There are 12 ways to get from Bucharest to Dortmund by plane, train, bus, night train, car, or car train
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Fly to Düsseldorf International Airport, train
best- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane OTP - DUS
- Take the train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbftrain
6h 3m€148–333Bus, train
cheapest- Take the bus from Bucharest Obor to Aachenbus
- Take the train from Aachen Hbf to Dortmund Hbftrain Re
18h 32m€52–130Train
- Take the train from Bucuresti Nord to Budapest-Keletitrain Ir
- Take the train from Budapest-Keleti to Wien Hbftrain Ec / ...
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Dortmund Hbftrain Ice
30h 58m€135–243Night train, train
- Take the night train from Bucuresti Nord to Wien Hbfnighttrain Night Train
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Dortmund Hbftrain Ice
29h 1m€145–250Fly to Dortmund Airport
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Dortmund Airport (DTM)plane OTP - DTM
6h 18m€108–305Fly to Cologne Bonn Airport, train
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)plane OTP - CGN
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Dortmund Hbftrain
7h 9m€135–382Fly to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane OTP - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Dortmund Hbftrain
7h 38m€158–385Bus via Cologne
- Take the bus from Bucharest to Köln Hauptbahnhofbus
- Take the bus from Köln Hbf to Dortmund Stadthausbus
25h 29mBus, train via Cologne
- Take the bus from Bucureşti Autogara Obor to Kölnbus
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Dortmund Hbftrain 43 / ...
34h 43mBus
- Take the bus from București, Autogara Militari to Dortmund central bus stationbus 1925
37h 35m€80–130Drive 1,940.3 km
- Drive from Bucharest to Dortmundcar 1,940.3 km
19h 6m€272–392Drive, car train
- Drive from Bucharest to Villach Hbfcar
- Take the car train from Villach Hbf to Düsseldorf Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Düsseldorf Hbf to Dortmundcar
21h€304–1,296
Bucharest to Dortmund by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Bucharest to Dortmund is to bus and train which costs €50 - €130 and takes 18h 32m.
The fastest way to get from Bucharest to Dortmund is to fly and train which takes 6h 3m and costs €140 - €340.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from București, Autogara Militari and arriving at Dortmund central bus station station. Services depart once a week, and operate Friday. The journey takes approximately 37h 35m.
No, there is no direct train from Bucharest to Dortmund. However, there are services departing from Bucuresti Nord and arriving at Dortmund Hbf via Budapest-Keleti and Wien Hbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 30h 58m.
The distance between Bucharest and Dortmund is 1704 km. The road distance is 1940.3 km.
The best way to get from Bucharest to Dortmund without a car is to bus and train which takes 18h 32m and costs €50 - €130.
It takes approximately 6h 3m to get from Bucharest to Dortmund, including transfers.
Bucharest to Dortmund bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from București, Autogara Militari station.
Bucharest to Dortmund train services, operated by Romanian Railways (CFR), depart from Bucuresti Nord station.
The best way to get from Bucharest to Dortmund is to train which takes 30h 58m and costs €130 - €250. Alternatively, you can fly, which costs €100 - €310 and takes 6h 18m, you could also bus via Cologne, which costs and takes 25h 29m.
What companies run services between Bucharest, Romania and Dortmund, Germany?
You can take a train from Bucuresti Nord to Dortmund Hbf via Budapest-Keleti and Wien Hbf in around 30h 58m. Alternatively, Ulendo Airlink flies from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Dortmund Airport (DTM) once daily.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Düsseldorf International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–350
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Düsseldorf International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–350
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Cologne Bonn Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–360
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–300
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–290
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Düsseldorf International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–330
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Cologne Bonn Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–350
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–290
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Dortmund Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–190
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–160
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Düsseldorf International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–340
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–290
- Website
- tarom.ro
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–200
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–230
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Cologne Bonn Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–150
- Website
- hisky.aero
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–150
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–200
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €13–19
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Aachen Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 29m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €28–40
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–30
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Aachen Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 3m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Wien Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 8m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €60–160
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €13–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–90
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- 0180 6 9 27 37 27
- info@eurobahn.de
- Website
- eurobahn.de
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €14–20
- Website
- https://www.eurobahn.de/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €13–19
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +31 85 004 3110
- Website
- traincharter.eu
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Website
- https://traincharter.eu/
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €29–65
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Standard
- €29–45
- Comfort
- €30–45
- Premium
- €45–65
Train from Aachen Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €45–100
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Standard
- €45–70
- Comfort
- €50–75
- Premium
- €75–100
Train from Köln Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €30–75
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Standard
- €30–50
- Comfort
- €35–55
- Premium
- €55–75
- Phone
- 0219521
- petitii@cfrcalatori.ro
- Website
- cfrcalatori.ro
Train from Bucuresti Nord to Budapest-Keleti
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €64–69
- Website
- https://www.cfrcalatori.ro/en/
Night train from Bucuresti Nord to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 53m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–95
- Website
- https://www.cfrcalatori.ro/en/
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- info@mavcsoport.hu
- Website
- jegy.mav.hu
Train from Budapest-Keleti to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–14
- Website
- https://jegy.mav.hu/
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Villach Hbf to Düsseldorf Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 39m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €100–1,000
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Car Single Bed
- €270–550
- Car Compartment
- €550–1,000
- Phone
- +40 230 562 929
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Bucharest Obor to Aachen
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €23–30
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- +40 745 766 766
- dispecerat@maxibustravel.ro
- Website
- maxibustravel.ro
Bus from Bucharest to Köln Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €138
- Schedules at
- maxibustravel.ro
- helpline.svs@gmail.com
- Website
- svs.md
Bus from Köln Hbf to Dortmund Stadthaus
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://svs.md/en/bus/route/number-19167
- Phone
- 0724 122 272
- contact@euro-fratello.ro
- Website
- euro-fratello.ro
Bus from Bucureşti Autogara Obor to Köln
- Ave. Duration
- 33h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- euro-fratello.ro
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from București, Autogara Militari to Dortmund central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 37h 35m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €80–130
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
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More Questions & Answers
Bucharest to Dortmund bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Dortmund central bus station.
Dortmund is 1h behind Bucharest. It is currently 3:11 PM in Bucharest and 2:11 PM in Dortmund.
Bucharest to Dortmund train services, operated by Romanian Railways (CFR), arrive at Budapest-Keleti station.
Yes, the driving distance between Bucharest to Dortmund is 1940 km. It takes approximately 19h 6m to drive from Bucharest to Dortmund.
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