There are 12 ways to get from Bologna to Hamburg by plane, train (Trenitalia), bus, night train, train, car, or car train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
best- Fly from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ) to Hamburg Airport (HAM)plane BLQ - HAM
6h 1m€91–238Train, train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly
cheapest- Take the train from Bologna Centrale to Milano P.Garibalditrain
- Take the train from Milano Porta Garibaldi to Malpensa Aeroporto T1train
- Fly from Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Hamburg Airport (HAM)plane MXP - HAM
6h 37m€75–229Train
- Take the train from Bologna centrale to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Basel Sbbtrain Ec
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhetrain 20 / ...
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Hamburg Hbftrain 20 / ...
14h 25m€256–490Bus
- Take the bus from Bologna Centrale to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhofbus N1385
- Take the bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Hamburg, Zentraler Omnibusbahnhofbus N70 / ...
20h€117–175Night train, train via Munich
- Take the nighttrain from Bologna Centrale to Muenchen Hbfnighttrain En
- Take the train from München Hbf to Hamburg Hbftrain 28 / ...
17h 37m€315–551Train to Florence Peretola Airport, fly
- Take the train from Bologna Centrale to Firenze S.M.N.train
- Fly from Florence Peretola Airport (FLR) to Hamburg Airport (HAM)plane FLR - HAM
5h 35m€110–287Train to Verona Villafranca Airport, fly
- Take the train from Bologna Centrale to Verona Porta Nuovatrain
- Fly from Verona Villafranca Airport (VRN) to Hamburg Airport (HAM)plane VRN - HAM
5h 35m€101–328Train to Venice Marco Polo Airport, fly
- Take the train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestretrain
- Fly from Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) to Hamburg Airport (HAM)plane VCE - HAM
6h 14m€92–272Train to Milan Linate Airport, fly
- Take the train from Bologna centrale to Milano Centraletrain
- Fly from Milan Linate Airport (LIN) to Hamburg Airport (HAM)plane LIN - HAM
6h 22m€130–367Drive, car train
- Drive from Bologna to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhofcar
- Take the cartrain from Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbfcartrain Uex 2026
14h 45m€167–216Night train, train
- Take the nighttrain from Bologna Centrale to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhofnighttrain Nj
- Take the train from Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbftrain Ice
15h 47m€239–515Drive 1,266.2 km
- Drive from Bologna to Hamburgcar 1,266.2 km
12h 24m€205–295
Bologna to Hamburg by train
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Bologna to Hamburg is to bus which costs €110 - €180 and takes 20h.
The fastest way to get from Bologna to Hamburg is to train and fly which takes 5h 35m and costs €110 - €290.
No, there is no direct bus from Bologna to Hamburg. However, there are services departing from Bologna Centrale and arriving at Hamburg, Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof via Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 20h.
No, there is no direct train from Bologna to Hamburg. However, there are services departing from Bologna centrale and arriving at Hamburg Hbf via Milano Centrale, Basel SBB and Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 14h 25m.
The distance between Bologna and Hamburg is 1036 km. The road distance is 1266.2 km.
The best way to get from Bologna to Hamburg without a car is to train which takes 14h 25m and costs €250 - €490.
It takes approximately 6h 1m to get from Bologna to Hamburg, including transfers.
Bologna to Hamburg bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Bologna Centrale station.
Bologna to Hamburg train services, operated by ItaloTreno, depart from Bologna centrale station.
The best way to get from Bologna to Hamburg is to fly which takes 6h 1m and costs €90 - €240. Alternatively, you can train, which costs €250 - €490 and takes 14h 25m, you could also bus, which costs €110 - €180 and takes 20h.
What companies run services between Bologna, Italy and Hamburg, Germany?
Air Dolomiti, Lufthansa, and four other airlines fly from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ) to Hamburg Airport (HAM) every 3 hours. Alternatively, you can take a train from Bologna centrale to Hamburg Hbf via Milano Centrale, Basel SBB, and Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe in around 14h 25m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 44m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–370
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–600
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €70–390
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 58m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–650
Flights from Verona Villafranca Airport to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–400
Flights from Verona Villafranca Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €180–650
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–330
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 46m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–340
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–600
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–270
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 47m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–320
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–480
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–370
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Hamburg Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–360
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–600
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €180–650
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Hamburg Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Tuesday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €100–390
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €95–330
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Hamburg Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–330
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Hamburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–240
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €160–600
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hamburg Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–310
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–320
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Hamburg Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–360
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Hamburg Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 11m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–390
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Hamburg Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–330
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hamburg Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–310
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Hamburg Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Monday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–310
Flights from Verona Villafranca Airport to Hamburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–210
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Hamburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–180
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Hamburg Airport via Stuttgart
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–180
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hamburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–140
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hamburg Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–140
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hamburg Airport via Stuttgart
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €70–140
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–210
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–220
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Hamburg Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 35m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–390
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Hamburg Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–430
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Hamburg Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–350
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hamburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €35–150
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Hamburg Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–300
- Website
- volotea.com
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Hamburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–170
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Bologna centrale to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €25–45
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Bologna Centrale to Firenze S.M.N.
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €11–18
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Bologna Centrale to Verona Porta Nuova
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €13–22
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €18–29
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Bologna centrale to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €25–45
- Website
- Italo Treno
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- ufficiogruppi@trenitalia.it
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
Train from Milano Centrale to Basel Sbb
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €75–130
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
- 1st Class
- €90–130
- 2nd Class
- €75–110
Night train from Bologna Centrale to Muenchen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 39m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €140–210
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
- 1st Class
- €140–210
- 2nd Class
- €140–190
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Basel SBB to Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €95–200
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €60–120
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from München Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 36m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €170–350
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €210–420
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +39 06 5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Bologna Centrale to Firenze S.M.N.
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €12–22
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Bologna Centrale to Verona Porta Nuova
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–27
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–35
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Bologna Centrale to Milano P.Garibaldi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €29–50
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Bologna Centrale to Firenze S.M.N.
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €11–15
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Bologna Centrale to Verona Porta Nuova
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–19
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–25
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Bologna Centrale to Firenze S.M.N.
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 16m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €9–18
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Bologna Centrale to Verona Porta Nuova
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €12–23
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €16–30
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Bologna Centrale to Milano P.Garibaldi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €22–45
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- Trenord
Train from Milano Porta Garibaldi to Malpensa Aeroporto T1
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Website
- Trenord
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
Car train from Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €100–120
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
- Phone
- +43 (0) 51717
- Website
- Nightjet
Night train from Bologna Centrale to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 57m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €28–96
- Website
- Nightjet
- Sleeper Carriage
- €95–96
- Couchette Carriage
- €60–70
- Seating Carriage
- €28–34
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Bologna Centrale to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €90–140
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Hamburg, Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €23–35
- Website
- Flixbus
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