There are 12 ways to get from Istanbul to Lübeck by plane, train, bus, night train or car
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2rio's travel planner.
Recommended option
Fly Istanbul Ataturk to Hamburg, train • 7 h 36 min
$74 - $276
11 alternative options
Fly Sabiha Gokcen to Hamburg, train • 9 h
$76 - $262
Fly Istanbul Ataturk to Bremen, train • 8 h 40 min
$111 - $368
Fly Istanbul Ataturk to Berlin Tegel, train • 9 h 55 min
$116 - $415
Fly Istanbul Ataturk to Copenhagen, train • 11 h 23 min
$118 - $491
Fly Istanbul Ataturk to Hannover, train • 10 h 15 min
$115 - $409
Bus Alpar Turizm, train • 37 h
$252 - $322
Bus Arda Tur • 40 h 50 min
$124 - $153
Bus Racic Eurobus • 42 h 52 min
$147 - $170
Bus Arda Tur, train • 45 h 28 min
$179 - $219
Night train, train • 2 days 4 h
$292 - $415
Drive • 23 h 57 min
$320 - $480
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Istanbul to Lübeck is to bus which costs 700 ₺ - 900 ₺ and takes 40 h 50 min.
The quickest way to get from Istanbul to Lübeck is to fly and train which costs 410 ₺ - 1.600 ₺ and takes 7 h 36 min.
No, there is no direct bus from Istanbul to Lübeck. However, there are services departing from Istanbul and arriving at Lübeck via Haskovo and Berlin, Berlin central bus station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 40 h 50 min.
The distance between Istanbul and Lübeck is 1971 km. The road distance is 2492 km.
The best way to get from Istanbul to Lübeck without a car is to bus and train which takes 37 h and costs 1.400 ₺ - 1.900 ₺.
It takes approximately 7 h 36 min to get from Istanbul to Lübeck, including transfers.
Istanbul to Lübeck bus services, operated by Metro Plus, depart from Istanbul station.
The quickest flight from Istanbul Ataturk Airport to Hamburg Airport is the direct flight which takes 3 h 25 min.
Istanbul to Lübeck bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Lübeck station.
Lübeck is 2 h behind Istanbul. It is currently 3:17 PM in Istanbul and 1:17 PM in Lübeck.
- Distance: 1231.9 miles
- Duration: 7 h 36 min
What companies run services between Istanbul, Turkey and Lübeck, Germany?
You can take a bus from Istanbul to Lübeck via Haskovo, Berlin, and Berlin, Berlin central bus station in around 40 h 50 min.
- Website
- p.turkishairlines.com
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hamburg
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 25 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100 - $650
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hamburg via Ankara
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h 30 min
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $100 - $650
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hamburg via Izmir
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h 30 min
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100 - $650
Flights from Sabiha Gokcen to Hamburg via Izmir
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h 10 min
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $130 - $550
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Bremen
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 27 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100 - $480
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Berlin Tegel
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 3 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95 - $600
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Berlin Tegel via Ankara
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 20 min
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $95 - $600
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 23 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160 - $1,200
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Copenhagen via Konya
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $160 - $1,200
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Copenhagen via Ankara
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $160 - $1,200
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hannover
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 20 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100 - $550
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hannover via Ankara
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h 5 min
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $100 - $550
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hamburg via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 45 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160 - $600
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Bremen via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 10 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $240 - $460
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Berlin Tegel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 35 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $150 - $800
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Copenhagen via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 40 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $220 - $900
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hannover via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 12 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160 - $650
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hamburg via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 50 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $150 - $600
Flights from Sabiha Gokcen to Hamburg via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 37 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100 - $550
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Bremen via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $160 - $470
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Berlin Tegel via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $150 - $650
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Copenhagen via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 35 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $140 - $800
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hannover via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 5 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $150 - $600
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hamburg via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 10 min
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $210 - $1,400
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Berlin Tegel via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 35 min
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70 - $320
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Copenhagen via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 15 min
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $220 - $1,200
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hamburg via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100 - $650
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 23 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160 - $1,200
- Website
- aegeanair.com
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hamburg via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $200 - $1,300
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Copenhagen via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h 25 min
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $170 - $1,300
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hannover via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 45 min
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $280 - $850
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Bremen via Paris CDG
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 45 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $210 - $650
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Berlin Tegel via Paris CDG
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 40 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $150 - $700
- Website
- flyuia.com
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Berlin Tegel via Boryspil
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 40 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100 - $380
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Copenhagen via Boryspil
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h 25 min
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70 - $230
- Website
- tarom.ro
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hamburg via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 50 min
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $200 - $700
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Sabiha Gokcen to Hamburg
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 30 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100 - $550
- Website
- onurair.com
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Berlin Tegel
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 5 min
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70 - $600
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Hannover via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h 10 min
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $230 - $850
- Phone
- 040/ 19 449
- Website
- hvv.de
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Lübeck Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $3 - $5
- Website
- hvv.de
Train from Bremen Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1 h 24 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $4 - $6
- Website
- hvv.de
Train from Büchen to Lübeck Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 41 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $3 - $5
- Website
- hvv.de
Deutsche Bahn is the German railway company, and the largest railway operator and infrastructure owner in Europe. Based in Berlin, Deutsche Bahn was founded in 1994, and offers many different types of rail transportation including ICE or Intercity-Express for high-speed services between major cities and regions, IC (InterCity) for long-distance trains, RE (Regional Express) trains that connect regions and cities, and the S-Bahn rapid transit service. There are two main tickets on offer: the Flexpreis that has full flexibility, and the Sparpreis which is the cheaper, advanced fare.
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 0180 6 99 66 33
- Website
- bahn.com
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Lübeck Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $20 - $29
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Bremen Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $29 - $45
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Berlin Hbf (tief) to Büchen
- Ave. Duration
- 1 h 40 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $50 - $75
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hannover Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1 h 17 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $35 - $55
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from München Hbf to Lübeck Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 21 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $160 - $230
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Berlin Südkreuz to Büchen
- Ave. Duration
- 1 h 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $50 - $75
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Budapest-Nyugati to Büchen
- Ave. Duration
- 13 h 6 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $230 - $330
- Website
- bahn.de
- Phone
- 70 13 14 15
- Website
- dsb.dk
Train from København H to Lübeck Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 2 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $40 - $60
- Website
- dsb.dk
- Phone
- 0700 10 200
- Website
- bdz.bg
Night train from Halkali to Videle
- Ave. Duration
- 19 h 28 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $18 - $20
- Website
- bdz.bg
- Phone
- 0219521
- Website
- cfrcalatori.ro
Train from Videle to Arad
- Ave. Duration
- 10 h 27 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $20 - $30
- Website
- cfrcaltori.ro
Train from Arad to Szolnok
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 59 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $7 - $11
- Website
- cfrcaltori.ro
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- Website
- mavcsoport.hu
Train from Szolnok to Budapest-Nyugati
- Ave. Duration
- 1 h 15 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $5 - $8
- Website
- mavcsoport.hu
- Phone
- 0090 212 658 18 51
- info@alparturizm.com.tr
- Website
- alparturizm.com.tr
Bus from Istanbul to Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 28 h 16 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $91
- Schedules at
- alparturizm.com.tr
- Website
- metrotransport.bg
Bus from Istanbul to Haskovo
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 30 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $17 - $40
- Schedules at
- metrotransport.bg
Bus from Istanbul to Plovdiv
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 45 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $25 - $50
- Schedules at
- metrotransport.bg
Bus from Istanbul to Burgas
- Ave. Duration
- 7 h
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $23 - $35
- Schedules at
- metrotransport.bg
- Phone
- 0700 20 544
- Website
- ardatur.bg
Bus from Haskovo to Berlin
- Ave. Duration
- 29 h 15 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $90
- Schedules at
- ardatur.bg
Bus from Burgas to Berlin
- Ave. Duration
- 33 h 5 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $101
- Schedules at
- ardatur.bg
One of Europe’s leading bus companies, Flixbus serves over 1400 destinations, in 26 countries including Germany, France, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Croatia, Spain, and across Scandinavia and central and eastern Europe. Founded in 2012, Flixbus’ extensive network connects cities with approximately 200,000 trips, with buses often departing every 30 minutes. One of the most affordable ways to get around Europe (and expanding soon into the US), a Flixbus journey is cost-effective, well-connected, comfortable and safe.
Rome2rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 1807 123 99 123
- info@flixbus.de
- Website
- flixbus.de
Bus from Berlin, Berlin central bus station to Lübeck
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 5 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $16 - $27
- Website
- flixbus.co.uk
- Website
- racicbg.com
Bus from Plovdiv to Hamburg
- Ave. Duration
- 33 h 30 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $115
- Schedules at
- racicbg.com
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Read the travel guideMore Questions & Answers
Yes, the driving distance between Istanbul to Lübeck is 2492 km. It takes approximately 23 h 57 min to drive from Istanbul to Lübeck.
Scandinavian Airlines, LOT, KLM and four other airlines offer flights from Istanbul Ataturk Airport to Hamburg Airport.
There are 1717+ hotels available in Lübeck. Prices start at $67 USD per night.
The best way to get from Istanbul to Istanbul Ataturk Airport is to Metro which takes 34 min and costs 4 ₺.