Airport train0h 23
Berlin Brandenburg AirportFlughafen BER station, level U2, under Terminal 1Berlin Hauptbahnhof
FEX Airport Express and RE20, direct
DB Regio Berlin-Brandenburg
typically runs 04:00–01:00
Route
Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Berlin Hauptbahnhof
2 ways to get from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Berlin Hauptbahnhof
Berlin Brandenburg AirportFlughafen BER station, level U2, under Terminal 1Berlin Hauptbahnhof
- Airport train
- 0h 23 published
- Distance
- 28.7 km by road
- Operators
- DB Regio Berlin-Brandenburg
- Airport train 0h 23
- Transfer ~0h 35 est. drive
Berlin Brandenburg AirportBerlin Hauptbahnhof
- Airport train0h 23Flughafen BER station, level U2, under Terminal 1
- Transfer~0h 35 est.terminal kerbsideany address
Which one to take
- You need a journey time you can plan around
- Airport train
- the only option here with a published time — 0h 23
- You land outside the hours the timetable covers
- Transfer
- after the last airport train at 01:00 — door to door, no interchange
Journey times, operators and connections for the routes we cover. You book with the operator; we show you who runs it and how long it takes.
Options by mode
Journey times and carriers on this route.
Transfer~0h 35 est. drive
Berlin Brandenburg Airportterminal kerbsideBerlin Hauptbahnhofany address
door to door
Private road transfer — availability and price depend on the provider; this is not an offer
Before you land
The parts people get wrong. Each one links to where we checked it.
Hours
The FEX Airport Express runs 24/7, every 15 minutes between roughly 4 a.m. and 1 a.m., reaching Berlin Hauptbahnhof in about 23 minutes; the RE20 covers the same run hourly from 4 a.m. to 9 p.m. as a second, slower-frequency option.
ber.berlin-airport.de · checked 2026-09-09
Easy to get wrong
Two S-Bahn lines, S9 and S85, also call at BER every 20 minutes, but they are local trains stopping far more often than the FEX and are not the fastest way into the centre — travellers picking the first S-Bahn they see over the FEX add real time to the trip.
ber.berlin-airport.de · checked 2026-09-09
Status
From the December 2026 timetable change the FEX moves onto the newly upgraded Dresdner Bahn route, which is expected to shorten and stabilise the journey further and increase how often FEX and RE20 run together.
ber.berlin-airport.de · checked 2026-09-09