Hamburg to Prague bus

Buses from Hamburg to Prague start at €27.13 and take 8h 3m at their fastest.

HamburgHamburgPraguePrague
The Golden Portal use to be the main entrance to the cathedral. Bohemian royals entered through this portal on coronation day. The colorful mosaic above the portal was created in the fourteenth century by Venetian artisans and depicts The Last Judgment. St. Vitus Cathedral, dominates the skyline wherever you are in city. The cathedral was commissioned by Charles IV, and construction began in 1344. it took almost six centuries to complete, with the final phase of construction in the period 1873-1929. It is the largest and most important church in Prague, St. Vitus Cathedral has also been the site of the coronation of Czech kings and queens. The Great South Tower of the Cathedral was founded in the late 14th century, then reconstructed in the 16th and again in the 18th centuries. The tower holds the biggest bell in the Czech Republic, called Žikmund, which dates from the 16th century.

The Buses from Hamburg to Prague starts at €27.13 and takes 8h 3m door to door, run by 1 operator over 491 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 3mDoor to door
  • 7h 19mMoving
  • €27.13From
  • 13.3 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€22.73
  1. FlixBus FB434906:267h 19m13:45Hamburg ZOBPraha Florenc

Door to door 8h 3mCO2 13.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
FlixBus€22.737h 10m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi
  • FlixBus

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

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Praha hlavni nadrazi

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Booking window

When to book Hamburg to Prague

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

  1. €23.8390 days
  2. €21.0860 days
  3. €27.6845 days
  4. €25.4830 days
  5. €28.7821 days
  6. €38.1314 days
  7. €37.037 days
  8. €40.333 days
  9. €63.431 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.08.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 201 percent. The most expensive point is €63.43, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €31.53Sun
  2. €27.13Mon
  3. €27.13Tue
  4. €33.73Wed
  5. €37.03Thu
  6. €41.43Fri
  7. €33.73Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Hamburg

Bus
  • Hamburg ZOB
  • Bus Port Hamburg

Prague

Bus
  • Praha Florenc
  • Nádraží Modřany
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
56% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 44% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 491 km against 491 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Braunschweig, Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig. The gap between arriving and leaving is 58 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. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Hamburg at 06:26 and the last at 14:13, across 2 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Buses against the other ways to make this journey

The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Train4h 8m3h 24m44m€71.8416.2 kg6
Flight4h 17m1h 7m3h 10m€59.73124.2 kg1
Coach8h 3m7h 19m44m€27.1313.3 kg2

Questions about Hamburg to Prague

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 the Coach from Hamburg to Prague take?

The Coach from Hamburg to Prague takes 8h 3m door to door, of which 7h 19m is spent moving. The route runs 491 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Coach from Hamburg to Prague cost?

The Coach from Hamburg to Prague starts at €27.13 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €24.66. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Coach from Hamburg to Prague?

1 operators run the Coach from Hamburg to Prague: FlixBus. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Coach from Hamburg to Prague use?

The Coach from Hamburg to Prague leaves from Hamburg ZOB and arrives at Praha Florenc. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

Is the Coach the best way from Hamburg to Prague?

Traveling from Hamburg to Prague by Train costs €71.84 and takes 4h 8m door to door, against 8h 3m by Coach. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.

When should I book the Coach from Hamburg to Prague?

Fares for the Coach from Hamburg to Prague bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.08. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 201 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Hamburg to Prague produce?

The Coach from Hamburg to Prague produces about 13.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 491 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Coach from Hamburg to Prague?

Operators on the Coach from Hamburg to Prague publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 3m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Hamburg to Prague on September 10, 2026: 491 km of route against 491 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €27.13, and 8h 3m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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