There are 11 ways to get from Crete to Cologne by plane, car ferry, bus, train, or busferry
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Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport
best- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)plane HER - CGN
5h 50m€73–210Car ferry, bus, train
- Take the car ferry from Heraklion Port to Port of Piraeuscarferry
- Take the bus from Piraeus to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusavebus
- Take the bus from Tirana to Stuttgart Hbfbus
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof to Köln Messe/Deutz Bftrain 47 / ...
39h 5mFly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane HER - DUS
6h 24m€91–298Fly Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Fly from Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane CHQ - DUS
6h 47m€128–666Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane HER - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf to Koeln Messe/Deutz Gl.11-12train
8h 27m€121–291Fly Chania International Airport to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane CHQ - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf to Koeln Messe/Deutz Gl.11-12train
8h 45m€143–569Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Münster Osnabrück International Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Münster Osnabrück International Airport (FMO)plane HER - FMO
- Take the train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Köln Hbftrain
8h 23m€168–350Bus and ferry, bus via Ioánnina
- Take the busferry from Heraklion to Ioanninabusferry
- Take the bus from Ioannina to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusavebus
- Take the bus from Tirana to Köln Hbfbus
42h 37mBus and ferry, bus, train
- Take the busferry from Heraklion to Thessalonikibusferry
- Take the bus from Thessaloniki to Budapest Hotel Platanusbus
- Take the train from Budapest-Kelenfoeld to Muenchen Hbf Gl.5-10train Rjx
- Take the train from München Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Bftrain 47 / ...
44h 29m€288–654Bus and ferry, bus
- Take the busferry from Heraklion Port to Tiranabusferry
- Take the bus from Tirana to Köln Süd Bfbus
2d 6hBus, bus and ferry, train
- Take the bus from Heraklion to Chaniabus
- Take the busferry from Chania to Ioanninabusferry
- Take the bus from Ioannina to Frankfurt am Mainbus
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Köln Hbftrain 79 / ...
2d 15h€300–480
Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Crete to Cologne is to fly which costs €70 - €210 and takes 5h 50m.
The fastest way to get from Crete to Cologne is to fly which takes 5h 50m and costs €70 - €210.
No, there is no direct bus from Crete to Cologne. However, there are services departing from Heraklion and arriving at Köln Hbf via Ioannina and Tirana. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 42h 37m.
The distance between Crete and Cologne is 2271 km.
The best way to get from Crete to Cologne without a car is to car ferry and bus and train which takes 39h 5m and costs .
It takes approximately 5h 50m to get from Crete to Cologne, including transfers.
Crete to Cologne bus services, operated by KTEL Irakleiou - Lasithiou S.A, depart from Heraklion station.
Crete to Cologne bus services, operated by KTEL Irakleiou - Lasithiou S.A, arrive at Ioannina station.
Cologne is 1h behind Crete. It is currently 2:40 AM in Crete and 1:40 AM in Cologne.
There are 1806+ hotels available in Cologne.
What companies run services between Crete, Greece and Cologne, Germany?
Corendon Airlines, Eurowings, and three other airlines fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) 4 times a day.
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–250
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–240
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 52m
- When
- Thursday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–300
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–180
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–360
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–200
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–270
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €150–280
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–420
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–390
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €110–300
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–300
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–200
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–350
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–270
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Münster Osnabrück International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €130–550
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–250
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–240
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport via Innsbruck
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–240
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–180
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–230
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–280
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–180
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–180
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–200
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €110–420
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Saturday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–390
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €130–470
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Wednesday, Saturday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €110–420
- Website
- corendonairlines.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–140
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–340
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Münster Osnabrück International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €100–330
- Website
- tui.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–290
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–130
- Website
- airbus.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–160
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–270
- Website
- skyexpress.gr
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–310
- Website
- leav.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Münster Osnabrück International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €130–600
- Website
- worldticket.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Münster Osnabrück International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €150–1,400
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hauptbahnhof to Köln Messe/Deutz Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 3m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €60–210
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf to Koeln Messe/Deutz Gl.11-12
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 38m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–120
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 44m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €28–90
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 9m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €100–340
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–110
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 3m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- informacio@mavcsoport.hu
- Website
- jegy.mav.hu
Train from Budapest-Kelenfoeld to Muenchen Hbf Gl.5-10
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 39m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €33–39
- Website
- https://jegy.mav.hu/
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Piraeus to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- komatastours.al@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Piraeus to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €50
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Bus from Ioannina to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 47m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 68 204 4475
- amr_travel@hotmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 34m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 50m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 69 232 8000
- anumitravel@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 41m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 36m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +30 2810 246530
- info@ktelherlas.gr
- Website
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Heraklion to Ioannina
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €75–110
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Heraklion to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
- Phone
- 0030 2108219900
- vsiamos@otenet.gr
- Website
- siamostours.com
Bus from Thessaloniki to Budapest Hotel Platanus
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €70–160
- Schedules at
- siamostours.com
- Phone
- +355 42 239 203 / +355 69 400 4075
- albtrans06@yahoo.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Busferry from Heraklion Port to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063548259783
- Phone
- +383 44 102 280
- armendi_tours@hotmail.com
- Website
- armendtours.com
Bus from Tirana to Köln Süd Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 28h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- armendtours.com
- Phone
- +302821093052
- info@e-ktel.gr
- Website
- e-ktel.com
Bus from Heraklion to Chania
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18
- Website
- https://www.e-ktel.com/en/
Busferry from Chania to Ioannina
- Ave. Duration
- 19h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €42
- Website
- https://www.e-ktel.com/en/
- Phone
- +30 2310261280
- Website
- portokalidistours.com
Bus from Ioannina to Frankfurt am Main
- Ave. Duration
- 38h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €210–310
- Schedules at
- portokalidistours.gr
- Phone
- +30 210 710 7 710
- info@seajets.gr
- Website
- seajets.com
Car ferry from Heraklion Port to Port of Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €120–320
- Website
- https://www.seajets.com/
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