Route brief · VIE → HAM
Vienna → Hamburg
$144
−20% vs typical
seasonal median $180 · difference $36
Nov 18 – Nov 21 · 3 nights
EurowingsNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $180–$183
- Board rank
- Stronger than 55%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHAMHamburgMore canals than Venice and a working port at its centre — Germany at its least postcard-like.Best windowMay–SepAirportsHamburg (HAM)All routes into HamburgWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for VIE → HAM. Best time to be there: May–Sep.
Fares bottom out in November around $144 and peak in December near $224 — a $80 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Eurowings nonstop and takes about 1.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. Across the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Hamburg, this fare ranks 6th — 2.1× the $69 we hold from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Vienna, where the middle fare is $144.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 20% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $240 then versus $193 now, across 5 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $125, on Nov 7.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Nov · around $144
20% below the $180 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Vienna → Hamburg · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schwechat (VIE) ↔ Hamburg (HAM)
- Flight time
- ~1.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~744 km each way
- Typical price
- $180 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Eurowings
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
VIE → HAM, answered.
Is $144 a good price for Vienna to Hamburg?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $180 round-trip. At $144 you're 20% below that, saving about $36, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Vienna to Hamburg?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Hamburg are May–Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book VIE → Hamburg?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 5 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Vienna to Hamburg?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Eurowings). The outbound leg runs around 1.5 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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