There are 12 ways to get from Crete to Cologne by plane, car ferry, bus, train, busferry, or ferry
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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 56m€100–293Car 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 / ...
38h 45mFly 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 37m€115–715Fly Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Fly from Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane CHQ - DUS
7h€132–333Fly 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
3h 33m€226–540Fly Chania International Airport to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane CHQ - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Köln Messe/Deutz Bftrain
7h 19m€161–402Fly 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 to Köln Messe/Deutz Bftrain
6h 56m€129–224Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Brussels Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Brussels Airport (BRU)plane HER - BRU
- Take the train from Brussels-Nord to Koeln Hbftrain
8h 44m€148–350Bus 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 Hbftrain Rjx
- Take the train from München Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Bftrain 47 / ...
44h 48m€248–319Bus and ferry, bus
- Take the busferry from Heraklion Port to Tiranabusferry
- Take the bus from Tirana to Köln Süd Bfbus
2d 6hFerry, train, Bus
- Take the ferry from Heraklion to Port of Piraeusferry Abs / ...
- Take the train from Athens to Larissatrain Ic
- Take the bus from Larissa to Frankfurt am Mainbus
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Köln Hbftrain 49 / ...
2d 11h€325–513
Crete to Cologne by ferry, foot, train, and bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Crete to Cologne is to fly and train which costs €120 - €230 and takes 6h 56m.
The fastest way to get from Crete to Cologne is to fly and train which takes 3h 33m and costs €220 - €550.
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 38h 45m and costs .
It takes approximately 5h 56m 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 9:48 AM in Crete and 8:48 AM in Cologne.
There are 1794+ hotels available in Cologne.
What companies run services between Crete, Greece and Cologne, Germany?
Eurowings, Corendon Airlines, and three other airlines fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) once daily.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 38m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–430
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–190
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–320
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €110–360
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 12m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €110–360
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–310
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €95–310
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–230
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–230
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Brussels Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–320
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–330
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–700
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–350
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–310
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–400
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–230
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–420
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–390
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €95–380
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Brussels Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–390
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–310
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €85–340
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Thursday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–300
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–170
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–330
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–700
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–350
- Website
- corendonairlines.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–320
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–300
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Münster Osnabrück International Airport
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €180–490
- Website
- tui.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €180–450
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Website
- airbus.com
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–310
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–140
- Website
- skyexpress.gr
Flights from Chania International Airport to Frankfurt via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–220
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Brussels Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–310
- Website
- tuifly.be
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Brussels Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €85–300
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Brussels Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–340
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Brussels Airport via Milan Linate
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–290
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hauptbahnhof to Köln Messe/Deutz Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 3m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €60–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €36–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Köln Messe/Deutz Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 48 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €38–43
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Brussels-Nord to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €44–49
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €85–100
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €40–44
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 221 800 20 80
- info@msm-gruppe.de
- Website
- msm-gruppe.de
Train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- msm-gruppe.de
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- info@mavcsoport.hu
- Website
- jegy.mav.hu
Train from Budapest-Kelenfoeld to Muenchen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 36m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €31–36
- Website
- https://jegy.mav.hu/
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- hellenictrain.gr
Train from Athens to Larissa
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €14–21
- Website
- https://www.hellenictrain.gr/en
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Piraeus to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €40
- 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
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Bus from Ioannina to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 47m
- Frequency
- Once 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 24 50 20
- info@ktelherlas.gr
- Website
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Heraklion to Ioannina
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €70–100
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Heraklion to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–110
- 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
- €50–75
- 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
- armenditours.com
Bus from Tirana to Köln Süd Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 28h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- armenditours.com
- Website
- portokalidistours.gr
Bus from Larissa to Frankfurt am Main
- Ave. Duration
- 41h 45m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €230–340
- Schedules at
- portokalidistours.gr
- Phone
- +30 210 710 7 710
- reservations.dpt@seajets.gr
- Website
- seajets.com
Car ferry from Heraklion Port to Port of Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €100–230
- Website
- https://www.seajets.com/
- Deck Fare Economy
- €100–140
- Deck Fare Economy & Car less than 4.25m
- €160–230
Ferry from Heraklion to Port of Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €40–110
- Website
- https://www.bluestarferries.com/en-gb/
- Economy
- €40–55
- 2 Bed Inside Cabin
- €70–90
- 4 Bed Outside Cabin
- €65–80
- 2 Bed Lux Cabin
- €85–110
Ferry from Heraklion to Port of Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €50–75
- Website
- https://www.hellenicseaways.gr/en-gb
- Airplane Type Seats
- €50–75
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