There are 12 ways to get from Bucharest to Karlsruhe by plane, train, bus, car, or car train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly Bucharest Otopeni to Stuttgart Airport, train
best- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Stuttgart Airport (STR)plane OTP - STR
- Take the train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbftrain
6h 24m€143–374Fly Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport
cheapest- Fly from Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport (BBU) to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB)plane BBU - FKB
6h 41m€69–283Bus, train
- Take the bus from Bucharest Obor to Aachenbus
- Take the train from Aachen Hbf to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbftrain Ice / ...
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhoftrain 43 / ...
- Take the train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhoftrain 20 / ...
19h 51m€75–195Train
- Take the train from Bucuresti Nord to Budapest-Keletitrain Ir
- Take the train from Budapest-Keleti to Muenchen Hbf Gl.5-10train Rjx
- Take the train from München Hbf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhoftrain 60 / ...
28h 5m€122–190Drive 1,736.5 km
- Drive from Bucharest to Karlsruhecar 1,736.5 km
16h 49m€247–356Fly Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane OTP - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhoftrain
6h 28m€154–370Fly Bucharest Otopeni to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane OTP - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhoftrain
8h 49m€194–439Fly Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport to Basel, train
- Fly from Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport (BBU) to Basel (BSL)plane BBU - BSL
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhoftrain
8h 2m€91–236Bus via Frankfurt am Main
- Take the bus from Bucharest to Frankfurtbus
- Take the bus from Frankfurt to Karlsruhebus
24h 38m€137–146Bus
- Take the bus from Bucharest Obor to Buzăubus
- Take the bus from Buzau to Karlsruhebus
29h 45mBus #2
- Take the bus from București, Autogara Militari to Karlsruhe central train stationbus 1929
31h 55m€90–130Drive, car train
- Drive from Bucharest to Villach Hbf ARZcar
- Take the car train from Villach Hbf ARZ to Würzburg Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Würzburg Hbf to Karlsruhecar
18h 47m€319–446
Bucharest to Karlsruhe by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Bucharest to Karlsruhe is to bus which costs €90 - €130 and takes 31h 55m.
The fastest way to get from Bucharest to Karlsruhe is to fly and train which takes 6h 24m and costs €140 - €380.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from București, Autogara Militari and arriving at Karlsruhe central train station station. Services depart three times a week, and operate Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The journey takes approximately 31h 55m.
No, there is no direct train from Bucharest to Karlsruhe. However, there are services departing from Bucuresti Nord and arriving at Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof via Budapest-Keleti and München Hbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 28h 5m.
The distance between Bucharest and Karlsruhe is 1483 km. The road distance is 1736.5 km.
The best way to get from Bucharest to Karlsruhe without a car is to bus and train which takes 19h 51m and costs €75 - €200.
It takes approximately 6h 24m to get from Bucharest to Karlsruhe, including transfers.
Bucharest to Karlsruhe bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from București, Autogara Militari station.
Bucharest to Karlsruhe train services, operated by Romanian Railways (CFR), depart from Bucuresti Nord station.
The best way to get from Bucharest to Karlsruhe is to train which takes 28h 5m and costs €120 - €190. Alternatively, you can fly, which costs €65 - €290 and takes 6h 41m, you could also bus via Frankfurt am Main, which costs €135 - €150 and takes 24h 38m.
What companies run services between Bucharest, Romania and Karlsruhe, Germany?
You can take a train from Bucuresti Nord to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof via Budapest-Keleti, Muenchen Hbf Gl.5-10, and München Hbf in around 28h 5m. Alternatively, Ryanair flies from Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport (BBU) to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB) twice a week.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Stuttgart Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–390
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–310
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–320
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Stuttgart Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €90–380
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–310
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Zurich Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–320
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Stuttgart Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Monday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €130–270
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Zurich Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–180
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–220
Flights from Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–120
- Website
- tarom.ro
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–200
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–300
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–190
- Website
- hisky.aero
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–140
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €65–200
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–310
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport to Basel via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–200
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–230
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- service@gabw-bahn.de
- Website
- go-ahead-bw.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €14–27
- Schedules at
- go-ahead-bw.de
- 2nd Class Ticket
- €14–18
- 1st Class Ticket
- €18–27
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–28
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Aachen Hbf to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–90
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €10–28
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 23 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €17–28
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €27–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Basel SBB to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 47m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €27–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 7821 9960770
- info@sweg.de
- Website
- sweg.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- sweg.de
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Frankfurt to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €12–40
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €12–19
- 1st Class
- €23–40
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 28 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €11–35
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €11–17
- 1st Class
- €19–35
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €12–18
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- 0219521
- petitii@cfrcalatori.ro
- Website
- cfrcalatori.ro
Train from Bucuresti Nord to Budapest-Keleti
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €64–69
- Website
- https://www.cfrcalatori.ro/en/
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- info@mavcsoport.hu
- Website
- jegy.mav.hu
Train from Budapest-Keleti to Muenchen Hbf Gl.5-10
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 54m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €31–36
- Website
- https://jegy.mav.hu/
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €21–45
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Villach Hbf ARZ to Würzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 34m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €95–120
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +40 230 562 929
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Bucharest Obor to Aachen
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €23–30
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- +40 745 766 766
- dispecerat@maxibustravel.ro
- Website
- maxibustravel.ro
Bus from Bucharest to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 13m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €132
- Schedules at
- maxibustravel.ro
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Frankfurt to Karlsruhe
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €6–15
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
- Phone
- +4-0723-660.987
- Website
- acomar.autogari.ro
Bus from Bucharest Obor to Buzău
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €4–7
- Schedules at
- acomar.autogari.ro
- Phone
- +4-0742-105.209
- Website
- tasasuceava.autogari.ro
Bus from Bucharest Obor to Buzău
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €4–7
- Schedules at
- tasasuceava.autogari.ro
- Phone
- +4-0238-416.702
- Website
- eprubeta.autogari.ro
Bus from Bucharest Obor to Buzău
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €8
- Schedules at
- eprubeta.autogari.ro
- Phone
- +4-0745-797.976
- Website
- hermes.autogari.ro
Bus from Bucharest Obor to Buzău
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €7–10
- Schedules at
- hermes.autogari.ro
- Phone
- 0040374557200
- Website
- romfour.com
Bus from Buzau to Karlsruhe
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 53m
- Frequency
- Twice 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 Karlsruhe central train station
- Ave. Duration
- 31h 55m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €90–130
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
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More Questions & Answers
Bucharest to Karlsruhe bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Karlsruhe central train station.
Karlsruhe is 1h behind Bucharest. It is currently 12:30 PM in Bucharest and 11:30 AM in Karlsruhe.
Bucharest to Karlsruhe train services, operated by Romanian Railways (CFR), arrive at Budapest-Keleti station.
Yes, the driving distance between Bucharest to Karlsruhe is 1736 km. It takes approximately 16h 49m to drive from Bucharest to Karlsruhe.
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