There are 13 ways to get from Dresden to Cardiff by train, plane, train (Eurostar), bus, car, car train, night train, or car ferry
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Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Bristol Airport, train
best- Take the train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Flughafen BER
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Bristol Airport (BRS)BER - BRS
- Take the train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
7h 22m£75–225Bus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly to Bristol Airport, train
cheapest- Take the bus from Dresden central station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Bristol Airport (BRS)PRG - BRS
- Take the train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
9h 14m£53–185Train
- Take the train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to S Südkreuz Bhf27 / ...
- Take the train from Berlin Südkreuz to Amsterdam CentraalIce
- Take the train from Amsterdam Centraal to London St. Pancras Int.
- Take the train from London Paddington to Cardiff Central
16h 15m£198–785Bus
- Take the bus from Dresden central station to Berlin Südkreuz train station060 / ...
- Take the bus from Berlin Südkreuz train station to London Victoria
- Take the bus from London Victoria to University RE507 / ...
27h 1m£80–200Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Dresden to Calais-Fréthun
- Take the car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestone
- Drive from Folkestone to Cardiff
13h 17mBus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly to Cardiff Airport
- Take the bus from Dresden central station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Cardiff Airport (CWL)PRG - CWL
11h 33m£84–248Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to London Heathrow Airport, train
- Take the train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Flughafen BER
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to London Heathrow Airport (LHR)BER - LHR
- Take the train from London Paddington to Cardiff Central
8h 22m£137–388Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to London Stansted Airport, train
- Take the train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Flughafen BER
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to London Stansted Airport (STN)BER - STN
- Take the train from London Paddington to Cardiff Central
9h 7m£127–336Bus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly to Birmingham Airport, train
- Take the bus from Dresden central station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Birmingham Airport (BHX)PRG - BHX
- Take the train from Birmingham New Street to Cardiff Central
10h 50m£88–268Fly Dresden Airport to Bristol Airport, train
- Fly from Dresden Airport (DRS) to Bristol Airport (BRS)DRS - BRS
- Take the train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
8h 20m£69–283Train, night train
- Take the train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Hannover Hauptbahnhof55 / ...
- Take the night train from Hannover Hbf to Amsterdam CentraalNj
- Take the train from Amsterdam Centraal to London St. Pancras Int.
- Take the train from London Paddington to Cardiff Central
17h 32m£161–752Bus, train
- Take the bus from Dresden central station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc082 / ...
- Take the bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Birmingham
- Take the train from Birmingham New Street to Cardiff Central
28h 13m£76–182Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Dresden to Calais
- Take the car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Drive from Port of Dover to Cardiff
14h 21m£209–299
Dresden to Cardiff by train and subway
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Dresden to Cardiff is to bus and fly and train which costs £50 - £190 and takes 9h 14m.
The fastest way to get from Dresden to Cardiff is to train and fly which takes 7h 22m and costs £75 - £230.
No, there is no direct bus from Dresden station to Cardiff. However, there are services departing from Dresden central station and arriving at University RE via Berlin Südkreuz train station and London Victoria. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 27h 1m.
No, there is no direct train from Dresden to Cardiff. However, there are services departing from Dresden Hauptbahnhof and arriving at Cardiff Central via Berlin Südkreuz, Amsterdam Centraal, King's Cross St. Pancras station and London Paddington. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 16h 15m.
The distance between Dresden and Cardiff is 849 miles.
The best way to get from Dresden to Cardiff without a car is to train which takes 16h 15m and costs £190 - £800.
It takes approximately 7h 22m to get from Dresden to Cardiff, including transfers.
Dresden to Cardiff bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Dresden central station.
Dresden to Cardiff train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Dresden Hauptbahnhof station.
The best way to get from Dresden to Cardiff is to train which takes 16h 15m and costs £190 - £800. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs £80 - £200 and takes 27h 1m.
What companies run services between Dresden, Germany and Cardiff, Wales?
You can take a train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Cardiff Central via Berlin Südkreuz, Amsterdam Centraal, London St. Pancras Int., King's Cross St. Pancras station, Paddington, and London Paddington in around 16h 15m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Dresden central station to University RE via Berlin Südkreuz train station and London Victoria in around 27h 1m.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £30–120
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Cardiff Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 8m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £60–290
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Cardiff Airport via Alicante–Elche
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £90–280
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London Stansted Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £35–140
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Birmingham Airport via Beauvais
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £60–120
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bristol Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £40–230
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bristol Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £40–220
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Cardiff Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £65–350
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 46m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £40–250
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Birmingham Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £40–220
Flights from Dresden Airport to Bristol Airport via Frankfurt, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £65–360
Flights from Dresden Airport to Bristol Airport via Dusseldorf, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 5m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £65–350
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £50–140
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bristol Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 41m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £50–140
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £45–130
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bristol Airport via Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £45–130
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bristol Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday to Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £45–130
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bristol Airport via Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £45–130
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Birmingham Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £35–100
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Birmingham Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £35–100
Flights from Dresden Airport to Bristol Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £55–250
Flights from Dresden Airport to Bristol Airport via Frankfurt, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 8h
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–250
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £65–140
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £65–130
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Birmingham Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £55–130
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £80–250
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Birmingham Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £40–230
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £80–240
- Website
- loganair.co.uk
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Cardiff Airport via Edinburgh
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £65–240
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £100–140
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London Stansted Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Monday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £50–95
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Flughafen BER
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £17–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £15–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Hannover Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £24–90
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 3457 000 125
- gwr.feedback@gwr.com
- Website
- gwr.com
Train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- £18–24
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from London Paddington to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £45–110
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £8–24
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Birmingham New Street to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £25–90
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £35–55
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Berlin Südkreuz to Amsterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £80–300
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- £80–130
- 1st Class
- £170–300
Train from Amsterdam Centraal to London St. Pancras Int.
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- £85–270
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Amsterdam Centraal to London St. Pancras Int.
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- £55–320
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestone
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Phone
- +43 51717
- Website
- nightjet.com
Night train from Hannover Hbf to Amsterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- £35–227
- Website
- https://www.nightjet.com/en/#/home
- Sleeper Carriage
- £226–227
- Couchette Carriage
- £110–140
- Seating Carriage
- £35–45
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Dresden central station to Berlin Südkreuz train station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- £14–20
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Berlin Südkreuz train station to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- £55–140
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Dresden central station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £12–40
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.com
Bus from Dresden central station to Berlin Südkreuz train station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £6–18
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
Bus from Dresden central station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £8–12
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
- Phone
- 08717 81 81 81
- Website
- nationalexpress.com
Bus from London Victoria to University RE
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £18–40
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
- Phone
- 07001 8282
- booking@union-ivkoni.com
- Website
- union-ivkoni.com
Bus from Dresden central station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- £6–9
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
- Phone
- +421 55 680 73 06
- onlinepredaj@eurobus.sk
- Website
- eurobus.sk
Bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 1m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- £45–55
- Website
- https://www.eurobus.sk/en
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £30–40
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
- Car
- £65–170
- On Foot
- £30–40
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More Questions & Answers
Dresden to Cardiff bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Berlin Südkreuz train station.
Cardiff is 1h behind Dresden. It is currently 3:24 PM in Dresden and 2:24 PM in Cardiff.
Dresden to Cardiff train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at S Südkreuz Bhf station.
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