There are 10 ways to get from Chemnitz to Schaffhausen by train, bus, car, or plane
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Train
best- Take the train from Chemnitz Hbf to Leipzig Hbftrain Re
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Erfurt Hbftrain 28 / ...
- Take the train from Erfurt Hbf to Singentrain 12
9h 14mCHF 118–259Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Chemnitz central bus station to Friedrichshafenbus FlixBus N1304
- Take the bus from Friedrichshafen Bodensee-Airport to Schaffhausen stationbus FlixBus N99
11h 32mCHF 58–86Drive 542.5 km
- Drive from Chemnitz to Schaffhausencar 542.5 km
5h 58mCHF 105–151Train to Dresden Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Chemnitz Hbf to Dresden Hbftrain
- Fly from Dresden Airport (DRS) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane DRS - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich Flughafen to Schaffhausentrain
6h 52mCHF 160–406Train via Nuremberg
- Take the train from Chemnitz Hbf to Hof Hbftrain Re
- Take the train from Hof Hbf to Nürnberg Hbftrain
- Take the train from Nuernberg Hbf to Stuttgart Hbftrain Re
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof to Schaffhausentrain 87
10h 43mCHF 91–178Train, bus
- Take the train from Chemnitz Hbf to Hof Hbftrain Re
- Take the bus from HOF, Hauptbahnhof,st 6 to ST. GALLEN, Lagerstrassebus
- Take the train from St. Gallen to Schaffhausentrain S1
14hCHF 89–120Bus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the bus from Chemnitz central bus station to Praguebus
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane PRG - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich Flughafen to Schaffhausentrain
8h 22mCHF 102–239Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Chemnitz, Hauptbahnhof to Flughafen BERtrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane BER - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich Flughafen to Schaffhausentrain
7h 44mCHF 97–259Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Stuttgart Airport, train
- Take the train from Chemnitz, Hauptbahnhof to Flughafen BERtrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Stuttgart Airport (STR)plane BER - STR
- Take the train from Böblingen to Schaffhausentrain
8h 27mCHF 138–354Bus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly to Basel, train
- Take the bus from Chemnitz central bus station to Praguebus
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Basel (BSL)plane PRG - BSL
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Schaffhausentrain
9h 33mCHF 108–313
Chemnitz to Schaffhausen by train
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Chemnitz to Schaffhausen is to bus which costs SFr 55 - SFr 90 and takes 11h 32m.
The fastest way to get from Chemnitz to Schaffhausen is to drive which takes 5h 58m and costs SFr 100 - SFr 150.
No, there is no direct bus from Chemnitz station to Schaffhausen station. However, there are services departing from Chemnitz central bus station and arriving at Schaffhausen station via Friedrichsh. Stadtbahnhof and Friedrichshafen Bodensee-Airport. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 11h 32m.
No, there is no direct train from Chemnitz to Schaffhausen. However, there are services departing from Chemnitz Hbf and arriving at Schaffhausen via Leipzig Hbf, Erfurt Hbf and Singen. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 9h 14m.
The distance between Chemnitz and Schaffhausen is 811 km. The road distance is 542.5 km.
The best way to get from Chemnitz to Schaffhausen without a car is to train which takes 9h 14m and costs SFr 110 - SFr 260.
It takes approximately 9h 14m to get from Chemnitz to Schaffhausen, including transfers.
Chemnitz to Schaffhausen bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Chemnitz central bus station.
Chemnitz to Schaffhausen train services, operated by Transdev GmbH, depart from Chemnitz Hbf station.
The best way to get from Chemnitz to Schaffhausen is to train which takes 9h 14m and costs SFr 110 - SFr 260. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs SFr 55 - SFr 90 and takes 11h 32m.
What companies run services between Chemnitz, Germany and Schaffhausen, Switzerland?
You can take a train from Chemnitz Hbf to Schaffhausen via Leipzig Hbf, Erfurt Hbf, and Singen in around 9h 14m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Chemnitz central bus station to Schaffhausen station via Friedrichsh. Stadtbahnhof, Friedrichsh. Bodensee-Airport, and Friedrichshafen Bodensee-Airport in around 11h 32m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Dresden Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 46m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–380
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–270
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–280
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–290
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–290
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Stuttgart Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–340
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–450
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–460
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–140
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Cologne Bonn
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–140
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–220
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Dresden Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–390
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–240
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–140
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Stuttgart Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–220
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–160
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–210
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–280
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–160
- Phone
- +49 30 200 73-0
- [email protected]
- Website
- Transdev GmbH
Train from Chemnitz Hbf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–20
- Schedules at
- Transdev GmbH
Train from Chemnitz Hbf to Dresden Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–19
- Schedules at
- Transdev GmbH
Train from Chemnitz Hbf to Hof Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 24–35
- Schedules at
- Transdev GmbH
Train from Chemnitz Hbf to Hof Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 24–35
- Schedules at
- Transdev GmbH
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 17–40
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Singen
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 47m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–190
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Nuernberg Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 28–60
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Hauptbahnhof to Schaffhausen
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 27–60
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Chemnitz, Hauptbahnhof to Flughafen BER
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–75
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Chemnitz, Hauptbahnhof to Flughafen BER
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–75
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Böblingen to Schaffhausen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 24–55
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 27
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- LEO Express
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Schedules at
- LEO Express
Train from Zürich Flughafen to Schaffhausen
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 15–24
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich Flughafen to Schaffhausen
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 15–24
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich Flughafen to Schaffhausen
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 15–24
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Basel SBB to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–45
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich HB to Schaffhausen
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 14–22
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Hof Hbf to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 46m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–24
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- [email protected]
- Website
- Arverio Baden-Württemberg
Train from Nuernberg Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 27m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–50
- Schedules at
- Arverio Baden-Württemberg
- 2nd Class Ticket
- CHF 26–32
- 1st Class Ticket
- CHF 30–50
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- [email protected]
- Website
- Arverio Baden-Württemberg GmbH
Train from Nuernberg Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 24m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 24–35
- Schedules at
- Arverio Baden-Württemberg GmbH
- Phone
- +41 71 554 00 00
- Website
- Thurbo
Train from St. Gallen to Schaffhausen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 10–21
- Schedules at
- Thurbo
- 2nd Class Ticket
- CHF 10–14
- 1st Class Ticket
- CHF 17–21
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Chemnitz central bus station to Friedrichshafen
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–75
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Friedrichshafen Bodensee-Airport to Schaffhausen station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 7–11
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Chemnitz central bus station to Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–25
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Chemnitz central bus station to Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–25
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +48 77 443 44 44
- [email protected]
- Website
- Sindbad
Bus from HOF, Hauptbahnhof,st 6 to ST. GALLEN, Lagerstrasse
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 5m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–65
- Website
- Sindbad
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Booking & Getting There
Chemnitz to Schaffhausen bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Friedrichshafen station.
Chemnitz to Schaffhausen train services, operated by Transdev GmbH, arrive at Leipzig Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between Chemnitz to Schaffhausen is 543 km. It takes approximately 5h 58m to drive from Chemnitz to Schaffhausen.
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