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Cape Town to Hamburg central bus station

2 operators run this water, from 480 h 00 to 600 h 00 — a difference of 120 h 00 on the same crossing. Hamburg central bus station has an airport 13 km from the quay, so this is a crossing you can make one way and fly the other.

Getting from Cape Town to Hamburg central bus station

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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.

Cunard Cape Town → Hamburg central bus station 9758 km crossing 480 h 00 rate not held 20 km/h average

Phoenix Reisen Cape Town → Hamburg central bus station 9758 km crossing 600 h 00 rate not held 16 km/h average

Other ways to reach Hamburg central bus station

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Hamburg central bus station without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Lübeck central train station – Hamburg central bus station 50 min FlixBus-eu, Hapag Lloyd Cruises

Soltau (service area Soltau south) – Hamburg central bus station 1 h 00 FlixBus-eu

Kiel central bus station – Hamburg central bus station 1 h 10 AIDA Cruises, Cunard

Bremen Fernbusterminal – Hamburg central bus station 1 h 30 FlixBus-eu

Puttgarden (Ferry) Waypoint – Hamburg central bus station 1 h 45 FlixBus-eu

Flensburg central train station – Hamburg central bus station 1 h 55 FlixBus-eu

Hanover central bus station – Hamburg central bus station 2 h 00 FlixBus-eu

Uplengen (Autohof Apen-Remels) – Hamburg central bus station 2 h 25 FlixBus-eu

Kolding bus station – Hamburg central bus station 2 h 55 FlixBus-eu

Bielefeld Brackwede train station – Hamburg central bus station 3 h 05 FlixBus-eu

And other ways to reach Cape Town

Durban – Cape Town 96 h 00 MSC Cruises

Victoria Falls – Cape Town 216 h 00 AmaWaterways, CroisiEurope

Johannesburg – Cape Town 240 h 00 AmaWaterways, CroisiEurope

Port Louis – Cape Town 240 h 00 AIDA Cruises, Azamara Cruises

Santa Cruz de Tenerife – Cape Town 312 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises

Mahe Island Seychelles – Cape Town 360 h 00 AIDA Cruises, Hapag Lloyd Cruises

Sal Island – Cape Town 408 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises

Palma de Mallorca – Cape Town 432 h 00 AIDA Cruises, TUI Cruises

Rio de Janeiro – Cape Town 432 h 00 Silversea Cruises

Southampton – Cape Town 432 h 00 Cunard, PO Cruises

Where else these quays go

Also from Cape Town

Antalya · Auckland · Barcelona · Buenos Aires · Civitavecchia-Rome · Colombo · Corfu · Dakar · Durban · Fort Lauderdale · Hong Kong · Johannesburg · Klang · Lisbon (Oriente)

Also from Hamburg central bus station

Amsterdam · Arnhem Central Station (Sonsbeekzijde) · Barcelona · Bielefeld Brackwede train station · Bilbao (Bus Station) · Bremen Fernbusterminal · Bremerhaven · Bridgetown · Buenos Aires · Civitavecchia-Rome · Colombo · Copenhagen Busterminal · Dover · Dresden central station (Bayrische Straße)

Which months this runs

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

Our records for the Cape Town–Hamburg central bus station 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. The choice between Cunard at 480 h 00 and Phoenix Reisen at 600 h 00 is mostly a price decision, and we hold no prices for either.

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