There are 12 ways to get from Vilnius to Cologne by plane, bus, train, or car
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Fly Vilnius Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
best- Fly from Vilnius Airport (VNO) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane VNO - DUS
5h 46m€89–251Fly Vilnius Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport
cheapest- Fly from Vilnius Airport (VNO) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)plane VNO - CGN
7h 48m€68–298Bus, train via Berlin
- Take the bus from Vilnius, Autobusų Stotis (Sodų g. 22) to Bialystok, Bus Stationbus
- Take the train from Bialystok to Warszawa Centralnatrain Ic
- Take the train from Warszawa Centralna to Berlin Ostbahnhoftrain Eic
- Take the train from S Ostbahnhof to Köln Hbftrain 10 / ...
18h 35m€230–545Bus
- Take the bus from Vilnius, Autobusų Stotis to Braunschweigbus
- Take the bus from Braunschweig, Berliner Platz to Köln-Ehrenfeld Gleisbus Mykolayiv
23h 55mDrive 1,556 km
- Drive from Vilnius to Colognecar 1,556 km
14h 44m€228–330Bus to Kaunas, fly to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Take the bus from Vilnius to Kaunas Airportbus
- Fly from Kaunas (KUN) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)plane KUN - CGN
6h 4m€72–312Fly Vilnius Airport to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Vilnius Airport (VNO) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane VNO - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Köln Messe/Deutz Bftrain
6h 3m€131–346Fly Vilnius Airport to Dortmund Airport, train
- Fly from Vilnius Airport (VNO) to Dortmund Airport (DTM)plane VNO - DTM
- Take the train from Holzwickede to Koeln Hbftrain
7h 3mFly Vilnius Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, train
- Fly from Vilnius Airport (VNO) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)plane VNO - AMS
- Take the train from Schiphol Airport Train Station to Arnhem Centraaltrain
- Take the train from Arnhem Centraal to Köln Hbftrain
8h 27m€119–361Fly Vilnius Airport to Eindhoven Airport, train
- Fly from Vilnius Airport (VNO) to Eindhoven Airport (EIN)plane VNO - EIN
- Take the train from Eindhoven to Venlotrain
- Take the train from Venlo to Koeln Hbftrain
8h 10m€73–269Train
- Take the train from Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis to Kraków Głównytrain
- Take the train from Krakow Glowny to Berlin Hbftrain Ic
- Take the train from Berlin Hbf to Hagen Hbftrain 19 / ...
- Take the train from Hagen Hbf to Köln Hbftrain 19 / ...
24h 59m€228–511Bus, train
- Take the bus from Vilnius, Autobusų Stotis (Sodų g. 22) to Essen central train stationbus N1387
- Take the train from Essen Hbf to Köln Hbftrain 43 / ...
29h 20m€135–244
Vilnius to Cologne by bus and train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Vilnius to Cologne is to fly and train which costs €70 - €270 and takes 8h 10m.
The fastest way to get from Vilnius to Cologne is to fly which takes 5h 46m and costs €85 - €260.
No, there is no direct bus from Vilnius to Cologne. However, there are services departing from Vilnius, Autobusų Stotis and arriving at Köln-Ehrenfeld Gleis via Braunschweig, Berliner Platz. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 23h 55m.
No, there is no direct train from Vilnius to Cologne. However, there are services departing from Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis and arriving at Köln Hbf via Krakow Glowny, Berlin Hbf and Hagen Hbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 24h 59m.
The distance between Vilnius and Cologne is 1346 km. The road distance is 1556 km.
The best way to get from Vilnius to Cologne without a car is to bus and train via Berlin which takes 18h 35m and costs €230 - €550.
It takes approximately 5h 46m to get from Vilnius to Cologne, including transfers.
Vilnius to Cologne bus services, operated by Ecolines, depart from Vilnius, Autobusų Stotis station.
Vilnius to Cologne train services, operated by LTG Link, depart from Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis station.
The best way to get from Vilnius to Cologne is to fly which takes 5h 46m and costs €85 - €260. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs and takes 23h 55m, you could also train, which costs €220 - €550 and takes 24h 59m.
What companies run services between Vilnius, Lithuania and Cologne, Germany?
Air Baltic, Lufthansa, and three other airlines fly from Vilnius Airport (VNO) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) every 4 hours. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Vilnius, Autobusų Stotis to Köln-Ehrenfeld Gleis via Braunschweig and Braunschweig, Berliner Platz in around 23h 55m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–200
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 15m
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–320
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €140–320
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Frankfurt via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–260
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–230
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–230
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–220
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–180
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–180
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–270
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Frankfurt via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–320
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–290
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–290
Flights from Kaunas to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €30–270
Flights from Kaunas to Cologne Bonn Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €30–270
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Eindhoven Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–200
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Eindhoven Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €60–200
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–180
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–230
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €65–290
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €75–290
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Dortmund Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–240
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Eindhoven Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €50–230
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–390
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–400
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Bialystok to Warszawa Centralna
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 48m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €27–65
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Warszawa Centralna to Berlin Ostbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 6m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €85–190
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Krakow Glowny to Berlin Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 17m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €95–220
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from S Ostbahnhof to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €100–260
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Köln Messe/Deutz Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 48 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Arnhem Centraal to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Berlin Hbf to Hagen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €85–210
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hagen Hbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Essen Hbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 48 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €15–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Holzwickede to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Schiphol Airport Train Station to Arnhem Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €11–25
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Arnhem Centraal to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €17–40
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Eindhoven to Venlo
- Ave. Duration
- 39 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €5–13
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Venlo to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €9–21
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +370 700 55 111
- informacija@ltglink.lt
- Website
- ltglink.lt
Train from Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis to Kraków Główny
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 9m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–50
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Essen Hbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €17–24
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Essen Hbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €27–45
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +49 9126 301 90 70
- fahrgaeste@train-rental.com
- Website
- train-rental.com
Train from Essen Hbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- train-rental.com
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Vilnius, Autobusų Stotis (Sodų g. 22) to Bialystok, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €18–30
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Vilnius, Autobusų Stotis (Sodų g. 22) to Essen central train station
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €120–200
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Vilnius, Autobusų Stotis to Braunschweig
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 5m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €85–150
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
- Phone
- +38 (050) 010-01-04
- orionbilet@gmail.com
- Website
- orionbus.net
Bus from Braunschweig, Berliner Platz to Köln-Ehrenfeld Gleis
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://orionbus.net/en
- Phone
- +370 5 210 4304
- info@ollex.lt
- Website
- ollex.lt
Bus from Vilnius to Kaunas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €15–26
- Website
- https://www.ollex.lt/en/express
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More Questions & Answers
Vilnius to Cologne bus services, operated by Ecolines, arrive at Braunschweig station.
Cologne is 1h behind Vilnius. It is currently 4:45 PM in Vilnius and 3:45 PM in Cologne.
Vilnius to Cologne train services, operated by LTG Link, arrive at Kraków Główny station.
Yes, the driving distance between Vilnius to Cologne is 1556 km. It takes approximately 14h 44m to drive from Vilnius to Cologne.
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