There are 13 ways to get from Palermo to Europe by plane, train, train (Trenitalia), car ferry, car, bus, or 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 to Frankfurt, train
best- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane PMO - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
10h 51m$142–367Fly to Dortmund Airport, train
cheapest- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Dortmund Airport (DTM)plane PMO - DTM
- Take the train from Soest to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehetrain
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
12h$97–331Train
- Take the train from Palermo Centrale to Roma Terminitrain Ic
- Take the train from Roma Termini to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Karlsruhe Hbftrain Ec
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Wabern Bahnhoftrain 26
28h 58m$475–862Car ferry, drive
- Take the car ferry from Port of Palermo to Port of Genoacarferry
- Drive from Port of Genoa to Europecar
29h 24m$268–402Bus, train
- Take the bus from Palermo Terminal Bus to Roma, Autostazione Tiburtinabus
- Take the bus from Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina to Nuremberg central bus stationbus
- Take the bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Kasselbus N73
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain Rb5 / ...
35h 51m$164–285Fly to Stuttgart Airport, train
- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Stuttgart Airport (STR)plane PMO - STR
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
12h 13m$177–454Fly to Cologne Bonn Airport, train
- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)plane PMO - CGN
- Take the train from Siegburg Bf to Frankfurttrain
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Eisenach Hbftrain
11h 52m$158–495Fly to Munich International Airport, train
- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane PMO - MUC
- Take the train from Flughafen München to Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from München Hbf to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
12h 19m$203–522Fly to Nuremberg Airport, train
- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Nuremberg Airport (NUE)plane PMO - NUE
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Erfurt Hbftrain
- Take the train from Erfurt Hbf to Eisenach Hbftrain
9h 39m$149–400Fly to Hahn, bus, train
- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Hahn (HHN)plane PMO - HHN
- Take the bus from Hahn to Mainz, Hauptbahnhofbus
- Take the train from Mainz, Hauptbahnhof to Bad Hersfeld Bahnhoftrain
13h 1m$114–366Fly to Allgäu Airport, Memmingen, train
- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Allgäu Airport, Memmingen (FMM)plane PMO - FMM
- Take the train from Memmingen to Ulm Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
13h 53m$164–474Train, bus
- Take the train from Palermo Centrale to Napoli Centraletrain Ic
- Take the bus from Napoli P.zza Garibaldi to Munich central bus stationbus
- Take the bus from Munich central bus station to Kasselbus N73
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain Rb5 / ...
38h 4m$213–425Ferry, bus, train
- Take the ferry from Port of Palermo to Naples Beverelloferry
- Take the bus from NAPOLI, Parcheggio METROPARK, via Corso Arnaldo Lucci to ZGORZELEC, parking przy stacji Shell - Jędrzychowicebus
- Take the bus from ZGORZELEC, parking przy stacji Shell - Jędrzychowice to FULDA, Hbf/ZOB, Am Bahnhofbus
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain Rb5
45h 24m$217–497
Palermo to Europe by bus and train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Palermo to Europe is to fly and train which costs $95 - $340 and takes 12h.
The fastest way to get from Palermo to Europe is to fly and train which takes 9h 39m and costs $140 - $400.
The distance between Palermo and Europe is 1601 km.
The best way to get from Palermo to Europe without a car is to train which takes 28h 58m and costs $470 - $900.
It takes approximately 10h 51m to get from Palermo to Europe, including transfers.
There are 858+ hotels available in Europe.
What companies run services between Palermo, Italy and Europe?
You can take a train from Palermo Centrale to Europe via Roma Termini, Milano Centrale, Karlsruhe Hbf, Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof, Wabern Bahnhof, Wabern Bahnhof, and Spangenberg Stadtmitte in around 28h 58m.
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Frankfurt via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–410
Flights from Palermo Airport to Frankfurt via Milan Linate
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 11m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–260
Flights from Palermo Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–410
Flights from Palermo Airport to Munich International Airport via Milan Linate
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 9m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–240
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $80–290
Flights from Palermo Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Bologna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $80–290
Flights from Palermo Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 51m
- When
- Thursday to Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $80–290
Flights from Palermo Airport to Nuremberg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $80–220
Flights from Palermo Airport to Hahn
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–240
Flights from Palermo Airport to Allgäu Airport, Memmingen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $55–200
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–410
Flights from Palermo Airport to Frankfurt via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $100–410
Flights from Palermo Airport to Stuttgart Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 32m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–450
Flights from Palermo Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–410
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95–230
Flights from Palermo Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $60–240
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Stuttgart Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–420
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Dortmund Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $40–200
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $24–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Wabern Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 24m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $65–160
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $11–28
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hauptbahnhof to Fulda Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $60–150
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Siegburg Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $40–110
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Fulda Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $75–190
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $40–100
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $12–29
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Soest to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 33m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $30–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Mainz, Hauptbahnhof to Bad Hersfeld Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $35–95
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Memmingen to Ulm Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 31 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $11–27
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to Fulda Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 9m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $80–190
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 561 766396-0
- info@cantus-bahn.de
- Website
- cantus-bahn.de
Train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.cantus-bahn.de/
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.cantus-bahn.de/
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $13–20
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $13–19
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Flughafen München to Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- $10–15
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $45–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $13–20
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Memmingen to Ulm Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $12–19
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Palermo Centrale to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 34m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $100–230
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Palermo Centrale to Napoli Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $75–170
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- italotreno.it
Train from Roma Termini to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $85–180
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- ufficiogruppi@trenitalia.it
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Milano Centrale to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 19m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $130–190
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- $130–190
- 2nd Class
- $130–170
- Phone
- +49 30 21300130
- info@abellio-mitteldeutschland.de
- Website
- abellio.de
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $14–20
- Schedules at
- abellio.de
- Phone
- 0800 2235546
- Website
- abellio.de
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $13–21
- Schedules at
- abellio.de
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Soest to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 34m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- (+39) 0923 98.11.20
- Website
- autoservizisalemi.it
Bus from Palermo Terminal Bus to Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $40–65
- Schedules at
- autoservizisalemi.it
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina to Nuremberg central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $85–150
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Kassel
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $24–45
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Napoli P.zza Garibaldi to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 5m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $90–160
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Munich central bus station to Kassel
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $35–65
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +49 (0) 6543 5019-400
- reisebuero@bohr.de
- Website
- bohr.de
Bus from Hahn to Mainz, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $16–19
- Schedules at
- bohr.de
- Phone
- +48 801 22 33 44
- bilety@sindbad.pl
- Website
- sindbad.pl
Bus from NAPOLI, Parcheggio METROPARK, via Corso Arnaldo Lucci to ZGORZELEC, parking przy stacji Shell - Jędrzychowice
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $130–330
- Website
- https://www.sindbad.pl/en/home
Bus from ZGORZELEC, parking przy stacji Shell - Jędrzychowice to FULDA, Hbf/ZOB, Am Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $40–90
- Website
- https://www.sindbad.pl/en/home
- Phone
- +39 010 209 4591
- booking@gnv.it
- Website
- gnv.it
Car ferry from Port of Palermo to Port of Genoa
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $100–170
- Website
- https://www.gnv.it/en
- Phone
- +39.081.496.444
- info@grimaldi.napoli.it
- Website
- grimaldi-lines.com
Ferry from Port of Palermo to Naples Beverello
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $30–55
- Website
- https://www.grimaldi-lines.com/en/
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