Mannheim to Hamburg bus

Buses from Mannheim to Hamburg start at €28.78 and take 7h 53m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Mannheim to Hamburg starts at €28.78 and takes 7h 53m door to door, run by 3 operators over 533 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 9, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 53mDoor to door
  • 7h 9mMoving
  • €28.78From
  • 14.4 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€24.38
  1. FlixBus FB357914:137h 36m21:49Mannheim ZOBHamburg ZOB

Door to door 8h 20mCO2 14.4 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.
OperatorFromFastest
BlaBlaCar€27.137h 42m
FlixBus€24.387h 44m
NVBW€27.137h 43m
  • BlaBlaCar
  • FlixBus
  • NVBW

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

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Hamburg Hauptbahnhof

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Booking window

When to book Mannheim to Hamburg

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

  1. €24.3890 days
  2. €22.1860 days
  3. €24.9345 days
  4. €24.9330 days
  5. €27.1321 days
  6. €28.7814 days
  7. €32.087 days
  8. €45.283 days
  9. €56.831 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.18.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 156 percent. The most expensive point is €56.83, 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. €33.18Sun
  2. €29.33Mon
  3. €28.78Tue
  4. €28.78Wed
  5. €38.13Thu
  6. €37.58Fri
  7. €35.93Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Mannheim

Bus
  • Mannheim ZOB
  • Berliner Platz

Hamburg

Bus
  • Hamburg ZOB
  • Bus Port Hamburg
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
71% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 29% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 533 km against 464 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Kassel, Hannover. The gap between arriving and leaving is 71 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Mannheim at 06:12 and the last at 14:54, across 6 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 28m3h 44m44m€60.8417.6 kg8
Coach7h 53m7h 9m44m€28.7814.4 kg6

Questions about Mannheim to Hamburg

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 Mannheim to Hamburg take?

The Coach from Mannheim to Hamburg takes 7h 53m door to door, of which 7h 9m is spent moving. The route runs 533 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 Mannheim to Hamburg cost?

The Coach from Mannheim to Hamburg starts at €28.78 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €29.88. 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 Mannheim to Hamburg?

3 operators run the Coach from Mannheim to Hamburg: BlaBlaCar, FlixBus, NVBW. Between them they file around 6 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 Mannheim to Hamburg use?

The Coach from Mannheim to Hamburg leaves from Mannheim ZOB and arrives at Hamburg ZOB. 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 Mannheim to Hamburg?

Traveling from Mannheim to Hamburg by Train costs €60.84 and takes 4h 28m door to door, against 7h 53m 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 Mannheim to Hamburg?

Fares for the Coach from Mannheim to Hamburg bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.18. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 156 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Mannheim to Hamburg produces about 14.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 533 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 Mannheim to Hamburg?

Operators on the Coach from Mannheim to Hamburg publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 53m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

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 Mannheim to Hamburg on September 9, 2026: 533 km of route against 464 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 3 operators, a cheapest fare of €28.78, and 7h 53m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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