There are 7 ways to get from Europe to Melbourne by train, plane, or bus
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Train to Frankfurt, fly to Melbourne Airport
best- Take the train from Bad Hersfeld Bahnhof to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane FRA - MEL
26h 40m$682–2,454Train to Leipzig-Halle Airport, fly to Melbourne Airport
- Take the train from Eisenach Hbf to Leipzig Hbftrain
- Fly from Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane LEJ - MEL
31h 27m$1,088–4,361Train, train to Munich International Airport, fly to Melbourne Airport
- Take the train from Bebra Bahnhof to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to München Hbftrain
- Fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane MUC - MEL
29h 6m$881–2,849Train, train to Hannover Airport, fly to Melbourne Airport
- Take the train from Eschwege-Niederhone Bahnhof to Göttingentrain
- Take the train from Göttingen to Hannover Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane HAJ - MEL
30h 50mTrain, train to Paderborn Lippstadt Airport, fly to Melbourne Airport
- Take the train from Bebra Bahnhof to Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhetrain
- Take the train from Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe to Paderborn Hbftrain
- Fly from Paderborn Lippstadt Airport (PAD) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane PAD - MEL
32h 53m$1,675–7,641Train, train to Nuremberg Airport, fly to Melbourne Airport
- Take the train from Bebra Bahnhof to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Nürnberg Hbftrain
- Fly from Nuremberg Airport (NUE) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane NUE - MEL
32h 38m$1,018–3,810Train to Frankfurt, fly to Avalon Airport, bus
- Take the train from Bad Hersfeld Bahnhof to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Avalon Airport (AVV)plane FRA - AVV
- Take the bus from Avalon Airport/Outside Terminal to Skybus Coach Terminalbus
31h 24m$1,482–6,654
Frankfurt (FRA) to Melbourne Airport (MEL) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Europe to Melbourne is to train and fly which costs $650 - $2,500 and takes 26h 40m.
The fastest way to get from Europe to Melbourne is to train and fly which takes 26h 40m and costs $650 - $2,500.
The distance between Europe and Melbourne is 16519 km.
It takes approximately 26h 40m to get from Europe to Melbourne, including transfers.
Melbourne is 8h ahead of Europe. It is currently 12:56 AM in Europe and 8:56 AM in Melbourne.
There are 3576+ hotels available in Melbourne.
What companies run services between Europe and Melbourne, VIC, Australia?
There is no direct connection from Europe to Melbourne. However, you can take the line 315 bus to Bebra Bahnhof, walk to Bebra Bahnhof, take the train to Bad Hersfeld Bahnhof, take the train to Frankfurt, take the train to Frankfurt, walk to Frankfurt (FRA) airport, fly to Melbourne Airport (MEL), walk to Melbourne Airport T1 Skybus/Arrival Dr, then take the bus to Skybus Coach Terminal. Alternatively, you can take the line 250 bus to Herleshausen Bahnhof, walk to Herleshausen Bahnhof, take the train to Eisenach Hbf, take the train to Leipzig Hbf, take the train to Leipzig/Halle Flughafen, walk to Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ) airport, fly to Melbourne Airport (MEL), walk to Melbourne Airport T1 Skybus/Arrival Dr, then take the bus to Skybus Coach Terminal.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Melbourne Airport via Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $800–4,900
Flights from Munich International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $800–5,500
Flights from Munich International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $950–4,200
Flights from Munich International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $900–4,100
Flights from Paderborn Lippstadt Airport to Melbourne Airport via Munich International Airport, Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,400–9,000
Flights from Paderborn Lippstadt Airport to Melbourne Airport via Munich International Airport, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,600–7,500
- Website
- singaporeair.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Melbourne Airport via Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $800–4,900
Flights from Frankfurt to Melbourne Airport via Singapore Changi, Adelaide
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 25m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $800–4,900
Flights from Munich International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $800–5,500
Flights from Paderborn Lippstadt Airport to Melbourne Airport via Munich International Airport, Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,400–9,000
Flights from Paderborn Lippstadt Airport to Melbourne Airport via Munich International Airport, Singapore Changi, Adelaide
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 35m
- When
- Wednesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $1,400–9,000
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Melbourne Airport via Istanbul, Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 47m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,000–4,300
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Melbourne Airport via Istanbul, Soekarno–Hatta
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,000–4,200
Flights from Hannover Airport to Melbourne Airport via Istanbul, Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $950–3,800
Flights from Hannover Airport to Melbourne Airport via Istanbul, Soekarno–Hatta
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 10m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $950–3,800
- Website
- qantas.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Melbourne Airport via Istanbul, Soekarno–Hatta
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $950–3,800
Flights from Frankfurt to Avalon Airport via Suvarnabhumi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,600–5,500
Flights from Frankfurt to Avalon Airport via Singapore Changi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,200–8,000
- Website
- thaiairways.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Melbourne Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,500
Flights from Munich International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,700
Flights from Paderborn Lippstadt Airport to Melbourne Airport via Munich International Airport, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,900–6,500
- Website
- malindoair.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Melbourne Airport via Istanbul, Ngurah Rai
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 50m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $1,000–4,300
Flights from Hannover Airport to Melbourne Airport via Istanbul, Ngurah Rai
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 35m
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $950–3,800
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Melbourne Airport via Istanbul, Ngurah Rai
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $900–3,600
- Website
- jetstar.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Avalon Airport via Suvarnabhumi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,600–5,500
Flights from Frankfurt to Avalon Airport via Singapore Changi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,200–8,000
- Website
- airasiax.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Melbourne Airport via Kuala Lumpur
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $900–4,000
Flights from Hannover Airport to Melbourne Airport via Sabiha Gokcen, Kuala Lumpur
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $850–2,700
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Melbourne Airport via Vienna, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 28h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,200–4,100
- Website
- cathaypacific.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $850–3,200
- Website
- vietnamairlines.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Noi Bai International
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 40m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $700–3,400
- Website
- csair.com
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Melbourne Airport via Budapest, Guangzhou Baiyun
- Ave. Duration
- 27h
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $600–4,100
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Bad Hersfeld Bahnhof to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $45–100
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Eisenach Hbf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $50–120
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Fulda Bahnhof to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $110–260
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Göttingen to Hannover Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 33 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $30–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Bebra Bahnhof to Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe
- Ave. Duration
- 39 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $17–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe to Paderborn Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $30–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Fulda Bahnhof to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 29m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $60–140
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Bad Hersfeld Bahnhof to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $65–95
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Bebra Bahnhof to Fulda Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $25–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 561 766396-0
- info@cantus-bahn.de
- Website
- cantus-bahn.de
Train from Bebra Bahnhof to Fulda Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
Train from Eschwege-Niederhone Bahnhof to Göttingen
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
Train from Bebra Bahnhof to Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Göttingen to Hannover Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $40–65
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 581 97164164
- info@der-metronom.de
- Website
- der-metronom.de
Train from Göttingen to Hannover Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $50–130
- Schedules at
- der-metronom.de
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe to Paderborn Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- 1300 759 287
- info@skybus.com.au
- Website
- skybus.com.au
Bus from Avalon Airport/Outside Terminal to Skybus Coach Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $28
- Website
- https://www.skybus.com.au
- Schedules at
- https://www.skybus.com.au/timetables/
- Book at
- https://www.skybus.com.au/buy-tickets/
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