One passenger pays £37.05, every fee included. Services cover 404 km and are run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at £37.05, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares · Priced for 21 October 2026
£37.05
- 153%Moves across the booking window
153%12Go issues the ticket, and you book it here on Orlero.
Buying this journey
Pick a departure for Mainz to Dresden and pay on tickets.orlero.com, our booking site.
The price is the one 12Go sets, with every fee shown before you pay.
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about £75.68Wed7
- about £120.92Thu8
- about £81.81Fri9
- about £78.51Sat10
- about £79.92Sun11
- about £53.54Mon12
- about £66.73Tue13
- about £62.49Wed14
- about £78.51Thu15
- about £62.02Fri16
- about £73.33Sat17
- about £54.96Sun18
- about £45.05Mon19
- about £58.72Tue20
- about £37.05Wed21
- about £51.65Thu22
- about £46.47Fri23
- about £62.49Sat24
- about £40.81Sun25
- about £42.70Mon26
- about £39.88Tue27
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
The train gets you into Dresden. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
A room in Dresden for the night the train gets in
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When to book Mainz to Dresden
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- £32.3490 days
- £56.8460 days
- £47.4245 days
- £43.1730 days
- £39.8821 days
- £58.7214 days
- £66.737 days
- £81.813 days
- £75.681 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £32.34.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 153 percent. The dearest point is £81.81, 3 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.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 90 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Mainz to Dresden 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
404 km
404 km as the crow flies, 0% further by the route services take. The bearing runs east.
Who lives at each end
222,889 → 564,904
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
- 33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 404 km against 404 km in a straight line, a detour of 0 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Nuremberg, Munich. The gap between arriving and leaving is 67 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 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 DRS into Dresden is set by whoever drives it.
A car waiting when you land in Dresden
Settled in advance, so the ride into Dresden 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 Dresden Hauptbahnhof
Most of the points near Dresden Hauptbahnhof open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Mainz to Dresden
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 Mainz to Dresden?
Mainz to Dresden covers 404 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 Mainz to Dresden?
The cheapest fare from Mainz to Dresden is £37.05, as of 6 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £62.02. 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 Mainz to Dresden?
The cheapest way from Mainz to Dresden is by train, at £37.05 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 Mainz to Dresden?
Fares from Mainz to Dresden bottom out around 90 days before departure, at £32.34. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 153 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 Mainz to Dresden?
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Mainz to Dresden, at £45.05. 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 Mainz to Dresden?
November is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Mainz to Dresden, at £32.34 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 Mainz to Dresden?
1 operators sell services from Mainz to Dresden 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 Mainz to Dresden?
33 percent of the services we sell from Mainz to Dresden are direct. The rest connect at Nuremberg, Munich, with about 67 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 Mainz to Dresden use?
Services from Mainz to Dresden by train leave from Mainz Hbf and arrive at Dresden 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 Mainz to Dresden?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Mainz to Dresden 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 Dresden a set of days out that do not start at a station.
Day trips out of Dresden and across Germany
Day trips that leave Dresden in the morning and cover a good part of Germany by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Mainz reaches 22 places in 7 countries on services we hold, over distances from 65 to 621 km. Dresden reaches 34 places in 11 countries, from 62 to 2,249 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Mainz
- 22Places you can leave for
- 7Countries
- 13Operators
7
13Arriving in Dresden
Leaving Dresden
- 34Places you can leave for
- 11Countries
- 21Operators