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+1 day

  • July 27, 2025
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Hello, i am very new to this interrail thing and I'm trying to understand. I first thought that is I take a train on day 1 and it arrives on day 2 at his final destination, even is there is switches (that make part of the train trajectory), it still counted as 1 day. But when I checked for trains in the app I saw +1 day literally in every train I watched. Is it normal and does the +1 day means I spend actually 2 days of travel? Thank you very much.

Best answer by rvdborgt

  1. "+1 day” means the arrival time is the next day. It doesn't have any significance as to the number of travel days you need.
  2. The (planned) departure date determines the travel day. If you board a train, you can stay on it until after midnight and you'll only use 1 travel day. Once you board another train after midnight, you'll need another travel day. Also see:
    https://www.interrail.eu/en/support/interested-in-interrailing/what-is-a-travel-day

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  • July 27, 2025
  1. "+1 day” means the arrival time is the next day. It doesn't have any significance as to the number of travel days you need.
  2. The (planned) departure date determines the travel day. If you board a train, you can stay on it until after midnight and you'll only use 1 travel day. Once you board another train after midnight, you'll need another travel day. Also see:
    https://www.interrail.eu/en/support/interested-in-interrailing/what-is-a-travel-day

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  • Rail rookie
  • July 27, 2025

Thank you very much. I have just another question of what you are saying. If I travel from a country to another, and I have to make connections, and one of those connections are after midnight, is it one day of travel or two days of travel? Because it's not the same train but it's the same traject.

Thanks


ralderton
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  • July 27, 2025

Thank you very much. I have just another question of what you are saying. If I travel from a country to another, and I have to make connections, and one of those connections are after midnight, is it one day of travel or two days of travel? Because it's not the same train but it's the same traject.

Thanks

That will use two travel days.

Like ​@rvdborgt says, for every train you take, you consider the departure time and date. That’s what decides which travel day it will use.

It doesn’t matter what journey you are making, each train is considered separately.


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  • Rail rookie
  • July 27, 2025

Okay thank you very much for letting me know 😁