We will be in Paris and heading to Strasbourg on December 22nd, 2026. Tickets are not on sale yet, but we have been told to buy them asap because the prices jump very high and might sell out. Does anyone know when tickets go on sale? We also need train tickets from Strasbourg to Colmar on December 23rd and those are not on sale yet either. We have heard that you can buy the Strasbourg to Colmar tickets at the station, but I fear they will be sold out. Any advice would be welcome! Thank you!
Posted by
white plains, ny, usa
4332 posts
Tickets go on sale four months in advance
Posted by
Boston
449 posts
And do try to buy them as soon as they go on sale. They're dynamic, as flight tickets are.
Posted by
Wengen
3904 posts
Strasbourg to Colmar tickets at the station, but I fear they will be
sold out.
If trains regularly sold out months in advance they would be useless. Luckily they don't. Most people travelling by train buy their tickets close to departure.
Do the following: Look up on www.sncf-connect.com for tomorrow, a week from now and a month from now. Look at prices and availability. You'll get a good idea of how this works.
Strasbourg to Colmar is a regional train. Used by commuters, shoppers, school children. These tickets do not sell out. Tickets are also flexible, so you can easily decide on the spot to spend more or less time in Colmar.
Posted by
L'Occitanie, France
11803 posts
In fact, there are a few very, very low price tickets when they are loaded into the computer. These bargain fares are usually gone within minutes. After that the fares go up slowly.
Posted by
Green Bay
23484 posts
Strasbourg to Colmar is a commuter train that goes every 30 minutes mostly. and at least every hour. It never sells out, but you might have to stand if there are no seats. Go outside normal commuting hours and should not be crowded.
Posted by
Arctophilia, Northamptonshire, England
36759 posts
prices don't jump very high. They start with the normal price and offer some discounts, on the long distance TGV trains. The most you will pay is the normal price and they, while not bargain basement, are not sky high. You'll be able to get a seat - there are trains all day long between Strasbourg and Paris, at least hourly, often more often. It isn't like Amtrak with one train every few days.
The trains to Colmar are simple commuter trains, one price that doesn't change. You can get your ticket as you enter the station and get on. They can't sell out. They sell tickets until nobody else wants one. If you get to the train late and everybody is already in a seat (if they have luggage of bags or feet on a seat ask them to remove them - seats are for people not stuff) some people may stand for a few minutes. But you can get on.
Posted by
OP
2 posts
Thank you so much everyone! I will keep checking about 4 months out. Thank you again!
Posted by
Wengen
3904 posts
Looking at two months versus one month from now I see pretty much the same prices. This is a train, not a Taylor Swift concert. It is not as if the whole world is waiting for tickets to drop and then snatches them all up :-)
SNCF usually opens up booking for a whole season on the same date. So it is not that tickets become available 4 months before travel.
If you want to be informed when tickets go on sale just go to www.sncf-connect.com and look up Paris to Strasbourg for December 22. You will not get any trains, but in stead a form where you can enter your email address. You will then get a mail once it is know when sales open. Last year winter bookings only opened on November 12th.