There are 12 ways to get from Germany to Edinburgh by plane, train (Eurostar), bus, car, car train, or train
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Fly Düsseldorf International Airport to Edinburgh Airport
best- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane DUS - EDI
4h 40m£78–184Fly Cologne Bonn Airport to Edinburgh Airport
cheapest- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane CGN - EDI
4h 33m£57–175Train via Cologne
- Take the train from Berlin Hbf to Hagen Hbftrain 19 / ...
- Take the train from Hagen Hbf to Köln Hbftrain 19 / ...
- Take the train from Köln Hbf 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 59m£311–623Bus
- Take the bus from Berlin Südkreuz train station to London Victoriabus N1328
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Edinburgh, Bus Stationbus Ukxn10 / ...
29h 50m£93–283Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Berlin to Calais-Fréthuncar
- Take the car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestonecartrain
- Drive from Folkestone to Edinburghcar
16h 45mFly Frankfurt to Edinburgh Airport
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane FRA - EDI
4h 59m£98–224Fly Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane BER - EDI
5h 41m£58–148Drive to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, fly to Glasgow Airport, train
- Drive from Essen to Amsterdam-Schiphol-Airport-AMScar
- Fly from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)plane AMS - GLA
- Take the train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
5h 9m£108–278Fly Frankfurt to Glasgow Airport, train
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)plane FRA - GLA
- Take the train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
5h 44m£103–254Drive to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, fly to Newcastle, train
- Drive from Essen to Amsterdam-Schiphol-Airport-AMScar
- Fly from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) to Newcastle (NCL)plane AMS - NCL
- Take the train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
5h 38m£118–332Train to Weeze Airport, fly to Edinburgh Airport
- Take the train from D-Bilk S to Kevelaer Bahnhoftrain
- Fly from Weeze Airport (NRN) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane NRN - EDI
6h 6mTrain
- Take the train from Berlin Hbf to Amsterdam Centraaltrain Ice
- Take the train from Amsterdam Centraal to London St. Pancras Int.train
- Take the train from King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
16h 47m£216–553
Germany to Edinburgh by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Germany to Edinburgh is to fly which costs £55 - £150 and takes 5h 41m.
The fastest way to get from Germany to Edinburgh is to fly which takes 4h 33m and costs £55 - £180.
No, there is no direct bus from Germany to Edinburgh station. However, there are services departing from S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf/Memhardstr. and arriving at Edinburgh, Bus Station via Berlin Südkreuz train station and London Victoria. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 29h 50m.
No, there is no direct train from Germany to Edinburgh. However, there are services departing from S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf and arriving at Edinburgh Waverley via Berlin Hbf, Hagen Hbf, Köln Hbf, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi and King's Cross. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 15h 59m.
The distance between Germany and Edinburgh is 541 miles.
The best way to get from Germany to Edinburgh without a car is to train via Cologne which takes 15h 59m and costs £310 - £650.
It takes approximately 4h 40m to get from Germany to Edinburgh, including transfers.
Germany to Edinburgh bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Berlin Südkreuz train station.
Germany to Edinburgh train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Berlin Hbf station.
The best way to get from Germany to Edinburgh is to fly which takes 4h 40m and costs £75 - £190. Alternatively, you can train via Cologne, which costs £310 - £650 and takes 15h 59m, you could also bus, which costs £90 - £290 and takes 29h 50m.
What companies run services between Germany and Edinburgh, Scotland?
Eurowings, KLM, and two other airlines fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) 3 times a day. Alternatively, you can take a train from S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf to Edinburgh Waverley via Berlin Hbf, Hagen Hbf, Köln Hbf, Bruxelles Midi, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi, London St Pancras Intl, and King's Cross in around 15h 59m.
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £35–230
Flights from Frankfurt to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £40–240
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £40–240
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Glasgow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 33m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £40–260
Flights from Frankfurt to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £40–240
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £40–280
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £70–220
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–130
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Glasgow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £50–190
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Glasgow Airport via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £50–190
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Glasgow Airport via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £50–190
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Glasgow Airport via Belfast (Aldergrove)
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £50–190
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £45–190
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Newcastle via Bristol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £45–190
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £100–200
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Edinburgh Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 7m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £120–190
Flights from Frankfurt to Edinburgh Airport via London City
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 27m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £110–250
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Glasgow Airport via London City
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £150–230
Flights from Frankfurt to Glasgow Airport via London City
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £110–210
Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Newcastle via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £140–260
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £90–210
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 33m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £65–270
Flights from Frankfurt to Glasgow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £75–200
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £45–140
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £40–120
Flights from Weeze Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £45–170
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £65–160
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £60–130
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £95–140
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £95–140
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £40–240
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £55–230
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Edinburgh Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £50–200
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £55–210
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Berlin Hbf to Hagen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £70–170
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hagen Hbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £10–25
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £30–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- £50–95
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intl
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £90–160
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
Train from Amsterdam Centraal to London St. Pancras Int.
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- £140–240
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- belgiantrain.be
Train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 24m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- £40–75
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £110–170
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £35–55
- Website
- https://www.lner.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
- Phone
- +44 344 811 0141
- Website
- scotrail.co.uk
Train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- £20–40
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £60–90
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 44m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £45–75
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- enquiry@sleeper.scot
- Website
- sleeper.scot
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- £28–50
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Phone
- 0203 6688 9477
- dialog@rhein-ruhr-bahn.de
- Website
- rhein-ruhr-bahn.de
Train from D-Bilk S to Kevelaer Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- rhein-ruhr-bahn.de
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Berlin Hbf to Amsterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £55–140
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Amsterdam Centraal to London St. Pancras Int.
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- £50–130
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Berlin Südkreuz train station to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- £60–110
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from London Victoria to Edinburgh, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 16m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £30–60
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- 08717 81 81 81
- Website
- nationalexpress.com
Bus from London Victoria to Edinburgh, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 40m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £70–170
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
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