There are 10 ways to get from Lyon to Gera by train, bus, car, or plane
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Train
best- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Frankfurt84
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Erfurt Hbf50 / ...
- Take the train from Erfurt Hbf to Gera HbfRe3 / ...
10h 8m€142–222Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague, bus, train
cheapest- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)LYS - PRG
- Take the bus from Prague to Chemnitz central bus station
- Take the train from Glauchau, Bahnhof to Gera Hbf
10h 12m€105–266Bus
- Take the bus from Lyon to Nuremberg central bus station
- Take the bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Zwickau central train station321
- Take the bus from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Gera, Busbahnhof213
16h 46mDrive 978.3 km
- Drive from Lyon to Gera978.3 km
8h 57m€150–216Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Leipzig-Halle Airport, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ)LYS - LEJ
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Gera Hbf
8h 28mBus, train
- Take the bus from Lyon - Perrache Bus Station to Regensburg
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof West to Hof HbfRe2
- Take the train from Hof Hbf to Gera HbfRb
18h 12mFly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Dresden Airport, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Dresden Airport (DRS)LYS - DRS
- Take the train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Gera Hbf
9h 31mFly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Frankfurt (FRA)LYS - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Erfurt Hbf
- Take the train from Erfurt Hbf to Gera Hbf
8h 29m€150–390Train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, train
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Geneve
- Fly from Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)GVA - BER
- Take the train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Leipzig Hbf
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Gera Hbf
9h 42mFly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Munich International Airport, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Munich International Airport (MUC)LYS - MUC
- Take the train from Flughafen München to Hauptbahnhof
- Take the train from München Hbf to Nürnberg Hbf
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Erfurt Hbf
- Take the train from Erfurt Hbf to Gera Hbf
8h 59m€151–415
Lyon to Gera by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Lyon to Gera is to fly and bus and train which costs €100 - €270 and takes 10h 12m.
The fastest way to get from Lyon to Gera is to fly and train which takes 8h 29m and costs €150 - €390.
No, there is no direct bus from Lyon to Gera. However, there are services departing from Lyon and arriving at Gera, Busbahnhof via Nuremberg central bus station and Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 16h 46m.
No, there is no direct train from Lyon to Gera. However, there are services departing from Lyon Part Dieu and arriving at Gera Hbf via Frankfurt and Erfurt Hbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 10h 8m.
The distance between Lyon and Gera is 1062 km. The road distance is 978.3 km.
The best way to get from Lyon to Gera without a car is to train which takes 10h 8m and costs €140 - €230.
It takes approximately 10h 8m to get from Lyon to Gera, including transfers.
Lyon to Gera bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Lyon station.
Lyon to Gera train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Lyon Part Dieu station.
The best way to get from Lyon to Gera is to train which takes 10h 8m and costs €140 - €230. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs and takes 16h 46m.
What companies run services between Lyon, France and Gera, Germany?
You can take a train from Lyon Part Dieu to Gera Hbf via Frankfurt and Erfurt Hbf in around 10h 8m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Lyon to Gera, Busbahnhof via Nuremberg central bus station and Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof in around 16h 46m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 11m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–450
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Dresden Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 12m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–340
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Dresden Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 16m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–340
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–310
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–260
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–210
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–330
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–220
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–300
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–300
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–270
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Munich International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 22m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–270
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–150
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–170
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–220
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–220
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–240
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–260
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–480
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–310
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €45–270
- Website
- volotea.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–150
- Website
- luxair.lu
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Luxembourg
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–340
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 59m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €100–120
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Gera Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €28–32
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €23–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €15–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Gera Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €16–23
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hauptbahnhof West to Hof Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €27–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €19–27
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Glauchau, Bahnhof to Gera Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €11–16
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Flughafen München to Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €10–15
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 47m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €26–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €28–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 37343 808037
- verein@pressnitztalbahn.de
- Website
- pressnitztalbahn.de
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Gera Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 16m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Schedules at
- pressnitztalbahn.de
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Gera Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- pressnitztalbahn.de
Train from Hof Hbf to Gera Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- pressnitztalbahn.de
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €28–40
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- 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
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Geneve
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €40–120
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- info@flixbus.de
- Website
- flixtrain.de
Train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €4–14
- Website
- https://www.flixtrain.com/
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Lyon to Nuremberg central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45–95
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Zwickau central train station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €14–35
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Prague to Chemnitz central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €18–55
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +49 (0) 036608 2633
- reservierung@piehler.de
- Website
- piehler.de
Bus from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Gera, Busbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- piehler.de
- 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
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More Questions & Answers
Lyon to Gera bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Nuremberg central bus station.
Lyon to Gera train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Frankfurt station.
Yes, the driving distance between Lyon to Gera is 978 km. It takes approximately 8h 57m to drive from Lyon to Gera.
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