There are 12 ways to get from Lyon to Hanover by train (TGV), bus, car, plane, train, or car train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train via Mannheim
best- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Mannheim Hbftrain Tgv
- Take the train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Hannover Hbftrain 20 / ...
8h 50m€209–389Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Lyon to Essen central train stationbus FlixBus N710
- Take the bus from Essen Hbf to Hannover Hbfbus Dnipro
14h 31m€79–133Drive 984.5 km
- Drive from Lyon to Hanovercar 984.5 km
9h 26m€152–219Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Hannover Airport
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Hannover Airport (HAJ)plane LYS - HAJ
6h 40m€135–315Train
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Frankfurttrain 84
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Hannover Hbftrain 20 / ...
10h 32m€216–513Drive, car train
- Drive from Lyon to Lörrach Hbfcar
- Take the car train from Lörrach Hbf to Hannover Hbfcartrain
12h 56m€153–203Bus via Frankfurt am Main
- Take the bus from LYON, Lyon - Perrache - poziom górny A to FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Hbf Südseite - Pforzheimer Str.bus
- Take the bus from Frankfurt to Hanoverbus
16h 40m€88–171Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Bremen Airport, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Bremen Airport (BRE)plane LYS - BRE
- Take the train from Bremen Hbf to Hannover Hbftrain
7h 33m€117–350Train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Hannover Airport
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Genevetrain
- Fly from Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Hannover Airport (HAJ)plane GVA - HAJ
8h 23m€139–363Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Hamburg Airport, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Hamburg Airport (HAM)plane LYS - HAM
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Hannover Hbftrain
8h 52m€133–314Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane LYS - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Hannover Hbftrain
7h 5m€197–465Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane LYS - DUS
- Take the train from D-Flughafen Bf to Hannover Hbftrain
8h 14m€152–378
Lyon to Hanover by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Lyon to Hanover is to bus which costs €75 - €140 and takes 14h 31m.
The fastest way to get from Lyon to Hanover is to fly which takes 6h 40m and costs €130 - €320.
No, there is no direct bus from Lyon to Hanover. However, there are services departing from Lyon and arriving at Hannover Hbf via Essen Hbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 14h 31m.
No, there is no direct train from Lyon to Hanover. However, there are services departing from Lyon Part Dieu and arriving at Hannover Hbf via Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 8h 50m.
The distance between Lyon and Hanover is 1053 km. The road distance is 984.5 km.
The best way to get from Lyon to Hanover without a car is to train via Mannheim which takes 8h 50m and costs €200 - €390.
It takes approximately 8h 50m to get from Lyon to Hanover, including transfers.
Lyon to Hanover bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Lyon station.
Lyon to Hanover train services, operated by TGV inOui, depart from Lyon Part Dieu station.
The best way to get from Lyon to Hanover is to train via Mannheim which takes 8h 50m and costs €200 - €390. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €75 - €140 and takes 14h 31m, you could also fly, which costs €130 - €320 and takes 6h 40m.
What companies run services between Lyon, France and Hanover, Germany?
You can take a train from Lyon Part Dieu to Hannover Hbf via Mannheim Hbf and Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof in around 8h 50m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Lyon to Hannover Hbf via Essen central train station and Essen Hbf in around 14h 31m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Hannover Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 46m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–700
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Hannover Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–550
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Bremen Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–800
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Bremen Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 23m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–490
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Hannover Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 11m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–490
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Hannover Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €120–500
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- €90–330
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–600
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–490
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €95–270
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 18m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–330
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Hannover Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–430
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Bremen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–470
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Hannover Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–420
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Hamburg Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–350
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–320
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Hannover Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 33m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–430
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Bremen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–470
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Hannover Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–420
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Hamburg Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–360
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–320
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–310
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Hannover Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–430
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Bremen Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–490
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Hannover Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €130–550
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Bremen Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €150–600
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Hannover Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–470
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Hamburg Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–310
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–300
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- €75–220
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €130–490
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Mannheim Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 17m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €130–210
- 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
- €30–55
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Hannover Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €75–180
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 46m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €150–370
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Hannover Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €60–150
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Bremen Hbf to Hannover Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €22–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Hannover Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €30–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from D-Flughafen Bf to Hannover Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €50–120
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Lörrach Hbf to Hannover Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 16m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €95–120
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Bremen Hbf to Hannover Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €25–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Bremen Hbf to Hannover Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 16m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €30–45
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Hannover Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 42m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €35–60
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Geneve
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €27–60
- 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
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Lyon to Essen central train station
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €55–95
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +380 98 815 4444
- support@ewe.ua
- Website
- ewe.ua
Bus from Essen Hbf to Hannover Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €23–40
- Website
- https://ewe.ua/
- Phone
- +48 801 22 33 44
- bilety@sindbad.pl
- Website
- sindbad.pl
Bus from LYON, Lyon - Perrache - poziom górny A to FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Hbf Südseite - Pforzheimer Str.
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €60–130
- Website
- https://www.sindbad.pl/en/home
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Frankfurt to Hanover
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €24–45
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
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More Questions & Answers
Lyon to Hanover bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Essen central train station.
Lyon to Hanover train services, operated by TGV inOui, arrive at Mannheim Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between Lyon to Hanover is 985 km. It takes approximately 9h 26m to drive from Lyon to Hanover.
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