this solves. We do not run cars.
Settled in advance, so the ride into Tehran 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mahan Air | €609.02 | 11h 33m | 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 | €473.00 | 91% |
| Taxes | €47.30 | 9% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 0% |
| Total you pay | €522.29 | 100% |
A day in Tehran hauling a suitcase is a shorter day than it needs to be. We do not store bags.
Most of the points near Tehran Railway Station open before the first train and close after the last one.
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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 Shenzhen to Tehran takes 11h 33m door to door, of which 9h 21m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 12h, 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 Tehran is €522.29, checked on September 30, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €900.48. 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 Tehran is by Flight, at €671.56 for one passenger on September 30, 2026. That journey takes 12h 31m 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 Tehran bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €411.19. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 238 percent, measured on September 30, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Shenzhen to Tehran, at €586.09. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 30, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
November is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Shenzhen to Tehran, at €425.49 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 Tehran across 1 modes: Mahan Air. 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 Tehran are direct. The rest connect at Delhi, Ürümqi, Almaty, Guangzhou, with about 49 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 Tehran by Flight leave from Shenzhen SZX and arrive at Tehran IKA. 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 Tehran 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.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
Plenty of what is worth seeing sits outside Tehran and elsewhere in Iran. None of it is ours to sell.
Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Tehran, with free cancellation on most of it.
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