Dhanbad to Kanpur train

Trains from Dhanbad to Kanpur start at €101.54 and take 6h 1m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Dhanbad to Kanpur starts at €101.54 and takes 6h 1m door to door, run by 2 operators over 782 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 12, 2026Priced for September 30, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6h 1mDoor to door
  • 5h 17mMoving
  • €101.54From
  • 25.8 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€94.39
  1. East Coast Railway EC780307:303h 21m10:51Dhanbad Junction railway stationVaranasi City railway station
  2. East Coast Railway EC146311:512h 22m14:13Varanasi City railway stationKanpur C Panel railway station

Changes at Varanasi, with 60 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 27mCO2 25.8 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€99.89
  1. Eastern Railway ER789806:245h 17m11:41Dhanbad Junction railway stationKanpur C Panel railway station

Door to door 6h 1mCO2 25.8 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.
OperatorFromFastest
East Coast Railway€102.096h 9m
Eastern Railway€99.896h 1m
  • East Coast Railway
  • Eastern Railway

The trip ends at Kanpur C Panel railway station. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Kanpur for the night the train gets in

Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Dhanbad to Kanpur

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

  1. €126.2990 days
  2. €70.7460 days
  3. €72.9445 days
  4. €74.0430 days
  5. €114.1921 days
  6. €115.2914 days
  7. €143.897 days
  8. €160.393 days
  9. €235.191 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €70.74.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 232 percent. The most expensive point is €235.19, 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. €120.24Sun
  2. €107.04Mon
  3. €103.19Tue
  4. €119.69Wed
  5. €145.54Thu
  6. €129.59Fri
  7. €115.29Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Dhanbad

Rail
  • Dhanbad Junction railway station
  • Bhaga railway station
  • Bhuli railway station

Kanpur

Rail
  • Kanpur C Panel railway station
  • Kanpur Central railway station
  • Kanpur Anwarganj railway station
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
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 782 km against 680 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 Varanasi, Lucknow, Prayagraj, Patna. The gap between arriving and leaving is 60 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Dhanbad at 06:24 and the last at 07:30, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Dhanbad to Kanpur

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 Dhanbad to Kanpur take?

The Train from Dhanbad to Kanpur takes 6h 1m door to door, of which 5h 17m is spent moving. The route runs 782 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 Dhanbad to Kanpur cost?

The Train from Dhanbad to Kanpur starts at €101.54 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €98.79. 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 Dhanbad to Kanpur?

2 operators run the Train from Dhanbad to Kanpur: East Coast Railway, Eastern Railway. Between them they file around 6 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 Dhanbad to Kanpur use?

The Train from Dhanbad to Kanpur leaves from Dhanbad Junction railway station and arrives at Kanpur C Panel railway station. 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 Dhanbad to Kanpur?

Fares for the Train from Dhanbad to Kanpur bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €70.74. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 232 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Dhanbad to Kanpur produce?

The Train from Dhanbad to Kanpur produces about 25.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 782 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 Dhanbad to Kanpur?

Operators on the Train from Dhanbad to Kanpur publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 1m 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 Dhanbad to Kanpur on September 12, 2026: 782 km of route against 680 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €101.54, and 6h 1m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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