There are 13 ways to get from Bulgaria to Europe by plane, train, bus, car, car train, or shuttle
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Fly Sofia Airport to Nuremberg Airport, train
best- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Nuremberg Airport (NUE)plane SOF - NUE
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Erfurt Hbftrain
- Take the train from Erfurt Hbf to Eisenach Hbftrain
9h 46m$113–396Bus, train
cheapest- Take the bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Station to Leipzig Goethestraßebus Racic Eurobus
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Eisenach Hbftrain 50 / ...
28h 30m$100–177Bus, train via Bratislava
- Take the bus from Sofia to Bratislavabus
- Take the train from Bratislava Hlavna Stanica to Dresden-Neustadttrain Rj
- Take the train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Eisenach Hbftrain 50
27h 4m$200–282Drive, car train
- Drive from Sofia to Villach Hbf ARZcar
- Take the car train from Villach Hbf ARZ to Würzburg Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Würzburg Hbf to Europecar
14h 56m$329–463Fly Sofia Airport to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane SOF - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
11h 5m$115–306Shuttle to Bucharest Otopeni, fly to Frankfurt, train
- Take a shuttle bus from Ruse to Bucharest Otopeni Airport
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane OTP - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
11h 42m$231–590Fly Varna Airport to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Varna Airport (VAR) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane VAR - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
11h 8m$270–619Fly Sofia Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport, train
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)plane SOF - CGN
- Take the train from Siegburg Bf to Frankfurttrain
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Eisenach Hbftrain
11h 57m$105–433Fly Sofia Airport to Dortmund Airport, train
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Dortmund Airport (DTM)plane SOF - DTM
- Take the train from Soest to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehetrain
- Take the train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
12h 27m$106–398Fly Sofia Airport to Munich International Airport, train
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane SOF - MUC
- Take the train from Flughafen München to Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from München Hbf to Fulda Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain
12h 39m$192–373Bus, train #2
- Take the bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Stop to Wurzburg Bismarckstrasse Bus Stopbus
- Take the train from Würzburg Hbf to Fulda Bahnhoftrain 25
- Take the train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhoftrain Rb5
29h 37m$138–196Bus, train #3
- Take the bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Station to Erfurt Central Bus Stationbus Citylines 9
- Take the train from Erfurt Hbf to Eisenach Hbftrain 50 / ...
29h 43m$128–180Drive 1,619.3 km
- Drive from Sofia to Europecar 1,619.3 km
16h 49m$267–386
Bulgaria to Europe by bus and train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Bulgaria to Europe is to bus and train which costs $95 - $180 and takes 28h 30m.
The fastest way to get from Bulgaria to Europe is to fly and train which takes 9h 46m and costs $110 - $400.
The distance between Bulgaria and Europe is 1511 km. The road distance is 1619.3 km.
The best way to get from Bulgaria to Europe without a car is to bus and train via Bratislava which takes 27h 4m and costs $200 - $290.
It takes approximately 9h 46m to get from Bulgaria to Europe, including transfers.
Europe is 1h behind Bulgaria. It is currently 2:54 AM in Bulgaria and 1:54 AM in Europe.
Yes, the driving distance between Bulgaria to Europe is 1619 km. It takes approximately 16h 49m to drive from Bulgaria to Europe.
There are 803+ hotels available in Europe.
What companies run services between Bulgaria and Europe?
There is no direct connection from Bulgaria to Europe. However, you can take the line 4 subway to Sofia Airport, walk to Sofia Airport (SOF) airport, fly to Nuremberg Airport (NUE), walk to Nürnberg Flughafen, take the subway to Nürnberg Hbf, walk to Nürnberg Hbf, take the train to Erfurt Hbf, take the train to Eisenach Hbf, take the train to Herleshausen Bahnhof, walk to Herleshausen Bahnhof, then take the line 250 bus to Sontra-Ulfen Mitte. Alternatively, you can take a subway from Serdika to Sontra-Ulfen Mitte via Central Station, Sofia, Bratislava, Bratislava Hlavna Stanica, Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt, Eisenach Hbf, Herleshausen Bahnhof, and Herleshausen Bahnhof in around 27h 4m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Nuremberg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–450
Flights from Sofia Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $75–270
Flights from Sofia Airport to Frankfurt via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $75–270
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–360
Flights from Varna Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–330
Flights from Varna Airport to Frankfurt via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 47m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–440
Flights from Sofia Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–410
Flights from Sofia Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $55–330
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Frankfurt via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–320
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–350
Flights from Varna Airport to Frankfurt via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 47m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–440
Flights from Sofia Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–400
Flights from Sofia Airport to Munich International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–350
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Nuremberg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–250
Flights from Sofia Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $30–230
- Website
- air.bg
Flights from Sofia Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $100–220
Flights from Varna Airport to Frankfurt via Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $130–350
- Website
- tarom.ro
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $50–230
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $65–350
Flights from Sofia Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $55–330
- Website
- hisky.aero
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–160
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $75–230
- Website
- airbus.com
Flights from Varna Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–330
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Dortmund Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $35–290
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $17–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $21–30
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 29m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $60–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Fulda Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $15–45
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Siegburg Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $23–90
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $29–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Soest to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 33m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $29–32
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Fulda Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $70–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Würzburg Hbf to Fulda Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $21–45
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $30–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $14–21
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $14–20
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $14–20
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Flughafen München to Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- $12–17
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 21300130
- info@abellio-mitteldeutschland.de
- Website
- abellio.de
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $15–20
- Schedules at
- abellio.de
- Phone
- 0800 2235546
- Website
- abellio.de
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Eisenach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $14–22
- Schedules at
- abellio.de
Train from Bratislava Hlavna Stanica to Dresden-Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $95–140
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- $95–140
- 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
- $110–140
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +49 561 766396-0
- info@cantus-bahn.de
- Website
- cantus-bahn.de
Train from Fulda Bahnhof to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
Train from Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe to Bebra Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Soest to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–45
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- 07001 8282
- booking@union-ivkoni.com
- Website
- union-ivkoni.com
Bus from Sofia to Bratislava
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 15m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $40–65
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
Bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Station to Leipzig Goethestraße
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $65–100
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
Bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Stop to Wurzburg Bismarckstrasse Bus Stop
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 15m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $70–110
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
- Phone
- +359 89 345 5533
- info@atlastaxi.eu
- Website
- atlastaxi.eu
Shuttle from Ruse to Bucharest Otopeni Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $120–290
- Website
- https://atlastaxi.eu/
- Phone
- +359-887-208-506
- racic_bg@yahoo.com
- Website
- racicbg.com
Bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Station to Leipzig Goethestraße
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $90–120
- Website
- https://www.racicbg.com/bg/
Bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Stop to Wurzburg Bismarckstrasse Bus Stop
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 45m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $95–120
- Website
- https://www.racicbg.com/bg/
- Phone
- +359 0885700870
- support@citylines.eu
- Website
- citylines.eu
Bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Station to Erfurt Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 45m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $110–150
- Website
- https://citylines.eu/
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