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S-Bahn S8orÜFEX airport express RE 22 to Freising?

The short answer

These do not go to the same place, so price is not the comparison. The S-Bahn S8 reaches Hauptbahnhof and Marienplatz; the ÜFEX airport express RE 22 to Freising does not. Runs to Freising and on to Landshut and Regensburg, not into Munich. It is the airport's own "airport express" for the towns to the north; for Munich, take the S-Bahn.

The ÜFEX airport express RE 22 to Freising is quicker: 11 min against 40 min. The S-Bahn S8 varies between 36 and 40 minutes.

S-Bahn S8: hours not recorded. ÜFEX airport express RE 22 to Freising: 04:28–00:21.

Priced against each other

Whole-party totals · adult fares
What each costs for the whole party, in EUR. The cheaper of the two is marked on every row.
TravelersS-Bahn S8ÜFEX airport express RE 22 to FreisingDifference
1€15.10€2.70€12.40
2€30.20€5.40€24.80
3€32.60€8.10€24.50
4€32.60€10.80€21.80
5€32.60€13.50€19.10
6€47.70€16.20€31.50
7€62.80€18.70€44.10
8€65.20€18.70€46.50

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Where each one leaves you
S8 · S-Bahn München, MVV tariffS-Bahn S8
From
Station beneath the Munich Airport Center, between the terminals
To
Marienplatz in 36 minutes, Hauptbahnhof in 40
Luggage
Racks by the doors; it is a commuter train and busy at rush hour.
Journey
36–40 min

Buy the Gruppen-Tageskarte if there are three or more of you. It is EUR 32.60 whether you are three or five, against EUR 15.10 each in singles, and the machines do not suggest it.

No first or last train is stated here: the airport says the S8 runs all night, about every 40 minutes between 01:00 and 04:00, but the S8's own timetable limits those 01:00 and 02:00 departures to Friday, Saturday and pre-holiday nights. Expect no train those hours on other nights.

The S1 also serves the airport and is not the same journey: it runs the other way round the city and reaches Hauptbahnhof before Marienplatz. Check which train you are boarding.

The group ticket is valid all day on the entire MVV network, so it keeps paying for itself after you have dropped your bags.

S-Bahn S8: price for every party size

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RE 22 · DB Regio Bayern and agilis, on the MVV tariff for this legÜFEX airport express RE 22 to Freising
From
The railway station under the Munich Airport Center, the same platforms as the S-Bahn — check the board, the S1 goes the other way
To
Freising, 11 minutes, calling at Flughafen Besucherpark on the way
Luggage
A regional express with racks; hand luggage rides with you under the MVV conditions.
Runs
04:28–00:21
Journey
11 min

Hourly, so the wait can be longer than the ride. Between trains bus 635 does the same job in 16 minutes on the same ticket, every 10 minutes.

It is a regional express on the MVV tariff only as far as the MVV area reaches: an MVV single, a Streifenkarte strip or a day ticket covers Freising; Moosburg and Landshut are further out and are priced by the Deutschlandtarif or a Bayern-Ticket instead.

Alternate trains are run by DB Regio Bayern and by agilis, according to both MVV's and the state's timetable data; the ticket is the same on either.

The last train is 00:21 and the first 04:28. The 635 bus runs later, to 01:01, and starts earlier, at 03:51.

ÜFEX airport express RE 22 to Freising: price for every party size

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