Flights to Essen

40 origins, priced from the same engine that serves the search page.

40 places connect to Essen by Flights, across 10 countries, run by 0 operators. The cheapest arrival costs £51.17. Origins run from 123 km away to 964 km, with a median of 350 km.

Priced for 28 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

Fares

Arriving in Essen

Cheapest fare and fastest journey into Essen, over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Luxembourg to Essen flight£51.175h 33m215 km
Strasbourg to Essen flight£51.175h 51m324 km
Prague to Essen flight£59.764h 59m542 km
Copenhagen to Essen flight£61.285h 10m595 km
Vienna to Essen flight£76.945h 37m762 km
Gdansk to Essen flight£87.065h 7m843 km
Amsterdam to Essen flightNoneNone178 km
Brussels to Essen flightNoneNone198 km
Hamburg to Essen flightNoneNone308 km
London to Essen flightNoneNone494 km
Munich to Essen flightNoneNone493 km
Paris to Essen flightNoneNone440 km
Stuttgart to Essen flightNoneNone335 km
Bremen to Essen flightNoneNone218 km
Nuremberg to Essen flightNoneNone364 km
Bielefeld to Essen flightNoneNone123 km
Warsaw to Essen flightNoneNone964 km
Wroclaw to Essen flightNoneNone697 km
Antwerp to Essen flightNoneNone183 km
Paderborn to Essen flightNoneNone124 km
  • £51.17 to £87.06Fare range
  • 10:20 to 10:44First and last departure
  • 40Places you can arrive from
  • 10Countries
  • 0Operators

£51.17 to £87.06 for one passenger across the 6 routes priced below, all of them on 28 October 2026. A single figure hides which end of that a journey sits at. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

What the operators filed into Essen on 12 October 2026, taken from the busiest routes into the city. Real times, and a fare only where an operator published one.

Departures on 12 October 2026

Real departures, filed by the operators themselves. Times only, no fares.

  1. 10:2014:454h 25m

    FlixBus 380FlixBus-euDirect

    Bremen Fernbusterminal → Essen central train station (Freiheit)

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  2. 10:3413:322h 58m

    ICE 15DB Fernverkehr AG2 changes

    Bruxelles-Nord → Essen Hbf

  3. 10:4414:554h 11m

    S1NMBS/SNCB1 change

    Bruxelles-Congrès → Essen central train station (Freiheit)

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  4. 10:4413:072h 23m

    ICE 519DB Fernverkehr AG1 change

    Bremen Hbf → Essen Hbf

The flight gets you into Essen. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Essen for the night the flight gets in

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km1025%Bielefeld, 123 km
200 to 600 km2255%Luxembourg, 215 km
600 to 1,500 km820%Wrocław, 697 km
Origins

Which countries you can arrive from

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
Germany1435%
Poland615%
Belgium410%
France410%
Austria25%
Czechia25%
Denmark25%
United Kingdom25%
Luxembourg25%
Netherlands25%
Leaving

Leaving Essen

Common questions about Flights to Essen

Where can I travel to Essen by Flights from?

40 places connect to Essen by Flights on our network, across 10 countries The nearest is 123 km away in a straight line and the furthest 964 km.

How much does the Flights to Essen cost?

The cheapest Flights fare into Essen is £51.17 for one passenger, across 40 origins over the next three weeks. The median origin is 350 km away in a straight line, which is the distance that fare should be read against.

How long does the Flights to Essen take?

The fastest Flights journey into Essen is 4h 59m door to door. The median origin sits 350 km away in a straight line, so most journeys on this list take considerably longer than the fastest one quoted here.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Catchment, Fares, Door to door

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