Last verified: October 30, 2026. Moroccan train fares are demand-priced and move without notice, so every figure below carries the date I read it. I re-read the ONCF booking system and re-run both booking horizons every 60 days, and update the date above each time.
A second-class seat from Casablanca to Marrakech costs 59 dirhams or 145 dirhams. Same train, same seat, same day of travel. The only thing that changed was when I asked, and that is the first thing to understand about Morocco train prices.
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Search for Morocco train prices and you get numbers with no date attached, most of them copied between blogs, several of them on sites that look official and are not. So on 30 October 2026 I priced twelve routes myself, for the second time since August, eight by train and four by coach, straight out of the booking system ONCF runs. Same afternoon, two booking distances each.
The spread is bigger than anyone writes down. It is also not universal, which is the part that actually matters: on half of those twelve routes, booking early saves you nothing at all. Knowing which half you are on is worth more than any single fare.
Key Takeaways
- Casablanca to Marrakech, second class, was 145 dirhams for travel in two days and 59 dirhams for travel in three weeks, read from ONCF’s booking system on 30 October 2026 (49 in August). That is 59% off for planning ahead
- The saving is real on every long-distance route I priced, from 33% between Fes and Meknes up to 62% between Casablanca and Fes
- On the Casablanca to Rabat shuttle and the airport line, booking ahead saved nothing. Those fares did not move between the two dates
- Supratours coach fares did not move either. Four coach routes came back at identical prices two days out and three weeks out
- First class booked ahead often beats second class booked late. Tangier to Casablanca was 129 dirhams in first three weeks out, against 225 in second two days out
- The booking window is shorter than the standard advice. ONCF’s stated limit is three months, but on 30 October 2026 nothing was bookable beyond 31 December, which is 62 days
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How much does a train ticket cost in Morocco?
Second-class fares on the routes travellers actually use run from 22 dirhams to 295 dirhams, depending on distance and on how far ahead you book (ONCF Voyages, fares read 30 October 2026). Short hops are trivially cheap. The long north-south runs are where the booking date starts to matter.
Here is the whole round. Every figure is the cheapest bookable fare on a direct service that day.
| Route | 2 days ahead | 3 weeks ahead | Cheaper by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casablanca to Marrakech | 145 Dh | 59 Dh | 59% |
| Casablanca to Fes | 155 Dh | 59 Dh | 62% |
| Tangier to Rabat Agdal | 170 Dh | 89 Dh | 48% |
| Tangier to Casablanca | 225 Dh | 89 Dh | 60% |
| Rabat Agdal to Fes | 115 Dh | 59 Dh | 49% |
| Fes to Meknes | 33 Dh | 22 Dh | 33% |
| Casablanca to Rabat Agdal | 40 Dh | 40 Dh | none |
| Casa Voyageurs to Mohammed V Airport | 60 Dh | 60 Dh | none |
Two names catch people out when they book. Rabat’s main intercity stop is Rabat Agdal, not Rabat Ville. Casablanca’s is Casa Voyageurs, not Casa Port, and since 14 September 2026 that includes the airport train, which used to leave from Casa Port.
Why do Morocco train prices change from day to day?
ONCF prices most long-distance trains by demand, so the fare rises as the train fills and the departure gets closer. Across the six long-distance routes I priced, booking three weeks out instead of two days out cut the fare by between 33% and 62%.
The cheap buckets are not a discount you apply. They are a limited number of seats that sell first, and once they are gone the price steps up. That is why the same route quoted twice in one afternoon gave me two honest answers.
There is a practical trick buried in that chart. Booking first class early is repeatedly cheaper than booking second class late. Tangier to Casablanca in first class three weeks out was 129 dirhams, against 225 for second class two days out. Casablanca to Marrakech was 89 in first, against 145 in second.
So if your dates are fixed, the question is not which class you can afford. It is whether you are booking early enough to make the class question moot.
Which Moroccan train fares never move?
Two of the eight routes I priced were completely flat: the Casablanca to Rabat shuttle and the airport line. Booking three weeks ahead bought exactly nothing on either, and on the Rabat shuttle the cheapest fare was 40 dirhams on both dates; in August the advance fare had even come out 10 dirhams higher than the two-day one.
That is not a glitch. These are turn-up-and-go commuter services running several times an hour, and they are priced like a bus ticket rather than like a plane seat.
Which means the single most repeated piece of Morocco rail advice, book early to save money, is true on some routes and irrelevant on others. Nobody writing it seems to have checked. If you are hopping Casablanca to Rabat for the day, buy at the machine on the morning and lose nothing.
The airport line makes the same point. Casa Voyageurs to Mohammed V Airport was 60 dirhams in second and 80 in first on both dates, exactly as it had been from Casa Port in August and on 23 October; Casa Port itself, which the line left on 14 September, now returns no airport service at all. That is a fixed fare, and it is the number to hold in your head when a driver at arrivals quotes you something else. The taxi rulebook, including the airport zonal tariff, sits in the petit and grand taxi rulebook, meters and the airport run.
What do Supratours coaches cost?
Supratours coach fares did not move between the two booking dates on any route I checked. Tangier to Chefchaouen was 60 dirhams on both, Marrakech to Essaouira 100, Marrakech to Ouarzazate 110, and Marrakech to Agadir 135 (ONCF Voyages, read 30 October 2026).
| Coach route | 2 days ahead | 3 weeks ahead |
|---|---|---|
| Tangier to Chefchaouen | 60 Dh | 60 Dh |
| Marrakech to Essaouira | 100 Dh | 100 Dh |
| Marrakech to Ouarzazate | 110 Dh | 110 Dh |
| Marrakech to Agadir | 135 Dh | 135 Dh |
Here is the thing almost nobody tells you: you can buy Supratours coach tickets in the same place you buy train tickets. Supratours is ONCF’s own road arm, and its destinations sit in the same booking system, which is how Essaouira, Chefchaouen, Ouarzazate, Agadir, Merzouga and Zagora appear in a railway search at all (ONCF, Supratours).
That matters for the towns with no station. Essaouira and Chefchaouen have no railway, so the coach is not the cheap option there. It is the only scheduled option.
One honest gap. These are Supratours fares, not CTM’s. CTM is the other national operator and its prices sit behind its own booking portal at ctm.ma, which I could not get a fare out of on 28 August. I would rather leave that blank than fill it with a number copied off a blog, and it is first in the queue for the next update. I have since compared the two coach networks on everything except price, and CTM’s fares are still the gap.
Train or coach: which should you book?
On routes where both run, the train wins if you book ahead and the coach wins if you book late. That falls straight out of the two pricing regimes: one fare moves and one does not, so the answer flips depending on when you are standing there.
Marrakech to Agadir is the clean example, because there is no train at all and the 135-dirham coach is simply the price. Where a train exists, compare it against a coach fare you already know will not change.
Cost is only part of the decision, and this post is deliberately only about the money. Comfort, luggage and journey time change the answer on some of these routes, and none of that shows up in a fare table. Which mode to take on a given leg, and what the rail network actually reaches, is answered in how to get around Morocco.
What about intercity grand taxis? They run the routes buses skip and they are priced per seat, six seats to a car, but no published tariff exists and I have not run a collection round on them. I am not going to invent a band. Paying for any of this in cash is covered in paying in cash and the 35-dirham ATM fee.
One number worth keeping in view: transport is Morocco’s fastest-rising consumer price category, up 6.7% year on year (HCP data via CountryEconomy, June 2026). Fares here move upward over time, which is exactly why an undated fare is worthless to you.
How far ahead can you actually book?
Buy direct at oncf-voyages.ma, which is ONCF’s own booking site and the source of every fare above. Three weeks of notice reached the floor fare on five of the six long routes I tested; on Casablanca to Marrakech the advertised 49-dirham lead-in had gone and 59 was the cheapest left. You do not need to plan far out, but the very cheapest bucket can sell before three weeks.
You do need to know that the booking window is shorter than the standard advice says. The Man in Seat 61, the best independent rail reference there is, states that ONCF booking opens three months before departure (Seat 61). When I tested it on 28 August 2026, no train was bookable beyond 31 October. When I tested again on 30 October 2026, nothing was bookable beyond 31 December. Both times the last day sold normally and the next day returned an error.
That is 62 to 64 days, not three months, and both walls sat on the last day of a calendar period. The likely explanation is that the policy and the loaded timetable are different things: fares open only as far as the timetable has been loaded, and the loaded period ends with a month or a quarter rather than three months from today. In August the coaches sold straight through into November. So check, rather than assume you have a quarter of runway.
One thing to watch when you go looking for these fares. Several sites that rank well for Moroccan rail queries are third-party resellers rather than the operators, and a reseller’s price is the operator’s price plus a margin. The operator domains are oncf-voyages.ma and oncf.ma for trains, supratours.ma for Supratours coaches, and ctm.ma for CTM. ONCF links the first three itself from its own footer.
Paying is a separate problem from pricing, and it has its own answer: what to do when a foreign card is declined at the payment step.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much is the train from Casablanca to Marrakech?
Second class was 145 dirhams for travel in two days and 59 dirhams for travel in three weeks (49 in August), read from ONCF's booking system on 30 October 2026. First class was 215 and 89 on the same two dates. The journey takes just under three hours, with fifteen direct services a day.
Is the bus or the train cheaper in Morocco?
It depends entirely on when you book. Supratours coach fares held identical at two days and three weeks out on all four routes I priced, while train fares fell by 33% to 62% over the same gap. Book early and the train usually wins. Book late and the coach often does.
Do Moroccan train prices change by day?
Yes, on long-distance routes. ONCF prices them by demand, so cheap seat buckets sell out and the fare steps up as departure approaches. On the Casablanca to Rabat shuttle and the Casablanca airport line, fares did not move at all between my two booking dates.
How far ahead can I book a Moroccan train ticket?
Less far than you are told. ONCF's policy is three months, but on 30 October 2026 no train was bookable beyond 31 December, which is 62 days; in August the wall had been 31 October, 64 days out. Three weeks was enough to get within 10 dirhams of the floor everywhere, including 59 dirhams to Marrakech and 89 to Tangier.
Can I buy Supratours coach tickets with train tickets?
Yes. Supratours is ONCF's road arm and its coaches sit in the same booking system, which is why Essaouira, Chefchaouen, Ouarzazate, Agadir, Merzouga and Zagora come back in a search on a railway site. For towns with no station, the coach is the only scheduled public option.
The short version
Morocco train prices run on two different systems, and telling them apart saves you real money.
- Long-distance trains move. Casablanca to Marrakech, Casablanca to Fes, both Tangier routes, Rabat to Fes and Fes to Meknes all got cheaper by a third to two thirds when I booked three weeks out
- Shuttles and coaches do not move. The Casablanca to Rabat service, the airport line and every Supratours coach cost the same on both dates, so buy those when you need them
- First class booked early beats second class booked late on the long routes, which is worth checking before you assume you cannot afford it
- Buy from the operator. oncf-voyages.ma for trains and Supratours, ctm.ma for CTM. A reseller’s price is the operator’s price plus a margin
Every fare here was read on 30 October 2026, the second full round after 28 August, and I re-run the whole round every 60 days. If you are pricing a whole trip rather than one leg, the full breakdown is in what a Morocco trip actually costs, and the route these legs usually belong to is in the 10-day Morocco route.
