Almaty to Astana by train or flight

Every option, compared

Door-to-door times (flights include the time at the airports). Fares are typical ranges from the cheapest seat to the premium one.

• Train, Tulpar-Talgo overnight (seat / two-berth coupé / lux): About 16 hours; the coupé fare includes meals. Ordinary trains take about 20 hours (open platzkart berths about KZT 11,000). Kazakhstan Temir Zholy: buy on bilet.railways.kz or the app with your passport details; summer and holiday trains sell out.
• Flight, Air Astana / FlyArystan / SCAT: Many flights a day. FlyArystan's cheapest fares carry only a small bag (add a checked bag online); Air Astana includes one.

Booking links open the route on the country's transport booking site for trains, buses, boats and transfers, and a flight search for flights, dated about two weeks out; change the date there.

What it costs your group, one way

Fares × people; a private car is priced per car, one car per four people.

Once you’re in Astana

• Best time: May – September
• Typical stay: 2 days
• November: Mixed month: November is outside the recommended season (May – September). Nothing in our data flags November as a problem, but it isn't the season the place is best in.

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