One passenger pays £31.86, every fee included. Services cover 568 km and are run by 5 operators across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at £31.86, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares · Priced for 21 October 2026
£31.86
- 223%Moves across the booking window
223%Departure times on this route
Departure times on this route12Go lists the departures it sells between Ghent and Hamburg.
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about £96.89Thu8
- about £80.39Fri9
- about £69.09Sat10
- about £69.09Sun11
- about £48.83Mon12
- about £54.96Tue13
- about £43.17Wed14
- about £52.13Thu15
- about £48.83Fri16
- about £49.77Sat17
- about £50.71Sun18
- about £46.94Mon19
- about £42.70Tue20
- about £31.86Wed21
- about £42.70Thu22
- about £45.05Fri23
- about £39.88Sat24
- about £43.17Sun25
- about £39.40Mon26
- about £36.57Tue27
- about £40.80Wed28
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 room in Hamburg for the night the train gets in
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When to book Ghent to Hamburg
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- £29.9890 days
- £32.8060 days
- £36.5745 days
- £37.9830 days
- £40.8021 days
- £31.8614 days
- £43.177 days
- £69.093 days
- £96.891 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £29.98.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 223 percent. The dearest point is £96.89, 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.
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This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Ghent 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
568 km
509 km as the crow flies, 12% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north-east.
Who lives at each end
265,086 → 1,973,896
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
The route
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 568 km against 509 km in a straight line, a detour of 12 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Brussels, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf. The gap between arriving and leaving is 65 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
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 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 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 Ghent 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 Ghent to Hamburg?
Ghent to Hamburg covers 568 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 Ghent to Hamburg?
The cheapest fare from Ghent to Hamburg is £31.86, as of 7 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £65.31. 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 Ghent to Hamburg?
The cheapest way from Ghent to Hamburg is by train, at £31.86 for one passenger on 21 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.
When should I book Ghent to Hamburg?
Fares from Ghent to Hamburg bottom out around 90 days before departure, at £29.98. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 223 percent, measured on 7 October 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Ghent to Hamburg?
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Ghent to Hamburg, at £40.80. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 7 October 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Ghent to Hamburg?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Ghent to Hamburg, at £27.63 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 Ghent to Hamburg?
5 operators sell services from Ghent to Hamburg across 1 mode: BlaBlaCar, DB Fernverkehr, European Sleeper, Eurostar, Ryanair. 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 Ghent to Hamburg?
0 percent of the services we sell from Ghent to Hamburg are direct. The rest connect at Brussels, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, with about 65 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 Ghent to Hamburg use?
Services from Ghent to Hamburg by train leave from Gent Sint Pieters and arrive at Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport HAM. Allow about 1h 57m 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 Ghent to Hamburg?
4 of the 5 operators we sell from Ghent 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.
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
Ghent reaches 13 places in 5 countries on services we hold, over distances from 39 to 686 km. Hamburg reaches 111 places in 32 countries, from 58 to 10,147 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Ghent
- 13Places you can leave for
- 5Countries
- 7Operators
5
7Arriving in Hamburg
Leaving Hamburg
- 111Places you can leave for
- 32Countries
- 63Operators