How long does a removal from the UK to Europe take?
Delivery times for every route we run, and how to plan your arrival around them.
With MuveOne, a removal from the UK to Europe takes between 1 and 13 days from loading to delivery: 1 to 3 days from London to Brussels on a vehicle of your own, and up to 13 days from London to Helsinki on a shared van. How long yours takes depends on two things, how far it goes and whether your load has the vehicle to itself, and the range for each of the 29 countries we serve from the UK is below. It is one of the first questions customers ask me, and the honest answer has changed since last year, so this guide says why, and how to plan your own journey around it.
How long delivery takes to each of 29 countries
Each row is the transit time our planning tool gives for one example route in that country, as a range counted from loading day to delivery: on a shared van, which carries our two smallest sizes, and on a vehicle of your own, our largest. The sizes in between fall between the two. Each country links to its route page, which has every size.
| Country · example route | Shared van | Own vehicle |
|---|---|---|
| Austria London to Vienna | 2–9 days | 2–4 days |
| Belgium London to Brussels | 1–8 days | 1–3 days |
| Bulgaria London to Sofia | 3–10 days | 3–5 days |
| Croatia London to Zagreb | 3–10 days | 3–5 days |
| Czechia London to Prague | 2–9 days | 2–4 days |
| Denmark London to Copenhagen | 2–9 days | 2–4 days |
| Estonia London to Tallinn | 4–11 days | 4–6 days |
| Finland London to Helsinki | 6–13 days | 6–8 days |
| France London to Paris | 1–8 days | 1–3 days |
| Germany London to Berlin | 2–9 days | 2–4 days |
| Greece London to Athens | 4–11 days | 4–6 days |
| Hungary London to Budapest | 3–10 days | 3–5 days |
| Ireland London to Dublin | 1–8 days | 1–3 days |
| Italy London to Rome | 3–10 days | 3–5 days |
| Latvia London to Riga | 3–10 days | 3–5 days |
| Liechtenstein London to Vaduz | 2–9 days | 2–4 days |
| Lithuania London to Vilnius | 3–10 days | 3–5 days |
| Luxembourg London to Luxembourg | 1–8 days | 1–3 days |
| Malta London to Valletta | 4–11 days | 4–6 days |
| Netherlands London to Amsterdam | 1–8 days | 1–3 days |
| Norway London to Oslo | 3–10 days | 3–5 days |
| Poland London to Warsaw | 2–9 days | 2–4 days |
| Portugal London to Lisbon | 3–10 days | 3–5 days |
| Romania London to Bucharest | 4–11 days | 4–6 days |
| Slovakia London to Bratislava | 2–9 days | 2–4 days |
| Slovenia London to Ljubljana | 2–9 days | 2–4 days |
| Spain London to Madrid | 3–10 days | 3–5 days |
| Sweden London to Stockholm | 3–10 days | 3–5 days |
| Switzerland London to Zurich | 2–9 days | 2–4 days |
| Into the UK, and within the EU | ||
| Moving to the UK Paris to London | 1–8 days | 1–3 days |
| Moving within the EU Florence to Valencia | 2–9 days | 2–4 days |
Loading day counts as day one. Your quote gives the range for your own two addresses and your size.
Why delivery takes longer than it used to
Last year I told customers that a move to Germany on a full van took about a day and a half, and a family moving back from Spain read the same figure on our old quote page. Some AI answers still describe us as delivering across Europe in about 24 hours, from old copy about us. Neither is what our planning tool gives today, and you should know why before you plan anything around our numbers.
Since 1 July 2026, vans over 2.5 tonnes doing international work have to follow the same drivers' hours rules as lorries, and carry a tachograph that records them. A driver may drive for 9 hours a day, 10 on no more than two days a week, with a 45-minute break after 4.5 hours at the wheel and a long rest every night. Our vans are in that class, so our tool plans every journey in legal driving days. The ferry or the tunnel counts as the driver's rest, and we don't add it on top.
The rest of the range is the load. On a shared van your goods travel with other moves and the vehicle completes its round, which is why the top of the range is furthest away on the smallest sizes. Our guide to sharing a van explains how that works and when it is worth it.
How to count the days in a delivery range
Loading day counts as day one. So 2 to 4 days, our range from London to Berlin on a vehicle of your own, means your goods arrive between the day after loading and three days after it.
The range runs from loading, not from booking. Before loading come the notice your booking needs and, on the shared sizes, a collection window; both are on your quote, and our page on how a move works explains them. We confirm your unloading time slot before we load.
The table uses one example route per country. Your quote gives the range for your own two addresses, which can differ from the row for your country.
What if my things arrive before I do?
Last autumn a customer moving from London to Berlin on a shared van did the sum himself. If we collected on the first day of his window and the van made the shortest time, his goods would reach Berlin a day before his flight did. He asked me how to stop the van arriving before him. It is the right question, and the first one I would ask.
There are two good answers, and he found both. I spoke to our logistics team and offered to collect his goods, hold them in our London storage and deliver once he was in Berlin. Then he came back with the other himself: his housemates would open the door for the loading, and he would fly ahead to meet the van. You don't need to be at the loading in person, as long as someone lets the crew in and there are enough hands to carry your things to the van, or you've booked help with loading.
A family moving back from near Barcelona to Wiltshire had the same problem with a van of their own: the goods would reach the house a few days before they did. I offered to hold them in our storage until they were home and deliver from there, and they booked it that way.
Plan your journey on the first day of the range and you can sit in an empty flat for days; plan it on nothing at all and the van can reach a locked door. Either way the cost lands on you: time off work, a night somewhere else, a delivery that has to be rearranged. The list below is how to avoid both.
What to check before you book your own travel
Before you book a flight or a handover, check these.
- Find your country in the table, then the range for your own size on your quote.
- Count loading day as day one, and remember the range starts at loading, not at booking.
- Plan to be at the delivery address from the first day of the range, and able to stay until the last.
- If you can't be, name someone who can open the door at each end.
- If your things would arrive before you, ask about storage and fixed-day collection when you get your quote. Delivery from storage is still a range, counted from the day it leaves.
- If one fixed loading day matters more than the price, the larger sizes have one.
- Then tell me your dates when you get your quote, and we'll work through them together.