There are 12 ways to get from Dessau to Bern by train, bus, night train, car, car train, or plane
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Train via Frankfurt am Main
best- Take the train from Dessau Hbf to Leipzig Hbftrain S2
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Frankfurttrain 50 / ...
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Basel SBBtrain 20 / ...
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain Ic6 / ...
9h 52mCHF 100–325Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Bitterfeld, Bahnhof to Halle(Saale)Hbfbus S8
- Take the bus from Halle to Nuremberg central bus stationbus N34
- Take the bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Bernbus
15h 2mCHF 62–119Night train, train
- Take the night train from Bitterfeld to Basel Bad Bfnighttrain Nj
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain Ic6 / ...
11h 56mCHF 89–319Drive 770.7 km
- Drive from Dessau to Berncar 770.7 km
7h 58mCHF 120–172Train
- Take the train from Bitterfeld to Basel SBBtrain 12N
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain Ic6 / ...
12h 6mCHF 127–266Drive, car train
- Drive from Dessau to Göttingencar
- Take the car train from Göttingen to München Ostcartrain
- Drive from München Ost to Berncar
9h 54mCHF 174–240Train to Leipzig-Halle Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Dessau Hbf to Leipzig Messetrain
- Fly from Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane LEJ - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich Flughafen to Berntrain
7h 58mCHF 182–344Train to Leipzig-Halle Airport, fly to Basel, train
- Take the train from Dessau Hbf to Leipzig Messetrain
- Fly from Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ) to Basel (BSL)plane LEJ - BSL
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain
8h 31mCHF 139–354Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Lutherstadt Wittenberg Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane BER - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich Flughafen to Berntrain
7h 8mCHF 100–227Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Basel, train
- Take the train from Lutherstadt Wittenberg Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Basel (BSL)plane BER - BSL
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain
7h 22mCHF 92–237Train, train to Dresden Airport, fly to Zurich Airport
- Take the train from Dessau Hbf to Leipzig Hbftrain
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadttrain
- Fly from Dresden Airport (DRS) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane DRS - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich Flughafen to Berntrain
7h 48mCHF 163–439Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Geneva International Airport, train
- Take the train from Lutherstadt Wittenberg Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane BER - GVA
- Take the train from Genève-Aéroport to Berntrain
8h 46mCHF 95–262
Dessau to Bern by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Dessau to Bern is to bus which costs SFr 60 - SFr 120 and takes 15h 2m.
The fastest way to get from Dessau to Bern is to train and fly which takes 7h 8m and costs SFr 100 - SFr 230.
No, there is no direct train from Dessau to Bern. However, there are services departing from Dessau Hbf and arriving at Bern via Leipzig Hbf, Frankfurt and Basel SBB. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 9h 52m.
The distance between Dessau and Bern is 862 km. The road distance is 770.7 km.
The best way to get from Dessau to Bern without a car is to train via Frankfurt am Main which takes 9h 52m and costs SFr 100 - SFr 330.
It takes approximately 9h 52m to get from Dessau to Bern, including transfers.
Dessau to Bern train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional), depart from Dessau Hbf station.
The best way to get from Dessau to Bern is to train via Frankfurt am Main which takes 9h 52m and costs SFr 100 - SFr 330. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs SFr 60 - SFr 120 and takes 15h 2m.
Dessau to Bern train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional), arrive at Leipzig Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between Dessau to Bern is 771 km. It takes approximately 7h 58m to drive from Dessau to Bern.
What companies run services between Dessau, Germany and Bern, Switzerland?
You can take a train from Dessau Hbf to Bern via Leipzig Hbf, Frankfurt, and Basel SBB in around 9h 52m. Alternatively, you can take a train from Dessau Hbf to Bern via Bitterfeld, Bitterfeld, Bahnhof, Halle(Saale)Hbf, Halle, and Nuremberg central bus station in around 15h 2m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–260
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–190
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–260
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–260
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–300
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–300
Flights from Dresden Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–340
Flights from Dresden Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–340
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–140
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Geneva International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–280
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Geneva International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 48m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–280
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–110
Flights from Dresden Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–190
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–140
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Geneva International Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–140
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–100
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–130
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–120
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–110
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Cologne Bonn
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Wednesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–110
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–110
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Zurich Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–390
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Zurich Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–550
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Basel via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–310
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Dessau Hbf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 11–16
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dessau Hbf to Leipzig Messe
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 10–15
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Lutherstadt Wittenberg Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 15–21
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 17–25
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Dessau Hbf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 23–26
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Bitterfeld to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 18m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–110
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Lutherstadt Wittenberg Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Frankfurt to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–180
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 24–45
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich Flughafen to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–60
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Genève-Aéroport to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–65
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +43 51717
- Website
- nightjet.com
Night train from Bitterfeld to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 53m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–245
- Website
- https://www.nightjet.com/en/#/home
- Sleeper Carriage
- CHF 235–245
- Couchette Carriage
- CHF 130–160
- Seating Carriage
- CHF 55–70
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Bitterfeld to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 18m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–200
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Göttingen to München Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 59m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–110
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 25–35
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +49 30 311682904
- Website
- bahn.com
Bus from Bitterfeld, Bahnhof to Halle(Saale)Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 6–8
- Website
- https://www.bahn.com/en
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Halle to Nuremberg central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 24–50
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 24–40
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
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