There are 11 ways to get from Hanover to Lyon by train (TGV), train, bus, car, plane, train (Eurostar, TGV, Trenitalia), night train, or car train
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Train
best- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Offenburg Bahnhoftrain 20 / ...
- Take the train from Strasbourg to Lyon Part Dieutrain Tgv
9h 59m€122–374Train, bus
cheapest- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Göttingentrain 20 / ...
- Take the bus from Göttingen central bus station to Lyonbus N235
15h 17m€63–113Drive 984.6 km
- Drive from Hanover to Lyoncar 984.6 km
9h 20m€150–216Fly from Hannover Airport
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS)plane HAJ - LYS
6h 27m€124–288Train via Paris
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Wuppertal Hbftrain 19 / ...
- Take the train from Wuppertal Hbf to Köln Hbftrain 19 / ...
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Paris Nordtrain Tha
- Take the train from Paris Gare De Lyon to Lyon Part Dieutrain Tgv
10h 1m€125–408Night train, bus
- Take the night train from Hannover Hbf to Darmstadt Hbfnighttrain Nj
- Take the bus from Darmstadt to Lyon - Perrache Bus Stationbus BlaBlaCar Bus
15h 57m€85–330Car train, drive
- Take the car train from Hannover Hbf to Fuldacartrain 1393
- Drive from Fulda to Lyoncar
8h 55m€204–278Train to Bremen Airport, fly
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Bremen Hbftrain
- Fly from Bremen Airport (BRE) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS)plane BRE - LYS
7h 49m€128–359Train to Hamburg Airport, fly
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbftrain
- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS)plane HAM - LYS
8h 37m€101–295Train, train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Dortmund Hbftrain
- Take the train from Dortmund Hbf to Duesseldorf Flughafentrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS)plane DUS - LYS
7h 11m€113–343Train to Frankfurt, fly
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS)plane FRA - LYS
6h 45m€149–389
Hanover to Lyon by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Hanover to Lyon is to train and bus which costs €60 - €120 and takes 15h 17m.
The fastest way to get from Hanover to Lyon is to fly which takes 6h 27m and costs €120 - €290.
No, there is no direct train from Hanover to Lyon. However, there are services departing from Hannover Hauptbahnhof and arriving at Lyon Part Dieu via Offenburg Bahnhof and Strasbourg. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 9h 59m.
The distance between Hanover and Lyon is 1075 km. The road distance is 984.6 km.
The best way to get from Hanover to Lyon without a car is to train which takes 9h 59m and costs €120 - €380.
It takes approximately 9h 59m to get from Hanover to Lyon, including transfers.
Hanover to Lyon train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Hannover Hauptbahnhof station.
The best way to get from Hanover to Lyon is to train which takes 9h 59m and costs €120 - €380. Alternatively, you can fly, which costs €120 - €290 and takes 6h 27m.
Hanover to Lyon train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Offenburg Bahnhof station.
Yes, the driving distance between Hanover to Lyon is 985 km. It takes approximately 9h 20m to drive from Hanover to Lyon.
What companies run services between Hanover, Germany and Lyon, France?
You can take a train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Lyon Part Dieu via Offenburg Bahnhof, Strasbourg Bahnhof, and Strasbourg in around 9h 59m. Alternatively, Lufthansa, Air France, and two other airlines fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) every 3 hours.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–220
Flights from Hannover Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–400
Flights from Bremen Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–430
Flights from Bremen Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–450
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–360
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–370
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–420
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €90–240
Flights from Frankfurt to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–360
Flights from Frankfurt to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 17m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €95–300
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–400
Flights from Bremen Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 38m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–400
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 58m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–340
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–320
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–400
Flights from Bremen Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–400
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–340
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–400
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €90–140
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €50–210
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Frankfurt to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–360
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Offenburg Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €60–140
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Göttingen
- Ave. Duration
- 32 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €18–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Wuppertal Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €28–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Wuppertal Hbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 32 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–26
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Bremen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–29
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Duesseldorf Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–30
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Offenburg Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 9m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €110–160
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Göttingen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €26–40
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Bremen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €30–45
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €35–60
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Strasbourg to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €50–200
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Paris Gare De Lyon to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €50–120
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Köln Hbf to Paris Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €55–200
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Duesseldorf Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €29–65
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Standard
- €29–45
- Comfort
- €30–45
- Premium
- €45–65
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Paris Gare De Lyon to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €23–90
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from Paris Gare De Lyon to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €65–120
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
- Phone
- +43 51717
- Website
- nightjet.com
Night train from Hannover Hbf to Darmstadt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40–260
- Website
- https://www.nightjet.com/en/#/home
- Sleeper Carriage
- €259–260
- Couchette Carriage
- €130–160
- Seating Carriage
- €40–50
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Hannover Hbf to Fulda
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 29m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €90–110
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Bremen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–28
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Duesseldorf Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €13–19
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/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
- €29
- Schedules at
- der-metronom.de
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Duesseldorf Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €13–19
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- 0180 6 9 27 37 27
- info@eurobahn.de
- Website
- eurobahn.de
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Duesseldorf Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €14–20
- Website
- https://www.eurobahn.de/en/
- Phone
- +31 85 004 3110
- Website
- traincharter.eu
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Duesseldorf Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Website
- https://traincharter.eu/
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Göttingen central bus station to Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45–75
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Darmstadt to Lyon - Perrache Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45–70
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
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