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Köln (Cologne) to Hamburg

1 operator run this water, from 57 min.

Getting from Köln (Cologne) to Hamburg

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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.

Germanwings CGN → HAM 363 km non-stop 319 CRJ in the air 2 h 27 est. rate not held 380 km/h average

Other ways to reach Hamburg

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

Copenhagen – Hamburg 51 min Scandinavian Airlines System

Düsseldorf – Hamburg 55 min Air Berlin

Amsterdam – Hamburg 58 min Alitalia

Frankfurt am Main – Hamburg 1 h 01 Lufthansa Cargo

Nuremberg – Hamburg 1 h 05 Air Berlin

Zaventem – Hamburg 1 h 06 Brussels Airlines

Prague – Hamburg 1 h 07 Czech Airlines

Saarbrücken – Hamburg 1 h 10 Lufthansa Cargo

Stuttgart – Hamburg 1 h 11 Air Berlin

Rheinmünster – Hamburg 1 h 12 Germanwings

And other ways to reach Köln (Cologne)

Amsterdam – Köln (Cologne) 47 min Alitalia

Zurich – Köln (Cologne) 59 min Germanwings

Friedrichshafen – Köln (Cologne) 1 h 00 Germanwings

Bern – Köln (Cologne) 1 h 03 SkyWork Airlines

Munich – Köln (Cologne) 1 h 03 Air Berlin

Dresden – Köln (Cologne) 1 h 05 Germanwings

London, Essex – Köln (Cologne) 1 h 07 Germanwings

Prague – Köln (Cologne) 1 h 08 Germanwings

London – Köln (Cologne) 1 h 09 Germanwings, easyJet

Salzburg – Köln (Cologne) 1 h 11 Austrian Airlines

Where else these quays go

Also from Köln (Cologne)

Al Aaroui · Algiers · Alicante · Amsterdam · Ankara · Antalya · Barcelona · Bari · Bastia · Bern · Birmingham, West Midlands · Bologna · Budapest · Cagliari

Also from Hamburg

Alicante · Amsterdam · Antalya · Barcelona · Bastia · Bergen · Bern · Birmingham, West Midlands · Bristol · Budapest · Bâle / Mulhouse · Caselle (VR) · Catania · Copenhagen

Which months this runs

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

Our records for the Köln (Cologne)–Hamburg 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.