Iași to Timișoara train

Trains from Iași to Timișoara start at €70.74 and take 4h 15m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Iași to Timișoara starts at €70.74 and takes 4h 15m door to door, run by 1 operator over 513 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 15mDoor to door
  • 3h 31mMoving
  • €70.74From
  • 16.9 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€53.69
  1. CFR Călători CF294806:523h 47m10:39Iași Railway StationTimișoara Est railway station

Door to door 4h 31mCO2 16.9 kgChanges 0Refundable

Fastest€77.89
  1. CFR Călători CF846414:393h 31m18:10Iași Railway StationTimișoara Est railway station

Door to door 4h 15mCO2 16.9 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
CFR Călători€53.694h 14m140 km/hRefundablePower outlets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

Where to stay in Timișoara

Sort by distance from Timișoara Est railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Iași to Timișoara

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

  1. €70.9490 days
  2. €50.3960 days
  3. €51.4945 days
  4. €50.3930 days
  5. €59.1421 days
  6. €82.8414 days
  7. €98.677 days
  8. €86.283 days
  9. €142.331 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €50.39.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 182 percent. The most expensive point is €142.33, 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. €76.79Sun
  2. €58.55Mon
  3. €79.20Tue
  4. €70.74Wed
  5. €76.84Thu
  6. €82.84Fri
  7. €82.29Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Iaşi

Rail
  • Iași Railway Station
  • Ciurea railway station
  • Socola railway station

Timişoara

Rail
  • Timișoara Est railway station
  • Timișoara Sud railway station
  • Timișoara Nord 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
43% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 57% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 513 km against 513 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Târgu Mureş, Bacău, Sibiu, Cluj-Napoca. The gap between arriving and leaving is 67 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 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 Iași at 06:52 and the last at 14:39, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Trains against the other ways to make this journey

The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Train4h 15m3h 31m44m€70.7416.9 kg6
Flight4h 21m1h 11m3h 10m€57.37129.9 kg1

Questions about Iași to Timișoara

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 Iași to Timișoara take?

The Train from Iași to Timișoara takes 4h 15m door to door, of which 3h 31m is spent moving. The route runs 513 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 Iași to Timișoara cost?

The Train from Iași to Timișoara starts at €70.74 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €76.24. 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 Iași to Timișoara?

1 operators run the Train from Iași to Timișoara: CFR Călători. 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 Iași to Timișoara use?

The Train from Iași to Timișoara leaves from Iași Railway Station and arrives at Timișoara Est 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.

Is the Train the best way from Iași to Timișoara?

Traveling from Iași to Timișoara by Flight costs €57.37 and takes 4h 21m door to door, against 4h 15m by Train. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.

When should I book the Train from Iași to Timișoara?

Fares for the Train from Iași to Timișoara bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €50.39. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 182 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Iași to Timișoara produce?

The Train from Iași to Timișoara produces about 16.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 513 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 Iași to Timișoara?

Operators on the Train from Iași to Timișoara publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 15m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Iași to Timișoara on September 11, 2026: 513 km of route against 513 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €70.74, and 4h 15m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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