There are 11 ways to get from Cologne to Modane by train (Eurostar, TGV), bus, car, plane, train, night train, or train (TGV)
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Train
best- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Miditrain 79
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Chambery Challes Les Eauxtrain
- Take the train from Chambery Challes Les Eaux to Modanetrain Ter
9h 32m€149–495Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
cheapest- Take the train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bftrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)plane DUS - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Modanetrain
8h 16m€57–275Bus
- Take the bus from Cologne Airport CGN to Lyonbus
- Take the bus from Lyon to Grenoblebus 766 / ...
- Take the bus from Grenoble Gare Routiere to Modanebus
16h 11m€85–136Drive 854.9 km
- Drive from Cologne to Modanecar 854.9 km
9h 1m€131–189Fly Cologne Bonn Airport to Turin Caselle Airport, train
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Turin Caselle Airport (TRN)plane CGN - TRN
- Take the train from Torino Porta Susa to Modanetrain
9h 34m€104–345Night train, train
- Take the night train from Koeln Hbf to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midinighttrain Nj
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid to Chambérytrain
- Take the train from Chambery Challes Les Eaux to Modanetrain Ter
10h 33m€162–780Train via Basel
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Basel SBBtrain 43 / ...
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain Ic6 / ...
- Take the train from Bern to Genèvetrain Ic1 / ...
- Take the train from Geneve to Chambery Challes Les Eauxtrain Ter
- Take the train from Chambery Challes Les Eaux to Modanetrain Ter
12h 44m€127–493Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Milan Linate Airport, train
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bftrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)plane DUS - LIN
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Modanetrain
7h 37m€95–314Train to Frankfurt, fly to Turin Caselle Airport, train
- Take the train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Turin Caselle Airport (TRN)plane FRA - TRN
- Take the train from Torino Porta Susa to Modanetrain
7h 26m€132–429Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Geneva International Airport, train
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bftrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane DUS - GVA
- Take the train from Geneve to Chambery Challes Les Eauxtrain
- Take the train from Chambery Challes Les Eaux to Modanetrain
9h 19m€128–395Train to Frankfurt, fly to Geneva International Airport, train
- Take the train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane FRA - GVA
- Take the train from Geneve to Chambery Challes Les Eauxtrain
- Take the train from Chambery Challes Les Eaux to Modanetrain
9h 20m€156–440
Cologne to Modane by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Cologne to Modane is to bus which costs €85 - €140 and takes 16h 11m.
The fastest way to get from Cologne to Modane is to train and fly which takes 7h 26m and costs €130 - €430.
No, there is no direct train from Cologne to Modane. However, there are services departing from Köln Hbf and arriving at Modane via Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi and Chambery Challes Les Eaux. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 9h 32m.
The distance between Cologne and Modane is 1121 km. The road distance is 854.9 km.
The best way to get from Cologne to Modane without a car is to train which takes 9h 32m and costs €140 - €500.
It takes approximately 9h 32m to get from Cologne to Modane, including transfers.
Cologne to Modane train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Köln Hbf station.
The best way to get from Cologne to Modane is to train which takes 9h 32m and costs €140 - €500. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €85 - €140 and takes 16h 11m.
Cologne to Modane train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Bruxelles Midi station.
Yes, the driving distance between Cologne to Modane is 855 km. It takes approximately 9h 1m to drive from Cologne to Modane.
What companies run services between Cologne, Germany and Modane, France?
You can take a train from Köln Hbf to Modane via Bruxelles Midi, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi, and Chambery Challes Les Eaux in around 9h 32m. Alternatively, you can take a train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Modane via Flughafen Köln/Bonn Bf, Cologne Airport CGN, Lyon, Grenoble, and Grenoble Gare Routiere in around 16h 11m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Turin Caselle Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €120–390
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Turin Caselle Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 42m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–220
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Tuesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €120–290
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–290
Flights from Frankfurt to Turin Caselle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–280
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–300
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €45–290
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–350
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–350
Flights from Frankfurt to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–430
Flights from Frankfurt to Geneva International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–430
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Turin Caselle Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–220
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–270
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €75–230
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–230
Flights from Frankfurt to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–430
Flights from Frankfurt to Geneva International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–430
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Turin Caselle Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 53m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–300
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–200
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Tuesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €120–290
Flights from Frankfurt to Turin Caselle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–280
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–290
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–270
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–300
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Frankfurt to Turin Caselle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–280
Flights from Frankfurt to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–310
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–320
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–150
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €75–230
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Turin Caselle Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 57m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–220
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Turin Caselle Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–220
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–330
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €27–160
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Turin Caselle Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €80–390
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–150
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €7–24
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €21–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €35–95
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Chambery Challes Les Eaux
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 11m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €120–300
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
Train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €25–60
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Standard
- €25–40
- Comfort
- €27–40
- Premium
- €40–60
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- belgiantrain.be
Train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 51m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €19–28
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
- 2nd Class
- €19–28
- 1st Class
- €30–45
Rome2Rio's guide to Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF)
Contact Details
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from Chambery Challes Les Eaux to Modane
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €22
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Geneve to Chambery Challes Les Eaux
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €22
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Chambery Challes Les Eaux to Modane
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €9–19
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Torino Porta Susa to Modane
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €22–80
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Chambery Challes Les Eaux to Modane
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €40–100
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Torino Porta Susa to Modane
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €7–11
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Milano Centrale to Modane
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €14–21
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +43 51717
- Website
- nightjet.com
Night train from Koeln Hbf to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 51m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €30–260
- Website
- https://www.nightjet.com/en/#/home
- Sleeper Carriage
- €256–260
- Couchette Carriage
- €120–150
- Seating Carriage
- €30–40
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Brussel-Zuid to Chambéry
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €120–420
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €120–180
- 1st Class
- €250–420
Train from Köln Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 28m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €75–260
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €75–110
- 1st Class
- €150–260
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Köln Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 28m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €100–150
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €26–50
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Bern to Genève
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–65
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +39 02-72494949
- Website
- malpensaexpress.it
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15
- Website
- https://www.malpensaexpress.it/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Cologne Airport CGN to Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €55–75
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Lyon to Grenoble
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €6–15
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Lyon to Grenoble
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €4–16
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
- Phone
- 3635
- Website
- groupe-sncf.com
Bus from Grenoble Gare Routiere to Modane
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €22–35
- Website
- https://www.groupe-sncf.com/en
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