According to the Polish news outlet Interia, multiple train services are experiencing significant delays.
Scheduled for 5 January 2026, PKP Intercity’s USTRONIE service (train no. 83170) from Kołobrzeg, a Baltic Sea resort city in northwestern Poland, to Kraków Główny in the south, is running approximately 210 minutes late.
The international ODRA train (nos. 37004/54) from Kraków, southern Poland, to Berlin Hauptbahnhof in Germany is delayed by 181 minutes.
On the left, snow-covered railway tracks in Koszalin, a city in northwestern Poland, on 3 January 2026. On the right, a traveler with a suitcase struggles to make her way through the snow. Photo: PAP/Piotr Kowala
Regional routes have also been severely affected.
The BYSTRZYCA train (no. 22100) from Hrubieszów, near Poland’s border with Ukraine, to Lublin Główny in eastern Poland, is more than two and a half hours behind schedule.
Other services facing delays exceeding two hours include the KARKONOSZE from Warsaw to Szklarska Poręba, a mountain resort in the southwest (155 minutes), and the PRZEMYŚLANIN from Kraków Płaszów to Przemyśl Główny, located near the far southeastern border (137 minutes).
Disruptions extend across the country. POLREGIO trains from Suwałki in the northeast to Białystok are delayed by 123 minutes, while Koleje Mazowieckie services from Góra Kalwaria, just south of Warsaw, to Warsaw Gdańska arrive roughly 82 minutes late.
Monday also saw the cancellation of several southwestern Lower Silesian regional services, including Koleje Dolnośląskie’s IZERY (train no. 66809) from Jelenia Góra to Świeradów-Zdrój, and train no. 66754 from Jelenia Góra to Karpacz.
Additionally, POLREGIO train no. 22534 from Zamość Wschód, near the southeastern border, to Lublin Główny was partially cancelled and will only run as far as Zawada.
International routes have not escaped disruption.
Trains connecting Przemyśl with Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine, as well as the Berlin–Warsaw Express, are currently running between roughly one and two hours behind schedule.
On the Działdowo-Olsztyn line in northern Poland, railway maintenance crews have recently been forced to remove trees that posed a hazard to train services.
Airports in southeast and eastern Poland briefly halt flights for military operations
Airports in Rzeszów, a city in the country’s southeast near the Carpathian foothills, and Lublin, further east, briefly suspended operations on Monday to allow military air traffic safe passage, the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency confirmed.
Two people die during first weekend of January 2026 as extreme cold grips Poland
The Government Centre for Security reported that during the first weekend of January, two people in Poland died from hypothermia.
Authorities have warned that “wind combined with low temperatures accelerates the risk of hypothermia,” and the Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW-PIB) forecasts continued severe weather over much of the country in the coming days, including extremely low temperatures, periodic snowfall, and freezing rain.
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Source: IAR/Interia/RCB RP/PKP PLK