There are 11 ways to get from Stuttgart to Crete by plane, bus, car ferry, train, busferry, or ferry
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Fly Stuttgart Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
best- Fly from Stuttgart Airport (STR) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane STR - HER
5h 23m€105–277Bus, car ferry
- Take the bus from Stuttgart Hbf to Tiranabus
- Take the bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Peiraiasbus
- Take the car ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion Portcarferry
35h 10mTrain to Frankfurt, fly to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane FRA - HER
6h 13m€106–260Train to Frankfurt, fly to Chania International Airport
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Chania International Airport (CHQ)plane FRA - CHQ
6h 52m€152–519Fly Stuttgart Airport to Chania International Airport
- Fly from Stuttgart Airport (STR) to Chania International Airport (CHQ)plane STR - CHQ
6h 2m€126–446Train to Nuremberg Airport, fly to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof to Nürnberg Hbftrain
- Fly from Nuremberg Airport (NUE) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane NUE - HER
7h 24m€115–354Train, train to Zurich Airport, fly to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof to Schaffhausentrain
- Take the train from Schaffhausen to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane ZRH - HER
8h 35m€143–447Bus, bus and ferry via Ioánnina
- Take the bus from Stuttgart Hbf to Tiranabus
- Take the bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Ioanninabus
- Take the busferry from Ioannina to Heraklionbusferry
38h 50mTrain, bus, bus and ferry
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof to München Hbftrain 11 / ...
- Take the train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhoftrain 90 / ...
- Take the train from Salzburg Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeldtrain Rjx
- Take the bus from Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar to Thessalonikibus
- Take the busferry from Thessaloniki to Heraklionbusferry
44h 28mBus, bus and ferry
- Take the bus from Stuttgart Airport to Tiranabus
- Take the busferry from Tirana to Heraklion Portbusferry
2dBus, train, ferry
- Take the bus from Stuttgart Airport to Larissabus
- Take the train from Larissa to Athenstrain Ic
- Take the ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklionferry Abs / ...
2d 7h€285–501
Stuttgart to Crete by subway, foot, bus, train, and ferry
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Stuttgart to Crete is to train and fly which costs €100 - €260 and takes 6h 13m.
The fastest way to get from Stuttgart to Crete is to fly which takes 5h 23m and costs €100 - €280.
No, there is no direct bus from Stuttgart to Crete. However, there are services departing from Stuttgart Hbf and arriving at Heraklion via Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave and Ioannina. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 38h 50m.
The distance between Stuttgart and Crete is 2000 km.
The best way to get from Stuttgart to Crete without a car is to bus and car ferry which takes 35h 10m and costs .
It takes approximately 5h 23m to get from Stuttgart to Crete, including transfers.
Stuttgart to Crete bus services, operated by Amr Travel, depart from Stuttgart Hbf station.
Stuttgart to Crete bus services, operated by Amr Travel, arrive at Tirana station.
Crete is 1h ahead of Stuttgart. It is currently 1:41 AM in Stuttgart and 2:41 AM in Crete.
There are 3053+ hotels available in Crete.
What companies run services between Stuttgart, Germany and Crete, Greece?
Eurowings, Condor Flugdienst, and TUIfly fly from Stuttgart Airport (STR) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) 3 times a day.
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–500
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–230
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Santorini
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–160
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–480
Flights from Frankfurt to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–340
Flights from Frankfurt to Chania International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 38m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €140–550
Flights from Zurich Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €90–300
Flights from Zurich Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–300
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–410
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–180
Flights from Frankfurt to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–220
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €120–550
Flights from Zurich Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €45–160
- Website
- flyedelweiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €220–410
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–500
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–350
- Website
- tui.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–410
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–130
- Website
- airbus.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–160
Flights from Frankfurt to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–340
- Website
- skyexpress.gr
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €90–170
Flights from Frankfurt to Chania International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–400
- Website
- corendonairlines.com
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–140
- Website
- comlux.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €130–1,000
- Website
- flexflight.dk
Flights from Zurich Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €130–1,000
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €120–550
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €85–140
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hauptbahnhof to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 9m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €35–90
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hauptbahnhof to Schaffhausen
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hauptbahnhof to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 58m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €40–110
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €26–65
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €19–45
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Hauptbahnhof to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €26–60
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Schaffhausen to Zürich Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–55
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- service@westbahn.at
- Website
- westbahn.at
Train from Hauptbahnhof to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 24m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45–80
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
Train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €28–50
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Hauptbahnhof to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €50–80
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +49 30 200 73-0
- kommunikation@transdev.de
- Website
- transdev.de
Train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €27–40
- Schedules at
- transdev.de
- Phone
- +49 8024 997171
- info@brb.de
- Website
- brb.de
Train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €45–85
- Schedules at
- brb.de
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- sekretariat@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €22–55
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €17–40
- 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
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €17–27
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
- Phone
- +43 (0)5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €75–120
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- *
- €75–120
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 12m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €130–210
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- hellenictrain.gr
Train from Larissa to Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 38m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €21–35
- Website
- https://www.hellenictrain.gr/en
- Phone
- +355 68 204 4475
- amr_travel@hotmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Stuttgart Hbf to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 35m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 69 232 8000
- anumitravel@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Stuttgart Hbf to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 42m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 69 617 8170
- diamanttravel88@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Peiraias
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Ioannina
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 15m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €35
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- komatastours.al@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Ioannina
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +30 2810 246530
- info@ktelherlas.gr
- Website
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Ioannina to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €75–110
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Thessaloniki to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
- Phone
- +30 210 92 33 33
- info@koronatravel.gr
- Website
- koronatravel.gr
Bus from Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 50m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- koronatravel.gr
- Phone
- +383 44 102 280
- armendi_tours@hotmail.com
- Website
- armendtours.com
Bus from Stuttgart Airport to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 26m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- armendtours.com
- Phone
- +355 68 20 63 724
- info@arjanitravel.com
- Website
- arjanitravel.com
Bus from Stuttgart Airport to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €110
- Schedules at
- arjanitravel.com
- Phone
- +355 673 835 770
- Website
- devatours.eu
Bus from Stuttgart Airport to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 32m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- devatours.eu
- Phone
- +355 42 239 203 / +355 69 400 4075
- albtrans06@yahoo.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Busferry from Tirana to Heraklion Port
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063548259783
- Phone
- +30 2310261280
- Website
- portokalidistours.com
Bus from Stuttgart Airport to Larissa
- Ave. Duration
- 38h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €210–310
- Schedules at
- portokalidistours.gr
- Phone
- +30 210 710 7 710
- info@seajets.gr
- Website
- seajets.com
Car ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion Port
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €120–320
- Website
- https://www.seajets.com/
Ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €65–150
- Website
- https://www.bluestarferries.com/en-gb/
Ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €50–75
- Website
- https://www.hellenicseaways.gr/en-gb
- Airplane Type Seats
- €50–75
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