MAX trains from Lyon

Every train with MAX seats reported open, transfers included, with your chance of getting a seat and the time you have to change.

From LyonWed 11 NovEdit

159 destinations with MAX seats

From Lyon

About 5 in 10 trains had MAX seats reported before departure.

Sometimes in MAX50%84,906 of 169,576 trips¹

Best day: Wednesday 63%
On a given morning: 24% 1,227,097 of 5,217,644 daily readings

By departure hour

05 — 80% (2,495 of 3,137 trips)
06 — 78% (11,489 of 14,691 trips)
07 — 54% (2,523 of 4,664 trips)
08 — 52% (5,140 of 9,829 trips)
09 — 46% (6,493 of 14,121 trips)
10 — 50% (5,564 of 11,150 trips)
11 — 39% (7,652 of 19,458 trips)
12 — 43% (3,521 of 8,247 trips)
13 — 61% (3,838 of 6,332 trips)
14 — 45% (3,096 of 6,895 trips)
15 — 43% (5,511 of 12,788 trips)
16 — 38% (4,834 of 12,669 trips)
17 — 41% (4,003 of 9,764 trips)
18 — 34% (5,880 of 17,322 trips)
19 — 66% (4,528 of 6,893 trips)
20 — 69% (5,280 of 7,631 trips)
21 — 85% (1,957 of 2,291 trips)
22 — 61% (904 of 1,476 trips)
23 — 91% (198 of 218 trips)

Seats mostly appear at D-3

D-319% (best)
D-2919%
D-1113%

¹ A trip = one train between two stations on a given day.

MAX in 3 steps

Find a train with a free MAX seat.
Book it on SNCF Connect at 0 €: one reservation per train, 6 at most.
Confirm it in your MAX space, from 48 h before departure until 5 pm the day before, or SNCF cancels it.

Questions

Does “seats reported open” mean I can book?

No. SNCF publishes once a day which trains still have MAX seats. Seats can go in the meantime: always check on SNCF Connect.

What does the chance of a seat mean?

How often MAX seats were open on this train, this many days before departure, over the past year. Three levels, never a percentage: the history is too thin for one.

Why are there trips with transfers?

When no direct train has MAX seats, two or three MAX trains often do. Each one is a separate booking, and the change time uses official SNCF minimum transfer times.

Why is OUIGO missing?

MAX covers some OUIGO trains, but SNCF does not publish them in its MAX open data.

Is Railora affiliated with SNCF?

No. Railora is an independent app that reads SNCF open data.

Data: SNCF Voyageurs — tgvmax (ODbL) · SNCF Voyageurs — temps de correspondance minimaux (ODbL) · MaxCast (history) (MIT (code), ODbL (SNCF data)) · Urban networks (GTFS, transport.data.gouv.fr) (per network, as published on transport.data.gouv.fr)