There are 10 ways to get from Hamburg to Trieste by plane, car train, car, bus, night train, train, or shuttle
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Fly to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport
best- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS)plane HAM - TRS
7h 1m€91–350Train
cheapest- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Villach Hauptbahnhoftrain Drf
- Take the train from Villach Hbf to Trieste Centraletrain Rjx
17h 24m€88–212Car train, drive
- Take the cartrain from Hamburg Hbf to Villach Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Villach Hbf to Triestecar
15h 35m€135–166Bus
- Take the bus from Hamburg, Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof to Triestebus N160
19h 50m€95–170Night train, train
- Take the nighttrain from Hamburg Hauptbahnhof to St. Johann im Pongaunighttrain Nt
- Take the train from St. Johann Im Pongau to Villach Hbftrain Ic
- Take the train from Villach Hbf to Trieste Centraletrain Rjx
18h 17m€146–314Fly to Ljubljana, shuttle
- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Ljubljana (LJU)plane HAM - LJU
- Take a shuttle bus from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Trieste Centrale
7h 40m€238–653Fly to Venice Marco Polo Airport, shuttle
- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)plane HAM - VCE
- Take a shuttle bus from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Trieste Centrale
6h 48m€278–823Fly to Graz Airport, shuttle
- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Graz Airport (GRZ)plane HAM - GRZ
- Take a shuttle bus from Graz Airport to Trieste Centrale
7h 36m€443–1,213Fly to Rijeka Airport, bus
- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Rijeka Airport (RJK)plane HAM - RJK
- Take the bus from Rijeka, Željeznički Kolodvor to Trieste, Autostazionebus
7h 56m€178–563Drive 1,138.6 km
- Drive from Hamburg to Triestecar 1,138.6 km
12h 14m€178–257
Hamburg to Trieste by bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Hamburg to Trieste is to bus which costs €95 - €170 and takes 19h 50m.
The fastest way to get from Hamburg to Trieste is to fly and shuttle which takes 6h 48m and costs €270 - €850.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from Hamburg, Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof and arriving at Trieste. Services depart once daily, and operate every day. The journey takes approximately 19h 50m.
No, there is no direct train from Hamburg to Trieste. However, there are services departing from Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and arriving at Trieste Centrale via St. Johann Im Pongau and Villach Hbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 18h 17m.
The distance between Hamburg and Trieste is 951 km. The road distance is 1138.6 km.
The best way to get from Hamburg to Trieste without a car is to bus which takes 19h 50m and costs €95 - €170.
It takes approximately 7h 1m to get from Hamburg to Trieste, including transfers.
Hamburg to Trieste bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Hamburg, Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof station.
Hamburg to Trieste train services, operated by Nightjet, depart from Hamburg Hbf station.
The best way to get from Hamburg to Trieste is to fly which takes 7h 1m and costs €90 - €350. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €95 - €170 and takes 19h 50m, you could also train, which costs €85 - €220 and takes 17h 24m.
What companies run services between Hamburg, Germany and Trieste, Italy?
Lufthansa, Air Dolomiti, and six other airlines fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS) every 4 hours. Alternatively, FlixBus operates a bus from Hamburg, Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof to Trieste once daily. Tickets cost €95–170 and the journey takes 19h 50m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €190–750
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €170–550
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Ljubljana via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–430
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Ljubljana via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–420
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–340
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–340
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Graz Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €250–950
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Graz Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–260
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Rijeka Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–330
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Rijeka Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–330
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–190
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday to Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €50–190
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Graz Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–220
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Rijeka Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–320
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Rijeka Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €65–320
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €170–550
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Ljubljana via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–430
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–340
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Graz Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Wednesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €90–220
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €190–750
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €140–550
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–340
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–340
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €140–370
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–350
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Graz Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–390
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €170–550
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Ljubljana via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–450
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €190–750
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Ljubljana via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–270
- Website
- croatiaairlines.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Rijeka Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–330
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Rijeka Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–330
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–270
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Ljubljana via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–350
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–270
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–230
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- [email protected]
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
Car train from Hamburg Hbf to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 40m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €100–130
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
- Phone
- +46 40 669 62 00
- [email protected]
- Website
- Snälltåget
Night train from Hamburg Hauptbahnhof to St. Johann im Pongau
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 28m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €100–160
- Website
- Snälltåget
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from St. Johann Im Pongau to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 33m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €14–29
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Phone
- +43 (0)5 1717
- Website
- Railjet
Train from St. Johann Im Pongau to Villach Hbf
- *
- €22–35
Train from Villach Hbf to Trieste Centrale
- *
- €30–45
Train from Villach Hbf to Trieste Centrale
- *
- €30–45
- Phone
- _AUSTRIAN_RAILWAYS_(ÖBB)
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from St. Johann Im Pongau to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 34m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €24–45
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Villach Hbf to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 8m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €35–70
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Villach Hbf to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 8m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €35–70
- Website
- Austrian Railways
- Phone
- +43 (0) 51717
- Website
- Nightjet
Train from St. Johann Im Pongau to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 34m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €17–90
- Website
- Nightjet
- Sleeper Carriage
- €75–90
- Couchette Carriage
- €50–60
- Seating Carriage
- €17–21
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Villach Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 34m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €55–150
- Website
- Nightjet
- Sleeper Carriage
- €110–150
- Couchette Carriage
- €85–100
- Seating Carriage
- €55–70
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from St. Johann Im Pongau to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 34m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €25–45
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Hamburg, Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof to Trieste
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €95–170
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- [email protected]
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €140–390
- Website
- GoOpti
- Private
- €204
Shuttle from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €210–600
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Graz Airport to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 8m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €340–950
- Website
- GoOpti
- Private
- €802
Bus from Rijeka, Željeznički Kolodvor to Trieste, Autostazione
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €90–240
- Website
- GoOpti
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More Questions & Answers
Hamburg to Trieste bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Trieste station.
Hamburg to Trieste train services, operated by Nightjet, arrive at Villach Hauptbahnhof station.
Yes, the driving distance between Hamburg to Trieste is 1139 km. It takes approximately 12h 14m to drive from Hamburg to Trieste.
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