There are 13 ways to get from Scotland to Europe by plane, train, train (Eurostar), bus, car, car train, or car ferry
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Fly Aberdeen Airport to Hannover Airport, train
best- Fly from Aberdeen Airport (ABZ) to Hannover Airport (HAJ)plane ABZ - HAJ
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Göttingentrain
- Take the train from Göttingen to Eschwege-Niederhone Bahnhoftrain
10h 29mFly Glasgow Airport to Frankfurt, train
cheapest- Fly from Glasgow Airport (GLA) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane GLA - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
9h 53m$131–342Train
- Take the train from Glasgow Central to London Eustontrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Miditrain Eil
- Take the train from Bruxelles Midi to Köln Hbftrain 79
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Eisenach Hbftrain 51
18h 24m$242–823Bus, train
- Take the bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Leeds City Bus & Coach Stationbus 183 / ...
- Take the bus from Leeds City Bus Station to London Victoriabus
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Frankfurt central train stationbus
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
32h 48m$138–247Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Glasgow to Folkestonecar
- Take the car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthuncartrain
- Drive from Calais-Fréthun to Europecar
14h 48mFly Glasgow Airport to Hannover Airport, train
- Fly from Glasgow Airport (GLA) to Hannover Airport (HAJ)plane GLA - HAJ
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Göttingentrain
- Take the train from Göttingen to Eschwege-Niederhone Bahnhoftrain
10h 51mFly Edinburgh Airport to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane EDI - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
10h 4m$142–348Fly Aberdeen Airport to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Aberdeen Airport (ABZ) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane ABZ - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
11h 56m$190–386Fly Edinburgh Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, train
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)plane EDI - AMS
- Take the train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraaltrain
- Take the train from Utrecht Centraal to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhetrain
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
13h 23m$167–526Fly Aberdeen Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, train
- Fly from Aberdeen Airport (ABZ) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)plane ABZ - AMS
- Take the train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraaltrain
- Take the train from Utrecht Centraal to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhetrain
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
13h 15m$199–594Fly Edinburgh Airport to Weeze Airport, train
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Weeze Airport (NRN)plane EDI - NRN
- Take the train from Weeze Bahnhof to Düsseldorf Hbftrain
- Take the train from Duesseldorf Hbf to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehetrain
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
13h 51mTrain, bus
- Take the train from Glasgow Central to London Eustontrain
- Take the train from London St. Pancras Int. to Rotterdam Centraaltrain
- Take the bus from Rotterdam Central Station to Kasselbus 023
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain Rb5 / ...
20h 23m$211–757Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Glasgow to Port of Dovercar
- Take the car ferry from Port of Dover to Calaiscarferry
- Drive from Calais to Europecar
16h 1m$294–457
Scotland to Europe by train, foot, and bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Scotland to Europe is to bus and train which costs $130 - $250 and takes 32h 48m.
The fastest way to get from Scotland to Europe is to fly and train which takes 9h 53m and costs $130 - $350.
The distance between Scotland and Europe is 1129 km.
The best way to get from Scotland to Europe without a car is to train which takes 18h 24m and costs $240 - $850.
It takes approximately 10h 29m to get from Scotland to Europe, including transfers.
Europe is 1h ahead of Scotland. It is currently 3:57 AM in Scotland and 4:57 AM in Europe.
There are 819+ hotels available in Europe.
What companies run services between Scotland and Europe?
You can take a train from Glasgow Central to Sontra-Ulfen Mitte via London Euston, London St Pancras Intl, Brussels-Midi, Bruxelles Midi, Köln Hbf, Eisenach Hbf, Herleshausen Bahnhof, and Herleshausen Bahnhof in around 18h 24m.
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Hannover Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 38m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $90–550
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Hannover Airport via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–420
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Frankfurt via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $50–300
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Frankfurt via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $50–300
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Frankfurt via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $65–370
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $45–300
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $60–370
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Hannover Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $120–600
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Hannover Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–440
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Frankfurt via London City
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $140–240
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Frankfurt via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $140–240
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Frankfurt via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160–320
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Hannover Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $130–490
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Hannover Airport via Stavanger, Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $130–500
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Frankfurt via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $50–300
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Frankfurt via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $95–370
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $45–300
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 33m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $55–190
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $55–190
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Monday and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $55–190
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Hannover Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $110–460
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–260
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $90–250
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Hannover Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–320
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $60–370
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Frankfurt via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $70–250
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Weeze Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–250
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Göttingen
- Ave. Duration
- 32 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $15–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Bruxelles Midi to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $35–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 37m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $70–130
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $15–45
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $28–32
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Duesseldorf Hbf to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $35–110
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Göttingen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $30–45
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 561 766396-0
- info@cantus-bahn.de
- Website
- cantus-bahn.de
Train from Göttingen to Eschwege-Niederhone Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
Train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
- Phone
- +44 345 528 0253
- Website
- avantiwestcoast.co.uk
Train from Glasgow Central to London Euston
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 38m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $65–190
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- enquiry@sleeper.scot
- Website
- sleeper.scot
Train from Glasgow Central to London Euston
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $75–300
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $80–280
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
Train from Bruxelles Midi to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $50–110
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
Train from London St. Pancras Int. to Rotterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $85–360
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- belgiantrain.be
Train from Bruxelles Midi to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 12m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $23–35
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
- 2nd Class
- $23–35
- 1st Class
- $35–55
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Frankfurt to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $29–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $14–20
- 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
- $14–20
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 33 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- $10–28
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- $10–16
- 1st Class
- $16–28
Train from Utrecht Centraal to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 28m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $70–250
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- $70–110
- 1st Class
- $140–250
Train from London St. Pancras Int. to Rotterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 16m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $90–320
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- $90–140
- 1st Class
- $190–320
- Phone
- 0800-0232 545
- Website
- arriva.nl
Train from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $12–14
- Website
- https://www.arriva.nl/en/
- 2nd Class
- $12–14
- Phone
- 0203 6688 9477
- dialog@rhein-ruhr-bahn.de
- Website
- rhein-ruhr-bahn.de
Train from Weeze Bahnhof to Düsseldorf Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- rhein-ruhr-bahn.de
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Duesseldorf Hbf to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $55–80
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- 08717 81 81 81
- Website
- nationalexpress.com
Bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Leeds City Bus & Coach Station
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $28–65
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Leeds City Bus Station to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $13–26
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from London Victoria to Frankfurt central train station
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 5m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $60–110
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Rotterdam Central Station to Kassel
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $40–55
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- 01304 44 88 88
- customer.services@poferries.com
- Website
- poferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $30–55
- Website
- https://www.poferries.com/en
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $40–50
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
- Car
- $90–220
- On Foot
- $40–50
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