Phileas Fogg's Journey: The Complete Itinerary from "Around the World in 80 Days"

Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days (1872) follows Phileas Fogg and Passepartout on a precise, wager-driven circumnavigation. Here is the sequential route by chapter.

London → Suez → Bombay → Calcutta → Hong Kong → Yokohama → San Francisco → New York → London

Leg 1: London to Suez (Ch. I–IV)

• Reform Club, London (start)
• Charing Cross Station → Folkestone → Boulogne (Channel steamer)
• Paris (brief stop) → Train to Brindisi → Steamer via Mediterranean → Suez Canal (just opened 1869) → Aden (coal) → Bombay (India)

Leg 2: Across India (Ch. V–VII)

• Bombay → Train across peninsula (Great Indian Peninsula Railway)
• Calcutta (rescue of Aouda at Suttee ritual)
• Allahabad → Benares → Cawnpore → Lucknow (rail ends)
• Elephant (Kiouni) → Allahabad → Train to Calcutta

Leg 3: Calcutta to Hong Kong (Ch. VIII)

• Steamer Rangoon: Calcutta → Singapore → Bangkok → Hong Kong

Leg 4: Hong Kong to Yokohama (Ch. VIII–IX)

• Missed connection; Tankadere (pilot boat) → Shanghai → Yokohama (Japan)

Leg 5: Pacific Crossing (Ch. IX–XII)

• Steamer General Grant: Yokohama → San Francisco
• Train (Transcontinental Railroad, just completed 1869): San Francisco → Chicago → Omaha → New York

Leg 6: Atlantic Crossing (Ch. XII–XIII)

• Steamer China: New York → Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland → Liverpool

Leg 7: Race to London (Ch. XIV–XVII)

• Train: Liverpool → London
• Arrested (Fix), released, races to Reform Club — arrives 80 days exactly (wins by minutes).

Key Stats

Why the Route Mattered

• Showcased new global connections: Suez Canal, Transcontinental Railroad, regular steamship lines.
• Proved world had become "small" — technology shrank distance.
• Eastward vs. westward: Fogg goes east (shorter Pacific crossing via US rail).

Fogg's itinerary is a snapshot of 1870s globalization—steam, steel, and schedules stitching the planet together.