There are 10 ways to get from Dresden to Modena by plane, bus, train (Trenitalia), train, night train, or car
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Fly Dresden Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
best- Fly from Dresden Airport (DRS) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane DRS - BLQ
5h 59m€128–446Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Dresden central station to Praha, ÚAN Florencbus N60 / ...
- Take the bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Bologna Centralebus N538 / ...
17h 2m€91–210Bus via Munich
- Take the bus from Dresden to München, ZOBbus Ivano-Frankivsk
- Take the bus from München Hackerbrücke to Modenabus Catania– Dortmund
11h 14mTrain
- Take the train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbftrain 50 / ...
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Kufsteintrain 91
- Take the train from Kufstein to Brennero - Brennertrain 89
- Take the train from Brennero - Brenner to Bolzano Bozentrain Re
- Take the train from Bolzano Bozen to Bologna Centraletrain Fr
15h 3m€182–774Train, night train
- Take the train from Dresden Hbf to Hof Hbftrain Re
- Take the train from Hof Hbf to München Hbftrain Re2
- Take the nighttrain from Muenchen Hbf to Bologna Centralenighttrain Nj
19h 33m€154–356Bus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Take the bus from Dresden to Praha Hlavní nádražíbus
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane PRG - BLQ
6h 31mFly Dresden Airport to Florence Peretola Airport, train
- Fly from Dresden Airport (DRS) to Florence Peretola Airport (FLR)plane DRS - FLR
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centraletrain
7h 49m€159–499Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Take the train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Flughafen BERtrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane BER - BLQ
6h 5m€94–398Fly Dresden Airport to Verona Villafranca Airport, train
- Fly from Dresden Airport (DRS) to Verona Villafranca Airport (VRN)plane DRS - VRN
- Take the train from Verona Porta Nuova to Bologna Centraletrain
8h 7m€166–409Drive 956.1 km
- Drive from Dresden to Modenacar 956.1 km
8h 56m€149–214
Dresden to Modena by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Dresden to Modena is to bus which costs €90 - €210 and takes 17h 2m.
The fastest way to get from Dresden to Modena is to fly which takes 5h 59m and costs €120 - €450.
No, there is no direct bus from Dresden to Modena. However, there are services departing from Dresden and arriving at Modena via München Hackerbrücke. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 11h 14m.
No, there is no direct train from Dresden to Modena. However, there are services departing from Dresden Hauptbahnhof and arriving at Modena via Leipzig Hbf, Kufstein, Brennero - Brenner, Bolzano Bozen and Bologna Centrale. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 15h 3m.
The distance between Dresden and Modena is 813 km. The road distance is 956.1 km.
The best way to get from Dresden to Modena without a car is to bus via Munich which takes 11h 14m and costs .
It takes approximately 5h 59m to get from Dresden to Modena, including transfers.
Dresden to Modena bus services, operated by GrandBus, depart from Dresden station.
Dresden to Modena train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Dresden Hauptbahnhof station.
The best way to get from Dresden to Modena is to fly which takes 5h 59m and costs €120 - €450. Alternatively, you can bus via Munich, which costs and takes 11h 14m, you could also train, which costs €180 - €800 and takes 15h 3m.
What companies run services between Dresden, Germany and Modena, Italy?
Lufthansa, Air Dolomiti, and three other airlines fly from Dresden Airport (DRS) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ) 5 times a day. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Dresden to Modena via Munich, Central Bus Station (Zob) and München Hackerbrücke in around 11h 14m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Dresden Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €190–700
Flights from Dresden Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–750
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–440
Flights from Dresden Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–950
Flights from Dresden Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–900
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 58m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–550
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–230
Flights from Dresden Airport to Verona Villafranca Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €240–900
Flights from Dresden Airport to Verona Villafranca Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–290
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Dresden Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €120–420
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–280
Flights from Dresden Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Monday and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €150–550
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €90–300
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Dresden Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €150–1,000
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–160
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–190
Flights from Dresden Airport to Verona Villafranca Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 5m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €180–1,300
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €75–210
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €21–95
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Kufstein
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 16m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €100–470
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Flughafen BER
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 24m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €29–130
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 48m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €29–50
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Hof Hbf to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 36m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €75–130
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
- Phone
- +43 (0) 51717
- Website
- Nightjet
Train from Kufstein to Brennero - Brenner
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 29m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €17–90
- Website
- Nightjet
- Sleeper Carriage
- €75–90
- Couchette Carriage
- €50–60
- Seating Carriage
- €17–21
Night train from Muenchen Hbf to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 42m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €35–110
- Website
- Nightjet
- Sleeper Carriage
- €100–110
- Couchette Carriage
- €65–80
- Seating Carriage
- €35–45
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Brennero - Brenner to Bolzano Bozen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €11–18
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Bolzano Bozen to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €11–19
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Verona Porta Nuova to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €14–24
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- _AUSTRIAN_RAILWAYS_(ÖBB)
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Brennero - Brenner to Bolzano Bozen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €18–35
- Website
- Austrian Railways
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Bolzano Bozen to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 32m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €35–75
- Schedules at
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €13–27
- Schedules at
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Verona Porta Nuova to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €17–35
- Schedules at
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Bolzano Bozen to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 32m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €30–65
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 45 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €11–23
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Verona Porta Nuova to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €14–29
- Website
- Italo Treno
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Bolzano Bozen to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 46m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €28–60
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €9–20
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Verona Porta Nuova to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €12–26
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
- Phone
- +49 30 200 73-0
- kommunikation@transdev.de
- Website
- Transdev GmbH
Train from Dresden Hbf to Hof Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 39m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €40–60
- Schedules at
- Transdev GmbH
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- ufficiogruppi@trenitalia.it
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €27–70
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
- 1st Class
- €45–70
- 2nd Class
- €27–40
- Phone
- +38 098-888-11-08
- igoruzhanskyi@grandbus.com.ua
- Website
- Grand Bus
Bus from Dresden to München, ZOB
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 3m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- Grand Bus
Bus from Dresden to Praha Hlavní nádraží
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- Grand Bus
- Phone
- +39 0362 185 0590
- info@onebus.it
- Website
- Onebus
Bus from München Hackerbrücke to Modena
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 11m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Website
- Onebus
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Dresden central station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €12–20
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 35m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €75–130
- Website
- Flixbus
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Dresden to Modena bus services, operated by GrandBus, arrive at München, ZOB station.
Dresden to Modena train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Leipzig Hbf station.
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