Trains across Central Asia
536 routes and 5 operators across 3 countries Fares and travel times below come from the same engine that answers the search box.
536 Trains routes run across Central Asia, reaching 35 places in 3 countries through 5 operators On the 16 busiest of them, priced on October 8, 2026, the cheapest fare is €59.19 and the fastest trip is 3h 20m door to door. A median route runs 492 km.
Trains in Central Asia, in numbers
What we actually sell, counted rather than claimed.
- 536Routes we sell
- 134Corridors
- 35Places served
- 3Countries
- 5Operators
- 248Domestic routes
- 0Cross border routes
- 288Routes out of the region
- 492 kmMedian route
- 1,170 kmLongest route
How the modes compare across Central Asia
Every mode measured on the same 16 corridors in Central Asia, priced on October 8, 2026 for one passenger.
| Mode | Corridors priced | From | Door to door | CO2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 1 | €102.80 | 4h 51m | 246.5 kg |
| Train | 16 | €119.14 | 6h 2m | 26.3 kg |
The corridors that matter in Central Asia
Ranked by how much service runs, then priced. The country and city pages carry the rest.
| Route | From | Fastest | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oral to Tolyatti train | €59.19 | 3h 20m | 291 km |
| Ishim to Kokshetau train | €66.89 | 3h 28m | 315 km |
| Kamen'-na-Obi to Pavlodar train | €75.14 | 3h 28m | 337 km |
| Balqash to Almaty train | €79.54 | 4h 19m | 427 km |
| Rudnyy to Astana train | €98.24 | 5h 32m | 603 km |
| Aqsū to Barnaul train | €98.24 | 4h 47m | 481 km |
| Iskitim to Pavlodar train | €103.74 | 4h 54m | 495 km |
| Tobolsk to Kokshetau train | €113.64 | 5h 6m | 551 km |
| Astana to Almaty train | €124.64 | 7h 27m | 973 km |
| Khanty-Mansiysk to Petropavl train | €140.04 | 6h 38m | 681 km |
| Saran to Almaty train | €146.09 | 7h 36m | 792 km |
| Tambov to Oral train | €147.74 | 6h 32m | 703 km |
| Petropavl to Surgut train | €156.54 | 6h 56m | 753 km |
| Oral to Lipetsk train | €169.19 | 7h 23m | 827 km |
| Akademgorodok to Petropavl train | €182.39 | 8h | 892 km |
| Kokshetau to Nizhnevartovsk train | €203.84 | 8h 30m | 953 km |
Countries in Central Asia
Every country in Central Asia we sell in, most routes first.
| Country | Routes | Places | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan | 484 | 25 | 3 |
| Uzbekistan | 48 | 8 | 1 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 4 | 2 | 1 |
When to book in Central Asia
The same search run at seven lead times across 3 corridors in Central Asia.
- €224.193 days
- €209.347 days
- €130.1421 days
- €92.7445 days
- €138.3984 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Across the routes we sampled the typical fare is lowest around 45 days ahead, at €92.74.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 59 percent. At the most expensive point the typical fare is €224.19, 3 days out.
How far people travel to get here
Every origin we sell by Trains, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.
| Distance | Routes | Share | Nearest of them |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 200 km | 104 | 19% | G’ijduvon Shahri, 43 km |
| 200 to 600 km | 228 | 43% | G’ijduvon Shahri, 201 km |
| 600 to 1,500 km | 204 | 38% | Astana, 603 km |
Rail operators
The carriers with the largest networks inside Central Asia.
Train destinations
Other ways to travel across Central Asia
Common questions about Trains across Central Asia
How many Trains routes does Orlero sell across Central Asia?
536 of them, across 3 countries reaching 35 places through 5 operators
How much does travelling by Trains cost in Central Asia?
On the 16 busiest Trains corridors in Central Asia, priced on October 8, 2026, the lowest fare is €59.19 and the median is €119.14.
Is Trains the fastest way across Central Asia?
On the corridors we priced, train takes a median of 6h 2m door to door, against 4h 51m by Flight. Both figures include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the other end.
Which countries in Central Asia have Trains routes we sell?
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan.
Who runs the Trains services in Central Asia?
АО «ФПК», ҚТЖ, O'zbekiston Temir Yo'llari, unknown, Кыргыз темир жолу, among 5 carriers we sell across Central Asia.
When should I book travel across Central Asia?
Fares on the corridors we sampled bottom out about 45 days before departure. Booking then rather than 3 days ahead was 59 percent cheaper on this sample.
How far apart are the places we sell in Central Asia?
The median route runs 492 km in a straight line and the shortest is 43 km. The longest we sell is 1,170 km, from Novokuznetsk to Petropavl.
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.
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
- Regions
- A region is a set of countries, and a route counts for it when either end is inside it. Countries are grouped from their ISO code alone, so the map grows with the data and nothing here is drawn by hand.
- The sample
- Fares, travel times and carbon are measured on the 16 highest ranked corridors in this region, spread across it rather than taken from the top, so the figures describe the region and not its busiest country.