There are 12 ways to get from Detmold to Milan by train, plane, bus, night train, car, or car train
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Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Milan Linate Airport
best- Take the train from Bielefeld Hbf to Duesseldorf Flughafentrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)plane DUS - LIN
6h 42m€112–324Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Bad Salzuflen central bus station to Dortmund central bus stationbus N1338
- Take the bus from Dortmund central bus station to Milanbus FlixBus N07
19h 45m€70–126Train
- Take the train from Altenbeken to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehetrain Re
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Frankfurttrain 20 / ...
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Como S. Giovannitrain Ec
- Take the train from Como S.Giovanni to Milano Porta Garibalditrain S11
13h€284–837Train, night train, bus
- Take the train from Altenbeken to Göttingentrain
- Take the night train from Goettingen to Zuerich Hbnighttrain Nj
- Take the bus from Zurich Central Bus Station Sihlquai to Milano, Autostazione Lampugnanobus
18h 10mTrain to Hannover Airport, fly to Milan Linate Airport
- Take the train from Bielefeld Hbf to Hannover Hbftrain
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)plane HAJ - LIN
7h 57m€150–356Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
- Take the train from Bielefeld Hbf to Duesseldorf Flughafentrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)plane DUS - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Milano Porta Garibalditrain
7h 27m€75–257Train, train to Frankfurt, fly to Milan Linate Airport
- Take the train from Altenbeken to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehetrain
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)plane FRA - LIN
7h 20m€103–340Train, train to Frankfurt, fly to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Take the train from Altenbeken to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehetrain
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)plane FRA - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Milano Porta Garibalditrain
7h 59m€131–333Train to Cologne Bonn Airport, fly to Il Caravaggio International Airport
- Take the train from Bielefeld Hbf to Köln Hbftrain
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY)plane CGN - BGY
8h 1m€103–355Train via Basel
- Take the train from Altenbeken to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehetrain Re
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Basel SBBtrain 20 / ...
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luganotrain Ec
- Take the train from Lugano to Milano Centraletrain
13h 11m€146–550Drive 899 km
- Drive from Detmold to Milancar 899 km
8h 35m€138–200Drive, car train
- Drive from Detmold to Göttingencar
- Take the car train from Göttingen to München Ostcartrain
- Drive from München Ost to Milancar
14h 4m€175–242
Detmold to Milan by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Detmold to Milan is to bus which costs €65 - €130 and takes 19h 45m.
The fastest way to get from Detmold to Milan is to train and fly which takes 6h 42m and costs €110 - €330.
No, there is no direct bus from Detmold to Milan. However, there are services departing from Detmold, Klinikum and arriving at Milano, Autostazione Lampugnano via Lemgo, Bahnhof, Bad Salzuflen central bus station, Dortmund central bus station and via omodeo via cechov. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 19h 45m.
No, there is no direct train from Detmold to Milan. However, there are services departing from Detmold, Bahnhof and arriving at Milano Porta Garibaldi via Altenbeken, Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe, Frankfurt and Como S.Giovanni. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 13h.
The distance between Detmold and Milan is 878 km. The road distance is 899 km.
The best way to get from Detmold to Milan without a car is to train which takes 13h and costs €280 - €850.
It takes approximately 6h 42m to get from Detmold to Milan, including transfers.
Detmold to Milan bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Bad Salzuflen central bus station.
Detmold to Milan train services, operated by National Express, depart from Altenbeken station.
The best way to get from Detmold to Milan is to train which takes 13h and costs €280 - €850. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €65 - €130 and takes 19h 45m.
What companies run services between Detmold, Germany and Milan, Italy?
You can take a train from Detmold, Bahnhof to Milano Porta Garibaldi via Altenbeken, Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe, Frankfurt, and Como S.Giovanni in around 13h. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Detmold, Klinikum to Milano, Autostazione Lampugnano via Lemgo, Bahnhof, Bad Salzuflen central bus station, Dortmund central bus station, Milan, and via omodeo via cechov in around 19h 45m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–600
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–600
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–380
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–320
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Tuesday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- €80–340
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–420
Flights from Frankfurt to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–460
Flights from Frankfurt to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–290
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–210
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–170
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–200
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–600
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €95–600
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–320
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €90–320
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–270
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–330
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–310
Flights from Frankfurt to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–460
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–210
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–330
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 33m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–420
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Frankfurt to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–460
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–170
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–200
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €40–180
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 38m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–430
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €30–130
Flights from Frankfurt to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–160
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–310
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–310
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–210
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–160
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–450
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Bielefeld Hbf to Duesseldorf Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Altenbeken to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Bielefeld Hbf to Duesseldorf Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Altenbeken to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €16–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 26m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Bielefeld Hbf to Hannover Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Bielefeld Hbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 6m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €40–95
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 33m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €95–230
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Frankfurt to Como S. Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 2m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €220–650
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Como S.Giovanni to Milano Porta Garibaldi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €17–50
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €90–260
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Como S.Giovanni to Milano Porta Garibaldi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Milano Porta Garibaldi
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Lugano to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €6–8
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- 01806 / 600161
- dialog@nordwestbahn.de
- Website
- nordwestbahn.de
Train from Altenbeken to Göttingen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–120
- Website
- https://www.nordwestbahn.de/
- Phone
- +43 51717
- Website
- nightjet.com
Night train from Goettingen to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 33m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–120
- Website
- https://www.nightjet.com/en/#/home
- Sleeper Carriage
- €100–120
- Couchette Carriage
- €70–80
- Seating Carriage
- €35–50
- 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
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Göttingen to München Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 9m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €95–120
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Bad Salzuflen central bus station to Dortmund central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €8–15
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Dortmund central bus station to Milan
- Ave. Duration
- 14h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €60–110
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
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More Questions & Answers
Detmold to Milan bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Dortmund central bus station.
Detmold to Milan train services, operated by National Express, arrive at Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe station.
Yes, the driving distance between Detmold to Milan is 899 km. It takes approximately 8h 35m to drive from Detmold to Milan.
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