There are 14 ways to get from Helsinki to Europe by plane, train, ferry, bus, car, car train, or car ferry
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Fly Helsinki Airport to Frankfurt, train
best- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane HEL - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
10h 50m$132–363Bus, train
cheapest- Take the bus from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhofbus
- Take the bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Kasselbus
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain Rb5 / ...
34h 16m$101–267Ferry, train
- Take the ferry from VUOSAAREN SATAMA: Vuosaaren satama to Travemünde Skandinavienkaiferry
- Take the train from Lübeck Hbf to Hamburg Hbftrain Re8
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Wabern Bahnhoftrain 22
24h 47m$311–425Drive, car train
- Drive from Helsinki to Hamburg Hbfcar
- Take the car train from Hamburg Hbf to Göttingencartrain
- Drive from Göttingen to Europecar
33h 43m$714–1,003Fly Helsinki Airport to Hamburg Airport, train
- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Hamburg Airport (HAM)plane HEL - HAM
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Göttingentrain
- Take the train from Göttingen to Eschwege-Niederhone Bahnhoftrain
11h 26mFly Helsinki Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, train
- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)plane HEL - BER
- Take the train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Eisenach Hbftrain
10h 35m$156–376Fly Helsinki Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport, train
- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane HEL - DUS
- Take the train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehetrain
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
12h 27m$168–472Ferry to Lennart Meri International Airport, fly to Frankfurt, train
- Take the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinnferry
- Fly from Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane TLL - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
12h 58m$139–430Fly Helsinki Airport to Munich International Airport, train
- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane HEL - MUC
- Take the train from Flughafen München to Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from München Hbf to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
12h 44m$154–480Fly Helsinki Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, train
- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)plane HEL - AMS
- Take the train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraaltrain
- Take the train from Utrecht Centraal to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhetrain
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
15h 5m$193–623Fly Helsinki Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague, train
- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)plane HEL - PRG
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Dresden-Neustadttrain
- Take the train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Eisenach Hbftrain
14h 44m$194–403Ferry, bus, train
- Take the ferry from VUOSAAREN SATAMA: Vuosaaren satama to Travemünde Skandinavienkaiferry
- Take the bus from Lübeck to Kasselbus
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain Rb5 / ...
29h 47m$196–304Bus, train via Riga
- Take the bus from Helsinki, Bus Station to Tallinn, Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Tallinn Vana Paaskula to Riga Central Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Rīga to Kasselbus
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain Rb5 / ...
41h 11m$134–344Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Helsinki to Port Of Trelleborgcar
- Take the car ferry from Trelleborg to Świnoujściecarferry
- Drive from Swinoujscie to Europecar
38h 57m$613–897
Helsinki to Europe by bus and train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Helsinki to Europe is to bus and train which costs $100 - $270 and takes 34h 16m.
The fastest way to get from Helsinki to Europe is to fly and train which takes 10h 35m and costs $150 - $380.
The distance between Helsinki and Europe is 1765 km.
The best way to get from Helsinki to Europe without a car is to ferry and train which takes 24h 47m and costs $310 - $430.
It takes approximately 10h 50m to get from Helsinki to Europe, including transfers.
Europe is 1h behind Helsinki. It is currently 1:24 AM in Helsinki and 12:24 AM in Europe.
There are 788+ hotels available in Europe.
What companies run services between Helsinki, Finland and Europe?
There is no direct connection from Helsinki to Europe. However, you can take the train to Lentoasema, walk to Helsinki Airport (HEL) airport, fly to Frankfurt (FRA), walk to Frankfurt, take the train to Fulda Bahnhof, take the train to Bebra Bahnhof, take the train to Sontra Bahnhof, walk to Sontra Breitwiese, then take the line 260 bus to Nentershausen-Süß Gerstunger Straße. Alternatively, you can take a subway from Rautatientori to Europe via Vuosaari, VUOSAAREN SATAMA: Vuosaaren satama, Travemünde Skandinavienkai, Lübeck Ostseestraße, Lübeck ZOB/Hauptbahnhof, Lübeck Hbf, Hamburg Hbf, Wabern Bahnhof, Wabern Bahnhof, and Spangenberg Stadtmitte in around 24h 47m.
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Frankfurt via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–260
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Hamburg Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–260
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $90–280
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–300
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Frankfurt via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 38m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–270
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Munich International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–330
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–320
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–260
- Website
- finnair.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–290
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Hamburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–420
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–270
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $130–330
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Frankfurt via Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–240
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–280
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–300
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–400
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–450
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–430
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–320
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–300
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–350
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–320
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Hamburg Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–250
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $80–260
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Frankfurt via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 42m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–260
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–370
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $75–230
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $15–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Lübeck Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 39 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $23–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Wabern Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 36m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $70–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $28–32
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Göttingen
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 41m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $17–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 19m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $65–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 6m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $50–130
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Fulda Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–120
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 29m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $60–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 561 766396-0
- info@cantus-bahn.de
- Website
- cantus-bahn.de
Train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
Train from Göttingen to Eschwege-Niederhone Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $14–20
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Lübeck Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $15–21
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $13–20
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Flughafen München to Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- $12–17
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Hamburg Hbf to Göttingen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $110–130
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Göttingen
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 19m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $65–100
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 13m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $50–75
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- $12–35
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- $12–18
- 1st Class
- $20–35
Train from Utrecht Centraal to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 28m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $70–240
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- $70–110
- 1st Class
- $140–240
- Phone
- 0800-0232 545
- Website
- arriva.nl
Train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $14–16
- Website
- https://www.arriva.nl/en/
- 2nd Class
- $14–16
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Dresden-Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 27m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $13–28
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
- 2nd Class
- $13–19
- 1st Class
- $21–28
- Business
- $23–25
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Dresden-Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 36m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $45–60
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 55m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $70–190
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Kassel
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $20–50
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Lübeck to Kassel
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $40–60
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Helsinki, Bus Station to Tallinn, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $45–120
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Kassel
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $14–28
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
Bus from Rīga to Kassel
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 35m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $50–150
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
- Phone
- +372 680 0909
- info@luxexpress.eu
- Website
- luxexpress.eu
Bus from Tallinn Vana Paaskula to Riga Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $15–27
- Website
- https://luxexpress.eu/en/
- Phone
- +358 9 231 43100
- passenger@finnlines.com
- Website
- finnlines.com
Ferry from VUOSAAREN SATAMA: Vuosaaren satama to Travemünde Skandinavienkai
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $120–180
- Website
- https://www.finnlines.com/
- Book at
- https://booking.finnlines.com/en//search
Ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $13–85
- Website
- https://www.tallink.com/en
- Phone
- +49 180 6 666600
- info@ttline.com
- Website
- ttline.com
Car ferry from Trelleborg to Świnoujście
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $25–35
- Website
- https://www.ttline.com/en/#/
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