S19 or RE6 to Köln HauptbahnhoforRE6 to Düsseldorf Hbf?

From

Flughafen Köln/Bonn station, under the terminals — the S19 from platforms 1 and 2, the RE6 from platform 3; lifts and escalators come up inside the terminal

To

Köln Hauptbahnhof in 16 minutes on the S19 (14 on the RE6), calling at Köln Messe/Deutz three minutes before; the S19 goes on to Hansaring and Ehrenfeld

Luggage

Commuter trains with racks and standing room; full at rush hour.

Runs

All night

Journey

14–16 min

S19 and RE6 take the same EUR 4.00 ticket and both reach the Hauptbahnhof; take whichever leaves first. The S19 runs every 20 minutes by day, the RE6 hourly at :48, and the S19 alone through the night.

Five or more of you: the 24hTicket 5 Personen at EUR 19.20 beats five singles at EUR 20.00 — or the KölnCard for five at EUR 19.00, if a museum is on the list. Four pay EUR 16.00 in singles and should.

The S19 runs all night, every 30 minutes, except on Deutsche Bahn's engineering nights. As of 14 September 2026, there is no S19 after about 21:30 on the nights of 17, 18, 19 and 29 September; 1, 2, 3, 7, 15, 16, 17, 27, 29, 30 and 31 October; 4, 12, 13, 14, 24, 26, 27 and 28 November; and 2, 10 and 11 December. On those nights, a replacement bus leaves Terminal 1, stand 6, for Köln Breslauer Platz/Hbf every 30 minutes, and the RE6 runs until 00:48.

Your ticket is not valid on the ICE, which leaves from the same station: the airport's long-distance platforms are Deutsche Bahn fares. A Rail&Fly or a DB ticket bought through to "Flughafen Köln/Bonn" does cover the S-Bahn leg.

Do not buy a Kurzstrecke: the EUR 2.90 short-hop ticket is not valid on S-Bahn or regional trains at all.

Deutsche Bahn's own page says 14 minutes from the Hauptbahnhof to the airport; the timetable gives 16 the other way. Both are right.

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From

Flughafen Köln/Bonn station, platform 3 — the same train that serves Köln Hbf

To

Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof in 59 minutes, via Köln Messe/Deutz (10), Köln Hbf (14, with a five-minute stop), Dormagen, Neuss and Düsseldorf-Bilk; the train continues to Düsseldorf Flughafen and the Ruhr

Luggage

An RRX regional express; no published luggage rule, and busy between Cologne and Düsseldorf at rush hour.

Runs

04:48–00:48

Journey

59 min

Buy the ticket to Düsseldorf, not to Cologne: the airport's EUR 4.00 level-1b ticket ends at the Cologne city boundary, and the through fare is level 3.

A level-3 ticket bought for Düsseldorf is valid on that route only, by the tariff's cross-border rules — not for a day around the whole network.

Five or more of you: the 24hTicket 5 Personen at EUR 55.60 is the price of four singles and saves EUR 13.90 on five.

The ICE from the airport's long-distance platforms also reaches Düsseldorf through Cologne, on a Deutsche Bahn fare that changes by the day; this ticket does not board it.

Düsseldorf has its own airport, one stop and 15 minutes beyond the Hauptbahnhof on this train.

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