There are 8 ways to get from Tübingen to Crete by plane, train, bus, car ferry, busferry, or ferry
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Fly from Stuttgart Airport
best- Fly from Stuttgart Airport (STR) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane STR - HER
6h 3m€79–215Train, bus, car ferry
- Take the train from Tübingen Hauptbahnhof to Hauptbahnhoftrain Re6
- Take the bus from Stuttgart Hbf to Tiranabus
- Take the bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Peiraiasbus
- Take the carferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion Portcarferry
37h 16mTrain, train to Frankfurt, fly
- Take the train from Tübingen Hauptbahnhof to Esslingentrain
- Take the train from Esslingen to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane FRA - HER
8h 25m€123–253Train, train to Zurich Airport, fly
- Take the train from Horb Bahnhof/ZOB to Schaffhausentrain
- Take the train from Schaffhausen to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane ZRH - HER
9h 25m€96–333Bus, bus and ferry via Thessaloníki
- Take the bus from Tübingen Hauptbahnhof to Hauptbfbus Re6
- Take the bus from Stuttgart to Skopje, Transporten Centarbus
- Take the bus from Skopje, Transporten Centar to Thessaloníkibus
- Take the busferry from Thessaloniki to Heraklionbusferry
43h 21m€236–294Train, bus, bus and ferry
- Take the train from Tübingen Hauptbahnhof to Hauptbahnhoftrain Re6
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof to Nürnberg Hbftrain 61
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Wien Meidlingtrain
- Take the train from Wien Meidling to Budapest-Delitrain Ic
- Take the bus from Budapest to Thessaloníkibus
- Take the busferry from Thessaloniki to Heraklionbusferry
46h 8m€255–450Bus, bus and ferry
- Take the bus from Stuttgart Airport to Tiranabus
- Take the busferry from Tirana to Heraklion Portbusferry
2dBus, train, ferry
- Take the bus from Stuttgart Airport to Larissabus
- Take the train from Larissa to Athenstrain Ic
- Take the ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklionferry Abs / ...
2d 8h€310–530
Tübingen to Crete by bus, train, foot, and ferry
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Tübingen to Crete is to fly which costs €75 - €220 and takes 6h 3m.
The fastest way to get from Tübingen to Crete is to fly which takes 6h 3m and costs €75 - €220.
No, there is no direct bus from Tübingen to Crete. However, there are services departing from Tübingen Hauptbahnhof and arriving at Heraklion via Stuttgart, Skopje, Transporten Centar and Thessaloniki. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 43h 21m.
The distance between Tübingen and Crete is 2013 km.
The best way to get from Tübingen to Crete without a car is to train and bus and car ferry which takes 37h 16m and costs .
It takes approximately 6h 3m to get from Tübingen to Crete, including transfers.
Tübingen to Crete bus services, operated by DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee GmbH (RAB), depart from Tübingen Hauptbahnhof station.
Tübingen to Crete bus services, operated by DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee GmbH (RAB), arrive at Hauptbf station.
Crete is 1h ahead of Tübingen. It is currently 4:25 PM in Tübingen and 5:25 PM in Crete.
There are 2576+ hotels available in Crete.
What companies run services between Tübingen, Germany and Crete, Greece?
Condor Flugdienst, Eurowings, and six other airlines fly from Stuttgart Airport (STR) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) twice daily.
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–210
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Sunday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–210
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Wednesday, Saturday, Monday, Friday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–180
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–180
Flights from Zurich Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €110–230
Flights from Zurich Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 52m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–270
Flights from Zurich Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–270
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Sunday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €75–230
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Wednesday, Saturday, Monday, Friday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–180
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €50–250
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–190
Flights from Zurich Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Monday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–200
- Website
- tui.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–300
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–140
- Website
- airbus.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Wednesday, Saturday, Monday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–130
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–210
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–240
- Website
- corendonairlines.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €90–200
- Website
- skyexpress.gr
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €90–150
- Website
- comlux.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €90–210
- Website
- flyedelweiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Tuesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–320
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Tübingen Hauptbahnhof to Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €8–11
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Tübingen Hauptbahnhof to Esslingen
- Ave. Duration
- 45 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €6–9
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Tübingen Hauptbahnhof to Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €8–11
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- [email protected]
- Website
- Arverio Baden-Württemberg
Train from Tübingen Hauptbahnhof to Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €13–25
- Schedules at
- Arverio Baden-Württemberg
- 2nd Class Ticket
- €13–16
- 1st Class Ticket
- €17–25
Train from Tübingen Hauptbahnhof to Esslingen
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €11–22
- Schedules at
- Arverio Baden-Württemberg
- 2nd Class Ticket
- €11–14
- 1st Class Ticket
- €15–22
Train from Tübingen Hauptbahnhof to Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €13–25
- Schedules at
- Arverio Baden-Württemberg
- 2nd Class Ticket
- €13–16
- 1st Class Ticket
- €17–25
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Esslingen to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 29m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–60
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Horb Bahnhof/ZOB to Schaffhausen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €20–40
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Hauptbahnhof to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 9m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–65
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Schaffhausen to Zürich Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €16–26
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 18m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €65–130
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- [email protected]
- Website
- RegioJet
Train from Wien Meidling to Budapest-Deli
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €12–21
- Website
- RegioJet
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- Hellenic Train S.A.
Train from Larissa to Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 38m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €21–35
- Website
- Hellenic Train S.A.
- Phone
- +355 68 204 4475
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Stuttgart Hbf to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 43m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 69 232 8000
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Stuttgart Hbf to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 42m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 69 617 8170
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Peiraias
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40–85
- Schedules at
- Diamant Travel
Bus from Tübingen Hauptbahnhof to Hauptbf
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €10–15
- Schedules at
- DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee GmbH (RAB)
- Phone
- +389 75 209 209
- [email protected]
- Website
- Hak Bus
Bus from Stuttgart to Skopje, Transporten Centar
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 44m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €120
- Website
- Hak Bus
- Phone
- +389 44 338 003
- [email protected]
Bus from Stuttgart to Skopje, Transporten Centar
- Ave. Duration
- 23h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- Bashkim Tours
- Phone
- +389 2 240 2528
- [email protected]
- Website
- ruleturs.mk
Bus from Skopje, Transporten Centar to Thessaloníki
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €26–40
- Schedules at
- ruleturs.mk
- Phone
- +30 2810 246530
- [email protected]
- Website
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Thessaloniki to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Thessaloniki to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
- Phone
- +302105233969
- [email protected]
- Website
- fptravel.gr
Bus from Budapest to Thessaloníki
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €60–90
- Schedules at
- fptravel.gr
- Phone
- +383 44 102 280
- [email protected]
- Website
- armendtours.com
Bus from Stuttgart Airport to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 26m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- armendtours.com
- Phone
- +355 68 20 63 724
- [email protected]
- Website
- arjanitravel.com
Bus from Stuttgart Airport to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €110
- Schedules at
- arjanitravel.com
- Phone
- +355 673 835 770
- Website
- devatours.eu
Bus from Stuttgart Airport to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 32m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- devatours.eu
- Phone
- +355 42 239 203 / +355 69 400 4075
- [email protected]
- Website
- Alb Trans
Busferry from Tirana to Heraklion Port
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- Alb Trans
- Phone
- +30 2310261280
- Website
- portokalidistours.com
Bus from Stuttgart Airport to Larissa
- Ave. Duration
- 38h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €210–310
- Schedules at
- portokalidistours.gr
- Phone
- +30 210 710 7 710
- [email protected]
- Website
- Seajets
Car ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion Port
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €120–280
- Website
- Seajets
- Phone
- +30 21 0891 9800
- [email protected]
- Website
- Blue Star Ferries
Ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €75–180
- Website
- Blue Star Ferries
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