Harare to Kwekwe train

Trains from Harare to Kwekwe start at €32.79 and take 2h 14m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Harare to Kwekwe starts at €32.79 and takes 2h 14m door to door, run by 1 operator over 206 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked September 12, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 2h 14mDoor to door
  • 1h 30mMoving
  • €32.79From
  • 6.8 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

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

Cheapest€22.89
  1. National Railways of Zimbabwe NR339806:041h 30m07:34Harare StationKwekwe station

Door to door 2h 14mCO2 6.8 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
National Railways of Zimbabwe€22.892h 12m140 km/hRefundablePower outlets, Wi-Fi
  • National Railways of Zimbabwe

The train gets you into Kwekwe. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Kwekwe 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 Harare to Kwekwe

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

  1. €35.5490 days
  2. €20.6960 days
  3. €22.8945 days
  4. €19.5930 days
  5. €27.8421 days
  6. €38.2914 days
  7. €36.647 days
  8. €39.393 days
  9. €55.341 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €19.59.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 182 percent. The most expensive point is €55.34, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €45.99Sun
  2. €37.19Mon
  3. €34.44Tue
  4. €33.34Wed
  5. €37.19Thu
  6. €42.69Fri
  7. €36.64Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Harare

Rail
  • Harare 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
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 206 km against 179 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 Kadoma, Masvingo, Chegutu, Gweru. The gap between arriving and leaving is 48 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. 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 Harare at 06:04 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 Harare to Kwekwe

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 Harare to Kwekwe take?

The Train from Harare to Kwekwe takes 2h 14m door to door, of which 1h 30m is spent moving. The route runs 206 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 Harare to Kwekwe cost?

The Train from Harare to Kwekwe starts at €32.79 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €32.78. 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 Harare to Kwekwe?

1 operators run the Train from Harare to Kwekwe: National Railways of Zimbabwe. 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 Harare to Kwekwe use?

The Train from Harare to Kwekwe leaves from Harare Station and arrives at Kwekwe 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 Harare to Kwekwe?

Fares for the Train from Harare to Kwekwe bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €19.59. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 182 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Harare to Kwekwe produce?

The Train from Harare to Kwekwe produces about 6.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 206 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 Harare to Kwekwe?

Operators on the Train from Harare to Kwekwe publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 2h 14m 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 Harare to Kwekwe on September 12, 2026: 206 km of route against 179 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €32.79, and 2h 14m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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