There are 5 ways to get from Chicago to Rostock by plane, train, bus, or car ferry
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Fly to Hamburg Airport, train
best- Fly from Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) to Hamburg Airport (HAM)plane ORD - HAM
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Rostock Hauptbahnhoftrain
15h 54m€340–793Fly to Bremen Airport, train
cheapest- Fly from Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) to Bremen Airport (BRE)plane ORD - BRE
- Take the train from Bremen Hbf to Hamburg Hbftrain
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Rostock Hauptbahnhoftrain
17h 6m€317–1,274Fly to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, train
- Fly from Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)plane ORD - BER
- Take the train from Flughafen BER to Rostock Hauptbahnhoftrain
16h 45m€322–804Fly to Copenhagen Airport, bus, car ferry
- Fly from Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) to Copenhagen Airport (CPH)plane ORD - CPH
- Take the bus from Copenhagen Airport to Gedserbus
- Take the car ferry from Gedser to Rostock Portcarferry
18h 57m€328–693Fly to Hannover Airport, train
- Fly from Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) to Hannover Airport (HAJ)plane ORD - HAJ
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Lüneburgtrain
- Take the train from Büchen to Rostock Hauptbahnhoftrain
19h 2m€531–1,143
Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) to Hamburg Airport (HAM) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Chicago to Rostock is to fly and bus and car ferry which costs €320 - €700 and takes 18h 57m.
The fastest way to get from Chicago to Rostock is to fly and train which takes 15h 54m and costs €340 - €800.
The distance between Chicago and Rostock is 7085 km.
It takes approximately 15h 54m to get from Chicago to Rostock, including transfers.
Rostock is 6h ahead of Chicago. It is currently 10:40 PM in Chicago and 4:40 AM in Rostock.
There are 2820+ hotels available in Rostock.
What companies run services between Chicago, IL, USA and Rostock, Germany?
There is no direct connection from Chicago to Rostock. However, you can take the subway to O'Hare, walk to Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) airport, fly to Hamburg Airport (HAM), walk to Hamburg Airport, take the train to Hamburg Hbf, then take the train to Rostock Hauptbahnhof. Alternatively, you can take the subway to O'Hare, walk to Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) airport, fly to Bremen Airport (BRE), walk to Bremen Flughafen, take the vehicle to Bremen Hauptbahnhof, walk to Bremen Hbf, take the train to Hamburg Hbf, then take the train to Rostock Hauptbahnhof.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €200–950
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €210–1,000
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hamburg Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €190–800
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Bremen Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 33m
- When
- Tuesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €280–1,300
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Bremen Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €290–1,400
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €190–900
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 53m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €180–900
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Copenhagen Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €210–900
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hannover Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 37m
- When
- Wednesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €280–1,200
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hannover Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €270–1,300
- Website
- united.com
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €200–950
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €210–850
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hamburg Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €190–800
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Bremen Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 33m
- When
- Tuesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €280–1,300
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Bremen Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €290–1,200
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €180–900
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €180–750
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €190–800
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Copenhagen Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €210–900
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hannover Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 37m
- When
- Wednesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €280–1,200
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hannover Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €270–1,300
- Website
- aa.com
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hamburg Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–1,000
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hamburg Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €200–800
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 58m
- When
- Wednesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €180–750
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Copenhagen Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 25m
- When
- Tuesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €190–750
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hannover Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €260–1,000
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hamburg Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €200–800
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 58m
- When
- Wednesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €180–750
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Copenhagen Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 25m
- When
- Tuesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €190–750
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hannover Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €260–1,000
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hamburg Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €190–800
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Bremen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €260–1,100
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €180–750
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Copenhagen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €180–750
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hannover Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €250–1,000
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hamburg Airport via Copenhagen Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €170–650
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Copenhagen Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €270–470
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Copenhagen Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €150–600
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hannover Airport via Copenhagen Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €220–850
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hamburg Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €200–850
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €190–750
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Copenhagen Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €150–600
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hannover Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 14h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €260–1,100
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Bremen Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 2m
- When
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €300–1,200
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hannover Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €280–1,100
- Website
- aerlingus.com
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hamburg Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–1,000
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €220–950
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hamburg Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €200–800
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €180–750
- Website
- icelandair.com
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Copenhagen Airport via Reykjavik Keflavik Nas
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €210–800
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Hannover Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 5m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €320–1,200
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Rostock Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 47m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €35–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Bremen Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Flughafen BER to Rostock Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–100
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Lüneburg
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €22–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Büchen to Rostock Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €28–65
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Rostock Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €45–65
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Büchen to Rostock Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €35–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 581 97164164
- info@der-metronom.de
- Website
- der-metronom.de
Train from Bremen Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €35–85
- Schedules at
- der-metronom.de
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Lüneburg
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €40–95
- Schedules at
- der-metronom.de
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Bremen Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €29–45
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Website
- govolta.nl
Train from Bremen Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Schedules at
- govolta.nl
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Copenhagen Airport to Gedser
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €10–18
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +45 33 15 15 15
- Scandlines@scandlines.com
- Website
- scandlines.se
Car ferry from Gedser to Rostock Port
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €50–100
- Schedules at
- scandlines.com
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