There are 10 ways to get from Heraklion to Leipzig by plane, car ferry, bus, train, car, busferry, or ferry
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Fly to Leipzig-Halle Airport
best- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ)plane HER - LEJ
5h 49m€60–265Car ferry, bus, train
- Take the car ferry from Heraklion Port to Port of Piraeuscarferry
- Take the bus from Piraeus to Durrësbus
- Take the bus from Durrës to Regensburg Hbfbus
- Take the train from Regensburg Hbf to Nuernberg Hbftrain Re / ...
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Leipzig Hbftrain 28 / ...
41h 7mCar ferry, drive
- Take the car ferry from Heraklion Port to Port of Piraeuscarferry
- Drive from Port of Piraeus to Leipzigcar
31h 6m€506–910Fly to Dresden Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Dresden Airport (DRS)plane HER - DRS
- Take the train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbftrain
7h 4m€134–376Fly to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)plane HER - BER
- Take the train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Leipzig Hbftrain
7h 25m€108–388Fly to Nuremberg Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Nuremberg Airport (NUE)plane HER - NUE
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Leipzig Hbftrain
8h 11m€138–685Bus and ferry, bus via Thessaloníki
- Take the busferry from Heraklion to Thessalonikibusferry
- Take the bus from Thessaloníki to Prizren,Autobuska Stanicabus
- Take the bus from Prizren,Autobuska Stanica to Leipzig Hbfbus
42h 45mBus and ferry, bus, train
- Take the busferry from Heraklion to Thessalonikibusferry
- Take the bus from Thessaloniki to Budapest Hotel Platanusbus
- Take the train from Budapest-Nyugati to Dresden-Neustadttrain Rj
- Take the train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbftrain 50 / ...
44h 11m€276–525Bus and ferry, bus
- Take the busferry from Heraklion Port to Tiranabusferry
- Take the bus from Tirana to Leipzigbus
2dFerry, bus, train
- Take the ferry from Heraklion to Port of Piraeusferry Abs / ...
- Take the bus from Athens to Praha, ÚAN Florencbus
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Leipzig Hbftrain Ec
2d 2h€222–353
Heraklion to Leipzig by ferry, foot, bus, and train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Heraklion to Leipzig is to fly which costs €60 - €270 and takes 5h 49m.
The fastest way to get from Heraklion to Leipzig is to fly which takes 5h 49m and costs €60 - €270.
No, there is no direct bus from Heraklion to Leipzig. However, there are services departing from Heraklion and arriving at Leipzig Hbf via Thessaloníki and Prizren,Autobuska Stanica. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 42h 45m.
The distance between Heraklion and Leipzig is 2086 km.
The best way to get from Heraklion to Leipzig without a car is to car ferry and bus and train which takes 41h 7m and costs .
It takes approximately 5h 49m to get from Heraklion to Leipzig, including transfers.
Heraklion to Leipzig bus services, operated by KTEL Irakleiou - Lasithiou S.A, depart from Heraklion station.
Heraklion to Leipzig bus services, operated by KTEL Irakleiou - Lasithiou S.A, arrive at Thessaloniki station.
Leipzig is 1h behind Heraklion. It is currently 5:24 PM in Heraklion and 4:24 PM in Leipzig.
There are 1462+ hotels available in Leipzig.
What companies run services between Heraklion, Greece and Leipzig, Germany?
Norwegian Air UK ltd, Austrian Airlines, and two other airlines fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ) twice daily.
- Website
- worldticket.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Dresden Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 27m
- When
- Wednesday, Monday, Saturday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €150–950
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Friday, Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–600
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–380
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Dresden Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–400
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Dresden Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €130–550
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–380
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Dresden Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–400
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Dresden Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–440
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–240
- Website
- corendonairlines.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Dresden Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €110–380
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–340
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Nuremberg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–470
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Leipzig-Halle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–550
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–220
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Nuremberg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–440
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €140–550
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Friday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–330
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Leipzig-Halle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–550
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Nuremberg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–440
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–240
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Salzburg
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–240
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–200
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–230
- Phone
- +49 800 589 28 40
- [email protected]
- Website
- agilis.de
Train from Regensburg Hbf to Nuernberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–110
- Schedules at
- agilis.de
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Regensburg Hbf to Nuernberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €23–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €27–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €27–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Regensburg Hbf to Nuernberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €18–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €55–240
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €21–90
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €29–130
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €55–240
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €21–90
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €25–45
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €25–45
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 47m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €65–120
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +43 (0)5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Budapest-Nyugati to Dresden-Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 28m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €100–160
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- *
- €100–160
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Piraeus to Durrës
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +355 673 835 770
- Website
- devatours.eu
Bus from Durrës to Regensburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 9m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Schedules at
- devatours.eu
- Phone
- +30 2810 246530
- [email protected]
- Website
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Heraklion to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Heraklion to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
- Phone
- + 383 (0) 44 542 029
- [email protected]
- Website
- sharrtravel.com
Bus from Thessaloníki to Prizren,Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €20
- Website
- https://www.sharrtravel.com
- Phone
- +383 44 225 800
- [email protected]
- Website
- planetreisen.eu
Bus from Prizren,Autobuska Stanica to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 45m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- planetreisen.eu
- Phone
- 0030 2108219900
- [email protected]
- Website
- siamostours.com
Bus from Thessaloniki to Budapest Hotel Platanus
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €70–160
- Schedules at
- siamostours.com
- Phone
- +355 42 239 203 / +355 69 400 4075
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Busferry from Heraklion Port to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063548259783
- Phone
- +355 69 249 3348
- [email protected]
- Website
- pati-travel.al
Bus from Tirana to Leipzig
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 26m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +30 210 92 33 33
- [email protected]
- Website
- koronatravel.gr
Bus from Athens to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 33h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €90
- Schedules at
- koronatravel.gr
- Phone
- +30 210 710 7 710
- [email protected]
- Website
- seajets.com
Car ferry from Heraklion Port to Port of Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €120–310
- Website
- https://www.seajets.com/
Car ferry from Heraklion Port to Port of Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €120–310
- Website
- https://www.seajets.com/
- Phone
- +30 21 0891 9800
- [email protected]
- Website
- bluestarferries.com
Ferry from Heraklion to Port of Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €60–140
- Website
- https://www.bluestarferries.com/en-gb/
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