When will 12306 tickets be released? You can check out the 12306 ticket release times compiled by netizens, for reference only.
1. At 19:00 20 days in advance, EMU tickets and Z-prefix tickets 20 days later will be released. At this time, there are generally not many people grabbing EMU tickets (after all, EMU tickets are not very popular). However, a considerable number of Z train tickets for some key lines (large passenger flow, few cars, and suitable train times) will have been taken away at this time. For example, Z37 and Z77. These two trains are direct trains to Wuchang and Hankou. They depart in the morning and arrive in the morning, and there are many hard sleeper carriages. Hubei has always had a large passenger flow, so the hard sleeper trains of these two trains will be available 20 days in advance. A third of it was taken away (in the hands of the work unit and ticket sellers). The rest are left online, and when travel peaks come (such as summer travel), they will all be sold out about 15 days before driving (this is why Z car hard sleeper tickets are still not available "many" days in advance) .
2. At 8:00 in the morning 18 days in advance, the long-distance train tickets and a small number of Z train long-distance tickets will be released 18 days later. But most of them are inter-bureau train tickets, such as Shenyang North-Taiyuan D191 train tickets [crossing Shenyang and Beijing train stations]; train tickets within the management [within one railway bureau] may not be released at this time, such as Jinan-Qingdao D6001, in advance Sometimes you can buy 18 days in Beijing, sometimes you can't. As for when the train will be released, it depends on the policy of the railway bureau where the train is located.
3. At 8:00 in the morning 12 days in advance, the off-site tickets for D [inside the tube] and Z trains will be issued 12 days later. Because the railway is a planned transportation, almost every train will provide some nationwide "exclusive ticket quotas", that is, these ticket quotas can only be used at stations across the country other than the originating station, and cannot be used at the originating station. In this way, for example, 12 days in advance, you cannot buy Z41 to Shanghai tickets in Tianjin, but at this time in Beijing (or even in some remote stations, such as Xining), you can still use the national exclusive ticket quota to buy tickets. . The same goes for return tickets. For example, you can buy the Nanchang-Beijing West Z68 12 days in advance, but you will mostly get upper berths.
4. Invoices for T, K and ordinary trains will be issued at 19:00 10 days in advance and 10 days later. This is an extremely important prime time for issuing tickets!! Basically, except for extremely tight trains such as T17, T47, T69, and T41, most trains can issue tickets at this time. What we call "queuing up to buy tickets 10 days in advance" means going to the window to buy tickets at this time. But as soon as 7 p.m. arrives, the first few tickets must belong to the ticket seller. Passengers who are lucky enough to be in the front may grab a few remaining tickets they need (often hard sleeper upper berths and other scraps) around 19:15 (of course, after the ticket sellers and acquaintances have basically settled the tickets) Lengzhi…).
5. 20:00 3 days in advance, this is the second prime time. At this time, the station will release the unsold portion of reserved tickets for major travel agencies and ministries. Generally speaking, there will be a chance to grab tickets at this time for each departure train, but only about 15 tickets are usually released, and this is based on the premise that the reserved tickets have not been bought and used by the public. If the car happens to be chartered by the public, then grabbing it at this time is in vain. For example, for cars like T41, all the reserved tickets have been bought internally, and because there are no left, they will not be released.
6. One day in advance at 12:00 noon, this is the third golden time. At this time, the station will release the unused remainder of the tickets reserved within the railway system (to the railway bureau and related departments). Similar to grabbing tickets 3 days in advance, if there are no leftovers, they will not be released. Generally speaking, the chance of grabbing tickets at this time is relatively high (of course, it is only relative, and it is obviously not the same order of magnitude as the share of tickets grabbed 10 days in advance), because there are not so many people inside the railway who want to go out. .
7. Arrange additional carriages for certain trains at 17:00 one day in advance. The railway department will count and analyze the passenger flow of each line every day, and add 1-2 hard-seat or hard-sleeper carriages to key trains on some lines. It is easier to add additional vehicles to Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and Guangxi and other regions, such as T5, T189, Z37 and other vehicles. If additional vehicles are added, it means that more than 100 tickets will be released. At this time, grabbing tickets will grab a large share. . But the question is whether to release the additional trailers, which car to add the additional trailers, and on which day to release the additional trailers. There is no fixed rule. It would be best if you can find out the inside information of the railway department. If you don’t know at all, you can only* It is inferred from experience (for example, T5, Z59, T189, etc. are all cars that do not allow additional trailers, especially T5, which often allows additional trailers). At this time, if you squat on these trains at 5 o'clock, you can get tickets.
8. At 18:00 pm one day in advance, "window tickets" and "drawer tickets" will be released at the station. Stations sometimes put the remaining portion of the tickets they printed in advance online at this time, and also put the refunded tickets at the window (usually they don’t have time to put them online or they deliberately keep them for internal acquaintances). go back. Then there is the part that has not been released by 12:00 (sometimes the leader cannot decide at noon whether to leave the next day or not. If he decides not to leave at this time, the reserved tickets will be released). But in short, the probability of grabbing tickets at this time is relatively small.
9. 0:00 a.m. one day in advance.
This time is the most critical, and "dead tickets" (also called "mobile reserved tickets") are often released at this time during peak periods. You can check how many tickets there are online, but you just can't print them out. The station does not give them.
Unlike the "reserved tickets" mentioned above, the number of reserved tickets is completely hidden and cannot be found on the ticketing website (that is, they have not been booked by anyone). But those 'mobile tickets' that are locked in advance by the station, such as hard sleeper tickets that are often locked on Z29 and other trains [about 30 tickets for the upper, middle and lower seats]). The station is not clear about the specific purpose of these tickets. It just hopes that the tickets will not be sold out so quickly. In case there is any temporary arrangement internally or by the government department that requires travel, and there are not enough internally reserved tickets, Use these tickets again. If no one wants these tickets the night before driving, they will be released at midnight.
10. Break the "section sales restrictions" 24 hours before driving, also known as "relaxation." For example, T7 reserves 20 seats each for Shijiazhuang and Zhengzhou during the pre-sale period (these seats are only sold to passengers going to Shijiazhuang and Zhengzhou, and passengers going to Zhengzhou cannot buy them), but if these reserved seats are not sold out, Then 24 hours before driving, these tickets will become unrestricted public tickets (which means these tickets can also be sold to passengers going to Chengdu and other places). Untying is equivalent to releasing a ticket.
11. Four and a half hours before driving, each car releases its last six "hole cards". These "cheap cards" are often special approval tickets held by the webmaster. If they are not used, they will be put online four and a half hours before driving. This is why sometimes you can go directly to the station to buy tickets before leaving and you will be lucky enough to buy tickets that you couldn't get even ten days ago.