There are 13 ways to get from Cologne to Pisa by train, plane, train (Trenitalia), bus, car, or car train
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Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Florence Peretola Airport, train
best- Take the train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bftrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Florence Peretola Airport (FLR)plane DUS - FLR
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Pisa Centraletrain
6h 14m€100–315Train, bus to Brussels South Charleroi Airport, fly to Pisa International Airport
cheapest- 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 Pisa International Airport (PSA)plane CRL - PSA
6h 30m€72–275Train via Mannheim
- Take the train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhoftrain 47 / ...
- Take the train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBBtrain 20 / ...
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luganotrain Ec
- Take the train from Lugano to Milano Centraletrain Ec
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Firenze S.M.N.train Fr
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Pisa Centraletrain Re
14h 10m€135–494Train, bus
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbftrain Ice
- Take the bus from Frankfurt - Airport Bus Station to Genoa - Via Fanti d'Italia Bus Stopbus
- Take the bus from Genoa Piazza della Vittoria to PISA - Via Pietrasantina Parcheggiobus
19h 48m€87–183Drive 1,104 km
- Drive from Cologne to Pisacar 1,104 km
10h 28m€173–249Fly Cologne Bonn Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, train
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane CGN - BLQ
- Take the train from Bologna Centrale to Florence Santa Maria Novellatrain
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Pisa Centraletrain
6h 30m€94–309Train to Frankfurt, fly to Florence Peretola Airport, train
- Take the train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Florence Peretola Airport (FLR)plane FRA - FLR
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Pisa Centraletrain
6h 26m€131–366Train to Eindhoven Airport, fly to Pisa International Airport
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Eindhoventrain
- Fly from Eindhoven Airport (EIN) to Pisa International Airport (PSA)plane EIN - PSA
6h 10m€100–354Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, train
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bftrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane DUS - BLQ
- Take the train from Bologna Centrale to Florence Santa Maria Novellatrain
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Pisa Centraletrain
7h 1m€104–337Train to Frankfurt, fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, train
- Take the train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane FRA - BLQ
- Take the train from Bologna Centrale to Florence Santa Maria Novellatrain
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Pisa Centraletrain
7h 2m€150–398Train
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Basel SBBtrain 43 / ...
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luganotrain Ec
- Take the train from Lugano to Milano Centraletrain Ec
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Pisa Centraletrain Ic
14h 59m€98–507Bus
- Take the bus from Cologne Airport CGN to Florence Villa Constanza Bus Stationbus N537
- Take the bus from Florence Villa Constanza Bus Station to Pisabus N538 / ...
20h 3m€97–141Drive, car train
- Drive from Cologne to Fuldacar
- Take the car train from Fulda to München Ostcartrain
- Drive from München Ost to Pisacar
12h 27m€229–310
Cologne to Pisa by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Cologne to Pisa is to bus which costs €95 - €150 and takes 20h 3m.
The fastest way to get from Cologne to Pisa is to train and fly which takes 6h 10m and costs €100 - €360.
No, there is no direct train from Cologne to Pisa. However, there are services departing from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf and arriving at Pisa Centrale via Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof, Basel SBB, Lugano, Milano Centrale and Firenze S.M.N.. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 14h 10m.
The distance between Cologne and Pisa is 1028 km. The road distance is 1104 km.
The best way to get from Cologne to Pisa without a car is to train via Mannheim which takes 14h 10m and costs €130 - €500.
It takes approximately 6h 14m to get from Cologne to Pisa, including transfers.
Cologne to Pisa train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf station.
The best way to get from Cologne to Pisa is to train via Mannheim which takes 14h 10m and costs €130 - €500. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €95 - €150 and takes 20h 3m.
Cologne to Pisa train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof station.
Yes, the driving distance between Cologne to Pisa is 1104 km. It takes approximately 10h 28m to drive from Cologne to Pisa.
What companies run services between Cologne, Germany and Pisa, Italy?
You can take a train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Pisa Centrale via Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof, Basel SBB, Lugano, Milano Centrale, and Firenze S.M.N. in around 14h 10m. Alternatively, you can take a train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Pisa via Flughafen Köln/Bonn Bf, Cologne Airport CGN, and Florence Villa Constanza Bus Station in around 20h 3m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–450
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €130–440
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €45–320
Flights from Frankfurt to Florence Peretola Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–250
Flights from Frankfurt to Florence Peretola Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–250
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–330
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–360
Flights from Frankfurt to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–320
Flights from Frankfurt to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–320
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Frankfurt to Florence Peretola Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–250
Flights from Frankfurt to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–320
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €50–220
Flights from Eindhoven Airport to Pisa International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–290
Flights from Eindhoven Airport to Pisa International Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–290
Flights from Brussels South Charleroi Airport to Pisa International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–190
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–200
Flights from Frankfurt to Florence Peretola Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–350
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Florence Peretola Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–290
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €55–220
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–180
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–400
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–330
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €7–23
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €29–90
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Koeln Hbf to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €18–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Eindhoven
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €40–65
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Koeln Hbf to Liege-Guillemins
- Ave. Duration
- 45 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €25–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–160
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Köln Hbf to D-Flughafen Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €25–60
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Standard
- €25–40
- Comfort
- €27–40
- Premium
- €40–60
Train from Koeln Hbf to Liege-Guillemins
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €35–85
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Pisa Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €9–24
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Milano Centrale to Pisa Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €15–50
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40–140
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €40–60
- 1st Class
- €80–140
Train from Koeln Hbf to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €27–90
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €27–40
- 1st Class
- €50–90
Train from Köln Hbf to Eindhoven
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €22–70
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €22–35
- 1st Class
- €40–70
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
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €55–110
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Lugano to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €23–45
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 7531 915109
- info@sbb-deutschland.de
- Website
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €20–25
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Milano Centrale to Firenze S.M.N.
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–85
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Milano Centrale to Pisa Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 54m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €45–95
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Milano Centrale to Firenze S.M.N.
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 42m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €23–65
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Milano Centrale to Pisa Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 12m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €17–45
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- italotreno.it
Train from Bologna Centrale to Florence Santa Maria Novella
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €14–35
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- belgiantrain.be
Train from Koeln Hbf to Liege-Guillemins
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 16m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €11–17
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
- 2nd Class
- €11–17
- 1st Class
- €18–26
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Köln Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 39m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €100–150
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Fulda to München Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 11m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €95–110
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Frankfurt - Airport Bus Station to Genoa - Via Fanti d'Italia Bus Stop
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 45m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €55–80
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
- Phone
- 0966 57552
- info@lirosiautoservizi.com
- Website
- lirosiautoserviziorari.com
Bus from Genoa Piazza della Vittoria to PISA - Via Pietrasantina Parcheggio
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €9–11
- Schedules at
- lirosiautoserviziorari.com
- info@flibco.com
- Website
- flibco.com
Bus from Liège Rue du Plan Inclined to Charleroi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €15–20
- Website
- https://www.flibco.com/en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Cologne Airport CGN to Florence Villa Constanza Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 50m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €85–120
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Florence Villa Constanza Bus Station to Pisa
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €8–11
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
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