€45*
3:48
4 months in advance
Thanks to the direct TGV® and ICE trains, you’ll get from Paris to Frankfurt in less than 4 hours.
Book your tickets four months in advance to get the best fares on offer.
Your journey begins at Paris Est train station, where you’ll find TGV® and ICE trains (regrouped as “TGV®/ICE Germany) offering daily connections to Frankfurt.
The TGV® or ICE trains will take you to the city of Frankfurt in only 3 hours 48 minutes, passing by Strasbourg or Forbach and with a few intermediary stops (among others in Mannheim).
Your arrival station is Frankfurt Hbf, the city’s central station. Here, numerous public transportation services connect to tourist and business sites in a few minutes, as well as to the airport. An important rail hub in Germany, Frankfurt Hbf also provides you with links to other German cities or destinations such as Switzerland, Austria or Eastern Europe.
Due to planned engineering works on the German rail network, the latest ICE train of the day in both directions between Brussels and Cologne will be cancelled on several days from June to October 2025.
This concerns:
These trains will not operate between Brussels and Cologne on the following days:
Every year in mid-December, European rail companies simultaneously amend their train services, with adapted timetables taking effect more or less throughout Europe.
Reservations on Deutsche Bahn trains (including ICE services) for journeys to, from and within Germany from 14 December 2025 onwards will be possible from Wednesday 15 October.
Please note that Eurostar services connecting Paris, Brussels, Cologne and Dortmund after 14 December are already available for reservation.