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The best way to find a cheap train ticket from Milan to Hamburg is to book your journey as far in advance as possible and to avoid traveling at rush hour.
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Fastest Journey
12 h 22 m
Average
12 h 22 m
Trains per day
1
Distance
904 km
Of the 1 trains that leave Milan for Hamburg every day 1 travel direct so it’s quite easy to avoid journeys where you’ll have to change along the way.
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Distance | 560 miles (903 km) | |
Average train duration | 12 h 22 min | |
Average train ticket price | $106 (€96) | |
Train frequency | 4 a day | |
Direct train | No | |
Train companies | Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Bahn with connection or FlixTrain |
Trains from Milan to Hamburg cover the 560 miles (903 km) long trip taking on average 12 h 22 min with our travel partners like Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Bahn with connection or FlixTrain. Normally, there are 4 trains operating per day, including direct services available. You can get the cheapest train tickets for this route for as low as $67 (€60), but the average price of train tickets is $106 (€96). Travelers depart most frequently from Milano Centrale and arrive in Hamburg Hbf.
You can travel by train to Hamburg from Milan with Deutsche Bahn for as low as $67 (€60). When you search for schedules and tickets, Omio will show you the best trip.
Deutsche Bahn (DB) is the main provider of train services in Germany, making on average 40,000 journeys per day. A special feature of Deutsche Bahn is its wide range of ticket types, savings offers including Super Saver, Saver, and Flexible fares and discount cards like the Bahncard 25, 50 and 100, which you can also use for your train between Milan and Hamburg. DB uses different types of trains such as the ICE (Intercity Express), IC (Intercity), EC (Eurocity), IRE (Interregio-Express), RE (Regional Express) and RB (Regionalbahn) on its routes, which differ in terms of comfort and the time required to travel. For example, while bathrooms are standard amenities, services like an onboard restaurant or free WiFi are only available on certain trains.
The train connections between Hamburg and Milan are guaranteed by the German railway company Deutsche Bahn. The departure station is always Milano Centrale, while the arrival station is Hamburg Hbf. The trains that run are EC(Eurocity), ICE (Intercity Express) and IC (Intercity). The travel solution can include 1 to 4 changes and travel times vary from 12 to 17 hours. The first train leaves Hamburg around 07:30, the last around 21:05.
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Trains to Hamburg depart from Milano Centrale station, in Piazza Duca d'Aosta. The station is served by two underground lines, the 2 and the 3, active from 06:00 to 00:30, by trams line 5 and 9 and by several bus lines, such as 42, 60, 81, 87. In addition, fifteen bus lines travel through the city all night, including the N6 that connects Cadorna to the Central Station.
The Hamburg Hauptbahnhof station, where the train from Milan arrives, is located on Hachmannplatz, in the central Hamburg-Mitte district. The Hauptbahnhof is also the intersection of the urban railway, the S-Bahn, with the lines S11, S2, S21, S3, S31, and the four lines of the U-Bahn, the underground network - the U1, U2, U3, U4 - operating from 06:00 to 23:00 during the week and 24 hours a day from Friday to Sunday. During the night, some buses replace the subway in the city centre.
Visiting Hamburg means discovering the Venice of the North, with almost 2500 bridges scattered on navigable canals. The historic centre with the town hall, the high fashion shops and the red light districts is splendid. To see the houses of the eighteenth century, the Kramer Amtsstuben, behind the church of St. Michaelis and the district of Gradini, compared to the beautiful Positano for its houses perched on the Elbe.
When departing from Milan, you have various train station options to start your route from including Milano Centrale, Milano Porta Garibaldi and Milano Rogoredo. When arriving in Hamburg, you can end your route in train stations like Hamburg Hbf, Hamburg Airport and Hamburg, Hauptbahnhof/Spitalerstraße.
Passengers board the train most frequently from Milano Centrale, which is located around 2.3 miles (3.7 km) away from the city centre, and they get off the train at Hamburg Hbf, located 1.9 miles (3 km) away from the city centre.
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