Deutsche Bahn’s punctuality rate was 62.5% in 2024, and 74.4% in 2015. Germany’s rail operator counts a train as late if it is delayed by six minutes or more.
Deutsche Bahn’s punctuality rate was 62.5% in 2024, and 74.4% in 2015. Germany’s rail operator counts a train as late if it is delayed by six minutes or more.
That’s a popular DB trick to doctor the statistics, a train that’s entirely cancelled doesn’t count as “late” in the delay statistics. If you’d factor those in, the whole picture would look even worse.