What is a travel day?

How travel days work

A travel day is a day when you can use your Interrail Pass to take as many trains as you like. It lasts from 00:00 (12:00 a.m.) to 23:59 (11:59 p.m.) local time*. On each travel day, you can take any trains in the Interrail Pass network.

With a Continuous Pass, like the 1-month Continuous Pass, every day in the validity period (the window of time during which you can use your Pass) is a travel day. This means you can take trains every day, if you want to. With a Flexi Pass, such as the 5 days in 1 month Pass, you choose which days you’d like to travel. Either way, your travel days need to fall within your Pass’s validity period, which starts when you activate your first travel day.

*Europe has more than one time zone, so you might gain or lose an hour of your travel day when you cross a border.

For example, say you're travelling from Poland to Lithuania. Lithuania is an hour ahead of Poland. If you want to catch another train in Lithuania on the same travel day, you'll need to board it by 23:59 (11:59 p.m.) Lithuanian time.

Night trains

If your night train leaves before 23:59 (11:59 p.m.) one day and arrives the next, you only need to use 1 travel day: the day it leaves. If you change trains after midnight, you'll need to use 2 travel days. One thing to keep in mind: you can't take a night train on the last day your Pass is valid. Your Pass ends at 23:59 (11:59 p.m.) that day.

Night ferries

Like night trains, taking a night ferry covered by your Pass only requires using 1 travel day: the day it leaves. Make sure the days it leaves and arrives both fall within your validity period. If your Pass gets you a discount on a ferry instead of covering the whole fare, you don’t need to use a travel day for it.