There are 8 ways to get from Melbourne to Essen by plane or train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly to Düsseldorf International Airport
best- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane MEL - DUS
25h 37m€572–1,234Fly to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, train
cheapest- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)plane MEL - AMS
- Take the train from Schiphol Airport Train Station to Utrecht Centraaltrain
- Take the train from Utrecht Centraal to Duisburg Hbftrain
28h 48m€439–897Fly to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane MEL - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Essen Hbftrain
27h 5m€467–952Fly to Brussels Airport, train
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Brussels Airport (BRU)plane MEL - BRU
- Take the train from Brussels-Nord to Koeln Hbftrain
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbftrain
28h 35m€520–1,101Fly to Hamburg Airport, train
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Hamburg Airport (HAM)plane MEL - HAM
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Essen Hbftrain
29h 45m€730–1,051Fly to Cologne Bonn Airport, train
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)plane MEL - CGN
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbftrain
28h 24m€444–1,278Fly to Dortmund Airport
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Dortmund Airport (DTM)plane MEL - DTM
28h 30m€669–1,339Fly to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, train
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)plane MEL - BER
- Take the train from Berlin Hbf to Wolfsburg, Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Wolfsburg, Hauptbahnhof to Essen Hbftrain
30h 19m€599–1,152
Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Melbourne to Essen is to fly and train which costs €430 - €900 and takes 28h 48m.
The fastest way to get from Melbourne to Essen is to fly which takes 25h 37m and costs €550 - €1300.
The distance between Melbourne and Essen is 16480 km.
It takes approximately 25h 37m to get from Melbourne to Essen, including transfers.
Essen is 10h behind Melbourne. It is currently 9:44 AM in Melbourne and 11:44 PM in Essen.
There are 2571+ hotels available in Essen.
What companies run services between Melbourne, VIC, Australia and Essen, Germany?
Etihad, Emirates, and four other airlines fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) 4 times a day.
- Website
- emirates.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €600–1,900
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,600
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €650–2,000
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Brussels Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 26m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €650–2,000
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Hamburg Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €650–2,000
- Website
- qatarairways.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €550–1,600
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,000
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €600–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Brussels Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 53m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €550–1,600
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €490–1,100
- Website
- virginaustralia.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €550–1,600
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,000
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €600–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Brussels Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 53m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €550–1,600
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €490–1,100
- Website
- etihad.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Abu Dhabi
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €380–1,100
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Abu Dhabi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €400–600
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Abu Dhabi
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €410–1,200
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Brussels Airport via Abu Dhabi
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €400–1,200
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Hamburg Airport via Abu Dhabi, Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €410–1,200
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Abu Dhabi
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €340–1,000
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Dubai, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 2m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €650–2,000
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Doha, Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €600–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Doha, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €600–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Abu Dhabi, Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 40m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €420–1,200
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €550–1,700
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Abu Dhabi, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €420–1,200
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Dubai, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 2m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €650–2,000
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Doha, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €600–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Suvarnabhumi, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €490–1,400
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Suvarnabhumi, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 10m
- When
- Monday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €500–1,800
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Delhi
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €430–850
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Abu Dhabi, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 30m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €420–1,200
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Suvarnabhumi, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €490–1,700
- Website
- thaiairways.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 27h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €550–1,300
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 30h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €600–1,600
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Dortmund Airport via Doha, Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €650–1,800
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Dortmund Airport via Doha, Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 50m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €650–1,800
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Dortmund Airport via Dubai, Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 31h
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €700–2,200
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Abu Dhabi
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €380–1,100
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Abu Dhabi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €400–600
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Abu Dhabi
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €340–1,000
- Website
- airindia.in
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Delhi
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €430–850
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Delhi
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €390–600
- Website
- srilankan.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Colombo
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 40m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €480–1,200
- Website
- evaair.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €600–1,600
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Doha, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 25m
- When
- Monday to Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €650–1,300
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Dortmund Airport via Doha, Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 30h 30m
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €650–1,300
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Frankfurt to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–85
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Utrecht Centraal to Duisburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €25–55
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Brussels-Nord to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €35–75
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–28
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 13m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €60–130
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–28
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Berlin Hbf to Wolfsburg, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €29–65
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Wolfsburg, Hauptbahnhof to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 42m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €50–110
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
Train from Schiphol Airport Train Station to Utrecht Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 33 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €4–9
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
Train from Utrecht Centraal to Duisburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €17–35
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
- Phone
- 0800-0232 545
- Website
- Arriva NL
Train from Schiphol Airport Train Station to Utrecht Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €8–13
- Website
- Arriva NL
- Second Class Single
- €8–13
- Phone
- +49 221 13 999 444
- Website
- National Express
Train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- National Express
Train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- National Express
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixtrain.de
- Website
- FlixTrain GmbH
Train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €6–10
- Website
- FlixTrain GmbH
Train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €6–10
- Website
- FlixTrain GmbH
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from Koeln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- Eurostar
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