Weeze Airport is 77 km from Düsseldorf Airport and 33 km from Nijmegen in the Netherlands. A private transfer runs door to door from the terminal at a price fixed before you travel.
The price is agreed before you book. No meter, no surge pricing.
About the airport
For years this airport was sold as "Düsseldorf-Weeze", and in 2016 a court stopped it on the grounds that the name was likely to mislead passengers — Düsseldorf Airport being 77 km away. That ruling is the most useful thing anyone can tell you about arriving here, and it is still the assumption most first-time passengers arrive with.
The airport is on the Lower Rhine near the Dutch border, on a former RAF station. It has one terminal and nine aircraft stands, six of them without a jet bridge, so arrivals often walk in across the apron. Ryanair is the base carrier, and the schedule is the low-cost one: cheap, early, late, and indifferent to what the local buses are doing.
The real geography is Dutch as much as German. Nijmegen is 33 km away, Duisburg 48, and the border is minutes rather than hours. A significant share of passengers here are Dutch travellers using a German airport, going in the opposite direction to what the name implies.
The Lower Rhine itself is flat, rural and spread out — a landscape of small towns and farmland rather than a conurbation. Kleve, Goch, Xanten and the Rhine meadows are all close by road and poorly connected by anything else, which is the ordinary condition of a destination from this airport.
Getting to and from the airport
A shuttle bus connects the terminal to Weeze station and there are coach services toward Düsseldorf and into the Netherlands, timed loosely around the flight schedule. For a single traveller with time, that chain works and is much cheaper than a car.
It stops working when a flight lands late, when there are three of you with cases, or when the destination is not one of the handful of places the coaches serve — and on the Lower Rhine that is most destinations. "Timed loosely around the flight schedule" is doing real work in that sentence: a delayed arrival can miss the connection it was built for.
A car also removes the border as a factor. A transfer to Nijmegen, Arnhem or Venlo is a shorter journey than one to Düsseldorf, which surprises most passengers and is worth checking before assuming the German side is the convenient one.
Where your driver meets you
There is a single terminal, so there is one arrivals door and your driver is behind it with a name sign. Six of the nine stands here have no jet bridge, which means many arrivals walk in across the apron — quick in good weather and slower in bad, and another reason the 60 minutes of free waiting after touchdown is worth having. Flights are tracked from the number you give at booking.
Arrivals and pickup
A single terminal on a former RAF station, with one arrivals area. Six of the nine aircraft stands have no jet bridge, so arrivals frequently walk in across the apron — a short walk, but an outdoor one, and worth knowing if you are meeting somebody who will be slower than the crowd.
The airport is 3.7 km from Weeze itself and there is a station a short distance away, but the service is sparse and timed around the timetable rather than around a delayed arrival. On a late Ryanair inbound the practical options narrow quickly.
Weeze was marketed for years as “Düsseldorf-Weeze” until a court stopped it in 2016 as misleading, and the distance is the reason: Düsseldorf Airport is 77 km away. Nijmegen, across the Dutch border, is 33. If your destination is in the Netherlands — Nijmegen, Arnhem, Eindhoven — or anywhere on the Niederrhein, this airport is genuinely well placed and a car is the obvious way to use it. If your destination is Düsseldorf, you have landed a long way from it.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duisburg | 62 km | 48 min | €124 |
| Krefeld | 64 km | 53 min | €127 |
| Duisburg Hauptbahnhof | 65 km | 52 min | €129 |
| Oberhausen | 66 km | 51 min | €131 |
| Mülheim | 73 km | 1h 04 | €142 |
| Mönchengladbach | 76 km | 1h 06 | €147 |
| Messe Düsseldorf | 78 km | 59 min | €150 |
| Düsseldorf | 82 km | 1h 04 | €156 |
| Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof | 85 km | 1h 06 | €161 |
| Movie Park Germany | 86 km | 1h 08 | €163 |
| Gelsenkirchen | 92 km | 1h 10 | €172 |
| Messe Essen | 93 km | 1h 06 | €174 |
| Essen Hauptbahnhof | 96 km | 1h 14 | €179 |
| Essen | 99 km | 1h 14 | €183 |
| Bochum | 108 km | 1h 30 | €198 |
| Wuppertal | 116 km | 1h 25 | €211 |
| Köln Hauptbahnhof | 116 km | 1h 25 | €211 |
| Cologne | 117 km | 1h 30 | €212 |
Prices shown are the starting fare for this route and include tolls and airport access charges. Your exact price is confirmed before you book.
Straight answer
If you are travelling alone, landing in daylight, and going somewhere the shuttle or the coach already serves — Weeze station, or one of the scheduled stops toward Düsseldorf or into the Netherlands — use them. They are considerably cheaper and they exist for exactly that trip. The case for a car is a late arrival that misses the loose connection, a group of three or more with hold luggage, and the whole of the Lower Rhine — Kleve, Goch, Xanten and the villages between them — where there is nothing scheduled to compare against at all.
At the other end
Weeze is sold as Düsseldorf Weeze and is about 80 km from Düsseldorf. It is a good deal closer to the Netherlands — Nijmegen and Venlo are both nearer than the city on the ticket, and a large share of the traffic through here is Dutch. What surrounds it is the Lower Rhine: flat, wooded, quiet, and with two of the odder days out in Germany within half an hour.
Ten minutes away and one of the largest Catholic pilgrimage sites in north-western Europe — several hundred thousand pilgrims a year to a small printed image of the Virgin kept in a chapel barely bigger than a room.
A theme park built inside a nuclear power station that was completed and never switched on. There is a swing ride in the cooling tower and a climbing wall on the outside of it. It is exactly as strange as it sounds.
The castle on the hill that gave Anne of Cleves her name and English history a difficult month. The town below has a set of terraced baroque gardens that are among the oldest in the country.
Twenty minutes west. The Maasduinen dune woods run along the far side and Nijmegen — the oldest city in the Netherlands — is under an hour, which is a considerably easier day out from here than anywhere in the Ruhr.
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
About 77 km from Düsseldorf Airport. The airport was marketed as "Düsseldorf-Weeze" for years until a 2016 court ruling found the name likely to mislead passengers, given the distance involved.
Yes, and it is often the shorter journey. Nijmegen is about 33 km away, and Arnhem and Venlo are routine bookings. Cross-border transfers are priced by route and quoted before you travel.
Transfers run from Weeze to Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Krefeld and the wider Ruhr, each at its own fixed price. Duisburg at about 48 km is closer than Düsseldorf, which is worth knowing when comparing options.
Yes, and the fare does not change with the hour. Low-cost schedules put arrivals here well outside the hours when the shuttle and coach connections are useful, which is the main reason transfers are booked at this airport.
Yes, each at its own fixed price. The Lower Rhine towns are close by road and awkward by anything else — this is farmland and small towns rather than a transport network, and the airport sits in the middle of it.
Only if the fare difference is large enough to be worth 77 km. We would rather say that plainly: Düsseldorf Airport is its own airport with its own page on this site, and if Düsseldorf is genuinely your destination it is the one to compare against before you book the flight.
Guides
One of them was taken to court over it. The other three are still doing it.
No other German state has six commercial airports. Most travellers only know two of them.
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.
