There are 9 ways to get from Bucharest to Istria by plane, shuttle, train, bus, car, or ferry
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly to Treviso Airport, shuttle
best- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Treviso Airport (TSF)OTP - TSF
- Take a shuttle bus from Treviso, Aeroporto to Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvor
8h 26m€126–535Bus, train
cheapest- Take the bus from București, Autogara Militari to Ljubljana bus station1922
- Take the train from Ljubljana to Pula1472
28h 41m€61–122Train, bus
- Take the train from Bucharest to Ploieşti Sud
- Take the bus from Ploieşti to Trieste
- Take the bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Pula , Autobusni Kolodvor
21h€79–110Train
- Take the train from Bucuresti Nord to Budapest-KeletiIr
- Take the train from Budapest-Deli to LjubljanaIc
- Take the train from Ljubljana to Pula
31h 1m€100–114Drive 1,244.3 km
- Drive from Bucharest to Pula1,244.3 km
14h 1m€172–249Fly to Venice Marco Polo Airport, shuttle
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)OTP - VCE
- Take a shuttle bus from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Novigrad
10h 21m€164–570Fly to Ljubljana, shuttle
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Ljubljana (LJU)OTP - LJU
- Take a shuttle bus from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Trieste Centrale
- Take a shuttle bus from Trieste Centrale to Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvor
9h 34m€196–605Fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, train, line 2 ferry, ferry
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)OTP - BLQ
- Take the train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia S. Lucia
- Take the ferry from Ferrovia "A" to Tronchetto "A"
- Take the ferry from Port of Venice to Port of Poreč
10h 24m€195–373Bus, train via Udine
- Take the bus from Bucharest to Udine
- Take the train from Udine to Trieste CentraleRe
- Take the bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Pula , Autobusni Kolodvor
26h 36m
Bucharest to Istria by train and subway
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Bucharest to Istria is to bus and train which costs €60 - €130 and takes 28h 41m.
The fastest way to get from Bucharest to Istria is to fly and shuttle which takes 8h 26m and costs €120 - €550.
No, there is no direct train from Bucharest to Istria. However, there are services departing from Bucuresti Nord and arriving at Pula via Keleti pályaudvar, Budapest-Deli and Ljubljana. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 31h 1m.
The distance between Bucharest and Istria is 1330 km. The road distance is 1244.3 km.
The best way to get from Bucharest to Istria without a car is to train and bus which takes 21h and costs €75 - €110.
It takes approximately 8h 26m to get from Bucharest to Istria, including transfers.
Bucharest to Istria train services, operated by Romanian Railways (CFR), depart from Bucuresti Nord station.
Istria is 1h behind Bucharest. It is currently 6:16 AM in Bucharest and 5:16 AM in Istria.
Bucharest to Istria train services, operated by Romanian Railways (CFR), arrive at Budapest-Keleti station.
Yes, the driving distance between Bucharest to Istria is 1244 km. It takes approximately 14h 1m to drive from Bucharest to Istria.
What companies run services between Bucharest, Romania and Istria, Croatia?
You can take a train from Bucuresti Nord to Pula via Budapest-Keleti, Keleti pályaudvar, Déli pályaudvar, Budapest-Deli, and Ljubljana in around 31h 1m.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Treviso Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €22–130
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Treviso Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €22–130
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–130
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 35m
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–130
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €35–120
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Monday and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €35–120
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–310
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–290
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–320
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Ljubljana via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 42m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–380
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Ljubljana via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–410
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Treviso Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €28–130
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €24–120
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Ljubljana via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–170
- Website
- hisky.aero
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Chisinau
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–220
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Ljubljana via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €170–230
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Ljubljana via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–360
- Phone
- 0219521
- petitii@cfrcalatori.ro
- Website
- cfrcalatori.ro
Train from Bucharest to Ploieşti Sud
- Ave. Duration
- 40 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €7–8
- Website
- https://www.cfrcalatori.ro/en/
Train from Bucuresti Nord to Budapest-Keleti
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €64–69
- Website
- https://www.cfrcalatori.ro/en/
Train from Bucharest to Ploieşti Sud
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €2–7
- Schedules at
- transferoviarcalatori.ro
- 2nd Class
- €2–4
- 1st Class
- €4–7
- Phone
- 0310 800 900
- contact@regiocalatori.ro
- Website
- regiocalatori.ro
Train from Bucharest to Ploieşti Sud
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €2–3
- Website
- https://regiocalatori.ro/
- Phone
- 0751.525.520
- office@astratranscarpatic.ro
- Website
- astratranscarpatic.ro
Train from Bucharest to Ploieşti Sud
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €5–8
- Book at
- astratranscarpatic.ro
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- info@mavcsoport.hu
- Website
- jegy.mav.hu
Train from Budapest-Deli to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 44m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €22–26
- Website
- https://jegy.mav.hu/
- Phone
- +385 60 333 444
- informacije@hzpp.hr
- Website
- hzpp.hr
Train from Ljubljana to Pula
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 41m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €12–17
- Website
- http://www.hzpp.hr/en
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia S. Lucia
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 33m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–40
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia S. Lucia
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €10–15
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Udine to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 24m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €6–10
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Udine to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €17–26
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €17–26
Train from Udine to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €15–22
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- info@goopti.com
- Website
- goopti.com
Shuttle from Treviso, Aeroporto to Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €37–320
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €37–40
- Private
- €170–320
Shuttle from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Novigrad
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 46m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €30–290
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €30–40
- Private
- €160–290
Shuttle from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €31–170
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €31–34
- Private
- €95–170
Shuttle from Trieste Centrale to Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €28–150
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €28–100
- Private
- €55–150
- Phone
- +40 239 629 822
- office@transmarian.ro
- Website
- transmarian.ro
Bus from Ploieşti to Trieste
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 26m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €55–80
- Schedules at
- transmarian.ro
- Phone
- +385 52 356 500
- brioni@brioni.hr
- Website
- brioni.hr
Bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Pula , Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €22
- Website
- https://www.brioni.hr/en-gb/
- Phone
- 0040374557200
- Website
- romfour.com
Bus from Bucharest to Udine
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 12m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- romfour-door2door.autogari.ro
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from București, Autogara Militari to Ljubljana bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 23h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €45–110
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- (+39) 041 041
- direzione@actv.it
- Website
- actv.avmspa.it
Ferry from Ferrovia "A" to Tronchetto "A"
- Ave. Duration
- 14 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €10
- Website
- https://actv.avmspa.it/en
- 75 min. Ticket
- €10
- Phone
- +385 91 422 0110
- db.ferry@kompas-travel.com
- Website
- adriatic-lines.com
Ferry from Port of Venice to Port of Poreč
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €79
- Website
- https://adriatic-lines.com/
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