Nuremberg Airport is 5 km from the city centre with a single arrivals hall — about as simple as a German airport gets. A private transfer meets you there, tracks your flight, and runs door to door at a price fixed before you travel.
The price is agreed before you book. No meter, no surge pricing.
About the airport
Five kilometres is the fact that matters here. Nuremberg Airport is almost inside the city, reached from the A3 with the A73 running in alongside, and it has two departure halls feeding a single arrivals hall linked landside and airside. One arrivals hall means one meeting point, with none of the module-and-terminal confusion of a larger hub.
That compactness is the whole experience of arriving. Baggage reclaim is quick, the walk from the belt to the door is short, and there is no internal transit system to negotiate. For a passenger who has just landed after a long day, an airport you can cross in five minutes is worth more than a longer list of shops.
The airport is the gateway to Franconia rather than only to Nuremberg. Erlangen and its medical and technology campus, Fürth, Bamberg, Würzburg and Ansbach are all closer to this airport than to Munich, and the region’s industry and universities sit in those towns rather than in a single centre. Siemens Healthineers at Erlangen alone generates a steady stream of business travel that has nothing to do with Nuremberg city centre.
Northern Bavaria behind it is also a tourist region in its own right — Bamberg and Würzburg are UNESCO sites, the Romantic Road starts nearby, and Franconian Switzerland is an hour away. Those are destinations where a rail journey involves changes and a final leg by bus that may not run when you land.
Getting to and from the airport
The U2 underground runs from beneath the terminal to the Hauptbahnhof in about twelve minutes, which for a single traveller heading into Nuremberg is unbeatable on both time and price. There is no honest argument for a car on that particular journey and we are not going to invent one.
What the U2 cannot do is leave the city. Erlangen, Fürth, Bamberg, Würzburg, Ansbach and Franconian Switzerland all need rail changes or have no direct service at all, and those are the transfers this airport is genuinely useful for. The pattern is consistent: a short distance on the map, an awkward journey in practice.
The other case is timing. The U-Bahn does not run through the night, and a first flight out means being at the terminal before it starts. Because a booked fare here does not change with the hour, an 05:00 pickup costs what a midday one costs — which is not true of the alternatives at that time of day.
Where your driver meets you
You are met in the single arrivals hall, with a name sign. Nuremberg has two departure halls but only one arrivals hall, all linked landside and airside, so unlike a multi-terminal airport there is only one place the meeting point can be — and at 5 km from the city centre this is one of the easiest German airports to be collected from. Flights are tracked from the number you give at booking, and 60 minutes of free waiting after touchdown is included, which is generous at an airport where reclaim is this quick.
Arrivals and pickup
Two departure halls and a single arrivals hall, all linked land- and airside. There is exactly one place to be met, and at five kilometres from the city centre that makes Nuremberg one of the easiest German airports to be collected from: the walk from stand to exit is short, the reclaim is quick, and the door you come out of is never in question.
The kerb gives eight free minutes, metered by number-plate recognition at the entry, so there is no ticket to take and nothing to validate on the way out. The short-stay area P5 sits just beyond it for anything longer than a handover.
For one person heading into the Altstadt, the U2 is the honest answer. It runs from beneath the terminal to the Hauptbahnhof in about twelve minutes for a fraction of what a car costs, and five kilometres is not a distance that needs a private vehicle. We would rather point at it than argue with it. Where a car earns its price is a group with luggage, the Franconian towns the U-Bahn does not reach, the trade fair traffic the Messe generates, and the early and late edges of the schedule when the U-Bahn is not running.
Fleet
Every class includes the same service — flight tracking, meet and greet, waiting time and a fixed price. What changes is the space.
Top of the range
3 passengers / 2 bags
Mercedes-Benz S-Class or similar
A flagship saloon — the long-wheelbase, rear-seat-first kind. Booked for board-level guests, client collection and the journeys where the car is part of the impression.
The default for work travel
3 passengers / 2 bags
Mercedes-Benz E-Class or similar
An executive saloon with room to work, quiet enough to take a call, and a boot built for checked luggage rather than weekend bags. The class most corporate accounts book by default.
The sensible one
3 passengers / 2 bags
Toyota Corolla Hybrid or similar
A clean, current saloon with a professional driver. Everything that matters — flight tracking, meet and greet, a fixed price — is included; you are simply not paying for a badge.
Groups and real luggage
7 passengers / 7 bags
Mercedes-Benz V-Class or similar
Seven seats, a boot that takes seven cases, and a sliding door that makes loading at the kerb straightforward. The class families and small teams actually need.
Up to sixteen
16 passengers / 16 bags
For conference groups, wedding parties and trade-fair teams moving together. Quoted as one fixed price for the whole group rather than per seat.
Routes
| Destination | Distance | Journey time | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof | 9 km | 20 min | €45 |
| Fürth | 12 km | 22 min | €45 |
| NürnbergMesse | 14 km | 28 min | €47 |
| Erlangen | 16 km | 21 min | €51 |
| Rothenburg ob der Tauber | 79 km | 1h 20 | €151 |
| Ingolstadt | 103 km | 1h 17 | €190 |
| Würzburg | 106 km | 1h 17 | €195 |
| Würzburg Hauptbahnhof | 107 km | 1h 19 | €196 |
| Regensburg | 110 km | 1h 20 | €201 |
| Augsburg | 165 km | 2h 05 | €289 |
| Munich | 179 km | 2h 01 | €311 |
| Karlovy Vary | 200 km | 2h 26 | €345 |
| Offenbach | 219 km | 2h 27 | €375 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 221 km | 2h 31 | €379 |
| Erfurt | 225 km | 2h 32 | €385 |
| Stuttgart | 227 km | 2h 38 | €388 |
| Darmstadt | 235 km | 2h 36 | €401 |
| Chemnitz | 240 km | 2h 38 | €409 |
Prices shown are the starting fare for this route and include tolls and airport access charges. Your exact price is confirmed before you book.
City to city
Journeys that never touch the airport, priced the same way: a measured road distance between the two city centres and a fare fixed before you travel. Every one of these pages says plainly when the train is the better buy.
Straight answer
If you are one person going into Nuremberg, take the U2. Twelve minutes from under the terminal to the Hauptbahnhof at a fraction of the price is not something a car improves on, and we would rather tell you that than take the booking. A car makes sense here for groups, for a lot of luggage, for departures before the U-Bahn starts running, and above all for anywhere outside the city — Erlangen, Fürth, Bamberg, Würzburg, Ansbach and the Franconian countryside, which is where most of the region’s business and visitors are actually going.
At the other end
Nuremberg is five kilometres from its airport — the shortest gap of any airport in this network, and the U2 covers it in about twelve minutes, which we say plainly on this page because it is often the better buy. The city carries two histories that sit uneasily together and it does not hide either.
The imperial castle on the sandstone ridge above the old town. Every Holy Roman Emperor held court here at some point between the eleventh century and the sixteenth, and the view from the Sinwellturm covers the whole walled city.
Five kilometres of them, still largely standing, with the moat dry and walkable in long stretches. Very few German cities came out of the war with their circuit this intact.
In the unfinished Congress Hall on the former Nazi party rally grounds, dealing directly with what was built here and why. Sober, unsparing and the reason a lot of people come.
The largest museum of German cultural history anywhere, and the holder of the oldest surviving terrestrial globe — made in 1492, and therefore without the Americas on it.
Business travel
Most of what a company needs from a transfer is not a discount — it is knowing the number before the journey, and knowing somebody will be standing there holding the right name. Both are how this service already works.
Name a colleague, a client or a candidate as the passenger and put your own address on the confirmation. The driver holds their name at arrivals; the booking, the changes and the receipt stay with you.
The fare is fixed before you book, so it goes into an approval or onto an expense claim as a known number rather than an estimate. Traffic on the day changes the journey, never the amount.
Flight tracking moves the pickup with the aircraft, and the driver waits inside arrivals with a name board rather than texting from a car park. Someone you are trying to impress should not have to find anybody.
A group that outgrows a van is quoted as the combination of vehicles that actually seats it, priced per car and confirmed as one booking — not turned away at the vehicle list.
If your company moves people through this airport more than occasionally, it is worth a conversation rather than a form. Tell us the routes and the volume and we will tell you plainly whether we are the right operator for it.
What is included
Agreed in full before you book. Traffic, tolls and airport charges are already in it — the meter does not exist.
We watch the flight number you give us. Land early or three hours late and the pickup moves with you, at no extra cost.
Your driver waits inside arrivals holding a name sign, helps with the luggage and walks you to the car.
Free waiting time after touchdown — enough for passport control and baggage reclaim without anyone watching a clock.
From the exact address to the exact address. Not to the nearest station, and not to a rank at the end of the road.
Infant, child and booster seats specified at booking. They are not charged as an extra.
Cancel up to 24 hours before pickup at no charge. Plans change; that is not something to be fined for.
Licensed, insured, English- and German-speaking, and briefed on your journey before they set off.
FAQ
In the single arrivals hall, with a name sign. Nuremberg has two departure halls but only one arrivals hall, so unlike a multi-terminal airport there is only one place the meeting point can be.
Usually not, and we would rather say so. The U2 reaches the Hauptbahnhof in about twelve minutes from under the terminal. A car makes sense here for groups, for a lot of luggage, for early departures before the underground runs, and for anywhere outside the city.
Yes, each at its own fixed price. Franconia’s business and university traffic is spread across those towns rather than concentrated in Nuremberg, and none of them has a direct rail link from the airport.
60 minutes of free waiting time after touchdown, covering passport control and baggage reclaim on a normal arrival. Your flight is tracked from the number given at booking.
Yes, to the specific entrance. NürnbergMesse hosts events including Spielwarenmesse and BioFach that fill the city, and during those weeks the fixed price agreed at booking is the point — it does not move with demand, and neither does your vehicle.
Yes, each at its own fixed price. These are the journeys where the map is short and the timetable is not — most need a change, and the final leg to a smaller town or a countryside hotel often has no evening service at all.
Guides
Bavaria is the largest German state, and its three airports are 5, 28.5 and 110 km from the city they name.
At most of these airports the train wins. We would rather tell you which ones than sell you a car you do not need.
Uber exists here. It is a different product from the one on your phone at home, and the reason is a law rather than a business decision.
A shuttle is a shared bus on a timetable. Eight German airports have a real one — and at three of them you should take it.
Airports
Ready when you are
Two addresses, a date, and how many of you there are. You will see the price for every vehicle class before you commit to anything.
