One passenger pays between £14.29 and £33.75, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. Services cover 369 km and are run by 2 operators across 2 modes.
What one seat costs
The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 2 operators and 2 ways of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.
Typical fares · Priced for 27 October 2026
£14.29 to £33.75
- 159%Moves across the booking window
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Buying this journey
Pick a departure for Vienna 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.
12Go issues the ticket, and you book it here on Orlero.
Buying this journey
Pick a departure for Vienna 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 £34.55Thu8
- about £31.26Fri9
- about £27.95Sat10
- about £28.43Sun11
- about £20.41Mon12
- about £21.36Tue13
- about £18.53Wed14
- about £26.07Thu15
- about £21.83Fri16
- about £23.24Sat17
- about £20.41Sun18
- about £17.11Mon19
- about £16.65Tue20
- about £17.11Wed21
- about £20.41Thu22
- about £20.89Fri23
- about £17.59Sat24
- about £19.01Sun25
- about £14.76Mon26
- about £14.29Tue27
- about £18.06Wed28
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 Vienna to Dresden
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- £13.3590 days
- £19.4760 days
- £16.6545 days
- £14.7630 days
- £18.0621 days
- £17.1114 days
- £18.537 days
- £27.953 days
- £34.551 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £13.35.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 159 percent. The dearest point is £34.55, 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.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 90 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Vienna 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
369 km
369 km as the crow flies, 0% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north-west.
Who lives at each end
1,691,468 → 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
- 57% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 43% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 369 km against 369 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 Brno, Prague, Bratislava. The gap between arriving and leaving is 61 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 Vienna 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 Vienna to Dresden?
Vienna to Dresden covers 369 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 Vienna to Dresden?
The cheapest fare from Vienna to Dresden is £14.29, as of 7 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £37.44. 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 Vienna to Dresden?
The cheapest way from Vienna to Dresden is by coach, at £14.29 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 Vienna to Dresden?
Fares from Vienna to Dresden bottom out around 90 days before departure, at £13.35. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 159 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 Vienna to Dresden?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Vienna to Dresden, at £16.65. 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 Vienna to Dresden?
March is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Vienna to Dresden, at £13.35 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 Vienna to Dresden?
2 operators sell services from Vienna to Dresden across 2 modes: ČD, FlixBus. 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 Vienna to Dresden?
57 percent of the services we sell from Vienna to Dresden are direct. The rest connect at Brno, Prague, Bratislava, with about 61 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
How much CO2 does the journey from Vienna to Dresden produce?
Travelling from Vienna to Dresden by train produces about 12.2 kg of CO2 per passenger, the lowest of any mode on this corridor. The same journey by Coach produces about 12.5 kg, roughly 1 times as much for one passenger.
Which station or terminal do services from Vienna to Dresden use?
Services from Vienna to Dresden by train leave from Wien Hauptbahnhof 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 Vienna to Dresden?
2 of the 2 operators we sell from Vienna 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
Vienna reaches 154 places in 53 countries on services we hold, over distances from 55 to 9,846 km. Dresden reaches 34 places in 11 countries, from 62 to 2,249 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Vienna
- 154Places you can leave for
- 53Countries
- 79Operators
53
79Arriving in Dresden
Leaving Dresden
- 34Places you can leave for
- 11Countries
- 21Operators