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Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg. From £63.43, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

One passenger pays £63.43, every fee included. Services cover 664 km and are run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 6 October 2026Priced for 27 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at £63.43, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for 27 October 2026

£63.43

  • 219%Moves across the booking window

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about £173.70Wed7
  2. about £185.47Thu8
  3. about £154.84Fri9
  4. about £141.66Sat10
  5. about £122.33Sun11
  6. about £106.31Mon12
  7. about £105.37Tue13
  8. about £78.51Wed14
  9. about £108.67Thu15
  10. about £85.58Fri16
  11. about £95.00Sat17
  12. about £106.79Sun18
  13. about £68.14Mon19
  14. about £90.76Tue20
  15. about £77.56Wed21
  16. about £88.41Thu22
  17. about £91.23Fri23
  18. about £93.12Sat24
  19. about £73.33Sun25
  20. about £70.97Mon26
  21. about £63.43Tue27

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

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

A hotel room

A room in Hamburg for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. £54.4890 days
  2. £93.1260 days
  3. £67.2145 days
  4. £72.3830 days
  5. £63.4321 days
  6. £90.7614 days
  7. £105.377 days
  8. £154.843 days
  9. £173.701 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £54.48.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 219 percent. The dearest point is £173.70, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
£173.70£54.48137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 90 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.

The shape of it

664 km

636 km as the crow flies, 4% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north.

Who lives at each end

237,460 → 1,973,896

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

The route

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The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 664 km against 636 km in a straight line, a detour of 4 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Frankfurt am Main, Karlsruhe. The gap between arriving and leaving is 56 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.

Hamburg is large, and the road in from HAM can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Hamburg

Settled in advance, so the ride into Hamburg costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

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Who runs this route

The train gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Hamburg Hauptbahnhof

Most of the points near Hamburg Hauptbahnhof open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does it take to get from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg?

Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg covers 664 km. Each operator's own departure and arrival times for the date you pick are in the search at the top of this page, beside the total price.

How much does it cost to travel from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg?

The cheapest fare from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg is £63.43, as of 6 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £95.00. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg?

The cheapest way from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg is by train, at £63.43 for one passenger on 27 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.

When should I book Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg?

Fares from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg bottom out around 90 days before departure, at £54.48. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 219 percent, measured on 6 October 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg, at £70.97. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 6 October 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg?

March is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg, at £53.54 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs services from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg?

1 operators sell services from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg across 1 mode: DB Fernverkehr. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg?

0 percent of the services we sell from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg are direct. The rest connect at Frankfurt am Main, Karlsruhe, with about 56 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg use?

Services from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg by train leave from Freiburg (Breisgau) Hbf and arrive at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof. Allow about 44m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg?

1 of the 1 operators we sell from Freiburg im Breisgau to Hamburg allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs £4.28. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

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.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

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 Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances

Being on the water gives Hamburg a set of days out that do not start at a station.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Hamburg and across Germany

Day trips that leave Hamburg in the morning and cover a good part of Germany by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Freiburg im Breisgau reaches 13 places in 6 countries on services we hold, over distances from 53 to 1,197 km. Hamburg reaches 111 places in 32 countries, from 58 to 10,147 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Freiburg im Breisgau

  • 13Places you can leave for
  • 6Countries
  • 7Operators

Arriving in Hamburg

Leaving Hamburg

  • 111Places you can leave for
  • 32Countries
  • 63Operators

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