There are 11 ways to get from Dresden to Edinburgh by plane, train, bus, car, car train, or car ferry
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Fly Dresden Airport to Edinburgh Airport
best- Fly from Dresden Airport (DRS) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane DRS - EDI
7h 7m£99–365Train
- Take the train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurttrain 50
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Bruxelles Miditrain 79
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intltrain Eil
- Take the train from King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
15h 59mBus, train
- Take the bus from Dresden Bayrische Strasse to Praha, ÚAN Florencbus
- Take the bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Sheffieldbus
- Take the train from Sheffield to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
31h 41mDrive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Dresden to Calais-Fréthuncar
- Take the car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestonecartrain
- Drive from Folkestone to Edinburghcar
17h 27mTrain to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Edinburgh Airport
- Take the train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Flughafen BERtrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane BER - EDI
6h 24mBus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly to Edinburgh Airport
- Take the bus from Dresden to Praha Hlavní nádražíbus
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane PRG - EDI
7h 4mFly Dresden Airport to Glasgow Airport, train
- Fly from Dresden Airport (DRS) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)plane DRS - GLA
- Take the train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
10h 22mTrain to Leipzig-Halle Airport, fly to Edinburgh Airport
- Take the train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbftrain
- Fly from Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane LEJ - EDI
9h 28mBus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly to Glasgow Airport, train
- Take the bus from Dresden to Praha Hlavní nádražíbus
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)plane PRG - GLA
- Take the train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
8h 8mBus
- Take the bus from Dresden central station to Berlin Südkreuz train stationbus 060 / ...
- Take the bus from Berlin Südkreuz train station to London Victoriabus
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Edinburgh, Bus Stationbus
31h 55mDrive, car ferry
- Drive from Dresden to Rotterdamcar
- Take the car ferry from Rotterdam to Hullcarferry
- Drive from Hull to Edinburghcar
23h 5m£239–422
Dresden Airport (DRS) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Dresden to Edinburgh is to fly which costs £95 - £370 and takes 7h 7m.
The fastest way to get from Dresden to Edinburgh is to fly which takes 7h 7m and costs £95 - £370.
No, there is no direct bus from Dresden station to Edinburgh station. However, there are services departing from Dresden central station and arriving at Edinburgh, Bus Station via Berlin Südkreuz train station and London Victoria. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 31h 55m.
No, there is no direct train from Dresden to Edinburgh. However, there are services departing from Dresden Hauptbahnhof and arriving at Edinburgh Waverley via Frankfurt, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi and King's Cross. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 15h 59m.
The distance between Dresden and Edinburgh is 796 miles.
The best way to get from Dresden to Edinburgh without a car is to train which takes 15h 59m and costs .
It takes approximately 7h 7m to get from Dresden to Edinburgh, including transfers.
Dresden to Edinburgh bus services, operated by FlixBus-eu, depart from Dresden central station.
Dresden to Edinburgh train services, operated by DB Fernverkehr AG, depart from Dresden Hauptbahnhof station.
The best way to get from Dresden to Edinburgh is to fly which takes 7h 7m and costs £95 - £370. Alternatively, you can train, which costs and takes 15h 59m, you could also bus, which costs and takes 31h 55m.
What companies run services between Dresden, Germany and Edinburgh, Scotland?
Eurowings, Lufthansa, and Ryanair fly from Dresden Airport (DRS) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) every 4 hours. Alternatively, you can take a train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Edinburgh Waverley via Frankfurt, Bruxelles Midi, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi, London St Pancras Intl, and King's Cross in around 15h 59m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Dresden Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £90–290
Flights from Dresden Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £90–290
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £65–270
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £60–250
Flights from Dresden Airport to Glasgow Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £130–330
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £120–250
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Glasgow Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £60–260
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £40–240
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £40–240
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 18m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £45–240
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–140
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £45–150
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £45–150
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Glasgow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £50–150
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £50–150
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Glasgow Airport via Belfast (Aldergrove)
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- £50–150
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via London City
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £55–260
Flights from Dresden Airport to Glasgow Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £120–650
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Dresden Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £130–210
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £90–140
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Edinburgh Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 12m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £50–190
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Dresden Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £140–390
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £45–120
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £45–120
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 55m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £100–240
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £45–130
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Glasgow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £30–120
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- £50–200
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £60–230
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Dresden Airport to Glasgow Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £270–650
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 40m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £90–250
- Website
- delfi.de
Train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 26m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Schedules at
- delfi.de
Train from Frankfurt to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- delfi.de
Train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Flughafen BER
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- delfi.de
Train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- delfi.de
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intl
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Schedules at
- eurostar.com
- Website
- virgintrainseastcoast.com
Train from King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- virgintrainseastcoast.com
- Website
- crosscountrytrains.co.uk
Train from Sheffield to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 48m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- crosscountrytrains.co.uk
- 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
- Website
- scotrail.co.uk
Train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Schedules at
- scotrail.co.uk
- Website
- global.flixbus.com
Bus from Dresden Bayrische Strasse to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- global.flixbus.com
Bus from Dresden central station to Berlin Südkreuz train station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- global.flixbus.com
Bus from Berlin Südkreuz train station to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Schedules at
- global.flixbus.com
Bus from London Victoria to Edinburgh, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 16m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Schedules at
- global.flixbus.com
- Phone
- +421 55 680 73 06
- onlinepredaj@eurobus.sk
- Website
- eurobus.sk
Bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Sheffield
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 58m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- £60–160
- Website
- https://www.eurobus.sk/en
- Phone
- +38 098-888-11-08
- igoruzhanskyi@grandbus.com.ua
- Website
- grandbus.com.ua
Bus from Dresden to Praha Hlavní nádraží
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.grandbus.com.ua/en
- Website
- traveline.info
Bus from London Victoria to Edinburgh, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 16m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Schedules at
- traveline.info
- Website
- traveline.info
Bus from London Victoria to Edinburgh, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Schedules at
- traveline.info
- Phone
- 01304 44 88 88
- customer.services@poferries.com
- Website
- poferries.com
Car ferry from Rotterdam to Hull
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £70–170
- Website
- https://www.poferries.com/en
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Dresden to Edinburgh bus services, operated by FlixBus-eu, arrive at Berlin Südkreuz train station.
Edinburgh is 1h behind Dresden. It is currently 11:04 PM in Dresden and 10:04 PM in Edinburgh.
Dresden to Edinburgh train services, operated by DB Fernverkehr AG, arrive at Frankfurt station.
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