There are 6 ways to get from Boston to Essen by ferry, plane, or train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Ferry to Boston Logan Airport, fly to Düsseldorf International Airport
best- Take the ferry from Long Wharf to Logan Airport Ferry Terminalferry
- Fly from Boston Logan Airport (BOS) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane BOS - DUS
11h 45m€290–876Ferry to Boston Logan Airport, fly to Cologne Bonn Airport, train
- Take the ferry from Long Wharf to Logan Airport Ferry Terminalferry
- Fly from Boston Logan Airport (BOS) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)plane BOS - CGN
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbftrain
13h 17m€311–970Ferry to Boston Logan Airport, fly to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, train
- Take the ferry from Long Wharf to Logan Airport Ferry Terminalferry
- Fly from Boston Logan Airport (BOS) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)plane BOS - AMS
- Take the train from Schiphol Airport Train Station to Utrecht Centraaltrain
- Take the train from Utrecht Centraal to Duisburg Hbftrain
12h 26m€306–734Ferry to Boston Logan Airport, fly to Frankfurt, train
- Take the ferry from Long Wharf to Logan Airport Ferry Terminalferry
- Fly from Boston Logan Airport (BOS) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane BOS - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf to Essen Hbftrain
13h 35m€408–944Ferry to Boston Logan Airport, fly to Münster Osnabrück International Airport, train
- Take the ferry from Long Wharf to Logan Airport Ferry Terminalferry
- Fly from Boston Logan Airport (BOS) to Münster Osnabrück International Airport (FMO)plane BOS - FMO
- Take the train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Essen Hbftrain
14h 26m€509–1,845Train to Newark Liberty International Airport, fly to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Take the train from Boston to Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Stationtrain
- Fly from Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane EWR - DUS
14h 39m€334–1,483
Boston Logan Airport (BOS) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Boston to Essen is to ferry and fly and train which costs €300 - €750 and takes 12h 26m.
The fastest way to get from Boston to Essen is to ferry and fly which takes 11h 45m and costs €290 - €900.
The distance between Boston and Essen is 5759 km.
It takes approximately 11h 45m to get from Boston to Essen, including transfers.
Essen is 6h ahead of Boston. It is currently 4:09 PM in Boston and 10:09 PM in Essen.
There are 2581+ hotels available in Essen.
What companies run services between Boston, MA, USA and Essen, Germany?
There is no direct connection from Boston to Essen. However, you can take the ferry to Logan Airport Ferry Terminal, walk to Boston-Airport-BOS airport, fly to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS), walk to D-Flughafen Terminal A/B, take the vehicle to D-Flughafen Bf, walk to Duesseldorf Flughafen, then take the train to Essen Hbf. Alternatively, you can take the ferry to Logan Airport Ferry Terminal, walk to Boston-Airport-BOS airport, fly to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN), walk to Koeln/Bonn Flughafen, take the train to Koeln Hbf, then take the train to Essen Hbf.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 25m
- When
- Monday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €320–1,200
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €300–1,100
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 35m
- When
- Wednesday and Monday
- Estimated price
- €350–1,300
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €320–1,200
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €250–950
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Frankfurt via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 22m
- When
- Monday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- €270–1,000
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Münster Osnabrück International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 15m
- When
- Tuesday and Monday
- Estimated price
- €490–1,800
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Münster Osnabrück International Airport via Frankfurt, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 10m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €490–1,800
Flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €280–1,100
Flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €300–1,100
- Website
- delta.com
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–950
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €250–1,000
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–950
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €260–1,000
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Frankfurt via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €220–850
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Frankfurt via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €210–850
Flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–950
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–950
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–950
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €260–1,000
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Frankfurt via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €210–850
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €250–1,000
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–950
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €260–1,000
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Frankfurt via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €220–850
Flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–950
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €280–850
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 10m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €300–900
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €280–850
Flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €260–800
- Website
- aerlingus.com
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €270–1,500
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €270–1,500
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Frankfurt via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–1,300
Flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €260–1,300
- Website
- jetblue.com
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €270–1,500
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 53m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–950
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €270–1,500
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Frankfurt via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–1,300
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–950
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Milan Malpensa
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €300–1,200
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €390–1,200
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €350–1,000
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 10m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €270–1,100
- Website
- icelandair.com
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Reykjavik Keflavik Nas
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €330–1,000
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Boston Logan Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €230–550
- Website
- lacompagnie.com
Flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €230–900
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–25
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Utrecht Centraal to Duisburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €24–50
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 59m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €45–85
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €14–27
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +49 221 13 999 444
- Website
- National Express
Train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Schedules at
- National Express
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixtrain.de
- Website
- FlixTrain GmbH
Train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €6–10
- Website
- FlixTrain GmbH
Train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €7–11
- Website
- FlixTrain GmbH
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- Eurostar
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
Train from Schiphol Airport Train Station to Utrecht Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 33 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €5–9
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
Train from Utrecht Centraal to Duisburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €17–35
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
- Phone
- 0800-0232 545
- Website
- Arriva NL
Train from Schiphol Airport Train Station to Utrecht Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €8–13
- Website
- Arriva NL
- Second Class Single
- €8–13
- service@govolta.nl
- Website
- GoVolta
Train from Utrecht Centraal to Duisburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €17–22
- Website
- GoVolta
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Rome2Rio's guide to Amtrak
Contact Details
- Phone
- +1 800-872-7245
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Boston to Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €110–180
- Website
- Amtrak
Rome2Rio's guide to Amtrak Acela
Contact Details
- Phone
- +1 800-872-7245
- Website
- Amtrak
Train from Boston to Ny Moynihan Train Hall At Penn Station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 49m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €45–650
- Schedules at
- Amtrak Acela
- Website
- Amtrak
- Business Class
- €45–440
- First Class
- €180–650
Ferry from Long Wharf to Logan Airport Ferry Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €3–9
- Website
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
- Website
- MBTA: World Cup 2026
- Adult
- €3–9
Ferry from Long Wharf to Logan Airport Ferry Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €3–9
- Website
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
- Website
- MBTA: World Cup 2026
- Adult
- €3–9
Ferry from Long Wharf to Logan Airport Ferry Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €3–9
- Website
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
- Website
- MBTA: World Cup 2026
- Adult
- €3–9
Ferry from Long Wharf to Logan Airport Ferry Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €3–9
- Website
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
- Website
- MBTA: World Cup 2026
- Adult
- €3–9
Ferry from Long Wharf to Logan Airport Ferry Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €3–9
- Website
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
- Website
- MBTA: World Cup 2026
- Adult
- €3–9
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