Night trains
Night trains from Paris
4 sleeper routes · France
4 night trains serve Paris in the TrainRouter atlas — sleeper routes to Venice, Vienna, Nice, Briançon. The longest is the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express at 1,270 km (≈ 21 h); the oldest service on this list has run since 1884. Board in the evening, wake up 1,270 km closer — every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
Paris → Venice · 1,270 km · ≈ 21 h · Belmond · 1920s CIWL carriages
Belmond’s restored Art Deco sleepers of the 1920s–30s — black tie encouraged as the Alps slide past the champagne bar.
Nightjet
Paris → Vienna · 1,200 km · ≈ 14 h · ÖBB · SNCF · Nightjet sleeper
Revived in 2021 after a 14-year gap: dinner near the Eiffel Tower, breakfast on the Danube.
Intercités de Nuit Paris–Nice
Paris → Nice · 1,088 km · 12 h 20 min · SNCF Voyageurs · Corail couchette cars
Relaunched in 2021 as heir to the fabled Train Bleu — board at Austerlitz, wake to the red Estérel cliffs and the sea glittering at Saint-Raphaël.
Intercités de Nuit Paris–Briançon
Paris → Briançon · 860 km · ≈ 11 h 30 min · SNCF Voyageurs · Corail couchette cars
France’s southern-Alps sleeper — lights out at Austerlitz, blinds up in the Durance valley, arrival under the Vauban walls of France’s highest city.
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