Kitwe to Chunga train

Trains from Kitwe to Chunga start at €40.48 and take 3h 5m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Kitwe to Chunga starts at €40.48 and takes 3h 5m door to door, run by 1 operator over 322 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.

Checked September 8, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 3h 5mDoor to door
  • 2h 21mMoving
  • €40.48From
  • 10.6 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€36.64
  1. Zambia Railways ZR297607:301h 32m09:02Kitwe stationKabwe station
  2. Zambia Railways ZR921010:2654m11:20Kabwe stationChunga station

Changes at Kabwe, with 84 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 4h 34mCO2 10.7 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€43.79
  1. Zambia Railways ZR504906:242h 21m08:45Kitwe stationChunga station

Door to door 3h 5mCO2 10.6 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
Zambia Railways€43.792h 59m140 km/hRefundablePower outlets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

Where to stay in Chunga

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 Kitwe to Chunga

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

  1. €38.8490 days
  2. €41.0460 days
  3. €39.3945 days
  4. €49.8430 days
  5. €36.6421 days
  6. €40.4814 days
  7. €49.847 days
  8. €64.143 days
  9. €73.491 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €36.64.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 101 percent. The most expensive point is €73.49, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 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. €55.34Sun
  2. €50.93Mon
  3. €40.48Tue
  4. €53.14Wed
  5. €60.84Thu
  6. €60.29Fri
  7. €54.79Sat
Terminals

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.

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 322 km against 280 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 Ndola, Kapiri Mposhi, Luanshya, Kabwe. The gap between arriving and leaving is 50 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 Kitwe at 06:24 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 Kitwe to Chunga

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 Kitwe to Chunga take?

The Train from Kitwe to Chunga takes 3h 5m door to door, of which 2h 21m is spent moving. The route runs 322 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 Kitwe to Chunga cost?

The Train from Kitwe to Chunga starts at €40.48 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €43.23. 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 Kitwe to Chunga?

1 operators run the Train from Kitwe to Chunga: Zambia Railways. 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 Kitwe to Chunga use?

The Train from Kitwe to Chunga leaves from Kitwe station and arrives at Chunga 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 Kitwe to Chunga?

Fares for the Train from Kitwe to Chunga bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €36.64. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 101 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Kitwe to Chunga produce?

The Train from Kitwe to Chunga produces about 10.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 322 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 Kitwe to Chunga?

Operators on the Train from Kitwe to Chunga publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 5m 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 Kitwe to Chunga on September 8, 2026: 322 km of route against 280 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €40.48, and 3h 5m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

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

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