There are 12 ways to get from Chester to Colmar by train (Eurostar, TGV), bus, car, car train, train, plane, or car ferry
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Train
best- Take the train from Chester to London Eustontrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nordtrain Eil
- Take the train from Paris Est to Colmartrain Tgv
8h 59m€298–499Bus via Brussels
cheapest- Take the bus from Chester Bus Interchange to Birmingham - Great Charles Street Queenswaybus
- Take the bus from Birmingham to Brussel Eurolines Busstationbus
- Take the bus from Brussels-North train station to Strasbourgbus 834
- Take the bus from Strasbourg - L'Étoile Park Bus Station to Colmarbus
21h 9m€67–103Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Chester to Folkestonecar
- Take the car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthuncartrain
- Drive from Calais-Fréthun to Colmarcar
11h 45mTrain to Manchester Airport, fly to Basel, train
- Take the train from Chester to Manchester Airporttrain
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Basel (BSL)plane MAN - BSL
- Take the train from St Louis to Colmartrain
7h 9m€77–234Train via Strasbourg
- Take the train from Chester to London Eustontrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nordtrain Eil
- Take the train from Paris l'Est to Strasbourg Bahnhoftrain 83 / ...
- Take the train from Strasbourg to Colmartrain Ter
9h 6m€272–523Bus
- Take the bus from Chester Bus Interchange to London Victoria Coach Station Arrivalsbus 423 / ...
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station to Colmarbus
25h 26m€107–226Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Chester to Port of Dovercar
- Take the car ferry from Port of Dover to Calaiscarferry
- Drive from Calais to Colmarcar
12h 51m€172–271Fly Liverpool to Basel, train
- Fly from Liverpool (LPL) to Basel (BSL)plane LPL - BSL
- Take the train from St Louis to Colmartrain
8h 55m€83–286Train to Manchester Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Chester to Manchester Airporttrain
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane MAN - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Mulhousetrain
- Take the train from Mulhouse Ville to Colmartrain
8h 49m€111–355Train to Manchester Airport, fly to Strasbourg International Airport, train
- Take the train from Chester to Manchester Airporttrain
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Strasbourg International Airport (SXB)plane MAN - SXB
- Take the train from Strasbourg to Colmartrain
6h 10m€107–316Train to Manchester Airport, fly to Stuttgart Airport, train
- Take the train from Chester to Manchester Airporttrain
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Stuttgart Airport (STR)plane MAN - STR
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof to Strasbourg Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Strasbourg to Colmartrain
8h 57m€138–333Train to Manchester Airport, fly to Frankfurt, train
- Take the train from Chester to Manchester Airporttrain
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane MAN - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Strasbourg Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Strasbourg to Colmartrain
9h 21m€155–362
Chester to Colmar by train and foot
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Chester to Colmar is to bus via Brussels which costs €65 - €110 and takes 21h 9m.
The fastest way to get from Chester to Colmar is to train and fly which takes 6h 10m and costs €100 - €320.
No, there is no direct bus from Chester to Colmar. However, there are services departing from Chester Bus Interchange and arriving at Colmar via Birmingham, Brussels-North train station and Strasbourg - L'Étoile Park Bus Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 21h 9m.
No, there is no direct train from Chester to Colmar. However, there are services departing from Chester and arriving at Colmar via London St Pancras Intl and Paris Est. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 8h 59m.
The distance between Chester and Colmar is 1242 km.
The best way to get from Chester to Colmar without a car is to train which takes 8h 59m and costs €290 - €500.
It takes approximately 8h 59m to get from Chester to Colmar, including transfers.
Chester to Colmar bus services, operated by National Express, depart from Chester Bus Interchange station.
Chester to Colmar train services, operated by Avanti West Coast, depart from Chester station.
The best way to get from Chester to Colmar is to train which takes 8h 59m and costs €290 - €500. Alternatively, you can bus via Brussels, which costs €65 - €110 and takes 21h 9m.
What companies run services between Chester, England and Colmar, France?
You can take a train from Chester to Colmar via London Euston, London St Pancras Intl, Paris Nord, and Paris Est in around 8h 59m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Chester Bus Interchange to Colmar via Birmingham - Great Charles Street Queensway, Birmingham, Brussel Eurolines Busstation, Brussels-North train station, and Strasbourg - L'Étoile Park Bus Station in around 21h 9m.
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Basel via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–320
Flights from Liverpool to Basel via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–350
Flights from Liverpool to Basel via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–250
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 4m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–290
Flights from Manchester Airport to Stuttgart Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–340
Flights from Manchester Airport to Frankfurt via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–260
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–330
Flights from Manchester Airport to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €80–180
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–320
Flights from Manchester Airport to Stuttgart Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–380
Flights from Manchester Airport to Stuttgart Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–380
Flights from Manchester Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–260
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €28–160
Flights from Manchester Airport to Basel via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €28–160
Flights from Liverpool to Basel via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €50–250
Flights from Liverpool to Basel via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–270
Flights from Liverpool to Basel via Nice
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–270
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €30–140
Flights from Manchester Airport to Strasbourg International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–240
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Basel via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–330
Flights from Manchester Airport to Stuttgart Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Thursday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–350
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Tuesday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–240
Flights from Manchester Airport to Frankfurt via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €60–230
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Liverpool to Basel via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–350
Flights from Liverpool to Basel via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–250
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–130
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Liverpool to Basel via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 45m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–240
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Strasbourg International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €85–270
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–190
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–260
- Phone
- +44 345 528 0253
- Website
- avantiwestcoast.co.uk
Train from Chester to London Euston
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €70–120
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €130–220
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Paris Est to Colmar
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 26m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €95–160
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Strasbourg to Colmar
- Ave. Duration
- 29 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €12–21
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Mulhouse Ville to Colmar
- Ave. Duration
- 29 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €8–13
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Phone
- 03333 211 202
- Website
- tfw.wales
Train from Chester to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €22–40
- Website
- https://tfw.wales/
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from St Louis to Colmar
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €10–26
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Paris l'Est to Strasbourg Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €60–160
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Strasbourg to Colmar
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €9–24
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Mulhouse Ville to Colmar
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €6–16
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Zürich HB to Mulhouse
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–130
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hauptbahnhof to Strasbourg Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €28–65
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €24–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Strasbourg Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €14–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- 0621 8301200
- Website
- suewex.de
Train from Frankfurt to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €23–35
- Schedules at
- suewex.de
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Chester Bus Interchange to Birmingham - Great Charles Street Queensway
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €7–14
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Brussels-North train station to Strasbourg
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €28–50
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Strasbourg - L'Étoile Park Bus Station to Colmar
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €4–9
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +421 55 680 73 06
- onlinepredaj@eurobus.sk
- Website
- eurobus.sk
Bus from Birmingham to Brussel Eurolines Busstation
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 45m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €27–31
- Website
- https://www.eurobus.sk/en
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Strasbourg - L'Étoile Park Bus Station to Colmar
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €4–9
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
Bus from London Victoria to Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 41m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €28–55
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
Bus from Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station to Colmar
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €35–65
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
- Phone
- 08717 81 81 81
- Website
- nationalexpress.com
Bus from Chester Bus Interchange to London Victoria Coach Station Arrivals
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €40–110
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
- Phone
- 01304 44 88 88
- customer.services@poferries.com
- Website
- poferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €7–20
- Website
- https://www.poferries.com/en
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €5–15
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
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More Questions & Answers
Chester to Colmar bus services, operated by National Express, arrive at London Victoria Coach Station Arrivals.
Colmar is 1h ahead of Chester. It is currently 8:27 AM in Chester and 9:27 AM in Colmar.
Chester to Colmar train services, operated by Avanti West Coast, arrive at London Euston station.
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