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Climate of Hamburg

The warmest months in Hamburg are June, July, and August, with mean temperatures of 19.9 to 22.2 °C (67.8 to 72.0 °F). The coldest are December, January, and February, with mean temperatures of -1.4 to 0.0 °C (29.5 to 32 °F).

 

Tourism Office of Hamburg 

Hamburg Tourismus GmbH
Steinstr. 7
20095 Hambourg
Tel + (49) 40 300 51 300
Fax +(49) 40 300 51 333

 

GET IN HAMBURG

By plane


Airport Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel (IATA: HAM) (ICAO: EDDH)
Hamburg has the fifth largest international airport in Germany, so arrival by plane is an obvious choice for those visiting from far away. There are plenty connections within Europe, although only a few intercontinental direct services are offered. 

The airport has been thoroughly modernized with new terminals, airport hotel, streamlined infrastructure, and facilities that are by and large adequate, so you won't get lost. Depending on the gate your flight arrives at or leaves from, walking longer distances might be neccessary as on any other airport too.

Hamburg Airport is connected to the city by the S-Bahn S1 commuter train line, which connects to the main station (Hauptbahnhof) and the city center in about 30 minutes. There are trains every 10-20 minutes. Beware on the way back from the city centre to the airport: The train splits in two at Ohlsdorf, with only the first three cars going to the airport, and the rest going to the suburb of Poppenbüttel.

The airport, which is hugely popular with plane-spotters, is surrounded by Schrebergärten (meticulously maintained allotments), park lands, and open green spaces, crisscrossed by bicycle and walking trails. The popularity of this area is not only due to the many viewpoints, but also because Lufthansa Technik (Lufthansa's maintenance service) operates some large hangars on the airport, which means that the site is visited by a variety of rare and interesting aircraft (including VVIP).

 

Airport "Hamburg-Lübeck" aka "Lübeck-Blankensee" (IATA: LBC) (ICAO: EDHL)
As with many other destinations, the discount airline Ryan Air does not operate from Hamburg, as their naming scheme might indicate. Instead, it operates from Lübeck-Blankensee airport (not to confuse with Hamburg's suburb Blankenese), which is 65 km from Hamburg via motorway A1. The second airline that offers flights to Lübeck is Wizz Air. Flights go to London Stansted (England), Shannon and Dublin (Ireland), Glasgow Prestwick (Scotland), Stockholm Skavsta (Sweden), Milan Bergamo (Italy), Pisa (Italy), and Gdansk (Poland).

Buses connecting to the flights go from Hamburg's central bus station and take about one hour and 10 minutes. The buses depart about two hours and 50 minutes before every Ryanair departure, meet every arrival, and wait for delayed flights.

 

Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport (IATA: XFW) (ICAO: EDHI)
XFW airport in the suburb of Finkenwerder is actually not a public airport, but part of Airbus' Finkenwerder aircraft plant and thus only accessible to Airbus employees. For them, two daily flights are available to/from Toulouse, but most of the time the runway is used for freight (up to complete sections of passenger planes using the Beluga aircraft  or the delivery of new planes.

The runway, as well as the aircraft parking lot, can be observed from the public street Neß-Hauptdeich. The parking lot is on the other side of the street, so a few times a day planes actually cross the street, including the world's largest passenger aircraft A380.

 

Hamburg-Uetersen Airport (ICAO: EDHE)
Air Hamburg serves several German islands from this airport. The only way to reach it is by taxi, the nearest railway station being Tornesch.

 

By train
 
Hamburg has five major stations: Hauptbahnhof (central station), Altona, Dammtor, Harburg, Bergedorf. Various types of train service are available.

  • ICE (Inter City Express) high speed train service to or from most major German cities, including Berlin, Cologne (Köln), Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich also to Basel and Zurich (Zürich) Switzerland. There are usually hourly service to most destinations during the daytime.
  • Direct service to or from Copenhagen and Århus (Denmark), Budapest (Hungary), Prague (Czech Republic), Vienna (Austria), and Bratislava (Slovakia).

 

By car


via the Autobahn:

  • A1 to/from Lübeck (north-east) — To get to the city change to the A24 at "Autobahnkreuz Ost".
  • A1 to/from Bremen, Cologne (Köln) (south/south-west) — To get to the city change to A255.
  • A7 to/from Flensburg, Kiel (north) — To get to the city exit at "Bahrenfeld".
  • A7 to/from Hanover, Kassel (south)— To get to the city exit right after the "Elbtunnel" at "Othmarschen" or "Bahrenfeld". Use the rightmost pipe of the "Elbtunnel" to exit at "Othmarschen".
  • A23 to/from Husum.
  • A24 to/from Berlin.

 

By bus
Buses serving other cities (regional, national, and European destinations) arrive at or depart from Hamburg's central bus station, which is located near the central railway station (Hauptbahnhof) (two minute walk). Destinations include Berlin (several times a day).

Buses to Lübeck depart from Wandsbek.