Milano / Milan / Mailand to Wien / Vienna by train

How to take a train journey from Milan/Milano to Vienna/Wien

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From Milano Centrale to Wien Hbf/Hauptbahnhof

Travel Information

The train is usually scheduled to depart Milano Centrale at 20:40 and arrive in Wien Hbf at 08:46 and it is the only direct service between Milano and the Austrian capital

Final Destination: Wien Hbf

The train also calls at: Wien-Meidling

The train also departs from: Milano Lambrate, Brescia (21:44), Desenzano del Garda (22:02),
and Peschiera del Garda (22:13).

1 x train per night

Tickets

Book early and save: Yes

Online bookings open: 6 months ahead of the travel date

The train conveys:

- Compartment Seats (Sitzwagen)
- Couchettes (Liegewagen); 4 berths AND 6 berths
- Standard sleeping cars (Schlafwagen) with 3 bed, 2 bed and 1 cabins
- Deluxe sleeping cars with showers (Schlafwagen) with 3 bed, 2 bed and 1 cabins

The first price you will see on the OBB ticketing site will be for the compartment seats.

Click the train button above for more info including the rail pass reservation fees:

Rail pass users must reserve before boarding these trains, but these reservations cannot be booked online.

Reservations can be arranged and paid for at the ticket desk in Milano Centrale - (ideally do this when you first arrive in Milan on the preceding train on your itinerary) or by calling OBB Customer Service (+43 5 1717).

Making the rail pass reservation by phone is particularly recommended if you will be traveling between June and September.
If you wait until arriving in Milano to reserve, your first choice of accommodation may have sold out.

Where to book
Ticket Provider Approximate Cost
OBB *

OBB Guide

OBB is the national rail operator and its booking service offers journeys by express trains within Austria, as well as international journeys which don't involve making a connection outside of Austria.

It pays off to book online, as the discounted 'Sparscheine' tickets are only ever made available on the website, and when making international journeys to and from Austria, these Sparscheine tickets tend to be cheaper.
OBB can offer particularly good value for money when travelling with children on international rail journeys, but something to watch out for when travelling between Austria and Germany on daytime trains, is that reservations are an optional extra; but if you book 1st class tickets with the Germany railways website DB, the reservations are complimentary.

OBB often takes a unique approach to its booking path, but a key thing to keep in mind is that the first price you will see for any journey is that of a Second Class seat.
The costs of upgrading to first class, a reservation, or a sleeping cabin etc, is then added to this price.

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