There are 11 ways to get from Munich to Edinburgh by plane, train (Eurostar), bus, car, car train, train, 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.
Fly Munich International Airport to Edinburgh Airport
best- Fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane MUC - EDI
5h 42m£83–192Bus to Allgäu Airport, Memmingen, fly to Edinburgh Airport
cheapest- Take the bus from München to Memmingen Airportbus
- Fly from Allgäu Airport, Memmingen (FMM) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane FMM - EDI
8h 54m£68–186Train via Frankfurt Airport (FRA)
- Take the train from München Hbf to Frankfurttrain 47 / ...
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Bruxelles Miditrain 79
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intltrain Eil
- Take the train from King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
14h 38m£172–646Bus
- Take the bus from Munich central bus station to London Victoriabus N280
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Edinburgh, Bus Stationbus Ukxn10 / ...
31h 20m£70–153Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Munich to Calais-Fréthuncar
- Take the car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestonecartrain
- Drive from Folkestone to Edinburghcar
17h 43mTrain to Innsbruck Airport, fly to Edinburgh Airport
- Take the train from Ostbahnhof to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Fly from Innsbruck Airport (INN) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane INN - EDI
7h 8m£92–316Fly Munich International Airport to Glasgow Airport, train
- Fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)plane MUC - GLA
- Take the train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
8h 9m£100–220Train to Salzburg Airport, fly to Edinburgh Airport
- Take the train from Ostbahnhof to Salzburg Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Fly from Salzburg Airport (SZG) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane SZG - EDI
7h 2m£75–247Train
- Take the train from München Ost to Bruxelles-Miditrain Nj
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intltrain Eil
- Take the train from King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
18h 11m£171–428Train, bus
- Take the train from Muenchen Hbf to Plzen Hlavni Nadrazitrain Re
- Take the bus from Plzeň CAN to Sheffieldbus
- Take the train from Sheffield to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
32h 34m£165–400Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Munich to Calaiscar
- Take the car ferry from Calais to Port of Dovercarferry
- Drive from Port of Dover to Edinburghcar
18h 49m£243–376
Munich to Edinburgh by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Munich to Edinburgh is to bus which costs £65 - £160 and takes 31h 20m.
The fastest way to get from Munich to Edinburgh is to fly which takes 5h 42m and costs £80 - £200.
No, there is no direct bus from Munich station to Edinburgh station. However, there are services departing from Munich central bus station and arriving at Edinburgh, Bus Station via London Victoria. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 31h 20m.
No, there is no direct train from Munich to Edinburgh. However, there are services departing from München Hbf and arriving at Edinburgh Waverley via Frankfurt, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi and King's Cross. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 14h 38m.
The distance between Munich and Edinburgh is 861 miles.
The best way to get from Munich to Edinburgh without a car is to train via Frankfurt Airport (FRA) which takes 14h 38m and costs £170 - £650.
It takes approximately 5h 42m to get from Munich to Edinburgh, including transfers.
Munich to Edinburgh bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Munich central bus station.
Munich to Edinburgh train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from München Hbf station.
The best way to get from Munich to Edinburgh is to fly which takes 5h 42m and costs £80 - £200. Alternatively, you can train via Frankfurt Airport (FRA), which costs £170 - £650 and takes 14h 38m, you could also bus, which costs £65 - £160 and takes 31h 20m.
What companies run services between Munich, Germany and Edinburgh, Scotland?
easyJet, Lufthansa, and three other airlines fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) 4 times a day. Alternatively, you can take a train from München Hbf to Edinburgh Waverley via Frankfurt, Bruxelles Midi, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi, London St Pancras Intl, and King's Cross in around 14h 38m.
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £50–160
Flights from Innsbruck Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £60–250
Flights from Innsbruck Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £60–250
Flights from Innsbruck Airport to Edinburgh Airport via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £60–250
Flights from Munich International Airport to Glasgow Airport via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £90–190
Flights from Munich International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £90–190
Flights from Munich International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £90–190
Flights from Allgäu Airport, Memmingen to Edinburgh Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 25m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £60–140
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £60–190
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £45–250
Flights from Innsbruck Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 22m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £70–370
Flights from Munich International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £45–250
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £60–340
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £80–180
Flights from Munich International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £80–180
Flights from Munich International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £60–260
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £90–180
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £90–210
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £90–230
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Innsbruck Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £65–160
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £40–210
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £55–210
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Innsbruck Airport to Edinburgh Airport via London City
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £85–390
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Allgäu Airport, Memmingen to Edinburgh Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £60–140
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Allgäu Airport, Memmingen to Edinburgh Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £60–140
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from München Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £17–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 47m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £40–110
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Ostbahnhof to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £21–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Ostbahnhof to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- £15–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from München Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 18m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £55–190
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- £55–80
- 1st Class
- £110–190
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intl
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £60–210
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £55–140
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestone
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Phone
- +44 344 811 0141
- Website
- scotrail.co.uk
Train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- £17–18
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- meinenachricht@westbahn.at
- Website
- westbahn.at
Train from Ostbahnhof to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- £7–35
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 8024 997171
- info@brb.de
- Website
- brb.de
Train from Ostbahnhof to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £27–40
- Schedules at
- brb.de
- Phone
- +49 30 200730
- post@transdev.de
- Website
- transdev.de
Train from Ostbahnhof to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £22–35
- Schedules at
- transdev.de
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Ostbahnhof to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £27–45
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Ostbahnhof to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £15–40
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Ostbahnhof to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- £30–45
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- belgiantrain.be
Train from München Ost to Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 39m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- £55–80
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
- 2nd Class
- £55–80
- 1st Class
- £85–130
- Phone
- 0 89 54 888 97 - 25
- info@laenderbahn.com
- Website
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Muenchen Hbf to Plzen Hlavni Nadrazi
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £70
- Schedules at
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Sheffield to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 48m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £35–180
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Munich central bus station to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £45–95
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from London Victoria to Edinburgh, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 16m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- £20–50
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- 08717 81 81 81
- Website
- nationalexpress.com
Bus from London Victoria to Edinburgh, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £26–60
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 8331 9842 00 509
- info@aaexpress.de
- Website
- allgaeu-airport-express.de
Bus from München to Memmingen Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £8–26
- Schedules at
- allgaeu-airport-express.de
- On Board Fare
- £19
- Internet fare
- £8
- Phone
- +421 55 680 73 06
- onlinepredaj@eurobus.sk
- Website
- eurobus.sk
Bus from Plzeň CAN to Sheffield
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 25m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- £60–150
- Website
- https://www.eurobus.sk/en
- Phone
- 01304 44 88 88
- customer.services@poferries.com
- Website
- poferries.com
Car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- £25–45
- Website
- https://www.poferries.com/en
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £30–40
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
- Car
- £65–160
- On Foot
- £30–40
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Munich to Edinburgh bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at London Victoria station.
Edinburgh is 1h behind Munich. It is currently 8:58 PM in Munich and 7:58 PM in Edinburgh.
Munich to Edinburgh train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Frankfurt station.
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