There are 10 ways to get from Dortmund to Modena by train, plane, train (Trenitalia), bus, night train, car, or car train
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Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
best- Take the train from Dortmund Hbf to D-Flughafen Bftrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane DUS - BLQ
5h 35m€83–330Train to Cologne Bonn Airport, fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
cheapest- Take the train from Dortmund Hbf to Köln Hbftrain
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane CGN - BLQ
6h 13m€63–300Train
- Take the train from Dortmund Hbf to Basel SBBtrain 43
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luganotrain Ec
- Take the train from Lugano to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Modenatrain Ic
14h 8m€176–722Bus
- Take the bus from Dortmund central bus station to Bologna Centralebus N537
- Take the bus from Bologna - Autostazione to Modena - Autostazionebus
19h 40m€87–143Train, night train
- Take the train from Dortmund Hbf to Hauptbahnhoftrain 47 / ...
- Take the night train from Stuttgart Hbf to Verona Porta Nuovanighttrain Nj
- Take the train from Verona Porta Nuova to S. Felice Sul Panarotrain Re
20h 52m€142–398Train to Frankfurt, fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Take the train from Dortmund Hbf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane FRA - BLQ
6h 49m€152–452Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Milan Linate Airport, train
- Take the train from Dortmund Hbf to D-Flughafen Bftrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)plane DUS - LIN
- Take the train from Milano Rogoredo to Modenatrain
7h 58m€110–375Train, bus
- Take the train from Dortmund Hbf to Koeln Messe/Deutztrain Re
- Take the train from Köln Messe/Deutz to Zürich HBtrain
- Take the bus from Zürich to Modena Casello A1 Nord Viale Virgiliobus
21h 11mDrive 1,051.3 km
- Drive from Dortmund to Modenacar 1,051.3 km
9h 49m€167–241Drive, car train
- Drive from Dortmund to Fuldacar
- Take the car train from Fulda to Salzburg Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Salzburg Hbf to Modenacar
14h 10m€212–303
Dortmund to Modena by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Dortmund to Modena is to bus which costs €85 - €150 and takes 19h 40m.
The fastest way to get from Dortmund to Modena is to train and fly which takes 5h 35m and costs €80 - €330.
No, there is no direct bus from Dortmund station to Modena. However, there are services departing from Dortmund central bus station and arriving at Modena - Autostazione via Bologna - Autostazione. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 19h 40m.
No, there is no direct train from Dortmund to Modena. However, there are services departing from Dortmund Hbf and arriving at Modena via Basel SBB, Lugano and Milano Centrale. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 14h 8m.
The distance between Dortmund and Modena is 935 km. The road distance is 1051.3 km.
The best way to get from Dortmund to Modena without a car is to train which takes 14h 8m and costs €170 - €750.
It takes approximately 5h 35m to get from Dortmund to Modena, including transfers.
Dortmund to Modena bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Dortmund central bus station.
Dortmund to Modena train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Dortmund Hbf station.
The best way to get from Dortmund to Modena is to train which takes 14h 8m and costs €170 - €750. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €85 - €150 and takes 19h 40m.
What companies run services between Dortmund, Germany and Modena, Italy?
You can take a train from Dortmund Hbf to Modena via Basel SBB, Lugano, and Milano Centrale in around 14h 8m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Dortmund central bus station to Modena - Autostazione via Bologna - Autostazione in around 19h 40m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Tuesday to Monday
- Estimated price
- €95–380
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–380
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–360
Flights from Frankfurt to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–600
Flights from Frankfurt to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €140–600
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–650
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €140–650
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €95–350
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–180
Flights from Frankfurt to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–600
Flights from Frankfurt to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €140–600
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–220
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €140–650
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €140–650
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–320
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–340
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–180
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–180
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–220
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 47m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €95–350
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €45–180
Flights from Frankfurt to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–340
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Frankfurt to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €130–600
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €40–160
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Dortmund Hbf to D-Flughafen Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €12–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €100–320
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 24m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €85–250
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €17–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €45–150
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Dortmund Hbf to D-Flughafen Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 43m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Koeln Messe/Deutz
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 53m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- 0180 6 9 27 37 27
- info@eurobahn.de
- Website
- eurobahn.de
Train from Dortmund Hbf to D-Flughafen Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €14–20
- Website
- https://www.eurobahn.de/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Dortmund Hbf to D-Flughafen Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €13–21
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +31 85 004 3110
- Website
- traincharter.eu
Train from Dortmund Hbf to D-Flughafen Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Website
- https://traincharter.eu/
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €90–270
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Lugano to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €28–80
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 7531 915109
- info@sbb-deutschland.de
- Website
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 22m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €20–25
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Milano Centrale to Modena
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 9m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €19–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Milano Rogoredo to Modena
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €18–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Milano Centrale to Modena
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €27–55
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Milano Rogoredo to Modena
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €25–50
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +43 (0) 51717
- Website
- nightjet.com
Night train from Stuttgart Hbf to Verona Porta Nuova
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 32m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €45–130
- Website
- https://www.nightjet.com/en/#/home
- Sleeper Carriage
- €100–130
- Couchette Carriage
- €75–90
- Seating Carriage
- €45–60
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Verona Porta Nuova to S. Felice Sul Panaro
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €9–15
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- ufficiogruppi@trenitalia.it
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Milano Rogoredo to Modena
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40–90
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- €60–90
- 2nd Class
- €40–60
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Köln Messe/Deutz to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €70–160
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Fulda to Salzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 16m
- 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 Dortmund central bus station to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 10m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €85–140
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +39081/969167
- servizioclienti@leonettiroma.it
- Website
- leonettiroma.it
Bus from Bologna - Autostazione to Modena - Autostazione
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €2–4
- Website
- https://www.leonettiroma.it/
- Phone
- +39 0827 34 117
- info@gruppodimaio.it
- Website
- gruppodimaio.it
Bus from Zürich to Modena Casello A1 Nord Viale Virgilio
- Ave. Duration
- 8h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €35–55
- Schedules at
- gruppodimaio.it
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Dortmund to Modena bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Bologna Centrale station.
Dortmund to Modena train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Basel SBB station.
Yes, the driving distance between Dortmund to Modena is 1051 km. It takes approximately 9h 49m to drive from Dortmund to Modena.
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