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Connecting flights – when to choose Frankfurt

The German major airport Frankfurt is one of the busiest airports in the world – but on which routes is this the optimal connection airport to pick? Learn more here!

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To travel by connecting flights can be a hassle and on many routes there are a number of connection airports to choose from. But how do you find the most convenient and fastest option? At Flightroutes.com we can give you a hand! Here we have created guides to help you find on which routes a certain connection airport is the best one – in this case the popular airport in Frankfurt, Germany.

List of flights where Frankfurt is the fastest connection airport

If you want to know when to pick Frankfurt, please have a look at the list below. Here you find flights where we have determined Frankfurt Airport to be the best connecting airport. The list contains flights chosen based on the following criteria:

  • Frankfurt Airport is the fastest flight option by more than 15 minutes compared to a second option.
  • It's a connecting flight with one stop.
  • Both legs are flown by the same airline.
  • There are at least two possible connecting airports for this trip.

This list was updated on February 2025

From Los Angeles to Milan
13 hours and 45 minutes
13 hours and 50 minutes
14 hours and 5 minutes
From Dublin to Gothenburg
5 hours and 20 minutes
5 hours and 40 minutes
6 hours and 5 minutes
From Mexico City to Venice
14 hours and 10 minutes
14 hours and 33 minutes
15 hours and 15 minutes
From Geneva to Mexico City
15 hours and 10 minutes
15 hours and 50 minutes
16 hours and 15 minutes
From Dusseldorf to Sao Paulo
15 hours and 10 minutes
15 hours and 30 minutes
15 hours and 40 minutes
From Stockholm to Basel, Switzerland/Mulhouse
4 hours and 5 minutes
4 hours and 30 minutes
4 hours and 35 minutes
From Miami to Milan
13 hours and 20 minutes
13 hours and 45 minutes
14 hours and 3 minutes
From Delhi to Miami
21 hours and 30 minutes
21 hours and 55 minutes
22 hours and 55 minutes
From Los Angeles to Bologna
13 hours and 40 minutes
14 hours
14 hours and 45 minutes
From Los Angeles to Lyon
14 hours
14 hours and 40 minutes
15 hours and 5 minutes
From Mexico City to Geneva
13 hours and 45 minutes
14 hours and 25 minutes
14 hours and 30 minutes
From Toulouse to Los Angeles
15 hours and 45 minutes
16 hours
16 hours and 10 minutes
From Glasgow to Lyon
4 hours and 35 minutes
6 hours and 20 minutes
From Nice to Mexico City
15 hours and 40 minutes
16 hours and 5 minutes
16 hours and 12 minutes
From Brussels to Mexico City
15 hours
15 hours and 34 minutes
15 hours and 41 minutes
From Dusseldorf to Johannesburg
13 hours and 45 minutes
14 hours and 10 minutes
14 hours and 15 minutes
From Billund to Toulouse
4 hours and 20 minutes
4 hours and 50 minutes
4 hours and 55 minutes
From Toulouse to Dusseldorf
4 hours
4 hours and 30 minutes
4 hours and 45 minutes
From Lisbon to Hanover
4 hours and 55 minutes
5 hours and 20 minutes
5 hours and 30 minutes
From Oslo to Nuremberg
4 hours and 30 minutes
5 hours and 23 minutes
5 hours and 40 minutes
From Hanover to San Francisco
14 hours and 18 minutes
14 hours and 45 minutes
14 hours and 50 minutes
From New York to Nuremberg
10 hours and 30 minutes
10 hours and 50 minutes
11 hours and 45 minutes
From Toronto to Basel, Switzerland/Mulhouse
10 hours and 15 minutes
10 hours and 40 minutes
10 hours and 40 minutes
From Los Angeles to Basel, Switzerland/Mulhouse
13 hours and 25 minutes
14 hours and 30 minutes
15 hours and 45 minutes
From Houston to Dusseldorf
12 hours and 15 minutes
12 hours and 30 minutes
13 hours and 45 minutes
From Johannesburg to Dusseldorf
13 hours and 15 minutes
13 hours and 30 minutes
13 hours and 45 minutes
From Mexico City to Stockholm
14 hours and 20 minutes
15 hours and 5 minutes
15 hours and 15 minutes
From San Francisco to Gothenburg
14 hours and 5 minutes
14 hours and 40 minutes
15 hours
From Billund to Marseille
4 hours
4 hours and 35 minutes
4 hours and 45 minutes
From Mexico City to Milan
12 hours and 55 minutes
13 hours and 55 minutes
14 hours and 55 minutes
From Bremen to Paris
3 hours and 40 minutes
4 hours
4 hours
From Bologna to Mexico City
15 hours and 40 minutes
16 hours and 39 minutes
17 hours and 10 minutes
From Los Angeles to Birmingham
13 hours and 40 minutes
14 hours and 55 minutes
15 hours and 5 minutes
From Birmingham to Lyon
4 hours and 20 minutes
4 hours and 40 minutes
6 hours
From New York to Nairobi
18 hours and 20 minutes
18 hours and 45 minutes
18 hours and 58 minutes
From Lyon to New York
11 hours and 35 minutes
11 hours and 50 minutes
12 hours and 3 minutes
From Hamburg to Riyadh
9 hours and 25 minutes
9 hours and 40 minutes
9 hours and 45 minutes
From Venice to Glasgow
5 hours and 18 minutes
5 hours and 45 minutes
7 hours and 5 minutes
From Nuremberg to Copenhagen
3 hours and 55 minutes
4 hours and 20 minutes
From Toronto to Riyadh
14 hours and 38 minutes
15 hours and 10 minutes
16 hours and 15 minutes
From Hamburg to Detroit
12 hours and 25 minutes
13 hours and 36 minutes
From Basel, Switzerland/Mulhouse to San Francisco
14 hours and 5 minutes
14 hours and 40 minutes
14 hours and 45 minutes
From Los Angeles to Riyadh
17 hours and 50 minutes
18 hours and 50 minutes
18 hours and 50 minutes
From Mexico City to Marseille
14 hours
14 hours and 25 minutes
14 hours and 30 minutes
From Warsaw to Hanover
4 hours and 10 minutes
4 hours and 25 minutes
4 hours and 30 minutes
From Detroit to Hamburg
11 hours and 20 minutes
13 hours and 50 minutes
From Bengaluru to Miami
21 hours and 30 minutes
21 hours and 55 minutes
22 hours and 38 minutes
From Hanover to Lyon
3 hours and 38 minutes
4 hours
4 hours and 5 minutes
From Buenos Aires to Shanghai
27 hours and 53 minutes
29 hours and 50 minutes
30 hours
From Miami to Sofia
13 hours and 43 minutes
14 hours and 35 minutes
14 hours and 40 minutes
From Montreal to Ljubljana
9 hours and 55 minutes
10 hours and 15 minutes
10 hours and 35 minutes
From Berlin to Algiers
5 hours and 25 minutes
6 hours and 20 minutes
6 hours and 20 minutes
From Marseille to Hanover
3 hours and 45 minutes
4 hours and 10 minutes
4 hours and 10 minutes
From Dusseldorf to Detroit
11 hours and 30 minutes
12 hours and 53 minutes
From Stuttgart to Miami
12 hours and 30 minutes
12 hours and 55 minutes
From Milan to Glasgow
5 hours and 50 minutes
6 hours and 10 minutes
6 hours and 40 minutes
From Hanover to Mumbai
12 hours and 10 minutes
12 hours and 30 minutes
13 hours and 5 minutes
From Toulouse to Johannesburg
13 hours and 45 minutes
14 hours and 50 minutes
15 hours and 15 minutes
From Mexico City to Nuremberg
13 hours and 55 minutes
14 hours and 40 minutes
15 hours and 35 minutes
From Singapore to Nuremberg
17 hours and 20 minutes
17 hours and 35 minutes
17 hours and 45 minutes
From Prague to Mexico City
15 hours and 35 minutes
16 hours and 30 minutes
17 hours and 9 minutes
From Houston to Sofia
13 hours and 40 minutes
14 hours and 48 minutes
15 hours and 30 minutes
From Marseille to Hong Kong
15 hours and 5 minutes
15 hours and 45 minutes
16 hours
From Marseille to Tokyo
16 hours and 18 minutes
16 hours and 55 minutes
16 hours and 55 minutes
From Hyderabad to Manchester
13 hours and 50 minutes
14 hours and 5 minutes
14 hours and 25 minutes
From Hong Kong to Marseille
16 hours and 35 minutes
17 hours and 28 minutes
17 hours and 40 minutes
From Stuttgart to Glasgow
5 hours and 15 minutes
5 hours and 50 minutes
6 hours and 45 minutes
From Porto to Singapore
16 hours and 40 minutes
17 hours and 5 minutes
17 hours and 10 minutes
From Buenos Aires to Copenhagen
15 hours and 40 minutes
16 hours and 30 minutes
17 hours and 10 minutes
From Poznan to Istanbul
5 hours and 25 minutes
6 hours and 45 minutes
6 hours and 45 minutes
From Denver to Warsaw
13 hours and 35 minutes
14 hours and 20 minutes
14 hours and 45 minutes
From Luxembourg to Glasgow
5 hours and 15 minutes
6 hours and 5 minutes
6 hours and 15 minutes
From Singapore to Poznan
17 hours and 10 minutes
18 hours and 15 minutes
19 hours and 5 minutes
From Bremen to Marseille
3 hours and 40 minutes
3 hours and 55 minutes
4 hours and 55 minutes
From Basel, Switzerland/Mulhouse to Mexico City
14 hours and 55 minutes
15 hours and 20 minutes
15 hours and 30 minutes
From Hanover to Mexico City
15 hours and 25 minutes
16 hours
From Houston to Palma de Mallorca
14 hours and 5 minutes
14 hours and 38 minutes
15 hours and 20 minutes
From Katowice to Milan
3 hours and 55 minutes
3 hours and 55 minutes
From Gdansk to Lyon
3 hours and 45 minutes
4 hours and 15 minutes
From Stuttgart to Bordeaux
3 hours and 30 minutes
3 hours and 50 minutes
4 hours
From Hanover to Glasgow
5 hours and 40 minutes
5 hours and 55 minutes
6 hours and 50 minutes
From Tokyo to Nuremberg
17 hours and 50 minutes
18 hours and 55 minutes
19 hours and 43 minutes
From Lisbon to Nuremberg
4 hours and 55 minutes
5 hours and 35 minutes
5 hours and 50 minutes
From Beijing to Lyon
15 hours and 5 minutes
15 hours and 40 minutes
15 hours and 50 minutes
From Delhi to Valencia
13 hours and 10 minutes
14 hours and 5 minutes
14 hours and 5 minutes
From Nuremberg to Geneva
3 hours and 40 minutes
5 hours and 5 minutes
From Bengaluru to Zagreb
12 hours and 5 minutes
13 hours and 40 minutes
14 hours and 35 minutes
From Dulles to Ljubljana
10 hours and 40 minutes
11 hours and 10 minutes
11 hours and 20 minutes
From Gdansk to Milan
4 hours and 10 minutes
4 hours and 43 minutes
5 hours and 10 minutes
From Los Angeles to Bremen
13 hours and 40 minutes
14 hours and 5 minutes
14 hours and 50 minutes
From Johannesburg to Luxembourg
13 hours and 5 minutes
14 hours and 30 minutes
14 hours and 55 minutes
From Montreal to Nuremberg
10 hours and 15 minutes
10 hours and 55 minutes
13 hours and 15 minutes
From Beijing to Buenos Aires
28 hours and 20 minutes
30 hours and 10 minutes
30 hours and 50 minutes
From Bremen to Warsaw
3 hours and 45 minutes
4 hours and 5 minutes
4 hours and 30 minutes
From Gothenburg to Nuremberg
3 hours and 50 minutes
4 hours and 5 minutes
5 hours and 35 minutes
From Beijing to Nuremberg
15 hours and 10 minutes
16 hours and 25 minutes
17 hours
From Buenos Aires to Dubai
22 hours and 5 minutes
22 hours and 25 minutes
23 hours and 5 minutes
From Montreal to Salzburg
9 hours and 55 minutes

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