There are 11 ways to get from Cologne to Tallinn by plane, bus, train, ferry, or car
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Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport
best- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL)plane CGN - TLL
6h 33m€64–228Bus
- Take the bus from Köln-Ehrenfeld Gleis to Masurenallee - Berlinbus Mykolayiv
- Take the bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Tallinn, Bus Stationbus N1324 / ...
29h 22mTrain
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to München Hbftrain Ice
- Take the train from Muenchen Hbf to Warszawa Wschodniatrain Ic
- Take the train from Warszawa Wschodnia to Vilniaus geležinkelio stotistrain
- Take the train from Vilnius to Tallinntrain 889
37h 54m€244–634Train, ferry
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Rheinetrain Re
- Take the train from Rheine to Hamburg-Harburgtrain Ice
- Take the train from Hamburg-Harburg to Stockholm Centralstationtrain 344
- Take the ferry from Stockholm to Tallinnferry
40h 39mTrain to Frankfurt, fly
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbftrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL)plane FRA - TLL
5h 29m€94–315Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL)plane DUS - TLL
6h 19m€84–243Train to Brussels Airport, fly
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Brussels-Nordtrain
- Fly from Brussels Airport (BRU) to Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL)plane BRU - TLL
6h 42m€125–281Train, train to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, fly
- 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 Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL)plane AMS - TLL
7h 33m€109–320Train, bus via Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Frankfurt(Main)Hbftrain Ice
- Take the train from Frankfurt(Main)Hbf to Berlin Suedkreuztrain Ice
- Take the bus from Berlin Airport BER to Tallinn, Bus Stationbus
29h 35m€215–491Train, bus
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Frankfurt(Main)Hbftrain Ice
- Take the bus from Frankfurt to Rīgabus
- Take the bus from Riia to Vana-Pääskülabus
35h 54m€137–305Drive 1,912.3 km
- Drive from Cologne to Tallinncar 1,912.3 km
23h 58m€301–435
Cologne to Tallinn by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Cologne to Tallinn is to fly which costs €60 - €230 and takes 6h 33m.
The fastest way to get from Cologne to Tallinn is to train and fly which takes 5h 29m and costs €90 - €320.
No, there is no direct bus from Cologne to Tallinn station. However, there are services departing from Köln-Ehrenfeld Gleis and arriving at Tallinn, Bus Station via Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 29h 22m.
No, there is no direct train from Cologne to Tallinn. However, there are services departing from Köln Hbf and arriving at Tallinn via Muenchen Hbf, Warszawa Wschodnia and Vilnius. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 37h 54m.
The distance between Cologne and Tallinn is 1481 km. The road distance is 1912.3 km.
The best way to get from Cologne to Tallinn without a car is to bus which takes 29h 22m and costs .
It takes approximately 6h 33m to get from Cologne to Tallinn, including transfers.
Cologne to Tallinn bus services, operated by OrionBus, depart from Köln-Ehrenfeld Gleis station.
Cologne to Tallinn train services, operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), depart from Köln Hbf station.
The best way to get from Cologne to Tallinn is to fly which takes 6h 33m and costs €60 - €230. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs and takes 29h 22m, you could also train, which costs €240 - €650 and takes 37h 54m.
What companies run services between Cologne, Germany and Tallinn, Estonia?
Eurowings, Air Baltic, and three other airlines fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL) twice daily. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Köln-Ehrenfeld Gleis to Tallinn, Bus Station via Masurenallee - Berlin and Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof in around 29h 22m.
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €60–230
Flights from Frankfurt to Lennart Meri International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–270
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–190
Flights from Brussels Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–120
Flights from Brussels Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–120
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Lennart Meri International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–220
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Lennart Meri International Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–410
- Website
- finnair.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Lennart Meri International Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–220
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–220
Flights from Brussels Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–200
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Lennart Meri International Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–280
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–260
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €60–230
Flights from Frankfurt to Lennart Meri International Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–170
Flights from Brussels Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–160
Flights from Brussels Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–160
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Lennart Meri International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–170
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Lennart Meri International Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–170
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Lennart Meri International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–170
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Lennart Meri International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–220
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Lennart Meri International Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–410
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €85–300
Flights from Frankfurt to Lennart Meri International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–350
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–270
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €65–240
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–340
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Köln Hbf to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 12m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €60–150
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Rheine to Hamburg-Harburg
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 11m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €27–70
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Koeln Hbf to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €18–45
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Arnhem Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €17–45
- 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
- €10–26
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Koeln Hbf to Frankfurt(Main)Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €19–50
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from Muenchen Hbf to Warszawa Wschodnia
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 48m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €120–220
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Muenchen Hbf to Warszawa Wschodnia
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 48m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €180–400
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- Phone
- +370 700 55 111
- informacija@ltglink.lt
- Website
- ltglink.lt
Train from Warszawa Wschodnia to Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 22m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €26–35
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
Train from Vilnius to Tallinn
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 32m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–50
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Koeln Hbf to Rheine
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +46 77 175 75 75
- kundservice@sj.se
- Website
- sj.se
Train from Hamburg-Harburg to Stockholm Centralstation
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 16m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €150–270
- Website
- https://www.sj.se/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Koeln Hbf to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Koeln Hbf to Brussels-Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 43m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–95
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Koeln Hbf to Frankfurt(Main)Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €35–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt(Main)Hbf to Berlin Suedkreuz
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 54m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €95–220
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +38 (050) 010-01-04
- orionbilet@gmail.com
- Website
- orionbus.net
Bus from Köln-Ehrenfeld Gleis to Masurenallee - Berlin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 52m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://orionbus.net/en
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Tallinn, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €100–190
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Berlin Airport BER to Tallinn, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €100–190
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Frankfurt to Rīga
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 30m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €100–190
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
- Phone
- +372 680 0909
- info@luxexpress.eu
- Website
- luxexpress.eu
Bus from Riia to Vana-Pääsküla
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €17–35
- Website
- https://luxexpress.eu/en/
- Phone
- +358 9 123574
- Website
- vikingline.fi
Ferry from Stockholm to Tallinn
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €10–40
- Website
- https://www.sales.vikingline.com/
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More Questions & Answers
Cologne to Tallinn bus services, operated by OrionBus, arrive at Masurenallee - Berlin station.
Tallinn is 1h ahead of Cologne. It is currently 10:03 PM in Cologne and 11:03 PM in Tallinn.
Cologne to Tallinn train services, operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), arrive at München Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between Cologne to Tallinn is 1912 km. It takes approximately 23h 58m to drive from Cologne to Tallinn.
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