City to city
Hamburg to Berlin by train
Hauptbahnhof/ZOB → Berlin Hauptbahnhof
- Fastest
- ≈ 1h 48m
- Typical
- ≈ 2h 05m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- FlixTrain-eu, DB Fernverkehr AG
Trains link Hamburg (Hauptbahnhof/ZOB) and Berlin (Berlin Hauptbahnhof) in about 1h 48m at best, with no changes needed. The corridor is part of the ICE (286 km, typically 1 h 45 min), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Hamburg to Berlin take?
The fastest trains cover Hamburg to Berlin in about 1h 48m; a typical journey takes around 2h 05m.
Is there a direct train from Hamburg to Berlin?
Yes: direct trains run between Hauptbahnhof/ZOB and Berlin Hauptbahnhof.
This corridor in the atlas
- ICE Germany’s busiest city pair rides an alignment opened in 1846, dead straight across the northern plain.
Legendary routes through Hamburg or Berlin
- ICE Sprinter Berlin → Munich
- EuroNight Stockholm → Hamburg
- Nightjet Hamburg → Vienna
- ICE Berlin → Cologne
Sleepers too: night trains from Hamburg · night trains from Berlin.
More trains from Hamburg
- Hamburg → Bremen ≈ 56 min · direct
- Hamburg → Hannover ≈ 1h 15m · direct
- Hamburg → Frankfurt ≈ 3h 35m · direct
- Hamburg → Cologne ≈ 3h 49m · direct
- Hamburg → Amsterdam ≈ 4h 53m
- Hamburg → Copenhagen ≈ 5h 17m · direct
More train routes in Germany · Sweden · Denmark.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.