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3 days in Hamburg

A complete 3-day Hamburg itinerary with 14 places, arranged so each stop is open when you arrive and the walking between them stays sensible.

Days
3
Places
14
Time in transit
168 min
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Why the stops are in this order

Most itineraries you find online are a list of places worth seeing, left in whatever order the writer thought of them. That is the part that falls apart on the day: you arrive somewhere at 17:40 and it closed at 17:00, or you cross the city twice because two neighbouring sights sat on different days.

This plan is sequenced instead of listed. Every stop below is checked against the opening hours of the place itself, and the gaps between them are real door-to-door travel times, not straight-line distance on a map. The visiting windows shown are what is actually achievable in a day.

Across all 3 days this route spends 168 minutes in transit — that number is the point. Reordering the same 14 places carelessly can easily double it, and that time comes straight out of your trip.

Day 1

09:00–21:30 · 4 places · 56 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 10 min by public transport

    Speicherstadt

    09:10–11:40 2 hr 30 min

  3. Lunch

    12:00–12:30 30 min

  4. Miniatur Wunderland

    12:30–14:30 2 hr

  5. 15 min walk

    Hamburg Harbor

    14:45–16:45 2 hr

  6. 31 min by public transport

    Planten un Blomen

    17:16–19:16 2 hr

Day 2

09:00–20:00 · 5 places · 53 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 12 min by public transport

    Inner Alster

    09:12–10:42 1 hr 30 min

  3. 13 min by public transport

    International Maritime Museum Hamburg

    10:55–12:55 2 hr

  4. Lunch

    12:55–13:25 30 min

  5. Museum of Art and Industry

    13:25–15:25 2 hr

  6. 15 min by public transport

    St. Nikolai Memorial

    15:40–16:40 1 hr

  7. 13 min walk

    Chilehaus

    16:53–17:38 45 min

Day 3

09:00–20:00 · 5 places · 59 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 20 min by public transport

    St. Pauli Piers

    09:20–10:50 1 hr 30 min

  3. 13 min walk

    Panoptikum

    11:03–12:03 1 hr

  4. Lunch

    12:03–12:33 30 min

  5. Mönckebergbrunnen

    12:33–13:03 30 min

  6. 6 min walk

    Alsterfontäne

    13:09–13:39 30 min

  7. 20 min by public transport

    Elbphilharmonie Visitor Center

    13:59–14:59 1 hr

Make it your trip

The schedule above is built for a generic 3-day visit. Open it in the planner to set your own dates — the timings recalculate against the opening hours for those specific days, which matters more than it sounds when a museum closes on Mondays. You can drag stops between days, swap anything you are not interested in, and the rest of the day re-sequences around the change.

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