There are 12 ways to get from Edinburgh to Gera by plane, train, train (Eurostar), bus, car, car train, or car ferry
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly Edinburgh Airport to Leipzig-Halle Airport, train
best- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ)plane EDI - LEJ
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Gera Hbftrain
8h 49mBus
cheapest- Take the bus from Edinburgh, Bus Station to London Victoriabus
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhofbus
- Take the bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Gera central train stationbus 052
32h 55m€94–314Train via Frankfurt am Main
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Crosstrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Miditrain Eil
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Frankfurt(Main)Hbftrain Ice
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Erfurt Hbftrain 50 / ...
- Take the train from Erfurt Hbf to Gera Hbftrain Re3 / ...
15h 25m€212–629Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Edinburgh to Folkestonecar
- Take the car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthuncartrain
- Drive from Calais-Fréthun to Geracar
16h 17mFly Edinburgh Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, train
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)plane EDI - BER
- Take the train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Leipzig Hbftrain
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Gera Hbftrain
8h 13mFly Edinburgh Airport to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane EDI - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Erfurt Hbftrain
- Take the train from Erfurt Hbf to Gera Hbftrain
8h 57m€139–356Fly Edinburgh Airport to Dresden Airport, train
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Dresden Airport (DRS)plane EDI - DRS
- Take the train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbftrain
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Gera Hbftrain
10h 3mFly Edinburgh Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague, bus, train
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)plane EDI - PRG
- Take the bus from Prague to Chemnitz central bus stationbus
- Take the train from Glauchau, Bahnhof to Gera Hbftrain
10h 39m€96–252Train to Glasgow Airport, fly to Václav Havel Airport Prague, bus, train
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Streettrain
- Fly from Glasgow Airport (GLA) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)plane GLA - PRG
- Take the bus from Prague to Chemnitz central bus stationbus
- Take the train from Glauchau, Bahnhof to Gera Hbftrain
11h 34m€115–338Train
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Crosstrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Miditrain Eil
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Koeln Hbftrain Ice
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Gera Hbftrain 51
17h 31m€228–639Train, bus
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Sheffieldtrain
- Take the bus from Sheffield to Plzeň CANbus
- Take the train from Plzen-Jizni Predmesti to Chebtrain Ic / ...
- Take the train from Cheb to Hof Hbftrain Rb
- Take the train from Hof Hbf to Gera Hbftrain Rb
33h 58mDrive, car ferry
- Drive from Edinburgh to Port of Dovercar
- Take the car ferry from Port of Dover to Calaiscarferry
- Drive from Calais to Geracar
17h 24m€280–416
Edinburgh to Gera by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Edinburgh to Gera is to fly and bus and train which costs €95 - €260 and takes 10h 39m.
The fastest way to get from Edinburgh to Gera is to fly and train which takes 8h 57m and costs €130 - €360.
No, there is no direct bus from Edinburgh station to Gera station. However, there are services departing from Edinburgh, Bus Station and arriving at Gera central train station via London Victoria and Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 32h 55m.
No, there is no direct train from Edinburgh to Gera. However, there are services departing from Edinburgh Waverley and arriving at Gera Hbf via London St Pancras Intl, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi, Frankfurt and Erfurt Hbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 15h 25m.
The distance between Edinburgh and Gera is 1244 km.
The best way to get from Edinburgh to Gera without a car is to train via Frankfurt am Main which takes 15h 25m and costs €210 - €650.
It takes approximately 8h 49m to get from Edinburgh to Gera, including transfers.
Edinburgh to Gera bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Edinburgh, Bus Station.
Edinburgh to Gera train services, operated by London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER), depart from Edinburgh Waverley station.
The best way to get from Edinburgh to Gera is to train via Frankfurt am Main which takes 15h 25m and costs €210 - €650. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €90 - €320 and takes 32h 55m.
What companies run services between Edinburgh, Scotland and Gera, Germany?
You can take a train from Edinburgh Waverley to Gera Hbf via London Kings Cross, London St Pancras Intl, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi, Frankfurt(Main)Hbf, Frankfurt, and Erfurt Hbf in around 15h 25m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Edinburgh, Bus Station to Gera central train station via London Victoria and Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof in around 32h 55m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 58m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–290
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–300
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–220
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Dresden Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–290
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Dresden Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €85–370
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–310
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–310
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–290
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–290
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Frankfurt via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €45–270
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–300
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–290
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–180
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €45–180
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–180
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €50–180
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–170
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Bristol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–170
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–170
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–140
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–150
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €120–550
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–220
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Frankfurt via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–230
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €65–240
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €50–160
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €35–160
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–130
- Phone
- +49 37343 808037
- verein@pressnitztalbahn.de
- Website
- pressnitztalbahn.de
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Gera Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- pressnitztalbahn.de
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Gera Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 16m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Schedules at
- pressnitztalbahn.de
Train from Hof Hbf to Gera Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- pressnitztalbahn.de
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €65–130
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €65–270
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €35–95
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Frankfurt(Main)Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €45–140
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Gera Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €28–32
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €23–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Gera Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 38m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €65–150
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Gera Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €16–23
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €19–27
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Glauchau, Bahnhof to Gera Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €11–16
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- info@flixbus.de
- Website
- flixtrain.de
Train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €4–15
- Website
- https://www.flixtrain.com/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €28–40
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +44 344 811 0141
- Website
- scotrail.co.uk
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €20–21
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
- Phone
- 0800 031 8542
- Passengerassistance@lumo.co.uk.
- Website
- lumo.co.uk
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €20–21
- Website
- https://www.lumo.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- enquiry@sleeper.scot
- Website
- sleeper.scot
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €65–90
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- €240–260
- Sleeper Seat
- €65–90
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- €260–300
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Sheffield
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 34m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €40–200
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from Plzen-Jizni Predmesti to Cheb
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €6–14
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
- 2nd Class
- €6–9
- 1st Class
- €10–14
- Business
- €11–12
- Phone
- +49 800 589 28 40
- Website
- agilis.de
Train from Cheb to Hof Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €19–26
- Schedules at
- agilis.de
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Edinburgh, Bus Station to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €23–90
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from London Victoria to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 55m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €60–180
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Gera central train station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €11–45
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Prague to Chemnitz central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €18–55
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +421 55 680 73 06
- onlinepredaj@eurobus.sk
- Website
- eurobus.sk
Bus from Sheffield to Plzeň CAN
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 25m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €65–170
- Website
- https://www.eurobus.sk/en
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €35–45
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
- Car
- €75–190
- On Foot
- €35–45
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More Questions & Answers
Edinburgh to Gera bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at London Victoria station.
Gera is 1h ahead of Edinburgh. It is currently 1:35 AM in Edinburgh and 2:35 AM in Gera.
Edinburgh to Gera train services, operated by London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER), arrive at King's Cross station.
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