There are 12 ways to get from Bern to Magdeburg by train, bus, car, plane, or car train
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Train
best- Take the train from Bern to Basel SBBtrain Ic6 / ...
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Magdeburg Hbftrain 12
8h 24m€86–185Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Bern to Frankfurt central train stationbus 122 / ...
- Take the bus from Frankfurt central train station to Magdeburg central bus stationbus 335
14h 5m€46–108Drive 772.9 km
- Drive from Bern to Magdeburgcar 772.9 km
8h€134–193Train to Basel, fly to Leipzig-Halle Airport, train
- Take the train from Bern to Basel SBBtrain
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ)plane BSL - LEJ
- Take the train from Leipzig/Halle Flughafen to Magdeburg Hbftrain
9h 30m€156–395Train via Erfurt
- Take the train from Bern to Basel Bad Bftrain Ice / ...
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Erfurt Central Stationtrain
- Take the train from Erfurt Hbf to Magdeburg Hbftrain Re
11h 12mDrive, car train
- Drive from Bern to Würzburg Hbfcar
- Take the car train from Würzburg Hbf to Hannover Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Hannover Hbf to Magdeburgcar
7h 49m€188–246Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, train
- Take the train from Bern to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)plane ZRH - BER
- Take the train from Flughafen BER to S Potsdam Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Potsdam Hbf to Magdeburg Hbftrain
7h 58m€100–267Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Hannover Airport, train
- Take the train from Bern to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Hannover Airport (HAJ)plane ZRH - HAJ
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Magdeburg Hbftrain
7h 20m€147–356Train to Basel, fly to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, train
- Take the train from Bern to Basel SBBtrain
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)plane BSL - BER
- Take the train from Flughafen BER to S Potsdam Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Potsdam Hbf to Magdeburg Hbftrain
8h 3m€92–281Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Frankfurt, train
- Take the train from Bern to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane ZRH - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Magdeburg Hbftrain
7h 52m€140–376Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Hamburg Airport, train
- Take the train from Bern to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Hamburg Airport (HAM)plane ZRH - HAM
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Stendal Hbftrain
- Take the train from Stendal Hbf to Magdeburg Hbftrain
8h 32m€123–335Train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, train
- Take the train from Bern to Genève-Aéroporttrain
- Fly from Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)plane GVA - BER
- Take the train from Flughafen BER to S Potsdam Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Potsdam Hbf to Magdeburg Hbftrain
9h 17m€99–329
Bern to Magdeburg by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Bern to Magdeburg is to bus which costs €45 - €110 and takes 14h 5m.
The fastest way to get from Bern to Magdeburg is to train and fly which takes 7h 20m and costs €140 - €360.
No, there is no direct bus from Bern to Magdeburg station. However, there are services departing from Bern and arriving at Magdeburg central bus station via Frankfurt central train station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 14h 5m.
No, there is no direct train from Bern to Magdeburg. However, there are services departing from Bern and arriving at Magdeburg Hbf via Basel SBB. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 8h 24m.
The distance between Bern and Magdeburg is 870 km. The road distance is 772.9 km.
The best way to get from Bern to Magdeburg without a car is to train which takes 8h 24m and costs €85 - €190.
It takes approximately 8h 24m to get from Bern to Magdeburg, including transfers.
Bern to Magdeburg bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Bern station.
Bern to Magdeburg train services, operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), depart from Bern station.
The best way to get from Bern to Magdeburg is to train which takes 8h 24m and costs €85 - €190. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €45 - €110 and takes 14h 5m.
What companies run services between Bern, Switzerland and Magdeburg, Germany?
You can take a train from Bern to Magdeburg Hbf via Basel SBB in around 8h 24m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Bern to Magdeburg central bus station via Frankfurt central train station in around 14h 5m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Basel to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 23m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–310
Flights from Basel to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Munich, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 37m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–310
Flights from Zurich Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–270
Flights from Zurich Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–270
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hannover Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–350
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hannover Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–400
Flights from Basel to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–310
Flights from Basel to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–310
Flights from Zurich Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–260
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Tuesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–300
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–310
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–180
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–300
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–300
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–120
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hannover Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–200
Flights from Zurich Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–260
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hamburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–270
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–180
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–180
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–120
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hamburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–180
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hamburg Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €55–180
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €35–110
Flights from Basel to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–150
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–160
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–190
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–180
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Zurich Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–260
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Basel to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €120–500
Flights from Zurich Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–280
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hannover Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–370
- Website
- luxair.lu
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Luxembourg
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–330
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Bern to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €25–45
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Bern to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €28–55
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Bern to Zürich Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–70
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Bern to Genève-Aéroport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–70
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Basel SBB to Magdeburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 27m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €60–140
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig/Halle Flughafen to Magdeburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €18–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Potsdam Hbf to Magdeburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €30–65
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Magdeburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €10–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Magdeburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €28–120
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Stendal Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €23–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Stendal Hbf to Magdeburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €19–20
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- info@flixbus.de
- Website
- flixtrain.de
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Erfurt Central Station
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 24m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €25–80
- Website
- https://www.flixtrain.com/
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Stendal Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €11–40
- Website
- https://www.flixtrain.com/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Erfurt Central Station
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 19m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €95–130
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +49 69 9999 3640
- info@startgmbh.com
- Website
- startgmbh.com
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Magdeburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 33m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- startgmbh.com
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Würzburg Hbf to Hannover Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 3m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €95–110
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Flughafen BER to S Potsdam Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–16
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Stendal Hbf to Magdeburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 48 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €12–18
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 514 88 88 88
- info@odeg.de
- Website
- odeg.de
Train from Potsdam Hbf to Magdeburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €12–17
- Schedules at
- odeg.de
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Bern to Frankfurt central train station
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €25–60
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Frankfurt central train station to Magdeburg central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €21–50
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
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More Questions & Answers
Bern to Magdeburg bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Frankfurt central train station.
Bern to Magdeburg train services, operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), arrive at Basel SBB station.
Yes, the driving distance between Bern to Magdeburg is 773 km. It takes approximately 8h to drive from Bern to Magdeburg.
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