There are 11 ways to get from Nuremberg to Kraków by bus, train, rideshare, plane, or car
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Bus
best- Take the bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Krakow, MDA Bus Stationbus N1310 / ...
11h 5mzł 210–330Rideshare
cheapest- Take the rideshare from Nuremberg to Krakow759.9 km
9h 39mzł 132Train via Wrocław
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Leipzig Hbftrain 28 / ...
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadttrain 55 / ...
- Take the train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Zgorzelec Bahnhoftrain Re1
- Take the train from Zgorzelec to Wroclaw Glownytrain Os
- Take the train from Wroclaw Glowny to Krakow Glownytrain Ic / ...
11h 46mzł 612–1,554Fly from Nuremberg Airport
- Fly from Nuremberg Airport (NUE) to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK)plane NUE - KRK
6h 49mzł 449–1,322Bus, train
- Take the bus from Nürnberg Hbf to Prague Florenc Bus Stationbus
- Take the train from Praha-Liben to Krakow Glownytrain 411 / ...
12h 21mzł 152–698Train
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Schwandorftrain
- Take the train from Schwandorf to Praha Hlavni Nadrazitrain Re
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Krakow Glownytrain 411 / ...
12h 27mzł 395–1,248Drive 758.3 km
- Drive from Nuremberg to Krakówcar 758.3 km
7h 59mzł 486–702Train to Munich International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to München Hbftrain
- Fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK)plane MUC - KRK
6h 39mzł 581–1,786Train to Stuttgart Airport, fly
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Fly from Stuttgart Airport (STR) to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK)plane STR - KRK
7h 33mzł 500–1,487Train to Frankfurt, fly
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK)plane FRA - KRK
7h 50mzł 574–1,388Bus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly
- Take the bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Praguebus
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK)plane PRG - KRK
7h 54mzł 275–967
Nuremberg to Kraków by bus
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Nuremberg to Kraków is to rideshare which costs 132 zł and takes 9h 39m.
The fastest way to get from Nuremberg to Kraków is to train and fly which takes 6h 39m and costs 550 zł - 1 800 zł.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from Nuremberg central bus station station and arriving at Krakow, MDA Bus Station station. Services depart four times a day, and operate every day. The journey takes approximately 11h 5m.
No, there is no direct train from Nuremberg to Kraków. However, there are services departing from Nürnberg Hbf and arriving at Krakow Glowny via Leipzig Hbf, Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt, Zgorzelec and Wroclaw Glowny. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 11h 46m.
The distance between Nuremberg and Kraków is 801 km. The road distance is 758.3 km.
The best way to get from Nuremberg to Kraków without a car is to bus which takes 11h 5m and costs 210 zł - 330 zł.
The bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Krakow, MDA Bus Station takes 11h 5m including transfers and departs four times a day.
Nuremberg to Kraków bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Nuremberg central bus station.
Nuremberg to Kraków train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Nürnberg Hbf station.
The best way to get from Nuremberg to Kraków is to bus which takes 11h 5m and costs 210 zł - 330 zł. Alternatively, you can train via Wrocław, which costs 600 zł - 1 600 zł and takes 11h 46m, you could also fly, which costs 440 zł - 1 400 zł and takes 6h 49m.
What companies run services between Nuremberg, Germany and Kraków, Poland?
FlixBus operates a bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Krakow, MDA Bus Station 3 times a day. Tickets cost zł 300–450 and the journey takes 11h 5m. Two other operators also service this route. Alternatively, you can take a train from Nürnberg Hbf to Krakow Glowny via Leipzig Hbf, Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt, Zgorzelec Bahnhof, Zgorzelec, and Wroclaw Glowny in around 11h 46m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 46m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 490–1,800
Flights from Munich International Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 370–1,900
Flights from Munich International Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- zł 370–1,200
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 18m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 400–2,200
Flights from Frankfurt to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 500–1,200
Flights from Frankfurt to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 26m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 500–1,200
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Wednesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- zł 450–1,000
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 370–1,900
Flights from Munich International Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 370–1,200
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 320–1,800
Flights from Frankfurt to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 500–1,200
Flights from Frankfurt to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 450–1,200
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 390–2,000
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 370–1,200
Flights from Munich International Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- zł 350–1,400
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- zł 360–1,400
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Zadar
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- zł 440–1,300
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- zł 140–700
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Frankfurt to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 320–1,300
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 290–1,200
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Munich International Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 600–1,900
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- zł 320–850
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- zł 240–500
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 90–190
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- zł 130–280
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- zł 150–330
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 180–380
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 80–320
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Schwandorf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 65–260
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 110–470
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
- Website
- LEO Express
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 26m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Schedules at
- LEO Express
Train from Praha-Liben to Krakow Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- zł 100–150
- Website
- LEO Express
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Krakow Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 2m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- zł 100–150
- Website
- LEO Express
- Phone
- +49 89 548889725
- [email protected]
- Website
- trilex - Die Länderbahn GmbH DLB
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Zgorzelec Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- zł 170–230
- Schedules at
- trilex - Die Länderbahn GmbH DLB
- Phone
- 0 89 54 888 97 - 25
- [email protected]
- Website
- Die Länderbahn
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Zgorzelec Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- zł 95–170
- Schedules at
- Die Länderbahn
Train from Schwandorf to Praha Hlavni Nadrazi
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 230–390
- Schedules at
- Die Länderbahn
- Phone
- +48 76 742 11 12
- [email protected]
- Website
- Koleje Dolnośląskie
Train from Zgorzelec to Wroclaw Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 180–280
- Website
- Koleje Dolnośląskie
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- [email protected]
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Zgorzelec to Wroclaw Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- zł 75–150
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Wroclaw Glowny to Krakow Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 17m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 120–230
- Website
- PKP Intercity
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Praha-Liben to Krakow Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 22m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- zł 480–600
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Krakow Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- zł 490–600
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- [email protected]
- Website
- RegioJet
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Krakow Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 49m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- zł 100–180
- Website
- RegioJet
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Krakow, MDA Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 5m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- zł 300–450
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- zł 100–160
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +38 (067) 467-44-00
- [email protected]
- Website
- TransTempo
Bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Krakow, MDA Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- zł 210–240
- Website
- TransTempo
- Phone
- +38 098-888-11-08
- [email protected]
- Website
- Grand Bus
Bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Krakow, MDA Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 54m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- zł 300–330
- Website
- Grand Bus
- [email protected]
- Website
- SVS
Bus from Nürnberg Hbf to Prague Florenc Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 58m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- zł 45–90
- Website
- SVS
- Phone
- +3 318 576 2228
- Website
- BlaBlaCar
Rideshare from Nuremberg to Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 39m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- zł 132
- Schedules at
- BlaBlaCar
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Booking & Getting There
Nuremberg to Kraków bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Krakow, MDA Bus Station.
Nuremberg to Kraków train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Leipzig Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between Nuremberg to Kraków is 758 km. It takes approximately 7h 59m to drive from Nuremberg to Kraków.
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