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CFF train to CornavinorCFF train to Lausanne?
The short answer
These do not go to the same place, so price is not the comparison. The CFF train to Cornavin reaches Gare Cornavin and the city centre; the CFF train to Lausanne does not. Runs east along the lake to Lausanne, not into Geneva — it passes through Cornavin without a change, and the CHF 3.00 Geneva ticket stops at the canton border.
The CFF train to Cornavin is quicker: 6 min against 52 min. The CFF train to Lausanne varies between 49 and 73 minutes.
CFF train to Cornavin: 04:58–00:19. CFF train to Lausanne: 04:58–00:19.
Priced against each other
Whole-party totals · adult fares
What each costs for the whole party, in CHF. The cheaper of the two is marked on every row.
Travelers
CFF train to Cornavin
CFF train to Lausanne
Difference
1
CHF 3
CHF 29
CHF 26
2
CHF 6
CHF 58
CHF 52
3
CHF 9
CHF 87
CHF 78
4
CHF 12
CHF 116
CHF 104
5
CHF 15
CHF 145
CHF 130
6
CHF 18
CHF 174
CHF 156
7
CHF 21
CHF 203
CHF 182
8
CHF 24
CHF 232
CHF 208
Side by side
Where each one leaves you
train · CFF/SBB, on a Unireso ticketCFF train to Cornavin
From
The railway station in the terminal, one level down from arrivals
To
Geneve-Cornavin, the main station, in the centre
Luggage
Mainline Swiss trains; racks and space by the doors.
Runs
04:58–00:19
Journey
6 min
Six minutes, CHF 3.00, and the same ticket works on the bus at the other end for the rest of the hour.
Staying in a hotel? Get the Geneva Transport Card sent to you before you fly and this ride is free. After check-in it still is — but by then you have already paid for it.
The ticket machine in the baggage hall no longer gives tickets away. It sells this one.
After the last train, bus 10 runs to 01:12 every night and 03:18 on Friday and Saturday nights.
train · CFF/SBB, on the national direct tariffCFF train to Lausanne
From
The railway station under the terminal, one level down from arrivals — any train towards Lausanne; every one calls at Cornavin on the way
To
Lausanne station, the city's main station: 49 to 59 minutes on the IC and IR trains, 61 to 73 on the RE33
Luggage
Mainline Swiss intercity trains; racks and space by the doors, no charge for hand luggage.
Runs
04:58–00:19
Journey
49–73 min
The CHF 3.00 ticket does not reach Lausanne. Unireso zone 10 is the canton of Geneva, and so is the Geneva Transport Card; Lausanne is in Vaud. Buy the CHF 29.00 CFF ticket to Lausanne before you board.
A CFF ticket is not for one train: it is good for any train on the route until 05:00 the next morning, and you may break the journey. The IC1, IR15, IR90 and IR95 take about 50 minutes; the RE33, the stopping train, about an hour.
The airport's CHF 10 train discount code does not apply: its list of eligible stations has no station in Vaud, or in Geneva.
Children aged 6 to 15 pay CHF 14.50; under-6s ride free. A parent with a CHF 30 Junior card takes their own children for nothing.
The ticket ends at Lausanne station. The metro and buses from there are on Lausanne's own mobilis fare network, sold separately.
The last trains are 00:19 on weeknights and 01:00 on Friday and Saturday nights; nothing runs to Lausanne between then and 04:58 (05:14 at weekends).
Nyon, 22 to 27 minutes from the same platforms on the trains that stop there — the IR95 and IR15 on weekdays, 48 a day — is on the same distance tariff; its fare is not listed here — ask the machine.
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