There are 11 ways to get from Hanover to Folkestone by train (Eurostar), train, bus, car, car train, plane, or car ferry
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Train
best- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof 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 London St Pancras Intl to Folkestone Centraltrain
10h£117–454Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Hanover central bus station to Doverbus N1328
14h 26m£45–65Train, bus
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Köln Hbftrain 19 / ...
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Brussels-Nordtrain 79
- Take the bus from Brussel Eurolines Busstation to Doverbus
11h 4m£60–152Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Hanover to Calais-Fréthuncar
- Take the car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestonecartrain le shuttle
6h 38mFly Hannover Airport to London Heathrow Airport, train
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to London Heathrow Airport (LHR)plane HAJ - LHR
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Folkestone Centraltrain
6h 29m£82–302Train, bus via Minden
- Take the train from Hannover Bahnhof Nordstadt to Minden, Bahnhoftrain S1
- Take the train from Minden(Westf) to Koeln Hbftrain Re
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Brussels-Nordtrain Ice
- Take the bus from Brussel Eurolines Busstation to Doverbus
13h 23mDrive, car ferry
- Drive from Hanover to Calaiscar
- Take the car ferry from Calais to Port of Dovercarferry
7h 48m£118–168Fly Hannover Airport to London City Airport, train
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to London City Airport (LCY)plane HAJ - LCY
- Take the train from Stratford International to Folkestone Centraltrain
7h 11m£156–343Train to Hamburg Airport, fly to London Heathrow Airport, train
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbftrain
- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to London Heathrow Airport (LHR)plane HAM - LHR
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Folkestone Centraltrain
8h 4m£81–291Train to Bremen Airport, fly to London Stansted Airport, bus, train
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Bremen Hbftrain
- Fly from Bremen Airport (BRE) to London Stansted Airport (STN)plane BRE - STN
- Take the bus from Coach Station to Stratford City Bus Stationbus
- Take the train from Stratford International to Folkestone Centraltrain
7h 10m£76–358Fly Hannover Airport to London Gatwick Airport, train
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to London Gatwick Airport (LGW)plane HAJ - LGW
- Take the train from Gatwick Airport to London St Pancras Intltrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Folkestone Centraltrain
8h 22m£62–269
Hanover to Folkestone by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Hanover to Folkestone is to bus which costs £45 - £65 and takes 14h 26m.
The fastest way to get from Hanover to Folkestone is to fly and train which takes 6h 29m and costs £80 - £310.
No, there is no direct bus from Hanover station to Folkestone station. However, there are services departing from Hanover central bus station and arriving at Folkestone Central station via Pencester Road. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 14h 26m.
No, there is no direct train from Hanover to Folkestone. However, there are services departing from Hannover Hauptbahnhof and arriving at Folkestone Central via Köln Hbf, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi and London St Pancras Intl. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 10h.
The distance between Hanover and Folkestone is 624 miles.
The best way to get from Hanover to Folkestone without a car is to train which takes 10h and costs £110 - £460.
It takes approximately 10h to get from Hanover to Folkestone, including transfers.
Hanover to Folkestone bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Hanover central bus station.
Hanover to Folkestone train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Hannover Hauptbahnhof station.
The best way to get from Hanover to Folkestone is to train which takes 10h and costs £110 - £460. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs £45 - £65 and takes 14h 26m.
What companies run services between Hanover, Germany and Folkestone, England?
You can take a train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Folkestone Central via Köln Hbf, Bruxelles Midi, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi, and London St Pancras Intl in around 10h. Alternatively, FlixBus operates a bus from Hanover central bus station to Dover 3 times a week. Tickets cost £45–65 and the journey takes 13h 10m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £100–340
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- £100–340
Flights from Hannover Airport to London City Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- £160–550
Flights from Hamburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £50–150
Flights from Hamburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £80–370
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Heathrow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £60–170
Flights from Hannover Airport to London City Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £100–450
Flights from Hamburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £50–120
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £45–300
Flights from Hannover Airport to London City Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £60–390
Flights from Hamburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £40–260
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Gatwick Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £35–200
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Gatwick Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £45–280
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Gatwick Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £45–220
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £50–150
Flights from Hamburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Stuttgart
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £50–150
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Bremen Airport to London Stansted Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £30–190
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £55–330
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £90–270
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Gatwick Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £75–310
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Bremen Airport to London Stansted Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- £30–110
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to London Gatwick Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £60–220
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £22–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £26–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Brussels-Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £26–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Koeln Hbf to Brussels-Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 43m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £26–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £8–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Bremen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £15–26
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- £21–85
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intl
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £65–250
- 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
- £17–24
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
- 2nd Class
- £17–24
- 1st Class
- £26–40
- Phone
- +44 345 322 7021
- Website
- southeasternrailway.co.uk
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Folkestone Central
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £12–50
- Website
- https://www.southeasternrailway.co.uk/
Train from Stratford International to Folkestone Central
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £21–50
- Website
- https://www.southeasternrailway.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
- +49 30 311682904
- Website
- bahn.com
Train from Hannover Bahnhof Nordstadt to Minden, Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.bahn.com/en
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Minden(Westf) to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £35–55
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- £35–55
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Bremen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- £26–40
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 581 97164164
- info@der-metronom.de
- Website
- der-metronom.de
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £24–26
- Schedules at
- der-metronom.de
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Bremen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £17–25
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- 0345 026 4700
- Website
- thameslinkrailway.com
Train from Gatwick Airport to London St Pancras Intl
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 10 minutes
- Estimated price
- £15–21
- Website
- https://www.thameslinkrailway.com/
- Phone
- +421 55 680 73 06
- onlinepredaj@eurobus.sk
- Website
- eurobus.sk
Bus from Brussel Eurolines Busstation to Dover
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 56m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- £11–13
- Website
- https://www.eurobus.sk/en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Hanover central bus station to Dover
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 10m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- £45–65
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- 08717 81 81 81
- Website
- nationalexpress.com
Bus from Coach Station to Stratford City Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 45 min
- Frequency
- Every 10 minutes
- Estimated price
- £10–20
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
- info@flibco.com
- Website
- flibco.com
Bus from Coach Station to Stratford City Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 45 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- £9–15
- Website
- https://www.flibco.com/en
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £30–40
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
- Car
- £65–170
- On Foot
- £30–40
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More Questions & Answers
Hanover to Folkestone bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Dover station.
Folkestone is 1h behind Hanover. It is currently 2:16 AM in Hanover and 1:16 AM in Folkestone.
Hanover to Folkestone train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Köln Hbf station.
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