[German: Wie kommt man vom Flughafen Wien in die Stadt]
Getting from Vienna airport to the city is quick and easy, largely because all car, bus, and train services are within a minute or two of arrivals. So you can get your first coffee and cake in town shortly after landing.
Bus, train or car?
(This way to Vienna)
If you’d prefer to get a good night’s rest before continuing into Vienna, then consider a hotel near the airport (we have two just a short walk from arrivals).
Here’s where to go for transfer services, taxis, express & local trains, transfer buses, and car hire…
Option 1: Car
(Taxi services are diagonally opposite where you emerge from customs)
Airport transfers & taxis
The Welcome people offer a pickup & transfer service* to your accommodation for not far from the same price as a taxi from the line.
Use an easy online English-language form to pre-book a car transfer into the city with a local, English-speaking driver.
The limousine and taxi companies have booths in the arrivals hall just opposite and to the left of where you emerge after passing through customs. The cost usually starts from something like €40 for smaller vehicles into Vienna (at least when *prebooked*).
The taxis use the same nearby outside location as the buses (see below).
Another option is, of course, a car sharing service or simply get yourself an Uber, for example.
Car hire
The car hire services at Vienna airport obviously include all the major brands.
If you haven’t already booked car hire from the airport, you can compare prices and book a car here*.
Some of the car hire desks are immediately to your left when you come out of baggage reclaim and customs into the public arrivals hall. If yours isn’t, then continue left, down the ramp and then go right at the bottom.
It’s a little convoluted, but simply follow the car hire symbol (a car with a key), and also look for signs to the “car rental centre”, which you reach on Deck 0 of the P4 multi-storey car park. You pass through a train station area on your way.
Option 2: Trains
(The CAT non-stop train has oodles of space for people and baggage. It takes you into Vienna in 16 minutes; press photo © City Airport Train)
When you come out of customs into airport arrivals, look right to find a ramp that leads you down directly to the train station under the terminal.
To the right of the top of the ramp are two important booths:
- The CAT ticket office and ticket machines
The CAT is the fast dedicated express airport train* that travels direct to the central Wien Mitte station, which connects with the U3 and U4 subway lines for onward journeys within Vienna.
- The ÖBB ticket office and machines (national rail services and slower S7 city train to the centre)
A display board gives departure times for all trains leaving the airport for Vienna and elsewhere.
The machines have English displays for buying whatever tickets you need to reach your destination. A single ticket to the city on the slower municipal train service (S-Bahn) was €4.40 at the time of writing.
Down the ramp, you quickly reach platforms for the CAT service and the S7 S-Bahn city train into Vienna; these are your two main options.
The CAT is faster and much more comfortable and spacious than the S7, but costs more. For more details on the differences, stops in Vienna etc., see the article on getting to the airport.
Option 3: Buses
(The Vienna Airport Lines have regular services into Vienna)
Just ahead of you as you leave customs and enter airport arrivals, slightly to the left and right, are corridor exits to outside the terminal. The bus stops are immediately outside.
The Vienna Airport Lines (VAL) run various services to different destinations in Vienna.
Their routes take you to the edge of the city centre (Schwedenplatz), to Westbahnhof and Hauptbahnhof rail stations, to the area around the Messe Wien event venue, and to the UN / Austria Centre and nearby hotels: see their VAL website for details.