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waypoints / 🇬🇧 GB / Birmingham, West Midlands – Köln (Cologne) Timings are not live · Documented
Route · GB

Birmingham, West Midlands to Köln (Cologne)

1 operator run this water, from 1 h 18.

Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

Flybe BHX → CGN 638 km non-stop DH4 E75 in the air 2 h 48 est. rate not held 492 km/h average

Other ways to reach Köln (Cologne)

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Köln (Cologne) without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Hamburg – Köln (Cologne) 57 min Germanwings
Zurich – Köln (Cologne) 59 min Germanwings
Bern – Köln (Cologne) 1 h 03 SkyWork Airlines
Munich – Köln (Cologne) 1 h 03 Air Berlin
Dresden – Köln (Cologne) 1 h 05 Germanwings
Prague – Köln (Cologne) 1 h 08 Germanwings
London – Köln (Cologne) 1 h 09 Germanwings, easyJet

And other ways to reach Birmingham, West Midlands

Where else these quays go

Also from Birmingham, West Midlands

Aberdeen · Alicante · Almería · Amsterdam · Antalya · Ashgabat · Attock · Balice · Barcelona · Belfast · Bodrum · Bratislava · Bydgoszcz · Castletown

Also from Köln (Cologne)

Al Aaroui · Algiers · Alicante · Amsterdam · Ankara · Antalya · Barcelona · Bari · Bastia · Bern · Bologna · Budapest · Cagliari · Calvi

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Birmingham, West Midlands–Köln (Cologne) crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. Not for this crossing, not for any crossing, not for any mode.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.