There are 10 ways to get from Zwickau to Edinburgh by train, plane, train (Eurostar), bus, car, car train, or car ferry
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Train to Leipzig-Halle Airport, fly
best- Take the train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig/Halle Flughafentrain
- Fly from Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane LEJ - EDI
9h 16m£124–381Train, bus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly
cheapest- Take the train from Zwickau(Sachs)Hbf to Chemnitz Hbftrain
- Take the bus from Chemnitz central bus station to Praguebus
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane PRG - EDI
9h 7m£71–177Train
- Take the train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbftrain S5x / ...
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Frankfurttrain 50 / ...
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Bruxelles Miditrain 79
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intltrain Eil
- Take the train from King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
18h 11m£360–787Bus
- Take the bus from Zwickau central train station to Nuremberg central bus stationbus 321
- Take the bus from Nuremberg central bus station to London Victoriabus
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Edinburgh, Bus Stationbus
31h 6m£107–300Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Zwickau to Calais-Fréthuncar
- Take the car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestonecartrain
- Drive from Folkestone to Edinburghcar
16h 45m£334–445Train to Dresden Airport, fly
- Take the train from Zwickau(Sachs)Hbf to Dresden Hbftrain
- Fly from Dresden Airport (DRS) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane DRS - EDI
9h 7m£152–432Train, train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly
- Take the train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbftrain
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane BER - EDI
8h 5m£103–307Train via Cologne
- Take the train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbftrain S5x / ...
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Köln Hbftrain 51 / ...
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Miditrain 79
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intltrain Eil
- Take the train from King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
19h 5m£355–772Train, bus
- Take the train from Zwickau(Sachs)Hbf to Chebtrain Rb
- Take the train from Cheb to Plzen-Jizni Predmestitrain Ic / ...
- Take the bus from Pilsen Central Bus Station to London Victoriabus
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Birmingham Coach Stationbus 541 / ...
- Take the train from Birmingham New Street to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
31h 57m£249–515Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Zwickau to Calaiscar
- Take the car ferry from Calais to Port of Dovercarferry
- Drive from Port of Dover to Edinburghcar
17h 46m£233–368
Zwickau to Edinburgh by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Zwickau to Edinburgh is to train and bus and fly which costs £70 - £180 and takes 9h 7m.
The fastest way to get from Zwickau to Edinburgh is to train and fly which takes 8h 5m and costs £100 - £310.
No, there is no direct bus from Zwickau station to Edinburgh station. However, there are services departing from Zwickau central train station and arriving at Edinburgh, Bus Station via Nuremberg central bus station and London Victoria. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 31h 6m.
No, there is no direct train from Zwickau to Edinburgh. However, there are services departing from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof and arriving at Edinburgh Waverley via Leipzig Hbf, Frankfurt, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi and King's Cross. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 18h 11m.
The distance between Zwickau and Edinburgh is 784 miles.
The best way to get from Zwickau to Edinburgh without a car is to train which takes 18h 11m and costs £360 - £800.
It takes approximately 9h 16m to get from Zwickau to Edinburgh, including transfers.
Zwickau to Edinburgh bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Zwickau central train station.
Zwickau to Edinburgh train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional), depart from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof station.
The best way to get from Zwickau to Edinburgh is to train which takes 18h 11m and costs £360 - £800. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs £100 - £300 and takes 31h 6m.
What companies run services between Zwickau, Germany and Edinburgh, Scotland?
You can take a train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Edinburgh Waverley via Leipzig Hbf, Frankfurt, Bruxelles Midi, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi, London St Pancras Intl, and King's Cross in around 18h 11m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Zwickau central train station to Edinburgh, Bus Station via Nuremberg central bus station and London Victoria in around 31h 6m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 33m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £120–360
Flights from Dresden Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £130–470
Flights from Dresden Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £120–460
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £75–280
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £80–300
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 46m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £45–240
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 23m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £45–250
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 37m
- When
- Wednesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- £90–240
Flights from Dresden Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £95–310
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £40–130
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £50–140
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Dresden Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £85–300
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Edinburgh Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £50–190
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- £90–180
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Dresden Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £85–290
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £60–140
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £65–150
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via London City
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- £65–310
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- £50–120
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £70–240
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig/Halle Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 24m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £18–28
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £15–23
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- 0 89 54 888 97 - 25
- info@laenderbahn.com
- Website
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig/Halle Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £24–85
- Schedules at
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £20–70
- Schedules at
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Zwickau(Sachs)Hbf to Cheb
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 8m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £28–95
- Schedules at
- laenderbahn.com
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £65–190
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £60–180
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £25–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 41m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £90–260
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 43m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £30–95
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to London St Pancras Intl
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £100–170
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £120–180
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Calais-Fréthun to Folkestone
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £117
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Standard fare
- £117
- Phone
- +49 30 200 73-0
- kommunikation@transdev.de
- Website
- transdev.de
Train from Zwickau(Sachs)Hbf to Dresden Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £20–29
- Schedules at
- transdev.de
Train from Zwickau(Sachs)Hbf to Chemnitz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- £8–12
- Schedules at
- transdev.de
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- belgiantrain.be
Train from Köln Hbf to Bruxelles Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £30–70
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from Cheb to Plzen-Jizni Predmesti
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £10–16
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
Train from Birmingham New Street to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 7m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £170–240
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 528 0253
- Website
- avantiwestcoast.co.uk
Train from Birmingham New Street to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £120–200
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Zwickau central train station to Nuremberg central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £12–21
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Nuremberg central bus station to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 5m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £60–110
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from London Victoria to Edinburgh, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 16m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- £35–60
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Chemnitz central bus station to Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- £8–15
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- 08717 81 81 81
- Website
- nationalexpress.com
Bus from London Victoria to Edinburgh, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 40m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £65–170
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
Bus from London Victoria to Birmingham Coach Station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- £21–55
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.com
- Website
- regiojet.com
Bus from Pilsen Central Bus Station to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- £70–110
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.fr
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Calais to Port of Dover
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £7–40
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
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Zwickau to Edinburgh bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Nuremberg central bus station.
Edinburgh is 1h behind Zwickau. It is currently 2:14 AM in Zwickau and 1:14 AM in Edinburgh.
Zwickau to Edinburgh train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional), arrive at Leipzig Hbf station.
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