There are 12 ways to get from Cologne to Dax by train (Eurostar, TGV), bus, car, plane, or train
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Train
best- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Paris Nordtrain Thalys
- Take the train from Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2 to Daxtrain Tgv
8h 13m€273–515Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Cologne Airport CGN to Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine)bus N74 / ...
- Take the bus from Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station to Daxbus BlaBlaCar Bus
17h 51m€88–161Drive 1,191.6 km
- Drive from Cologne to Daxcar 1,191.6 km
11h 33m€187–270Fly Cologne Bonn Airport to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport, train
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport (BIQ)plane CGN - BIQ
- Take the train from Biarritz to Daxtrain
8h 48m€114–319Train, bus
- Take the train from Köln Süd Bf to Trier, Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Trier, Hauptbahnhof to Luxembourgtrain Re / ...
- Take the bus from Luxembourg, Gare Centrale routière to Louvignybus L95
- Take the train from Lorraine TGV to Bordeaux-St-Jeantrain 84
- Take the train from Bordeaux St Jean to Daxtrain Ter
14h 17mTrain to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport, train
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bftrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport (BIQ)plane DUS - BIQ
- Take the train from Biarritz to Daxtrain
8h 32m€132–396Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport, train
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bftrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)plane DUS - BOD
- Take the train from Bordeaux St Jean to Daxtrain
9h 5m€131–326Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Pau Pyrénées Airport, train
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bftrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Pau Pyrénées Airport (PUF)plane DUS - PUF
- Take the train from Pau to Daxtrain
10h 9m€456–805Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Bilbao Airport, bus, train
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bftrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Bilbao Airport (BIO)plane DUS - BIO
- Take the bus from Airport Loiu Bilbao to Donostia / San Sebastiánbus
- Take the train from Hendaye to Daxtrain
9h 52m€122–304Train, train to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, fly to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Arnhem Centraaltrain
- Take the train from Arnhem Centraal to Schiphol Airport Train Stationtrain
- Fly from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)plane AMS - BOD
- Take the train from Bordeaux St Jean to Daxtrain
9h 35m€149–408Train to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport, fly to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport, train
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Paris Nordtrain
- Fly from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG) to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport (BIQ)plane CDG - BIQ
- Take the train from Biarritz to Daxtrain
8h 47m€293–666Train, bus to Brussels South Charleroi Airport, fly to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Liege-Guilleminstrain
- Take the bus from Liège Rue du Plan Inclined to Charleroi Airportbus
- Fly from Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL) to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport (BIQ)plane CRL - BIQ
- Take the train from Biarritz to Daxtrain
9h 13m€91–435
Cologne to Dax by train, subway, and foot
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Cologne to Dax is to bus which costs €85 - €170 and takes 17h 51m.
The fastest way to get from Cologne to Dax is to train which takes 8h 13m and costs €270 - €550.
No, there is no direct train from Cologne to Dax. However, there are services departing from Koeln Hbf and arriving at Dax via Gare du Nord and Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 8h 13m.
The distance between Cologne and Dax is 1217 km. The road distance is 1191.6 km.
The best way to get from Cologne to Dax without a car is to train which takes 8h 13m and costs €270 - €550.
It takes approximately 8h 13m to get from Cologne to Dax, including transfers.
Cologne to Dax train services, operated by Eurostar, depart from Koeln Hbf station.
The best way to get from Cologne to Dax is to train which takes 8h 13m and costs €270 - €550. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €85 - €170 and takes 17h 51m.
Cologne to Dax train services, operated by Eurostar, arrive at Paris Nord station.
Yes, the driving distance between Cologne to Dax is 1192 km. It takes approximately 11h 33m to drive from Cologne to Dax.
What companies run services between Cologne, Germany and Dax, France?
You can take a train from Koeln Hbf to Dax via Paris Nord, Gare du Nord, Montparnasse Bienvenue, and Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2 in around 8h 13m. Alternatively, you can take a train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Dax via Flughafen Köln/Bonn Bf, Cologne Airport CGN, Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine), and Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station in around 17h 51m.
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport via Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 53m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–490
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport via Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–340
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Pau Pyrénées Airport via Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €160–850
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–390
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport via Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 38m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–390
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–410
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–550
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 23m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–360
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Pau Pyrénées Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €180–950
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bilbao Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–360
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–390
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–410
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €160–650
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €170–650
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €160–650
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bilbao Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €140–310
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bilbao Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €140–310
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 47m
- When
- Thursday, Tuesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €95–200
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €95–200
Flights from Brussels South Charleroi Airport to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €30–250
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €280–550
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €290–550
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €110–410
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Biarritz Pays Basque Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €100–370
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €95–240
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport via Geneva
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–270
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bilbao Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–220
- Website
- twinjet.fr
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Pau Pyrénées Airport via Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €210–750
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Koeln Hbf to Paris Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 26m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €170–290
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
Train from Koeln Hbf to Liege-Guillemins
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €35–65
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2 to Dax
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €140–230
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Biarritz to Dax
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €13–20
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Bordeaux St Jean to Dax
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–50
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Pau to Dax
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €18–29
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Hendaye to Dax
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €18–29
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
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Contact Details
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2 to Dax
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 22m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €100–230
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Biarritz to Dax
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €9–20
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Lorraine TGV to Bordeaux-St-Jean
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 56m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €130–290
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Bordeaux St Jean to Dax
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €23–50
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Pau to Dax
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €13–29
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Hendaye to Dax
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–29
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Köln Süd Bf to Trier, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 58m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +352 24 89 24 89
- Website
- cfl.lu
Train from Trier, Hauptbahnhof to Luxembourg
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €8–13
- Website
- https://www.cfl.lu/en-gb
- Phone
- 0621 8301200
- Website
- suewex.de
Train from Trier, Hauptbahnhof to Luxembourg
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €12–17
- Schedules at
- suewex.de
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 31 min
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €8–22
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Arnhem Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €29–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Koeln Hbf to Liege-Guillemins
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €21–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Köln Hbf to Arnhem Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €18–40
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Arnhem Centraal to Schiphol Airport Train Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €11–25
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Cologne Airport CGN to Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine)
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €35–60
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station to Dax
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €50–95
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
- Phone
- +352 24 89 24 89
- Website
- cfl.lu
Bus from Luxembourg, Gare Centrale routière to Louvigny
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Website
- https://www.cfl.lu/en-gb
Bus from Airport Loiu Bilbao to Donostia / San Sebastián
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–17
- Website
- https://gipuzkoa.avanzagrupo.com/en/home
- info@flibco.com
- Website
- flibco.com
Bus from Liège Rue du Plan Inclined to Charleroi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–40
- Website
- https://www.flibco.com/en
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