There are 13 ways to get from Magdeburg to Bern by train, bus, car, plane, or car train
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Train via Braunschweig
best- Take the train from Magdeburg Hbf to Braunschweig, Hauptbahnhoftrain 55 / ...
- Take the train from Braunschweig, Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBBtrain 12
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain Ic6 / ...
9h 14mCHF 78–211Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Magdeburg to Karlsruhebus
- Take the bus from Karlsruhe central train station to Bernbus N122 / ...
14h 30mCHF 38–64Drive 772.8 km
- Drive from Magdeburg to Berncar 772.8 km
8hCHF 125–181Train to Leipzig-Halle Airport, fly to Basel, train
- Take the train from Magdeburg Hbf to Leipzig/Halle Flughafentrain
- Fly from Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ) to Basel (BSL)plane LEJ - BSL
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain
9h 7mCHF 144–373Train
- Take the train from Magdeburg Hbf to Basel SBBtrain 12
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain Ic6 / ...
10h 6mCHF 89–185Train via Erfurt
- Take the train from Magdeburg Hbf to Erfurt Hbftrain Re
- Take the train from Erfurt Hbf to Basel SBBtrain 12N
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain Ic6 / ...
11h 3mDrive, car train
- Drive from Magdeburg to Göttingencar
- Take the car train from Göttingen to Fuldacartrain
- Drive from Fulda to Berncar
7h 48mCHF 186–250Train to Hannover Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Magdeburg Hbf to Hannover Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane HAJ - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich Flughafen to Berntrain
6h 57mCHF 142–350Train, train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Zurich Airport
- Take the train from Magdeburg Hbf to Potsdam Hbftrain
- Take the train from S Potsdam Hauptbahnhof to Flughafen BERtrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane BER - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich Flughafen to Berntrain
7h 55mCHF 92–234Train, train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Basel
- Take the train from Magdeburg Hbf to Potsdam Hbftrain
- Take the train from S Potsdam Hauptbahnhof to Flughafen BERtrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Basel (BSL)plane BER - BSL
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain
8h 22mCHF 89–249Train, train to Hamburg Airport, fly to Zurich Airport
- Take the train from Magdeburg Hbf to Stendal Hbftrain
- Take the train from Stendal Hbf to Hamburg Hbftrain
- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane HAM - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich Flughafen to Berntrain
8h 34mCHF 114–318Train, train to Frankfurt, fly to Basel
- Take the train from Magdeburg Hbf to Hannover Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Basel (BSL)plane FRA - BSL
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain
8h 24mCHF 184–420Train, train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Geneva International Airport
- Take the train from Magdeburg Hbf to Potsdam Hbftrain
- Take the train from S Potsdam Hauptbahnhof to Flughafen BERtrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane BER - GVA
- Take the train from Genève-Aéroport to Berntrain
9h 40mCHF 92–284
Magdeburg to Bern by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Magdeburg to Bern is to bus which costs SFr 35 - SFr 65 and takes 14h 30m.
The fastest way to get from Magdeburg to Bern is to train and fly which takes 6h 57m and costs SFr 140 - SFr 350.
No, there is no direct bus from Magdeburg to Bern. However, there are services departing from Magdeburg and arriving at Bern via Karlsruhe central train station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 14h 30m.
No, there is no direct train from Magdeburg to Bern. However, there are services departing from Magdeburg Hbf and arriving at Bern via Braunschweig, Hauptbahnhof and Basel SBB. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 9h 14m.
The distance between Magdeburg and Bern is 870 km. The road distance is 772.8 km.
The best way to get from Magdeburg to Bern without a car is to train via Braunschweig which takes 9h 14m and costs SFr 75 - SFr 220.
It takes approximately 9h 14m to get from Magdeburg to Bern, including transfers.
Magdeburg to Bern bus services, operated by Ecolines, depart from Magdeburg station.
Magdeburg to Bern train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Magdeburg Hbf station.
The best way to get from Magdeburg to Bern is to train via Braunschweig which takes 9h 14m and costs SFr 75 - SFr 220. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs SFr 35 - SFr 65 and takes 14h 30m.
What companies run services between Magdeburg, Germany and Bern, Switzerland?
You can take a train from Magdeburg Hbf to Bern via Braunschweig, Hauptbahnhof and Basel SBB in around 9h 14m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Magdeburg to Bern via Karlsruhe and Karlsruhe central train station in around 14h 30m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–290
Flights from Hannover Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–180
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–280
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–280
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–320
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–320
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–310
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–320
Flights from Frankfurt to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–300
Flights from Frankfurt to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–240
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–170
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Geneva International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–290
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Geneva International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 48m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–300
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Hannover Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–180
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–110
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–250
Flights from Frankfurt to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–240
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–170
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Geneva International Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–170
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–110
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Cologne Bonn
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Wednesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–110
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–110
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–170
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–170
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–110
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–140
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–150
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Basel via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–320
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–300
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Frankfurt to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–300
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–170
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Geneva International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–310
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Geneva International Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–240
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Magdeburg Hbf to Braunschweig, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 9–27
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Braunschweig, Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 51m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–140
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Magdeburg Hbf to Leipzig/Halle Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Magdeburg Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 27m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–140
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 59m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–160
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Magdeburg Hbf to Hannover Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Magdeburg Hbf to Potsdam Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 24–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Magdeburg Hbf to Stendal Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 39 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 17–19
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Stendal Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 20–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Magdeburg Hbf to Braunschweig, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 14–20
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from S Potsdam Hauptbahnhof to Flughafen BER
- Ave. Duration
- 48 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 10–15
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Magdeburg Hbf to Stendal Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 48 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 11–16
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 24–45
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich Flughafen to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–65
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Genève-Aéroport to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–65
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 69 9999 3640
- info@startgmbh.com
- Website
- startgmbh.com
Train from Magdeburg Hbf to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Schedules at
- startgmbh.com
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Göttingen to Fulda
- Ave. Duration
- 48 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–100
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +49 30 514 88 88 88
- info@odeg.de
- Website
- odeg.de
Train from Magdeburg Hbf to Potsdam Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 11–16
- Schedules at
- odeg.de
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- info@flixbus.de
- Website
- flixtrain.de
Train from Stendal Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 10–26
- Website
- https://www.flixtrain.com/
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Magdeburg to Karlsruhe
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–30
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Karlsruhe central train station to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 22–35
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
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More Questions & Answers
Magdeburg to Bern bus services, operated by Ecolines, arrive at Karlsruhe station.
Magdeburg to Bern train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Braunschweig, Hauptbahnhof station.
Yes, the driving distance between Magdeburg to Bern is 773 km. It takes approximately 8h to drive from Magdeburg to Bern.
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