Trains from Bologna to Essen start at €120.24 and take 7h 32m at their fastest.
The Trains from Bologna to Essen starts at €120.24 and takes 7h 32m door to door, run by 1 operator over 964 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Köln, with 49 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 8h 21mCO2 28.2 kgChanges 1Refundable
Door to door 7h 32mCO2 31.8 kgChanges 0Refundable
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 | €106.49 | 7h 25m | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power outlets, Wi-Fi |
Essen sits on the water, which usually settles which side of town you want to wake up on. Rooms are not ours to sell.
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
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The Train from Bologna to Essen takes 7h 32m door to door, of which 6h 48m is spent moving. The route runs 964 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.
The Train from Bologna to Essen starts at €120.24 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €108.14. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Train from Bologna to Essen: SNCF. Between them they file around 5 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.
The Train from Bologna to Essen leaves from Bologna Centrale and arrives at Essen Hauptbahnhof. 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.
Fares for the Train from Bologna to Essen bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €76.23. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 175 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Train from Bologna to Essen produces about 31.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 964 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
Operators on the Train from Bologna to Essen publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 32m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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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The train is the simple part. What you do once you are in Essen is somebody else's catalog.
The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.
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