There are 11 ways to get from Lyon to Bayreuth by train, bus, car, plane, or train (TGV)
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Train, bus
best- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Karlsruhe Hbftrain Tgv
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Nürnberg Hbftrain 61
- Take the bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Bayreuth central train stationbus N86 / ...
11h 6m€89–303Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Lyon to Nuremberg central bus stationbus N1759 / ...
- Take the bus from Nürnberg Hbf to Bayreuth Hbfbus Ev
13h 8m€46–69Drive 854 km
- Drive from Lyon to Bayreuthcar 854 km
7h 52m€130–188Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Nuremberg Airport, bus
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Nuremberg Airport (NUE)plane LYS - NUE
- Take the bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Bayreuth central train stationbus
8h 9m€101–252Train
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Karlsruhe Hbftrain Tgv
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Lichtenfelstrain 61
- Take the train from Lichtenfels to Bayreuth Hbftrain
11h 14m€128–303Bus, train
- Take the bus from Lyon - Perrache Bus Station to Regensburgbus
- Take the train from Regensburg Hbf to Weidentrain Re2
- Take the train from Weiden(Oberpf) to Bayreuth Hbftrain Rb
15h 44mFly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt, train, bus
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane LYS - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Nürnberg Hbftrain
- Take the bus from Nürnberg Hbf to Bayreuth Hbfbus
8h 49m€150–369Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Munich International Airport, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane LYS - MUC
- Take the train from Muenchen Flughafen Terminal to Regensburg Hbftrain
- Take the train from Regensburg Hbf to Weidentrain
- Take the train from Weiden(Oberpf) to Bayreuth Hbftrain
8h 51mFly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague, bus, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)plane LYS - PRG
- Take the bus from Prague Airport Terminal 1/2 to Cheb Central Bus Stationbus
- Take the train from Cheb to Kirchenlaibachtrain
9h 46m€86–227Train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Frankfurt, train, bus
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Genevetrain
- Fly from Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane GVA - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Nürnberg Hbftrain
- Take the bus from Nürnberg Hbf to Bayreuth Hbfbus
10h 28m€174–396Train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Munich International Airport, train
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Genevetrain
- Fly from Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane GVA - MUC
- Take the train from Muenchen Flughafen Terminal to Regensburg Hbftrain
- Take the train from Regensburg Hbf to Weidentrain
- Take the train from Weiden(Oberpf) to Bayreuth Hbftrain
10h 31m
Lyon to Bayreuth by train and bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Lyon to Bayreuth is to bus which costs €45 - €70 and takes 13h 8m.
The fastest way to get from Lyon to Bayreuth is to drive which takes 7h 52m and costs €130 - €190.
No, there is no direct bus from Lyon to Bayreuth. However, there are services departing from Lyon and arriving at Bayreuth Hbf via Nürnberg Hbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 13h 8m.
No, there is no direct train from Lyon to Bayreuth. However, there are services departing from Lyon Part Dieu and arriving at Bayreuth Hbf via Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof and Lichtenfels. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 11h 14m.
The distance between Lyon and Bayreuth is 943 km. The road distance is 854 km.
The best way to get from Lyon to Bayreuth without a car is to train and bus which takes 11h 6m and costs €85 - €310.
It takes approximately 11h 6m to get from Lyon to Bayreuth, including transfers.
Lyon to Bayreuth bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Lyon station.
Lyon to Bayreuth train services, operated by TGV inOui, depart from Lyon Part Dieu station.
The best way to get from Lyon to Bayreuth is to bus which takes 13h 8m and costs €45 - €70. Alternatively, you can train, which costs €120 - €310 and takes 11h 14m.
What companies run services between Lyon, France and Bayreuth, Germany?
You can take a bus from Lyon to Bayreuth Hbf via Nuremberg central bus station and Nürnberg Hbf in around 13h 8m. Alternatively, you can take a train from Lyon Part Dieu to Bayreuth Hbf via Karlsruhe Hbf, Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof, and Lichtenfels in around 11h 14m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Nuremberg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–410
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–300
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–300
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–290
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Munich International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–190
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–250
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–250
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–310
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Frankfurt via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–240
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–320
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Munich International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–200
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–310
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Frankfurt via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–310
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–320
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Munich International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–230
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–280
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–270
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–320
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 42m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–220
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Frankfurt via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €60–210
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Nuremberg Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–410
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Nuremberg Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–390
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–270
- Website
- vueling.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Nuremberg Airport via Barcelona
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–270
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–290
- Website
- volotea.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €40–150
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €35–150
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 49m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €55–210
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Geneve
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €30–70
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- 2nd Class
- €30–45
- 1st Class
- €55–70
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €25–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Lichtenfels
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €60–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €25–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Lichtenfels to Bayreuth Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–18
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Regensburg Hbf to Weiden
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €15–22
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Muenchen Flughafen Terminal to Regensburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €18–26
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Cheb to Kirchenlaibach
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €12–17
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 800 589 28 40
- Website
- agilis.de
Train from Lichtenfels to Bayreuth Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- agilis.de
Train from Weiden(Oberpf) to Bayreuth Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- agilis.de
Train from Muenchen Flughafen Terminal to Regensburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €33–36
- Schedules at
- agilis.de
- Phone
- 0 89 54 888 97 - 25
- info@laenderbahn.com
- Website
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Regensburg Hbf to Weiden
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30
- Schedules at
- laenderbahn.com
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from Cheb to Kirchenlaibach
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €3–8
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
- 2nd Class
- €3–6
- 1st Class
- €6–8
- Business
- €6–7
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Geneve
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €25–35
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Bayreuth central train station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €9–13
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Lyon to Nuremberg central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €35–55
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +49 30 311682904
- Website
- bahn.com
Bus from Nürnberg Hbf to Bayreuth Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €10–14
- Website
- https://www.bahn.com/en
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Lyon - Perrache Bus Station to Regensburg
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 50m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €50–75
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.com
Bus from Prague Airport Terminal 1/2 to Cheb Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €9–15
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
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More Questions & Answers
Lyon to Bayreuth bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Nuremberg central bus station.
Lyon to Bayreuth train services, operated by TGV inOui, arrive at Karlsruhe Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between Lyon to Bayreuth is 854 km. It takes approximately 7h 52m to drive from Lyon to Bayreuth.
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