Karawang to Surakarta train

Trains from Karawang to Surakarta start at €49.29 and take 4h 25m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Karawang to Surakarta starts at €49.29 and takes 4h 25m door to door, run by 1 operator over 474 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 17, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 25mDoor to door
  • 3h 41mMoving
  • €63.59 to €148.29From
  • 06:04 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 15.6 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 6, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€63.59 to €148.29 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

KAI runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Bookaway lists departures for Karawang to Surakarta on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €135.64Fri18
  2. about €148.29Sat19
  3. about €133.99Sun20
  4. about €82.29Mon21
  5. about €84.49Tue22
  6. about €93.84Wed23
  7. about €109.79Thu24
  8. about €86.14Fri25
  9. about €85.04Sat26
  10. about €82.84Sun27
  11. about €74.59Mon28
  12. about €63.59Tue29
  13. about €70.74Wed30
  14. about €86.14Thu1

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 6, 2026

Cheapest€49.29
  1. KAI KA998106:043h 41m09:45Karawang railway station (KAI)Gawok railway station

Door to door 4h 25mCO2 15.6 kgChanges 0Refundable

Lowest CO2€58.09
  1. KAI KA607407:301h 16m08:46Karawang railway station (KAI)Cirebon railway station
  2. KAI KA917610:242h 8m12:32Cirebon railway stationGawok railway station

Changes at Cirebon, with 98 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 5h 46mCO2 15.6 kgChanges 1Refundable

Carriers

Rail operators

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
KAI€49.294h140 km/hRefundablePower outlets, Wi-Fi
  • KAI

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

A hotel room

A room in Surakarta for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Gawok 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 Karawang to Surakarta

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

  1. €65.7990 days
  2. €42.6960 days
  3. €55.8945 days
  4. €61.3930 days
  5. €67.4421 days
  6. €86.1414 days
  7. €109.797 days
  8. €133.993 days
  9. €135.641 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €42.69.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 218 percent. The most expensive point is €135.64, 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. €82.84Sun
  2. €74.59Mon
  3. €63.59Tue
  4. €70.74Wed
  5. €86.14Thu
  6. €86.14Fri
  7. €85.04Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Karawang

Rail
  • Karawang railway station (KAI)
  • Karawang railway station (KCIC)
  • Klari railway station

Surakarta

Rail
  • Gawok railway station
  • Palur railway station
  • Salem railway station
The journey

What the journey looks like

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 474 km against 412 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 Purwokerto, Tegal, Pekalongan, Cirebon. The gap between arriving and leaving is 52 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 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 Karawang 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 Karawang to Surakarta

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 Karawang to Surakarta take?

The Train from Karawang to Surakarta takes 4h 25m door to door, of which 3h 41m is spent moving. The route runs 474 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 Karawang to Surakarta cost?

The Train from Karawang to Surakarta starts at €49.29 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €58.09. 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 Karawang to Surakarta?

1 operators run the Train from Karawang to Surakarta: KAI. 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 Karawang to Surakarta use?

The Train from Karawang to Surakarta leaves from Karawang railway station (KAI) and arrives at Gawok 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 Karawang to Surakarta?

Fares for the Train from Karawang to Surakarta bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €42.69. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 218 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Karawang to Surakarta produce?

The Train from Karawang to Surakarta produces about 15.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 474 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 Karawang to Surakarta?

Operators on the Train from Karawang to Surakarta publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 25m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

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.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Karawang to Surakarta on September 17, 2026: 474 km of route against 412 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €49.29, and 4h 25m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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