MAX trains from Paris

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

From ParisWed 11 NovEdit

162 destinations with MAX seats

From Paris

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

Sometimes in MAX50%176,175 of 354,836 trips¹

Best day: Tuesday 69%
On a given morning: 18% 1,991,756 of 10,891,579 daily readings

By departure hour

05 — 87% (357 of 412 trips)
06 — 63% (14,509 of 22,888 trips)
07 — 64% (19,430 of 30,198 trips)
08 — 57% (7,374 of 13,039 trips)
09 — 50% (10,542 of 20,973 trips)
10 — 48% (12,585 of 26,426 trips)
11 — 50% (4,624 of 9,342 trips)
12 — 56% (12,805 of 23,021 trips)
13 — 49% (6,858 of 14,086 trips)
14 — 38% (8,830 of 23,225 trips)
15 — 49% (6,683 of 13,551 trips)
16 — 46% (10,847 of 23,695 trips)
17 — 40% (13,302 of 33,065 trips)
18 — 40% (18,306 of 46,144 trips)
19 — 50% (12,716 of 25,216 trips)
20 — 54% (8,288 of 15,319 trips)
21 — 63% (6,531 of 10,335 trips)
22 — 38% (1,388 of 3,691 trips)
23 — 95% (200 of 210 trips)

Seats mostly appear at D-3

D-322% (best)
D-2916%
D-1112%

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)