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Trains in Germany

19960 routes and 84 operators. Fares below are the cheapest we currently sell on each.

Sunset over Berlin

We sell 19,960 Trains routes in Germany, serving 502 places through 84 operators. 5,704 of those routes cross a border. The cheapest fare is €11.88 and the median route runs 147 km.

Checked September 28, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

The network

Trains in Germany, in numbers

What we actually sell, counted rather than claimed.

  • 19,960Routes we sell
  • 502Places served
  • 84Operators
  • 14,256Domestic routes
  • 5,704Cross border routes
  • 147 kmMedian route
  • 1,196 kmLongest route
  • 14Countries
Routes

The busiest Trains routes in Germany

Priced from the same engine that answers the search box, on the next three weeks of departures.

The routes we sell in Germany, busiest first, priced over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Bochum to Düsseldorf train€11.881h 9m42 km
Düsseldorf to Bochum train€11.881h 9m42 km
Bonn to Düsseldorf train€11.881h 17m59 km
Düsseldorf to Bonn train€11.881h 17m59 km
Essen to Cologne train€11.881h 17m58 km
Cologne to Essen train€11.881h 17m58 km
Dortmund to Duisburg train€11.881h 13m49 km
Duisburg to Dortmund train€11.881h 13m49 km
Duisburg to Cologne train€11.881h 16m57 km
Cologne to Duisburg train€11.881h 16m57 km
Bonn to Wuppertal train€11.881h 17m58 km
Wuppertal to Bonn train€11.881h 17m58 km
Dortmund to Düsseldorf train€11.881h 16m58 km
Düsseldorf to Dortmund train€11.881h 16m58 km
Karlsruhe to Mannheim train€11.881h 15m54 km
Mannheim to Karlsruhe train€11.881h 15m54 km
Aachen to Bonn train€11.881h 23m71 km
Bonn to Aachen train€11.881h 23m71 km
Bochum to Cologne train€11.881h 19m64 km
Cologne to Bochum train€11.881h 19m64 km
Frankfurt am Main to Mannheim train€11.881h 23m71 km
Mannheim to Frankfurt am Main train€11.881h 23m71 km
Mannheim to Wiesbaden train€11.881h 21m68 km
Wiesbaden to Mannheim train€11.881h 21m68 km
Gelsenkirchen to Cologne train€11.881h 19m64 km
Cologne to Gelsenkirchen train€11.881h 19m64 km
Aachen to Düsseldorf train€11.881h 22m70 km
Düsseldorf to Aachen train€11.881h 22m70 km
Aachen to Cologne train€11.881h 19m63 km
Cologne to Aachen train€11.881h 19m63 km
Mönchengladbach to Wuppertal train€11.881h 13m50 km
Wuppertal to Mönchengladbach train€11.881h 13m50 km

The train is the simple part. What you do once you are in Berlin is somebody else's catalog.

A guided tour group

Anything to book in Berlin before you go?

Day trips that leave Berlin in the morning and cover a good part of Germany by evening.

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Every origin we sell by Trains, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km12,33262%Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, 40 km
200 to 600 km7,06435%Bayreuth, 200 km
600 to 1,500 km5643%Favoriten, 600 km
Across the border

Where Germany connects to

Countries reachable from Germany by Trains on a route we sell.

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
Netherlands1,03218%
Poland92016%
Italy79214%
Switzerland72013%
Belgium65612%
Austria58010%
France3406%
Czechia2484%
United Kingdom1923%
Hungary1122%
Spain481%
Slovakia401%
Luxembourg160%
Denmark80%
Carriers

Rail operators

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

Train destinations

What Trains routes are there in Germany?

We sell 19960 Trains routes in Germany, serving 502 places, run by 84 operators. Every one of those routes has an operator that actually serves it, so the count is the network we can sell rather than every pair of places on a map.

How much do Trains tickets in Germany cost?

The cheapest Trains fare in Germany is €11.88 for one passenger, across the 19,960 routes we sell there. The median route runs 147 km in a straight line, which is the distance that fare should be read against before comparing it to anywhere else.

Can I travel out of Germany by Trains?

5704 of the Trains routes we sell touching Germany cross a border and 14256 stay inside it, reaching 14 other countries including Netherlands, Poland, Italy. Cross border routes are usually the ones where the fare and the journey time differ most between operators.

Which operators run Trains services in Germany?

84 operators run Trains services on routes we sell in Germany: Abellio Rail, Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland, Agilis, AKN Eisenbahn, alex - Die Länderbahn GmbH DLB. Each is a real carrier from the published operator catalog, and each has its own fares and conditions. The operator table on this page compares them on speed, flexibility and what is on board.

What is the longest Trains route in Germany?

The longest Trains route we sell touching Germany runs from Barcelona to Dortmund, 1,196 km in a straight line. The median route in the country is 147 km, so this one is a considerable outlier and the fares on it behave differently from the rest.

Where these numbers come from

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 Catchment, Fares, Distances

Other ways to travel here

The wider region

That is the traveling done. What happens after you walk out into Berlin is not something we sell.

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