Vienna to Milan Transportation Options

If northern Italy includes Venice, that is the closest location and there are a couple of direct trains every day taking 7 1/2 hours.

There are also a couple of night trains, one to Venice and another to Milano Rogredo station.

The Austrian Railways can book you to pretty much any station in Italy. Go to www.oebb.at and have a a look a times and prices. Do use a date a before June for testing though, as the September timetable will not be completely on line yet, leading to weird results. Train tickets for September I would expect to be all available by May or so.

If you are planning on visiting multiple places in northern Italy you may want to start there in stead as in Milano. For example Venice and Verona are both a lot closer to Austria.

Vienna to Milan is a long trip, 11+ hours by train. - A little faster driving, but still too long for a single driver. Vienna is quite far east of Italy and the terrain in the middle is mainly mountain. It is one of the trips where flying makes much sense.

The day trains to Venice take the historic and scenic Semmering Railway through the mountains.

Many thanks to all who have commented and provided helpful information. I have allowed one full day for travel to Milan and have reservations once we get there. I will work with my travel partner and we will work out logistics. Thank you for the railway information. Vienna to Venice sounds like a good route as a starter. Do not have plans for Vienna this trip but could easily connect to Milan. Many thanks.

You should fly. It is a cheap route.

Emily, tickets start at 20 euro and it takes about 90 minutes. Wait, thats maybe half the cost of a train ticket? But with luggage its an outrageous 55 euro. But sometimes people have higher callings or other circumstances.