There are 12 ways to get from France to Helsinki by plane, train, bus, ferry, car, or car train
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Fly Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Helsinki Airport
best- Fly from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG) to Helsinki Airport (HEL)plane CDG - HEL
5h 58m€94–244Fly Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Helsinki Airport
cheapest- Fly from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport (NCE) to Helsinki Airport (HEL)plane NCE - HEL
6h 19m€87–237Train, bus
- Take the train from Paris Est to Berlin Suedkreuztrain Ice
- Take the bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2bus N1206
37h 3m€160–347Train, ferry
- Take the train from Paris Nord to Köln Hbftrain Tha
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Hamburg Hbftrain 43 / ...
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Stockholm Centraltrain Ic
- Take the ferry from Stockholm to Helsinkiferry
39h 36mDrive 3,672.4 km
- Drive from Paris to Helsinkicar 3,672.4 km
39h 1m€653–944Train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Helsinki Airport
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Genevetrain
- Fly from Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Helsinki Airport (HEL)plane GVA - HEL
8h 1m€112–305Fly Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport, ferry
- Fly from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG) to Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL)plane CDG - TLL
- Take the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinkiferry
9hTrain, train to Zurich Airport, fly to Helsinki Airport
- Take the train from Strasbourg to Basel Sbbtrain
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Helsinki Airport (HEL)plane ZRH - HEL
8h 16m€158–332Train, train to Frankfurt, fly to Helsinki Airport
- Take the train from Strasbourg to Karlsruhe Hbftrain
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Helsinki Airport (HEL)plane FRA - HEL
7h 50m€126–330Bus
- Take the bus from Paris to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhofbus N100
- Take the bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Helsinki, Bus Stationbus N1206
42h 28m€103–198Bus, ferry
- Take the bus from Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station to Prague - Florenc Main Bus Terminalbus
- Take the bus from Praha to Tallinna bussijaambus
- Take the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinkiferry
2d 1hDrive, car train
- Drive from Paris to Würzburg Hbfcar
- Take the car train from Würzburg Hbf to Hamburg Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Hamburg Hbf to Helsinkicar
40h 11m€687–1,018
France to Helsinki by subway, train, and bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from France to Helsinki is to bus which costs €100 - €200 and takes 42h 28m.
The fastest way to get from France to Helsinki is to fly which takes 5h 58m and costs €90 - €250.
No, there is no direct bus from France to Helsinki station. However, there are services departing from Châtelet and arriving at Helsinki, Bus Station via Paris and Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 42h 28m.
The distance between France and Helsinki is 1950 km. The road distance is 3672.4 km.
The best way to get from France to Helsinki without a car is to train and bus which takes 37h 3m and costs €160 - €350.
It takes approximately 5h 58m to get from France to Helsinki, including transfers.
France to Helsinki bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Paris station.
The best way to get from France to Helsinki is to fly which takes 5h 58m and costs €90 - €250. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €100 - €200 and takes 42h 28m.
France to Helsinki bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof station.
Helsinki is 1h ahead of France. It is currently 3:49 AM in France and 4:49 AM in Helsinki.
What companies run services between France and Helsinki, Finland?
Finnair, Air France, and two other airlines fly from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG) to Helsinki Airport (HEL) every 4 hours. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Châtelet to Helsinki, Bus Station via Porte Maillot - Neuilly, Paris, and Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof in around 42h 28m.
- Website
- finnair.com
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €130–230
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–200
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–330
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–180
Flights from Zurich Airport to Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–300
Flights from Frankfurt to Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–250
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Helsinki Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–230
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Helsinki Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 17m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–380
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Helsinki Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–250
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Helsinki Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €110–250
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–160
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–370
Flights from Zurich Airport to Helsinki Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €130–230
Flights from Frankfurt to Helsinki Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–220
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–380
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Helsinki Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–230
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Helsinki Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–230
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–110
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–160
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–370
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–110
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Helsinki Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–390
Flights from Frankfurt to Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–330
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–110
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–110
Flights from Zurich Airport to Helsinki Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 32m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–190
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Helsinki Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €60–200
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–230
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–330
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Paris Est to Berlin Suedkreuz
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 49m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €100–220
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 4m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Strasbourg to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 41 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €24–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €18–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Paris Nord to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 27m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €55–180
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +49 221 800 20 80
- info@msm-gruppe.de
- Website
- msm-gruppe.de
Train from Köln Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 14m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- msm-gruppe.de
- Phone
- +46 40 669 62 00
- snalltaget@snalltaget.se
- Website
- snalltaget.se
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Stockholm Central
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 26m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €90–190
- Website
- https://www.snalltaget.se/en
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Geneve
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €25–35
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Strasbourg to Basel Sbb
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Strasbourg to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €25–50
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Geneve
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €30–70
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- 2nd Class
- €30–45
- 1st Class
- €55–70
Train from Strasbourg to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €20–50
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €22–40
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Würzburg Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €95–120
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €55–120
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Paris to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €45–75
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Helsinki, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €55–120
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station to Prague - Florenc Main Bus Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €40–70
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
- Website
- flixbus.pl
Bus from Praha to Tallinna bussijaam
- Ave. Duration
- 30h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €1–2
- Schedules at
- flixbus.pl
- Website
- vikingline.com
Ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- vikingline.com
- Website
- en.tallink.com
Ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- en.tallink.com
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