Prague to Kiel train

Trains from Prague to Kiel start at €89.99 and take 5h 23m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Prague to Kiel starts at €89.99 and takes 5h 23m door to door, run by 1 operator over 637 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 30, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 23mDoor to door
  • 4h 39mMoving
  • €89.99From
  • 21.0 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 30, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€82.84
  1. ČD D663607:301h 8m08:38Praha hlavni nadraziDresden Hauptbahnhof
  2. ČD D932409:403h 36m13:16Dresden HauptbahnhofKiel Hauptbahnhof

Changes at Dresden, with 62 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 6h 30mCO2 21.1 kgChanges 1Refundable

Fastest€102.09
  1. ČD D451206:124h 39m10:51Praha hlavni nadraziKiel Hauptbahnhof

Door to door 5h 23mCO2 21.0 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
ČD€91.645h 4m140 km/hRefundablePower outlets, Wi-Fi
  • ČD

The trip ends at Kiel Hauptbahnhof. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Kiel for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book Prague to Kiel

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

  1. €95.4990 days
  2. €65.7960 days
  3. €64.1445 days
  4. €66.8930 days
  5. €84.4921 days
  6. €102.0914 days
  7. €117.497 days
  8. €109.793 days
  9. €171.391 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €64.14.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 167 percent. The most expensive point is €171.39, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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. €125.74Sun
  2. €93.84Mon
  3. €94.39Tue
  4. €118.04Wed
  5. €135.64Thu
  6. €102.09Fri
  7. €113.09Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Prague

Rail
  • Praha hlavni nadrazi
  • Praha hl.n.
  • Úžice

Kiel

Rail
  • Kiel Hauptbahnhof
  • Kiel Hbf
  • Kiel-Russee
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 637 km against 554 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 Wandsbek, Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Prague at 06:12 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 Prague to Kiel

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 Prague to Kiel take?

The Train from Prague to Kiel takes 5h 23m door to door, of which 4h 39m is spent moving. The route runs 637 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 Prague to Kiel cost?

The Train from Prague to Kiel starts at €89.99 for one passenger, checked on September 30, 2026. A typical fare is €84.49. 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 Prague to Kiel?

1 operators run the Train from Prague to Kiel: ČD. 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 Prague to Kiel use?

The Train from Prague to Kiel leaves from Praha hlavni nadrazi and arrives at Kiel Hauptbahnhof. 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 Prague to Kiel?

Fares for the Train from Prague to Kiel bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €64.14. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 167 percent, measured on September 30, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Prague to Kiel produce?

The Train from Prague to Kiel produces about 21.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 637 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 Prague to Kiel?

Operators on the Train from Prague to Kiel publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 23m 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 Prague to Kiel on September 11, 2026: 637 km of route against 554 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €89.99, and 5h 23m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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