Cheapest€102.09
- Nigerian Railway Corporation NR395906:286h 13m12:41Kano stationAba station
Door to door 6h 57mCO2 29.5 kgChanges 0Refundable
Kano to Aba train
Trains from Kano to Aba start at €114.19 and take 6h 57m at their fastest.
The Trains from Kano to Aba starts at €114.19 and takes 6h 57m door to door, run by 1 operator over 893 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 6h 57mDoor to door
- 6h 13mMoving
- €114.19From
- 29.5 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Rail operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Nigerian Railway Corporation | €102.09 | 6h 46m | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power outlets, Wi-Fi |
The train gets you into Aba. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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When to book Kano to Aba
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €98.7990 days
- €84.4960 days
- €109.2445 days
- €117.4930 days
- €117.4921 days
- €130.1414 days
- €175.247 days
- €228.043 days
- €313.291 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €84.49.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 271 percent. The most expensive point is €313.29, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €146.64Sun
- €120.24Mon
- €142.79Tue
- €130.14Wed
- €158.74Thu
- €148.84Fri
- €153.24Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
We do not hold named terminals for either end of this corridor yet.
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 893 km against 777 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 Awka, Enugu, Umuahia, Abuja. 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. 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 Kano at 06:28 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 Kano to Aba
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 Kano to Aba take?
The Train from Kano to Aba takes 6h 57m door to door, of which 6h 13m is spent moving. The route runs 893 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 Kano to Aba cost?
The Train from Kano to Aba starts at €114.19 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €109.24. 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 Kano to Aba?
1 operators run the Train from Kano to Aba: Nigerian Railway Corporation. 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 Kano to Aba use?
The Train from Kano to Aba leaves from Kano station and arrives at Aba 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 Kano to Aba?
Fares for the Train from Kano to Aba bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €84.49. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 271 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Train from Kano to Aba produce?
The Train from Kano to Aba produces about 29.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 893 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 Kano to Aba?
Operators on the Train from Kano to Aba publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 57m 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 Kano to Aba on September 9, 2026: 893 km of route against 777 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €114.19, and 6h 57m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Related journeys
Plenty of what is worth seeing sits outside Aba and elsewhere in Nigeria. None of it is ours to sell.
What to book in Aba before you go
Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Aba, with free cancellation on most of it.
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