There are 12 ways to get from Santander to Dresden by plane, train, bus, car, or train (Renfe, TGV)
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Fly Santander Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, train
best- Fly from Santander Airport (SDR) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)plane SDR - BER
- Take the train from Flughafen BER to Dresden Hauptbahnhoftrain
8h 29m€92–272Bus to Bilbao Airport, fly to Václav Havel Airport Prague, train
cheapest- Take the bus from Santander E.A. to Bilbao Intermodalbus
- Fly from Bilbao Airport (BIO) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)plane BIO - PRG
- Take the train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden Hbftrain
11h 11m€70–252Bus, train
- Take the bus from Santander to Bordeauxbus
- Take the train from Bordeaux St Jean to Frankfurt(Main)Hbftrain Tgv
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Dresden Hauptbahnhoftrain 50
20h 21m€137–334Bus
- Take the bus from Santander to Parisbus FlixBus 783
- Take the bus from Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine) to Dresden central stationbus N1306 / ...
29h 10m€118–222Drive 1,964.4 km
- Drive from Santander to Dresdencar 1,964.4 km
18h 19m€303–437Bus to Bilbao Airport, fly to Dresden Airport
- Take the bus from Santander E.A. to Bilbao Intermodalbus
- Fly from Bilbao Airport (BIO) to Dresden Airport (DRS)plane BIO - DRS
8h 55m€126–388Fly Santander Airport to Dresden Airport
- Fly from Santander Airport (SDR) to Dresden Airport (DRS)plane SDR - DRS
14h 59m€108–435Fly Santander Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague, train
- Fly from Santander Airport (SDR) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)plane SDR - PRG
- Take the train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden Hbftrain
8h 55m€75–261Bus to Bilbao Airport, fly to Leipzig-Halle Airport, train
- Take the bus from Santander E.A. to Bilbao Intermodalbus
- Fly from Bilbao Airport (BIO) to Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ)plane BIO - LEJ
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhoftrain
11h 25m€154–399Bus, train via Antony
- Take the bus from Santander E.A. to Estación de Autobuses Donostia-San Sebastiánbus
- Take the train from Hendaye to Massy Tgvtrain Tgv
- Take the train from Massy Tgv to Frankfurt(Main)Hbftrain Tgv
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Dresden Hauptbahnhoftrain 50
20h 48m€236–514Train
- Take the train from Santander to Madrid Chamartíntrain Alv / ...
- Take the train from Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Grandes to Avignon Tgvtrain
- Take the train from Avignon Tgv to Frankfurt(Main)Hbftrain Tgv
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Dresden Hauptbahnhoftrain 50
26h 46m€199–475Bus, train via Brussels
- Take the bus from Santander E.A. to Bilbao Intermodalbus
- Take the bus from Bilbao to Brussels - Midi Train Stationbus
- Take the train from Bruxelles-Midi to Hasselttrain Ic / ...
- Take the bus from Hasselt to Dresdenbus
34h 26m
Santander to Dresden by bus, foot, and train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Santander to Dresden is to fly and train which costs €90 - €280 and takes 8h 29m.
The fastest way to get from Santander to Dresden is to fly and train which takes 8h 29m and costs €90 - €280.
No, there is no direct bus from Santander to Dresden station. However, there are services departing from Santander and arriving at Dresden central station via Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine). The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 29h 10m.
No, there is no direct train from Santander to Dresden. However, there are services departing from Santander and arriving at Dresden Hauptbahnhof via Madrid Chamartín, Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Grandes, Avignon Tgv and Frankfurt. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 26h 46m.
The distance between Santander and Dresden is 1792 km. The road distance is 1964.4 km.
The best way to get from Santander to Dresden without a car is to bus and train which takes 20h 21m and costs €130 - €340.
It takes approximately 8h 29m to get from Santander to Dresden, including transfers.
Santander to Dresden bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Santander station.
Santander to Dresden train services, operated by Renfe Viajeros, depart from Santander station.
The best way to get from Santander to Dresden is to bus which takes 29h 10m and costs €110 - €230. Alternatively, you can fly, which costs €100 - €440 and takes 14h 59m, you could also train, which costs €190 - €480 and takes 26h 46m.
What companies run services between Santander, Spain and Dresden, Germany?
You can take a bus from Santander to Dresden central station via Paris and Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine) in around 29h 10m. Alternatively, Vueling Airlines, World Ticket, and five other airlines fly from Santander Airport (SDR) to Dresden Airport (DRS) once daily.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Bilbao Airport to Dresden Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–370
Flights from Bilbao Airport to Dresden Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–370
Flights from Santander Airport to Dresden Airport via Barcelona, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 42m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–430
Flights from Santander Airport to Dresden Airport via Bologna, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–420
Flights from Santander Airport to Dresden Airport via Birmingham, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 20h
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €110–430
Flights from Santander Airport to Dresden Airport via Menorca, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €180–550
Flights from Bilbao Airport to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 46m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–360
Flights from Bilbao Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 46m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–290
Flights from Bilbao Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–290
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Santander Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–170
Flights from Santander Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 40m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €70–170
Flights from Santander Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Venice Treviso
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–180
Flights from Santander Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Bologna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–180
Flights from Santander Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 42m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–180
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Bilbao Airport to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €85–360
Flights from Bilbao Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €40–160
Flights from Bilbao Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €55–230
- Website
- vueling.com
Flights from Santander Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Barcelona
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 15m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €60–230
Flights from Bilbao Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–160
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Santander Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €70–170
- Website
- worldticket.com
Flights from Santander Airport to Dresden Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €170–800
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Bilbao Airport to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 50m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €120–460
- Website
- smartwings.com
Flights from Bilbao Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €40–160
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Bilbao Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €55–280
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Flughafen BER to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €18–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 27m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €28–90
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Bordeaux St Jean to Frankfurt(Main)Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 42m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €90–200
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Hendaye to Massy Tgv
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 48m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–210
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Massy Tgv to Frankfurt(Main)Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 46m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €110–180
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- 2nd Class
- €110–150
- 1st Class
- €140–180
Train from Avignon Tgv to Frankfurt(Main)Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 11m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €55–190
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 9m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €21–45
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 18m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €35–50
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +421 24 48 58 188
- info@slovakrail.sk
- Website
- zssk.sk
Train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 9m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €9–16
- Website
- https://www.zssk.sk/en/
Train from Praha-Holesovice to Dresden Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €30–45
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €30–45
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €19–28
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +34 91 232 03 20
- Website
- renfe.com
Train from Santander to Madrid Chamartín
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 16m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €29–75
- Website
- https://www.renfe.com/es/en
Train from Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Grandes to Avignon Tgv
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 37m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €85–120
- Website
- https://www.renfe.com/es/en
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- belgiantrain.be
Train from Bruxelles-Midi to Hasselt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €9–14
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
- 2nd Class
- €9–14
- 1st Class
- €15–22
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Santander to Bordeaux
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €19–45
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Santander to Paris
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–120
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine) to Dresden central station
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €80–110
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +34 910 207 007
- alsa@alsa.es
- Website
- alsa.com
Bus from Santander E.A. to Bilbao Intermodal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €8–15
- Website
- https://www.alsa.com/en/
Bus from Santander E.A. to Estación de Autobuses Donostia-San Sebastián
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €16–35
- Website
- https://www.alsa.com/en/
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Bilbao to Brussels - Midi Train Station
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–60
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
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More Questions & Answers
Santander to Dresden bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Paris station.
Santander to Dresden train services, operated by Renfe Viajeros, arrive at Madrid Chamartín station.
Yes, the driving distance between Santander to Dresden is 1964 km. It takes approximately 18h 19m to drive from Santander to Dresden.
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