There are 8 ways to get from Kraków to Wacken Open Air by train, bus, car, plane, or shuttle
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Train
best- Take the train from Krakow Glowny to Rzepintrain Ic / ...
- Take the train from Rzepin to S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhftrain 95 / ...
- Take the train from S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhf to Itzehoetrain 18
13h 20m€156–660Fly John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Hamburg Airport, train
cheapest- Fly from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK) to Hamburg Airport (HAM)plane KRK - HAM
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Itzehoetrain
9h 4m€81–366Bus
- Take the bus from Krakow, MDA Bus Station to Hamburg, Zentraler Omnibusbahnhofbus N1360a / ...
- Take the bus from Hauptbahnhof/ZOB to Itzehoe Bahnhofbus Re6x / ...
16h 10mDrive 954.6 km
- Drive from Kraków to Wacken Open Aircar 954.6 km
8h 38m€135–195Bus, train
- Take the bus from Kraków to Praha Hlavní nádražíbus
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Hamburg-Altonatrain Rj
- Take the train from Hamburg-Altona to Itzehoetrain Re6
18h 27mShuttle to Katowice International Airport, fly to Hamburg Airport, train
- Take a shuttle bus from Kraków Główny Station to Katowice Airport
- Fly from Katowice International Airport (KTW) to Hamburg Airport (HAM)plane KTW - HAM
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Itzehoetrain
10h 50m€101–403Fly John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Bremen Airport, train
- Fly from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK) to Bremen Airport (BRE)plane KRK - BRE
- Take the train from Bremen Hbf to Hamburg Hbftrain
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Itzehoetrain
10h 30m€113–532Train to Warsaw Chopin Airport, fly to Hamburg Airport, train
- Take the train from Krakow Glowny to Warszawa Zachodniatrain
- Fly from Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW) to Hamburg Airport (HAM)plane WAW - HAM
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Itzehoetrain
9h 44m€109–571
Kraków to Wacken Open Air by train, bus, and foot
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Kraków to Wacken Open Air is to drive which costs €130 - €200 and takes 8h 38m.
The fastest way to get from Kraków to Wacken Open Air is to drive which takes 8h 38m and costs €130 - €200.
No, there is no direct bus from Kraków station to Wacken Open Air. However, there are services departing from Krakow, MDA Bus Station and arriving at Wacken Mühlenweg via Hauptbahnhof/ZOB and Itzehoe Viktoriastraße/Bahnhof. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 16h 10m.
No, there is no direct train from Kraków to Wacken Open Air. However, there are services departing from Krakow Glowny and arriving at Itzehoe via Rzepin and S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 13h 20m.
The distance between Kraków and Wacken Open Air is 998 km. The road distance is 954.6 km.
The best way to get from Kraków to Wacken Open Air without a car is to train which takes 13h 20m and costs €150 - €700.
It takes approximately 13h 20m to get from Kraków to Wacken Open Air, including transfers.
Kraków to Wacken Open Air bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Krakow, MDA Bus Station.
Kraków to Wacken Open Air train services, operated by PKP Intercity, depart from Krakow Glowny station.
The best way to get from Kraków to Wacken Open Air is to train which takes 13h 20m and costs €150 - €700. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs and takes 16h 10m.
What companies run services between Kraków, Poland and Wacken Open Air, Germany?
You can take a train from Krakow Glowny to Wacken Open Air via Rzepin, S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhf, Itzehoe, Itzehoe Viktoriastraße/Bahnhof, and Wacken Mühlenweg in around 13h 20m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Krakow, MDA Bus Station to Wacken Open Air via Hauptbahnhof/ZOB, Itzehoe Bahnhof, Itzehoe Viktoriastraße/Bahnhof, and Wacken Mühlenweg in around 16h 10m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–550
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–320
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Bremen Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–750
Flights from Warsaw Chopin Airport to Hamburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–360
Flights from Warsaw Chopin Airport to Hamburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–370
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Hamburg Airport via Warsaw Chopin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 11m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–240
Flights from Katowice International Airport to Hamburg Airport via Warsaw Chopin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–310
Flights from Warsaw Chopin Airport to Hamburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–320
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Hamburg Airport via Gdansk
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Monday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €60–200
Flights from Katowice International Airport to Hamburg Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–250
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Bremen Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–250
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Bremen Airport via Zadar
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–250
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Hamburg Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–310
Flights from Warsaw Chopin Airport to Hamburg Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–320
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Bremen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–410
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Hamburg Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–290
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Bremen Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–390
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Hamburg Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–270
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- [email protected]
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Krakow Glowny to Rzepin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €75–290
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Rzepin to S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €17–65
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Krakow Glowny to Warszawa Zachodnia
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €40–170
- Website
- PKP Intercity
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Rzepin to S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €20–90
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhf to Itzehoe
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 51m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €60–280
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Itzehoe
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €12–55
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Itzehoe
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €12–55
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Bremen Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–90
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Itzehoe
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €12–55
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Itzehoe
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €12–55
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- (040) 303 977-333
- [email protected]
- Website
- Nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Itzehoe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €55–130
- Schedules at
- Nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft
Train from Hamburg-Altona to Itzehoe
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €50–120
- Schedules at
- Nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Itzehoe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €55–130
- Schedules at
- Nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Itzehoe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €55–130
- Schedules at
- Nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Itzehoe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €55–130
- Schedules at
- Nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- [email protected]
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Hamburg-Altona
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 7m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €75–120
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Hamburg-Altona to Itzehoe
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–27
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
- Phone
- +49 581 97164164
- [email protected]
- Website
- metronom
Train from Bremen Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €35–130
- Schedules at
- metronom
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- Österreichische Bundesbahnen
Train from Bremen Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €29–45
- Website
- Österreichische Bundesbahnen
- Phone
- +420 220 311 700
- [email protected]
- Website
- LEO Express
Train from Krakow Glowny to Warszawa Zachodnia
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 52m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €17–28
- Website
- LEO Express
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Krakow, MDA Bus Station to Hamburg, Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €75–130
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Bus from Hauptbahnhof/ZOB to Itzehoe Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
- Phone
- +38 098-888-11-08
- [email protected]
- Website
- Grand Bus
Bus from Kraków to Praha Hlavní nádraží
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 17m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- Grand Bus
- Phone
- +48 32 236 11 11
- [email protected]
- Website
- Matuszek
Shuttle from Kraków Główny Station to Katowice Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €5–19
- Website
- Matuszek
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Kraków to Wacken Open Air bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Hamburg, Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof station.
Kraków to Wacken Open Air train services, operated by PKP Intercity, arrive at Rzepin station.
Yes, the driving distance between Kraków to Wacken Open Air is 955 km. It takes approximately 8h 38m to drive from Kraków to Wacken Open Air.
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