Jinan-Weihai by high speed train takes 3:49...4:17, Jinan West-Weihai takes 4:08 to 4:34. The price is second class 180 yuan from Jinan, 189 from West, first class 216 yuan from Jinan, 231 yuan 5 jiao from West, business class 539 yuan 5 jiao from Jinan, 568 yuan 5 jiao from West.
The two slow trains are both K, but oddly at very different prices (despite about equal distance). K8261, originating at Jinan at 0:50 and arriving at 8:39 costs just 50 yuan hard seat, 102 to 109 yuan hard sleeper, 166 yuan soft sleeper. K411 originates from Beijing at 22:32, and after leaving Jinan East at 4:53 in the morning, arrives at 12:56, costing for the Jinan-Weihai section hard seat 81 yuan, hard sleeper 144 to 154 yuan, soft sleeper 222 to 231 yuan.