There are 9 ways to get from Messina to Dresden by train, plane, ferry, bus, car, or car ferry
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, fly to Dresden Airport
best- Take the train from Messina Centrale to Catania Centraletrain
- Fly from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA) to Dresden Airport (DRS)plane CTA - DRS
8h 45m€164–479Train to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, fly to Václav Havel Airport Prague, train
cheapest- Take the train from Messina Centrale to Catania Centraletrain
- Fly from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)plane CTA - PRG
- Take the train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden Hbftrain
11h 11m€89–298Ferry, train
- Take the ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa S.Giovanniferry M1 / ...
- Take the train from Villa S.Giovanni to Bologna Centraletrain Fr
- Take the train from Bologna Centrale to München Hbftrain 89
- Take the train from München Hbf to Nürnberg Hbftrain 25 / ...
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Erfurt Hbftrain 29 / ...
- Take the train from Erfurt Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhoftrain 50 / ...
22h 14mBus
- Take the bus from Messina to Bolognabus
- Take the bus from Bologna Centrale to Leipzig central train stationbus
- Take the bus from Leipzig central train station to Dresden central stationbus N67 / ...
32h 54m€131–241Ferry, drive
- Take the ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa San Giovanniferry
- Drive from Villa San Giovanni to Dresdencar
18h 59m€312–462Train to Palermo Airport, fly to Dresden Airport
- Take the train from Messina Centrale to Palermo Centraletrain
- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Dresden Airport (DRS)plane PMO - DRS
10h 51m€170–612Train to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, fly to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, train
- Take the train from Messina Centrale to Catania Centraletrain
- Fly from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)plane CTA - BER
- Take the train from Flughafen BER to Dresden Hauptbahnhoftrain
9h 30m€96–429Car ferry, train
- Take the car ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa San Giovannicarferry
- Take the train from Villa S.Giovanni to Venezia Mestretrain Fr
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Muenchen Hbftrain Rj
- Take the train from München Hbf to Hof Hbftrain Re2
- Take the train from Hof Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhoftrain Re3
27h 25mBus, train
- Take the bus from Messina Centrale Station to Battipaglia Ospedalebus
- Take the bus from BATTIPAGLIA, Via Belvedere, 26A , naprzeciw stacji Q8 to JELENIA GÓRA, ul. Teatralnabus
- Take the train from Jelenia Gora to Goerlitztrain Os
- Take the train from Görlitz Bahnhof to Dresden Hauptbahnhoftrain Re1
40h 12m€188–400
Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA) to Dresden Airport (DRS) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Messina to Dresden is to train and fly which costs €85 - €300 and takes 11h 11m.
The fastest way to get from Messina to Dresden is to train and fly which takes 8h 45m and costs €160 - €480.
No, there is no direct bus from Messina to Dresden station. However, there are services departing from Messina and arriving at Dresden central station via Bologna Centrale and Leipzig central train station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 32h 54m.
The distance between Messina and Dresden is 1636 km.
The best way to get from Messina to Dresden without a car is to ferry and train which takes 22h 14m and costs .
It takes approximately 8h 45m to get from Messina to Dresden, including transfers.
Messina to Dresden bus services, operated by Itabus S.p.A., depart from Messina station.
Messina to Dresden bus services, operated by Itabus S.p.A., arrive at Bologna station.
Book your Messina to Dresden bus tickets online with Omio.
There are 2056+ hotels available in Dresden.
What companies run services between Messina, Italy and Dresden, Germany?
You can take a bus from Messina to Dresden central station via Bologna Centrale and Leipzig central train station in around 32h 54m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Dresden Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–500
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Dresden Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €190–750
Flights from Palermo Airport to Dresden Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 37m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–550
Flights from Palermo Airport to Dresden Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €150–600
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 7m
- When
- Tuesday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €60–320
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Wednesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €55–290
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–210
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Trieste
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €40–210
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €55–170
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Pescara
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–170
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Stuttgart
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €120–310
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–180
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–350
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Tuesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–310
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–300
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €50–260
- Website
- smartwings.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–180
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Messina Centrale to Catania Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 48m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–19
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Messina Centrale to Palermo Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €27–45
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Messina Centrale to Catania Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €9–21
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 58m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €100–220
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Messina Centrale to Palermo Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €22–50
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 36m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €140–280
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 17m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €170–320
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- italotreno.it
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 44m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €120–250
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Bologna Centrale to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 33m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €100–240
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €30–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–110
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Flughafen BER to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from München Hbf to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 47m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €35–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Hof Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 38m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €65–95
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 9m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €21–35
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
Train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 9m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €30–45
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €30–45
Train from Venezia Mestre to Muenchen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 39m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €75–120
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €75–120
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €40–70
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +47 70 13 14 15
- kundehenv@dsb.dk
- Website
- dsb.dk
Train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 9m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–55
- Website
- https://www.dsb.dk/en/
- Phone
- 0 89 54 888 97 - 25
- info@laenderbahn.com
- Website
- laenderbahn.com
Train from München Hbf to Hof Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 41m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–260
- Schedules at
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Hof Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 36m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- mitteldeutsche-regiobahn.de
Train from Jelenia Gora to Goerlitz
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €20–35
- Website
- https://kolejedolnoslaskie.pl/
- Phone
- +49 89 548889725
- info@trilex.de
- Website
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Görlitz Bahnhof to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €40–50
- Schedules at
- laenderbahn.com
- Phone
- +39 06 88 93 82 32
- Website
- itabus.it
Bus from Messina to Bologna
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 40m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €55–110
- Website
- https://www.itabus.it/en/home
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Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Bologna Centrale to Leipzig central train station
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 40m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €65–120
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Leipzig central train station to Dresden central station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €7–13
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- (+39) 0923 98.11.20
- Website
- autoservizisalemi.it
Bus from Messina Centrale Station to Battipaglia Ospedale
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €18–26
- Schedules at
- autoservizisalemi.it
- Phone
- +48 801 22 33 44
- bilety@sindbad.pl
- Website
- sindbad.pl
Bus from BATTIPAGLIA, Via Belvedere, 26A , naprzeciw stacji Q8 to JELENIA GÓRA, ul. Teatralna
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €110–290
- Website
- https://www.sindbad.pl/en/home
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- 3409848540
- info@blujetlines.it
- Website
- blujetlines.it
Ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa San Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €2–3
- Schedules at
- blujetlines.it
- Phone
- +39.090.57.37
- servizioclienti@carontetourist.it
- Website
- carontetourist.it
Car ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa San Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €1–39
- Schedules at
- carontetourist.it
- Passenger
- €3
- Car
- €39
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