There are 11 ways to get from Hamburg to Bern by train, bus, car, plane, or car train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train
best- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Basel SBBtrain Ec
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain Ic6 / ...
8h 7mCHF 311–954Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Hamburg central bus station to Freiburgbus FlixBus N33
- Take the bus from Freiburg to Bernbus FlixBus N122 / ...
14h 25mCHF 73–120Drive 892.8 km
- Drive from Hamburg to Berncar 892.8 km
7h 33mCHF 146–211Fly Hamburg Airport to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane HAM - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich Flughafen to Berntrain
5h 28mCHF 113–333Train via Hamburg Hbf
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Basel SBBtrain 43 / ...
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain Ic6 / ...
9h 29mCHF 191–769Train #2
- Take the train from Hamburg-Altona to Berntrain Ice
10h 39mCHF 313–1,003Car train, drive
- Take the car train from Hamburg Hbf to Lörrach Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Lörrach Hbf to Berncar
11h 7mCHF 111–133Fly Hamburg Airport to Basel, train
- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Basel (BSL)plane HAM - BSL
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain
5h 42mCHF 86–318Train to Bremen Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Bremen Hbftrain
- Fly from Bremen Airport (BRE) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane BRE - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich Flughafen to Berntrain
6h 25mCHF 170–542Train to Hannover Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Hannover Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Fly from Hannover Airport (HAJ) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane HAJ - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich Flughafen to Berntrain
7h 4mCHF 171–623Fly Hamburg Airport to Stuttgart Airport, train
- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Stuttgart Airport (STR)plane HAM - STR
- Take the train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbftrain
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBBtrain
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Berntrain
7h 55mCHF 144–540
Hamburg to Bern by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Hamburg to Bern is to bus which costs SFr 70 - SFr 120 and takes 14h 25m.
The fastest way to get from Hamburg to Bern is to fly and train which takes 5h 28m and costs SFr 110 - SFr 340.
No, there is no direct bus from Hamburg station to Bern. However, there are services departing from Hamburg central bus station and arriving at Bern via Freiburg. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 14h 25m.
No, there is no direct train from Hamburg to Bern. However, there are services departing from Hamburg Hbf and arriving at Bern via Basel SBB. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 8h 7m.
The distance between Hamburg and Bern is 917 km. The road distance is 892.8 km.
The best way to get from Hamburg to Bern without a car is to train which takes 8h 7m and costs SFr 310 - SFr 1000.
It takes approximately 8h 7m to get from Hamburg to Bern, including transfers.
Hamburg to Bern bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Hamburg central bus station.
Hamburg to Bern train services, operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), depart from Hamburg Hbf station.
The best way to get from Hamburg to Bern is to train which takes 8h 7m and costs SFr 310 - SFr 1000. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs SFr 70 - SFr 120 and takes 14h 25m.
What companies run services between Hamburg, Germany and Bern, Switzerland?
You can take a train from Hamburg Hbf to Bern via Basel SBB in around 8h 7m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Hamburg central bus station to Bern via Freiburg in around 14h 25m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–350
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Tuesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–190
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 29m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–380
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–390
Flights from Bremen Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- CHF 140–370
Flights from Bremen Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–370
Flights from Hannover Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–410
Flights from Hannover Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–410
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Stuttgart Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 57m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–400
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–200
Flights from Bremen Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–410
Flights from Hannover Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Monday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–380
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–190
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–200
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–210
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Basel via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–330
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–170
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 41m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 280–850
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–110
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich Flughafen to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–140
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–110
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Hamburg-Altona to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 310–1,000
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–110
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich Flughafen to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–140
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich Flughafen to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–140
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–110
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 160–700
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Bremen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 19–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Hannover Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–130
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 47m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–140
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 170–250
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Bremen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 27–40
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Hannover Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–60
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–60
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- [email protected]
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Hamburg Hbf to Lörrach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–110
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +49 581 97164164
- [email protected]
- Website
- der-metronom.de
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Bremen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–120
- Schedules at
- der-metronom.de
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Hannover Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–180
- Schedules at
- der-metronom.de
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- [email protected]
- Website
- arverio-bw.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–25
- Schedules at
- arverio-bw.de
- 2nd Class Ticket
- CHF 13–16
- 1st Class Ticket
- CHF 17–25
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- [email protected]
- Website
- arverio-by.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–19
- Schedules at
- arverio-by.de
- Phone
- +49 711 2092-7087
- Website
- regional.bahn.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–20
- Schedules at
- regional.bahn.de
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 18m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 20–45
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Hamburg central bus station to Freiburg
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–100
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Freiburg to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 12–21
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
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More Questions & Answers
Hamburg to Bern bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Freiburg station.
Hamburg to Bern train services, operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), arrive at Basel SBB station.
Yes, the driving distance between Hamburg to Bern is 893 km. It takes approximately 7h 33m to drive from Hamburg to Bern.
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