There are 13 ways to get from Hanover to Lugano by train, bus, night train, car, car train, or plane
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Train
best- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe20 / ...
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Basel SBB20 / ...
- Take the train from Basel SBB to LuganoEc
10h 9mCHF 72–295Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Hanover central bus station to Zurich Bus StationN24 / ...
- Take the bus from Zurich Bus Station to Lugano421 / ...
14h 30mCHF 45–95Night train, train
- Take the night train from Hannover Hbf to Zuerich HbNj
- Take the train from Zürich HB to LuganoIc2 / ...
11h 58mCHF 98–324Drive 888.6 km
- Drive from Hanover to Lugano888.6 km
7h 59mCHF 142–205Night train, train via Karlsruhe
- Take the night train from Hannover Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Zürich HB
- Take the train from Zürich HB to LuganoEcm
13h 55mCHF 143–262Car train, drive
- Take the car train from Hannover Hbf to München Ost1393
- Drive from München Ost to Lugano
7h 57mCHF 156–206Fly Hannover Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)HAJ - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Lugano
6h 16mCHF 88–222Fly Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport, train
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)HAJ - LIN
- Take the train from Monza to Lugano
7h 56mCHF 110–303Fly Hannover Airport to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)HAJ - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Lugano
6h 18mCHF 138–335Train to Hamburg Airport, fly to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbf
- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)HAM - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Lugano
7h 52mCHF 54–216Train to Hamburg Airport, fly to Milan Linate Airport, train
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbf
- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)HAM - LIN
- Take the train from Monza to Lugano
8h 2mCHF 100–299Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to D-Flughafen Bf
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)DUS - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Lugano
8h 15mCHF 63–239Train to Frankfurt, fly to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurt
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)FRA - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Lugano
8h 4mCHF 97–241
Hanover to Lugano by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Hanover to Lugano is to bus which costs SFr 45 - SFr 100 and takes 14h 30m.
The fastest way to get from Hanover to Lugano is to fly and train which takes 6h 16m and costs SFr 85 - SFr 230.
No, there is no direct bus from Hanover station to Lugano. However, there are services departing from Hanover central bus station and arriving at Lugano via Zurich Bus Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 14h 30m.
No, there is no direct train from Hanover to Lugano. However, there are services departing from Hannover Hauptbahnhof and arriving at Lugano via Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe and Basel SBB. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 10h 9m.
The distance between Hanover and Lugano is 918 km. The road distance is 888.6 km.
The best way to get from Hanover to Lugano without a car is to train which takes 10h 9m and costs SFr 70 - SFr 300.
It takes approximately 10h 9m to get from Hanover to Lugano, including transfers.
Hanover to Lugano bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Hanover central bus station.
Hanover to Lugano train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Hannover Hauptbahnhof station.
The best way to get from Hanover to Lugano is to train which takes 10h 9m and costs SFr 70 - SFr 300. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs SFr 45 - SFr 100 and takes 14h 30m.
What companies run services between Hanover, Germany and Lugano, Switzerland?
You can take a train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Lugano via Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe and Basel SBB in around 10h 9m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Hanover central bus station to Lugano via Zurich Bus Station in around 14h 30m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–350
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–310
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–430
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–330
Flights from Hannover Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Thursday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–180
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–310
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–270
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–380
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–180
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–290
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–270
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–260
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Wednesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–270
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–430
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–310
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–260
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–200
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–380
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–270
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–250
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–290
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–260
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–300
Flights from Hannover Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–180
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–260
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–250
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–370
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–320
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 46m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–180
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–120
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–140
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–180
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–140
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 29–110
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–140
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–260
- Website
- luxair.lu
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Luxembourg
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–310
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Luxembourg
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–380
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–400
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–380
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–200
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–45
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 33m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–150
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 12–45
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to D-Flughafen Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 27m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 27–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–100
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich HB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 53m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–75
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 7531 915109
- info@sbb-deutschland.de
- Website
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 18–24
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Zürich HB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–18
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
- Phone
- +43 51717
- Website
- nightjet.com
Night train from Hannover Hbf to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 35m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–250
- Website
- https://www.nightjet.com/en/#/home
- Sleeper Carriage
- CHF 240–250
- Couchette Carriage
- CHF 130–160
- Seating Carriage
- CHF 55–70
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Night train from Hannover Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 58m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–110
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
Car train from Hannover Hbf to München Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–110
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 2m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–140
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- CHF 40–60
- 1st Class
- CHF 80–140
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 5–7
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Monza to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 3–5
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- ufficiogruppi@trenitalia.it
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Monza to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 9–15
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- CHF 9–13
- 2nd Class
- CHF 11–15
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–60
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Hanover central bus station to Zurich Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–75
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Zurich Bus Station to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–23
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.com
Bus from Zurich Bus Station to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 11–17
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
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More Questions & Answers
Hanover to Lugano bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Zurich Bus Station.
Hanover to Lugano train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe station.
Yes, the driving distance between Hanover to Lugano is 889 km. It takes approximately 7h 59m to drive from Hanover to Lugano.
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