There are 10 ways to get from Athens to Istria by plane, bus, car ferry, car, shuttle, or train
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Fly to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport, bus
best- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS)plane ATH - TRS
- Take the bus from Trieste Airport to Rovinj, Autobusni Kolodvorbus
9h 25m€104–489Fly to Venice Marco Polo Airport, shuttle
cheapest- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)plane ATH - VCE
- Take a shuttle bus from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Novigrad
8h 50m€70–624Bus
- Take the bus from Athens to Beograd, Autobuska stanicabus
- Take the bus from Beograd to Pula , Autobusni Kolodvorbus
26h€110–160Bus, car ferry
- Take the bus from Athens, Leoforou Kifisou - KTEL to Patrasbus
- Take the car ferry from Port of Patras to Port of Venicecarferry
- Take the car ferry from Port of Venice to Port of Pulacarferry
44h 34m€253–329Drive 1,572.1 km
- Drive from Athens to Pulacar 1,572.1 km
20h 58m€281–406Fly to Ljubljana, shuttle, bus
- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to Ljubljana (LJU)plane ATH - LJU
- Take a shuttle bus from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Trieste Centrale
- Take the bus from Trieste Centrale to Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvorbus
7h 53m€184–699Fly to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport, bus
- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport (ZAG)plane ATH - ZAG
- Take the bus from Zagreb Airport to Rijeka - Autobusni Kolodvorbus
- Take the bus from Rijeka, Autobusni Kolodvor to Pazin, Autobusni Kolodvorbus
9h 39m€147–301Fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, train, bus
- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane ATH - BLQ
- Take the train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestretrain
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centraletrain
- Take the bus from Trieste Centrale to Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvorbus
11h 31m€160–444Train, bus
- Take the train from Athens to Thessalonikitrain Ic
- Take the bus from Thessaloniki to Gevgelijabus
- Take the train from Gevgelija to Skopjetrain 632 / ...
- Take the bus from Skopje, Transporten Centar to Pulabus
26h 44m€116–158Bus via Skopje
- Take the bus from Athens, Leoforou Kifisou - KTEL to Thessaloniki Monastirioubus
- Take the bus from Thessaloníki to Skopje, Transporten Centarbus
- Take the bus from Skopje, Transporten Centar to Pula , Autobusni Kolodvorbus
29h 50m€114–155
Athens to Istria by bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Athens to Istria is to bus which costs €110 - €160 and takes 26h.
The fastest way to get from Athens to Istria is to fly and shuttle and bus which takes 7h 53m and costs €180 - €700.
No, there is no direct bus from Athens to Istria. However, there are services departing from Athens and arriving at Pula , Autobusni Kolodvor via Beograd. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 26h.
The distance between Athens and Istria is 1396 km. The road distance is 1572.1 km.
The best way to get from Athens to Istria without a car is to bus which takes 26h and costs €110 - €160.
It takes approximately 9h 25m to get from Athens to Istria, including transfers.
Athens to Istria bus services, operated by FP Travel, depart from Athens station.
Athens to Istria bus services, operated by FP Travel, arrive at Beograd, Autobuska stanica station.
Istria is 1h behind Athens. It is currently 5:07 AM in Athens and 4:07 AM in Istria.
Yes, the driving distance between Athens to Istria is 1572 km. It takes approximately 20h 58m to drive from Athens to Istria.
What companies run services between Athens, Greece and Istria, Croatia?
You can take a bus from Athens to Pula , Autobusni Kolodvor via Beograd in around 26h.
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 9m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–260
Flights from Athens International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–160
Flights from Athens International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–170
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Olbia
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–290
Flights from Athens International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €45–160
Flights from Athens International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €45–160
Flights from Athens International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Bari
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–160
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 22m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €24–170
Flights from Athens International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Skiathos
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €24–140
Flights from Athens International Airport to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €95–260
Flights from Athens International Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–200
Flights from Athens International Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–150
Flights from Athens International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–190
- Website
- volotea.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €60–160
Flights from Athens International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 22m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €24–170
Flights from Athens International Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–200
Flights from Athens International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–190
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–260
Flights from Athens International Airport to Ljubljana via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €95–260
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–260
Flights from Athens International Airport to Ljubljana via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €130–290
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–160
Flights from Athens International Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–150
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €27–160
- Website
- croatiaairlines.com
Flights from Athens International Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Dubrovnik
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–320
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €22–45
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 57m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €30–60
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- italotreno.it
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €19–40
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €27–55
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–35
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €26–45
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €15–35
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €21–50
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- hellenictrain.gr
Train from Athens to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €22–35
- Website
- https://www.hellenictrain.gr/en
- Phone
- +389 (2) 3 164 255
- mztransportad@mztransportad.com.mk
- Website
- mzt.mk
Train from Gevgelija to Skopje
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €9–35
- Schedules at
- mzt.mk
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- info@goopti.com
- Website
- goopti.com
Bus from Trieste Airport to Rovinj, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €36–300
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €36
- Private
- €122
Shuttle from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Novigrad
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 46m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €33–440
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €33
- Private
- €182
Shuttle from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €31–260
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €31
- Private
- €138
Bus from Trieste Centrale to Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €65–160
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €100
- Private
- €148
- Phone
- +302105233969
- fptravel@otenet.gr
- Website
- fptravel.gr
Bus from Athens to Beograd, Autobuska stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €60–90
- Schedules at
- fptravel.gr
- Phone
- + 385 (0)52 383 000
- fils@fils.hr
- Website
- fils.hr
Bus from Beograd to Pula , Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €50–70
- Schedules at
- fils.hr
- Phone
- +30 2616 001 600
- info@ktelachaias.gr
- Website
- ktelachaias.gr
Bus from Athens, Leoforou Kifisou - KTEL to Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–23
- Website
- https://www.ktelachaias.gr/en/homepage-en/
- Phone
- +385 01/6331-933
- plesoprijevoz@plesoprijevoz.hr
- Website
- plesoprijevoz.hr
Bus from Zagreb Airport to Rijeka - Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €26–35
- Schedules at
- plesoprijevoz.hr
- Phone
- +385 52 356 500
- brioni@brioni.hr
- Website
- brioni.hr
Bus from Rijeka, Autobusni Kolodvor to Pazin, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €11–17
- Website
- https://www.brioni.hr/en-gb/
- Phone
- +385 (0)72 660 660
- info@arriva.com.hr
- Website
- arriva.com.hr
Bus from Rijeka, Autobusni Kolodvor to Pazin, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 45 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €1–11
- Website
- https://www.arriva.com.hr/en-us/home
- Phone
- +385 (0) 32 308 935
- polet@polet.hr
- Website
- polet.hr
Bus from Rijeka, Autobusni Kolodvor to Pazin, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €47
- Schedules at
- polet.hr
- Phone
- +30-2310540970
- info@simeonidistours.gr
- Website
- simeonidistours.gr
Bus from Thessaloniki to Gevgelija
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €14–21
- Website
- https://simeonidistours.gr/en/
- Phone
- +389 22400033
- info@dominoline.com.mk
- Website
- dominoline.com.mk
Bus from Skopje, Transporten Centar to Pula
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €71
- Schedules at
- dominoline.com.mk
- Phone
- +30 2310 500111
- info@ktelthes.gr
- Website
- ktelthes.gr
Bus from Athens, Leoforou Kifisou - KTEL to Thessaloniki Monastiriou
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €8–50
- Website
- https://ktelthes.gr/en/
- Phone
- +389 2 240 2528
- ruleturs@sas.com.mk
- Website
- ruleturs.mk
Bus from Thessaloníki to Skopje, Transporten Centar
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €35
- Schedules at
- ruleturs.mk
- Phone
- +386 41520943
- info@hisarturizam.com
- Website
- hisarturizam.com
Bus from Skopje, Transporten Centar to Pula , Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €70
- Schedules at
- hisarturizam.com
- Phone
- +30 210 8919700
- superfast@superfast.com
- Website
- superfast.com
Car ferry from Port of Patras to Port of Venice
- Ave. Duration
- 35h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €150–220
- Website
- https://www.superfast.com
- Phone
- +385 52 451 200
- db.ferry@kompas-travel.com
- Website
- adriatic-lines.com
Car ferry from Port of Venice to Port of Pula
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €79
- Website
- https://adriatic-lines.com/
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