Regional train0h 56
ZürichZürich HauptbahnhofBernBern Hauptbahnhof
IC1, direct, up to 7x/hour combined with overlapping IC/IR services
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Zürich to Bern
2 ways to get from Zürich to Bern
ZürichZürich HauptbahnhofBernBern Hauptbahnhof
- Regional train
- 0h 56 published
- Distance
- 122 km by road
- Operators
- SBB InterCity
- Regional train 0h 56
- Transfer ~1h 32 est. drive
ZürichBern
- Regional train0h 56Zürich HauptbahnhofBern Hauptbahnhof
- Transfer~1h 32 est.any addressany address
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Transfer~1h 32 est. drive
Zürichany addressBernany address
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Before you land
The parts people get wrong. Each one links to where we checked it.
Hours
Wikipedia's InterCity (Switzerland) route list confirms IC1 runs Geneva Airport-Bern-Zürich HB-St Gallen hourly without a change of train; aggregator snapshots put the fastest run at about 56 minutes, with some individual services taking up to 80 minutes depending on stopping pattern.
en.wikipedia.org · checked 2026-09-09
Easy to get wrong
The Bern-Olten section of this line was rebuilt for 200 km/h under the Rail 2000 programme, but the rest of the Zürich-Bern corridor runs on largely conventional, mixed-use track, so labelling the whole corridor 'high_speed' the way TGV or ICE on dedicated line would be overstates it - this dataset calls it regional_rail instead.
en.wikipedia.org · checked 2026-09-09