There are 11 ways to get from Bern to Linz by train, bus, car, or plane
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train
best- Take the train from Bern to Zürich HBtrain Ic81 / ...
- Take the train from Zuerich Hb to Linz Hbftrain Rjx
8h 31m€120–177Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Bern to Linz Industriezeilebus FlixBus 1921
10h 10m€45–80Drive 649.4 km
- Drive from Bern to Linzcar 649.4 km
6h 44m€113–162Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Vienna International Airport, train
- Take the train from Bern to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Vienna International Airport (VIE)plane ZRH - VIE
- Take the train from Flughafen Wien to Linz Hbftrain
6h 40m€160–380Bus, train
- Take the bus from Bern to Salzburg Hbfbus
- Take the train from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Linz Hbftrain Drf
10h 32mTrain to Zurich Airport, fly to Munich International Airport, train
- Take the train from Bern to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane ZRH - MUC
- Take the train from Muenchen Ost to Linz Hbftrain
7h 22m€183–515Train to Basel, fly to Vienna International Airport, train
- Take the train from Bern to Basel SBBtrain
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Vienna International Airport (VIE)plane BSL - VIE
- Take the train from Flughafen Wien to Linz Hbftrain
6h 52m€138–398Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Graz Airport, train
- Take the train from Bern to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Graz Airport (GRZ)plane ZRH - GRZ
- Take the train from Graz Hbf to Linz Hbftrain
9h 8m€212–634Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Václav Havel Airport Prague, train
- Take the train from Bern to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)plane ZRH - PRG
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Linz Hbftrain
9h 55m€153–454Train, train to Saint Gallen-Altenrhein Airport, fly to Vienna International Airport
- Take the train from Bern to Zürich HBtrain
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Rorschachtrain
- Fly from Saint Gallen-Altenrhein Airport (ACH) to Vienna International Airport (VIE)plane ACH - VIE
- Take the train from Flughafen Wien to Linz Hbftrain
8h 21m€369–687Train to Basel, fly to Munich International Airport, train
- Take the train from Bern to Basel SBBtrain
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane BSL - MUC
- Take the train from Muenchen Ost to Linz Hbftrain
8h 34m€186–513
Bern to Linz by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Bern to Linz is to bus which costs €45 - €80 and takes 10h 10m.
The fastest way to get from Bern to Linz is to train and fly which takes 6h 40m and costs €160 - €380.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from Bern and arriving at Linz Industriezeile. Services depart three times a week, and operate Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. The journey takes approximately 10h 10m.
No, there is no direct train from Bern to Linz. However, there are services departing from Bern and arriving at Linz Hbf via Zuerich Hb. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 8h 31m.
The distance between Bern and Linz is 710 km. The road distance is 649.4 km.
The best way to get from Bern to Linz without a car is to train which takes 8h 31m and costs €120 - €180.
It takes approximately 8h 31m to get from Bern to Linz, including transfers.
Bern to Linz bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Bern station.
Bern to Linz train services, operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), depart from Bern station.
The best way to get from Bern to Linz is to train which takes 8h 31m and costs €120 - €180. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €45 - €80 and takes 10h 10m.
What companies run services between Bern, Switzerland and Linz, Austria?
You can take a train from Bern to Linz Hbf via Zürich HB and Zuerich Hb in around 8h 31m. Alternatively, FlixBus operates a bus from Bern to Linz Industriezeile 3 times a week. Tickets cost €45–80 and the journey takes 10h 10m.
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–210
Flights from Zurich Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–440
Flights from Basel to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–230
Flights from Zurich Airport to Graz Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €95–450
Flights from Zurich Airport to Graz Airport via Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €130–600
Flights from Zurich Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–300
Flights from Basel to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- When
- Monday to Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €110–460
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Vienna International Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–210
Flights from Zurich Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–440
Flights from Basel to Vienna International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Thursday and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €80–230
Flights from Zurich Airport to Graz Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €150–650
Flights from Zurich Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–390
Flights from Zurich Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €90–390
Flights from Basel to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–550
Flights from Basel to Munich International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €110–480
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–210
Flights from Basel to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–230
Flights from Zurich Airport to Graz Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €95–450
Flights from Zurich Airport to Graz Airport via Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €130–600
Flights from Zurich Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–360
- Website
- peoples.ch
Flights from Saint Gallen-Altenrhein Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €270–470
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Basel to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €90–260
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Basel to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €130–550
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Bern to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €40–120
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Bern to Zürich Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €45–130
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Bern to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–110
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich HB to Rorschach
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–110
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +41 58 580 70 70
- Website
- sob.ch
Train from Bern to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €35–60
- Schedules at
- sob.ch
Train from Zuerich Hb to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €80–120
Train from Flughafen Wien to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–50
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €30–50
Train from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €22–35
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €22–35
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Flughafen Wien to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €24–50
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- meinenachricht@westbahn.at
- Website
- westbahn.at
Train from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €23–45
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
Train from Muenchen Ost to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 36m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €50–90
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €30–45
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from Muenchen Ost to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 58m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €30–50
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 53m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €30–50
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Muenchen Ost to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 58m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €40–95
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Graz Hbf to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €45–90
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €65–110
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Bern to Linz Industriezeile
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 10m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €45–80
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Bern to Salzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 33m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086702768199
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More Questions & Answers
Bern to Linz bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Linz Industriezeile station.
Bern to Linz train services, operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), arrive at Zürich HB station.
Yes, the driving distance between Bern to Linz is 649 km. It takes approximately 6h 44m to drive from Bern to Linz.
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