Wolfsburg to Hamburg bus

Buses from Wolfsburg to Hamburg start at €11.18 and take 2h 59m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Wolfsburg to Hamburg starts at €11.18 and takes 2h 59m door to door, run by 1 operator over 156 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 9, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 2h 59mDoor to door
  • 2h 15mMoving
  • €11.18From
  • 4.2 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

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

Cheapest€10.08
  1. HVV HV815506:192h 15m08:34Rühen SchuleHamburg ZOB

Door to door 2h 59mCO2 4.2 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
HVV€10.082h 52m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi
  • HVV

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A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Hamburg Hauptbahnhof

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Booking window

When to book Wolfsburg to Hamburg

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

  1. €12.2890 days
  2. €10.0760 days
  3. €12.2845 days
  4. €10.0830 days
  5. €11.7321 days
  6. €12.2814 days
  7. €14.487 days
  8. €21.083 days
  9. €28.231 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.07.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 180 percent. The most expensive point is €28.23, 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. €16.13Sun
  2. €11.18Mon
  3. €11.18Tue
  4. €12.28Wed
  5. €17.23Thu
  6. €15.58Fri
  7. €16.68Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Wolfsburg

Bus
  • Rühen Schule

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
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 156 km against 136 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 Neue Neustadt, Lübeck, Bremen, Hannover. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Wolfsburg at 06:19 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Wolfsburg 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 Wolfsburg to Hamburg take?

The Coach from Wolfsburg to Hamburg takes 2h 59m door to door, of which 2h 15m is spent moving. The route runs 156 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 Wolfsburg to Hamburg cost?

The Coach from Wolfsburg to Hamburg starts at €11.18 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €16.96. 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 Wolfsburg to Hamburg?

1 operators run the Coach from Wolfsburg to Hamburg: HVV. 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 Wolfsburg to Hamburg use?

The Coach from Wolfsburg to Hamburg leaves from Rühen Schule 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.

When should I book the Coach from Wolfsburg to Hamburg?

Fares for the Coach from Wolfsburg to Hamburg bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.07. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 180 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Wolfsburg to Hamburg produces about 4.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 156 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 Wolfsburg to Hamburg?

Operators on the Coach from Wolfsburg to Hamburg publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 2h 59m 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 Wolfsburg to Hamburg on September 9, 2026: 156 km of route against 136 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €11.18, and 2h 59m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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