There are 14 ways to get from Leipzig to Cardiff by train, plane, train (Eurostar), bus, car, car train, or car ferry
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Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Bristol Airport, train
best- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Bristol Airport (BRS)plane BER - BRS
- Take the train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Centraltrain
7h 12m£101–264Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Leipzig central train station to Dortmund central bus stationbus N23 / ...
- Take the bus from DORTMUND, Hbf Nordseite, Steinstrasse to LONDON, Victoria Coach Station-Departure Hallbus
- Take the bus from London Victoria to University REbus 507 / ...
21h 23m£97–204Train
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Dortmund Hbftrain 55 / ...
- Take the train from Dortmund Hbf to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Miditrain
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intltrain Eil
- Take the train from London Paddington to Cardiff Centraltrain
15h 47m£334–688Train, bus
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Frankfurt(Main)Suedtrain Ec
- Take the train from Frankfurt Main to Bruxelles-Miditrain Trn
- Take the bus from Brussels Midi / Brussels South West to London Victoriabus
- Take the bus from London Victoria to University REbus 507 / ...
20h 20m£188–360Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Leipzig to Calais-Fréthuncar
- Take the car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestonecartrain
- Drive from Folkestone to Cardiffcar
12h 45m£278–358Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Cardiff Airport
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Cardiff Airport (CWL)plane BER - CWL
8h 31m£120–295Fly Leipzig-Halle Airport to Birmingham Airport, train
- Fly from Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ) to Birmingham Airport (BHX)plane LEJ - BHX
- Take the train from Birmingham New Street to Cardiff Centraltrain
9h£170–386Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Birmingham Airport, train
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Birmingham Airport (BHX)plane BER - BHX
- Take the train from Birmingham New Street to Cardiff Centraltrain
8h 43m£126–323Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to London City Airport, train
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to London City Airport (LCY)plane BER - LCY
- Take the train from London Paddington to Cardiff Centraltrain
8h 24m£187–599Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to London Heathrow Airport, train
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to London Heathrow Airport (LHR)plane BER - LHR
- Take the train from London Paddington to Cardiff Centraltrain
8h 19m£174–461Train, bus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly to Bristol Airport
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the bus from Dresden to Praha Hlavní nádražíbus
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Bristol Airport (BRS)plane PRG - BRS
- Take the train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Centraltrain
10h 3mTrain to Frankfurt, fly to Birmingham Airport, train
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Birmingham Airport (BHX)plane FRA - BHX
- Take the train from Birmingham New Street to Cardiff Centraltrain
10h 57m£208–505Train via Hanover
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Hannover Hauptbahnhoftrain 55 / ...
- Take the train from Hannover Hbf to Antwerpen-Centraaltrain
- Take the train from Antwerpen-Centraal to London St. Pancras Int.train
- Take the train from London Paddington to Cardiff Centraltrain
16h 1m£209–457Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Leipzig to Calaiscar
- Take the car ferry from Calais to Port of Dovercarferry
- Drive from Port of Dover to Cardiffcar
13h 49m£173–285
Leipzig to Cardiff by train and subway
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Leipzig to Cardiff is to bus which costs £95 - £210 and takes 21h 23m.
The fastest way to get from Leipzig to Cardiff is to train and fly which takes 7h 12m and costs £100 - £270.
No, there is no direct bus from Leipzig station to Cardiff. However, there are services departing from Leipzig central train station and arriving at University RE via DORTMUND, Hbf Nordseite, Steinstrasse and London Victoria. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 21h 23m.
No, there is no direct train from Leipzig to Cardiff. However, there are services departing from Leipzig Hbf and arriving at Cardiff Central via Dortmund Hbf, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi, King's Cross St. Pancras station and London Paddington. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 15h 47m.
The distance between Leipzig and Cardiff is 859 miles.
The best way to get from Leipzig to Cardiff without a car is to train which takes 15h 47m and costs £330 - £700.
It takes approximately 7h 12m to get from Leipzig to Cardiff, including transfers.
Leipzig to Cardiff bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Leipzig central train station.
Leipzig to Cardiff train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Leipzig Hbf station.
The best way to get from Leipzig to Cardiff is to train which takes 15h 47m and costs £330 - £700. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs £95 - £210 and takes 21h 23m.
What companies run services between Leipzig, Germany and Cardiff, Wales?
You can take a train from Leipzig Hbf to Cardiff Central via Dortmund Hbf, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi, London St Pancras Intl, King's Cross St. Pancras station, Paddington station, and London Paddington in around 15h 47m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Leipzig central train station to University RE via DORTMUND, Hbf Nordseite, Steinstrasse, LONDON, Victoria Coach Station-Departure Hall, and London Victoria in around 21h 23m.
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bristol Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £45–250
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Cardiff Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £75–400
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Birmingham Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £45–250
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London City Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £60–340
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bristol Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £45–240
Flights from Frankfurt to Birmingham Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £40–240
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London City Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £85–250
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £70–310
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Birmingham Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 58m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £140–750
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Birmingham Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 18m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £80–310
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Birmingham Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- £60–290
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £100–250
Flights from Frankfurt to Birmingham Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £75–480
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Wednesday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £50–140
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bristol Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £50–140
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Birmingham Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £40–130
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £40–130
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bristol Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Thursday, Monday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £40–130
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Birmingham Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £55–280
Flights from Frankfurt to Birmingham Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £45–250
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Birmingham Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- £95–370
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Birmingham Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £40–150
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £45–130
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Birmingham Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £80–170
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £70–170
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Birmingham Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- £60–290
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London City Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £140–370
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £65–240
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to London Heathrow Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £110–250
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bristol Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £55–170
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Frankfurt to Birmingham Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £110–480
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £25–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 9m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £75–200
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £18–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £65–180
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Hannover Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 59m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £40–110
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 3457 000 125
- gwr.feedback@gwr.com
- Website
- gwr.com
Train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £17–35
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from London Paddington to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 58m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £60–130
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
- Phone
- 03333 211 202
- Website
- tfw.wales
Train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £15–26
- Website
- https://tfw.wales/
Train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £19–27
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
Train from Birmingham New Street to Cardiff Central
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £55–80
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 24m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £90–160
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intl
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £100–170
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Frankfurt(Main)Sued
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 46m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £70–130
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- belgiantrain.be
Train from Frankfurt Main to Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 1m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- £60–130
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestone
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £117
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Standard fare
- £117
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £21–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +31302035833
- info@europeansleeper.eu
- Website
- europeansleeper.eu
Train from Hannover Hbf to Antwerpen-Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 4m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- £65–120
- Website
- https://www.europeansleeper.eu/
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Antwerpen-Centraal to London St. Pancras Int.
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 24m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £40–90
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.com
- Website
- regiojet.com
Bus from Brussels Midi / Brussels South West to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- £22–35
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
- Phone
- 08717 81 81 81
- Website
- nationalexpress.com
Bus from London Victoria to University RE
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £28–70
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
- Phone
- +38 098-888-11-08
- igoruzhanskyi@grandbus.com.ua
- Website
- grandbus.com.ua
Bus from Dresden to Praha Hlavní nádraží
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.grandbus.com.ua/en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Leipzig central train station to Dortmund central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 6m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- £23–40
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +48 801 22 33 44
- bilety@sindbad.pl
- Website
- sindbad.pl
Bus from DORTMUND, Hbf Nordseite, Steinstrasse to LONDON, Victoria Coach Station-Departure Hall
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £45–95
- Website
- https://www.sindbad.pl/en/home
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.fr
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £7–40
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
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More Questions & Answers
Leipzig to Cardiff bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Dortmund central bus station.
Cardiff is 1h behind Leipzig. It is currently 4:33 AM in Leipzig and 3:33 AM in Cardiff.
Leipzig to Cardiff train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Dortmund Hbf station.
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