Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Dortmund to Bologna. From €98.79, fastest 7h 10m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Dortmund to Bologna costs €98.79 at the cheapest and takes 7h 10m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 957 km. Cheapest is by train, fastest is by train.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on September 28, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 7h 14m | 6h 30m | 44m | €116.39 | 31.6 kg | 5 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Frankfurt am Main, with 79 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 8h 38mCO2 28.4 kgChanges 1Refundable
Door to door 7h 14mCO2 31.6 kgChanges 0Refundable
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Dortmund to Bologna | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 | WedSep 23 | ThuSep 24 | FriSep 25 | SatSep 26 | SunSep 27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | €195.59 | €205.49 | €171.94 | €203.29 | €190.64 | €181.84 | €146.64 | €122.44 | €116.39 | €120.24 | €167.54 | €148.29 | €195.59 | €138.39 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-28 · €98.79
Arriving in September changes what you want from a room in Bologna. It is not a thing we sell, so here is who does.
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 45 days ahead. You are inside that window.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
The fare from BLQ into Bologna is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
Settled in advance, so the ride into Bologna costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 SNCF | €105.94 | 7h 10m | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power outlets, Wi-Fi |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €88.00 | 89% |
| Taxes | €8.80 | 9% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 2% |
| Total you pay | €98.79 | 100% |
A day in Bologna hauling a suitcase is a shorter day than it needs to be. We do not store bags.
Priced by the bag and by the day, booked before you get there, and insured while it sits.
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The fastest journey from Dortmund to Bologna takes 7h 10m door to door, of which 6h 30m is spent moving, on the train. Most services take around 7h 34m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Dortmund to Bologna is €98.79, checked on September 13, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €170.29. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Dortmund to Bologna is by train, at €116.39 for one passenger on September 28, 2026. That journey takes 7h 14m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
Fares from Dortmund to Bologna bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €83.94. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 133 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Dortmund to Bologna, at €116.39. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 13, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Dortmund to Bologna, at €79.54 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.
1 operators sell services from Dortmund to Bologna across 1 mode: SNCF. 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.
20 percent of the services we sell from Dortmund to Bologna are direct. The rest connect at Zürich, Köln, Stuttgart, Frankfurt am Main, with about 47 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Dortmund to Bologna by train leave from Dortmund Hauptbahnhof and arrive at Bologna Centrale. 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.
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Dortmund to Bologna allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
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.
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Plenty of what is worth seeing sits outside Bologna and elsewhere in Italy. None of it is ours to sell.
Day trips that leave Bologna in the morning and cover a good part of Italy by evening.
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