Aachen to Lyon train

Trains from Aachen to Lyon start at €86.69 and take 5h 23m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Aachen to Lyon starts at €86.69 and takes 5h 23m door to door, run by 1 operator over 651 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 30, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 23mDoor to door
  • 4h 39mMoving
  • €86.69From
  • 21.5 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 30, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€73.49
  1. SNCF Voyageurs SN551707:304h 8m11:38Aachen HbfGeneve Cornavin
  2. FlixBus FB590113:121h 52m15:04Geneve Place DorciereLyon Perrache

Changes at Geneva, with 94 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 8h 18mCO2 22.8 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€80.64
  1. Eurostar E768706:034h 39m10:42Aachen HbfLyon Part Dieu

Door to door 5h 23mCO2 21.5 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Rail operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Eurostar€80.645h 8m140 km/hRefundablePower outlets, Wi-Fi

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Rooms within reach of Lyon Part Dieu

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Booking window

When to book Aachen to Lyon

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

  1. €97.6990 days
  2. €52.5960 days
  3. €74.0345 days
  4. €73.4930 days
  5. €91.0921 days
  6. €86.6914 days
  7. €130.147 days
  8. €103.743 days
  9. €207.141 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €52.59.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 294 percent. The most expensive point is €207.14, 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.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €99.89Sun
  2. €97.14Mon
  3. €98.79Tue
  4. €103.19Wed
  5. €109.79Thu
  6. €91.09Fri
  7. €117.49Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Aachen

Rail
  • Aachen Hbf
  • Aachen-Richterich
  • Aachen West station

Lyon

Rail
  • Lyon Part Dieu
  • Lyon Part-Dieu
  • Dardilly le Jubin
The journey

What the journey actually 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 651 km against 566 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Bonn, Geneva, Köln, Mönchengladbach. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 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.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Aachen at 06:03 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Aachen to Lyon

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 the Train from Aachen to Lyon take?

The Train from Aachen to Lyon takes 5h 23m door to door, of which 4h 39m is spent moving. The route runs 651 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Train from Aachen to Lyon cost?

The Train from Aachen to Lyon starts at €86.69 for one passenger, checked on September 30, 2026. A typical fare is €120.24. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Aachen to Lyon?

1 operators run the Train from Aachen to Lyon: Eurostar. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Train from Aachen to Lyon use?

The Train from Aachen to Lyon leaves from Aachen Hbf and arrives at Lyon Part Dieu. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Train from Aachen to Lyon?

Fares for the Train from Aachen to Lyon bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €52.59. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 294 percent, measured on September 30, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Aachen to Lyon produce?

The Train from Aachen to Lyon produces about 21.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 651 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Aachen to Lyon?

Operators on the Train from Aachen to Lyon publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 23m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

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.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Aachen to Lyon on September 11, 2026: 651 km of route against 566 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €86.69, and 5h 23m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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