By ship
Kiel serves as the German ferry terminus for the ferries to Oslo, Norway with Color Lines and Gothenburg, Sweden with Stena Lines.
By bus
A number of bus lines run services to - or through - Kiel. A weekly bus leaves Kiel and travels via Poland and the Baltic states to Tallinn, Estonia.A comfortable bus operates daily from Germany's capital, Berlin, to Kiel via Lübeck and vice versa 6 hours, 41 Euros one-way.
By plane
Kiel has its own airport IATA: KEL ICAO: EDHK in "Holtenau" north-west. Planes of the size of a BAe 146 can start and land. Charter flights leave for other Scandinavian destinations. At the moment, there are no regular services.
The nearest major airport is Hamburg, about 100km/one hour by car away. Another possibility is the airport Lübeck, about 80 km/1h 20 min away, where Ryanair operates some low cost flights each day.
By train
Kiel Hauptbahnhof is located directly adjacent to the main bus terminal and across the road from the central shopping district. Kiel is connected to the DB rail system with regular RE and IC services to Hamburg and beyond. Transfers can be made in Flensburg or Lübeck to Danish Rail.