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London to Dortmund

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from London to Dortmund. From €46.75, fastest 4h 16m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

London to Dortmund runs about 8 times a day, with the first departure around 06:21 and the last around 18:51. One passenger pays between €46.75 and €52.06, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 4h 16m over 541 km, on services run by 2 operators across 1 mode.

Checked 15 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 2 operators and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares

€46.75 to €52.06

  • 124%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving London

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:21First departure
  • 18:51Last departure
  • 8Services per day
  • 100%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €104.57Wed16
  2. about €116.37Thu17
  3. about €86.87Fri18
  4. about €92.77Sat19
  5. about €83.92Sun20
  6. about €73.89Mon21
  7. about €57.96Tue22
  8. about €62.68Wed23
  9. about €75.07Thu24
  10. about €72.12Fri25
  11. about €71.53Sat26
  12. about €72.71Sun27
  13. about €65.04Mon28
  14. about €52.06Tue29
  15. about €55.60Wed30
  16. about €62.09Thu1
  17. about €56.19Fri2
  18. about €59.14Sat3
  19. about €54.42Sun4
  20. about €51.47Mon5
  21. about €46.75Tue6

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

The flight gets you into Dortmund. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Dortmund for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Dortmund 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 London to Dortmund

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

  1. €56.7890 days
  2. €50.2960 days
  3. €52.6545 days
  4. €54.4230 days
  5. €46.7521 days
  6. €52.0614 days
  7. €57.967 days
  8. €86.873 days
  9. €104.571 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €46.75.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 124 percent. The dearest point is €104.57, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€104.57€46.751371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 21 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to London to Dortmund and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

1 hours ahead on arrival. The clock moves even though you do not.

The shape of it

541 km

525 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs east.

Who lives at each end

8,961,989588,462

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

How we know

Observed

Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.

The route

LondonLondonDortmundDortmund
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

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

Direct or connecting
67% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 33% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 541 km against 525 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Antwerp, Krefeld, Oberhausen, Duisburg. The gap between arriving and leaving is 64 minutes, of which about 5 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.

The fare from DTM into Dortmund is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Dortmund

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

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

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

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Dortmund Hauptbahnhof

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

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Questions about London to Dortmund

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 London to Dortmund?

The fastest journey from London to Dortmund takes 4h 16m door to door, of which 1h 7m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 4h 19m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from London to Dortmund?

The cheapest fare from London to Dortmund is €46.75, as of 15 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €76.84. 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 London to Dortmund?

The cheapest way from London to Dortmund is by flight, at €52.06 for one passenger on 6 October 2026. That journey takes 4h 17m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book London to Dortmund?

Fares from London to Dortmund bottom out around 21 days before departure, at €46.75. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 124 percent, measured on 15 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for London to Dortmund?

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from London to Dortmund, at €52.06. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 15 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for London to Dortmund?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from London to Dortmund, at €42.03 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 London to Dortmund?

2 operators sell services from London to Dortmund across 1 mode: easyJet, 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 London to Dortmund?

67 percent of the services we sell from London to Dortmund are direct. The rest connect at Antwerp, Krefeld, Oberhausen, Duisburg, with about 64 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 London to Dortmund use?

Services from London to Dortmund by flight leave from London LGW and arrive at Dortmund DTM. Allow about 3h 10m 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 London to Dortmund?

0 of the 2 operators we sell from London to Dortmund allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. 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 shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for London to Dortmund on 15 September 2026: 541 km of route against 525 km in a straight line, 12 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €46.75, and 4h 16m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Dortmund is somebody else's catalogue.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Dortmund and across Germany

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

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The two ends, compared

London reaches 520 places in 109 countries on services we hold, over distances from 17 to 11,718 km. Dortmund reaches 133 places in 31 countries, from 42 to 3,092 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving London

  • 520Places you can leave for
  • 109Countries
  • 196Operators

Arriving in Dortmund

Leaving Dortmund

  • 133Places you can leave for
  • 31Countries
  • 30Operators

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