There are 8 ways to get from Cork to Patras by plane, bus, car ferry, car, train, or shuttle
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Fly Cork Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia, bus
best- Fly from Cork Airport (ORK) to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG)plane ORK - SKG
- Take the bus from Thessaloniki Macedonia KTEL Bus Station to Patrasbus
23h 8m€111–368Fly Cork Airport to Athens International Airport, train, bus
cheapest- Fly from Cork Airport (ORK) to Athens International Airport (ATH)plane ORK - ATH
- Take the train from Athens to Kiatotrain
- Take the bus from Kiato to Patrabus
13h 56m€88–222Bus
- Take the bus from Cork Alfred Street to Bachelors Walkbus
- Take the bus from Dublin to Rădăuțibus
- Take the bus from Rădăuți to Nürnbergbus
- Take the bus from Nuremberg to Tiranabus
- Take the bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Patrabus
4d 4hCar ferry, drive
- Take the car ferry from Cork Port to Port de Roscoffcarferry
- Drive from Port de Roscoff to Patrascar
2d 4h€623–1,044Train to Dublin Airport, fly to Athens International Airport, train, bus
- Take the train from Cork to Dublin Heustontrain
- Fly from Dublin Airport (DUB) to Athens International Airport (ATH)plane DUB - ATH
- Take the train from Athens to Kiatotrain
- Take the bus from Kiato to Patrabus
14h 53m€103–259Fly Cork Airport to Kalamata International Airport, bus
- Fly from Cork Airport (ORK) to Kalamata International Airport (KLX)plane ORK - KLX
- Take the bus from Kalamata to Patrasbus
15h 8m€134–585Fly Cork Airport to Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza, Airport Bus, bus
- Fly from Cork Airport (ORK) to Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza (TIA)plane ORK - TIA
- Take a shuttle bus from Tirana, Airport to Fier
- Take the bus from Fier to Agríniobus
- Take the bus from Agrinio to Patrasbus
19h 13mFly Cork Airport to Patras Araxos Airport
- Fly from Cork Airport (ORK) to Patras Araxos Airport (GPA)plane ORK - GPA
28h 51m€169–737
Cork Airport (ORK) to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Cork to Patras is to fly and bus which costs €110 - €370 and takes 23h 8m.
The fastest way to get from Cork to Patras is to fly and train and bus which takes 13h 56m and costs €85 - €230.
The distance between Cork and Patras is 3164 km.
The best way to get from Cork to Patras without a car is to bus which takes 4 days 4h and costs .
It takes approximately 23h 8m to get from Cork to Patras, including transfers.
The best way to get from Cork to Patras is to bus which takes 4 days 4h and costs . Alternatively, you can fly, which costs €160 - €750 and takes 28h 51m.
Patras is 2h ahead of Cork. It is currently 4:28 PM in Cork and 6:28 PM in Patras.
There are 684+ hotels available in Patras.
What companies run services between Cork, Ireland and Patras, Greece?
You can take a bus from Cork Alfred Street to Patra via Bachelors Walk, Aston Quay, Navan Road Station, Dublin, Rădăuți, Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Tirana, and Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave in around 4d 4h. Alternatively, Aer Lingus and TUIfly fly from Cork Airport (ORK) to Patras Araxos Airport (GPA) once a week.
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–390
Flights from Dublin Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–200
Flights from Cork Airport to Kalamata International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €220–850
Flights from Cork Airport to Athens International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 47m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–410
Flights from Cork Airport to Athens International Airport via Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 45m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €100–350
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–400
Flights from Cork Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–390
Flights from Cork Airport to Kalamata International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €220–850
Flights from Cork Airport to Athens International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 47m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–410
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–150
Flights from Cork Airport to Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza via Charleroi
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–170
Flights from Cork Airport to Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–170
Flights from Cork Airport to Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza via Pisa
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 25m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €75–170
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €95–410
- Website
- aerlingus.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–150
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Dublin Airport to Athens International Airport via Stuttgart
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 50m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €50–230
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Kalamata International Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 15m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €200–1,000
- Website
- airbus.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Kalamata International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €220–850
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Kalamata International Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €160–600
- Website
- transavia.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Kalamata International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €240–1,100
- Website
- skyexpress.gr
Flights from Cork Airport to Athens International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 55m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–360
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Athens International Airport via Nice
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–250
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza via Pisa
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €75–170
- Website
- tui.com
Flights from Cork Airport to Patras Araxos Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 25h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €140–700
- Phone
- +353 1 836 6222
- info@irishrail.ie
- Website
- irishrail.ie
Train from Cork to Dublin Heuston
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €22–35
- Website
- https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/
- Flexible
- €22–35
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- hellenictrain.gr
Train from Athens to Kiato
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €5–8
- Website
- https://www.hellenictrain.gr/en
- Phone
- +30 2610 623 888
- info@ktelachaias.gr
- Website
- ktelachaias.gr
Bus from Thessaloniki Macedonia KTEL Bus Station to Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €40–50
- Website
- https://www.ktelachaias.gr/en/homepage-en/
Bus from Kalamata to Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €19–23
- Website
- https://www.ktelachaias.gr/en/homepage-en/
- Phone
- +353 0 1 844 7118
- info@aircoach.ie
- Website
- aircoach.ie
Bus from Cork Alfred Street to Bachelors Walk
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €19–26
- Website
- https://www.aircoach.ie/
- Phone
- +353 91 564 164
- info@citylink.ie
- Website
- citylink.ie
Bus from Cork Alfred Street to Bachelors Walk
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €22–30
- Website
- https://www.citylink.ie/
- Phone
- +40 230 560 555
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Dublin to Rădăuți
- Ave. Duration
- 47h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €30–200
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Rădăuți to Nürnberg
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 55m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €19–140
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- +355 68 20 63 724
- info@arjanitravel.com
- Website
- arjanitravel.com
Bus from Nuremberg to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- arjanitravel.com
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- komatastours.al@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Patra
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 47m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 69 617 8170
- diamanttravel88@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Patra
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- hellenictrain.gr
Bus from Kiato to Patra
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €4–8
- Website
- https://www.hellenictrain.gr/en
- Phone
- +30 27210 28581
- info@ktelmessinias.gr
- Website
- ktelmessinias.gr
Bus from Kalamata to Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €19–27
- Website
- https://www.ktelmessinias.gr/en/homepage-en/
- Schedules at
- https://www.ktelmessinias.gr/en/routes/
- Book at
- https://ktelbus.gr/mes/ticketweb/
- Phone
- +355 52 22 55 39
- Website
- tirana-airport.com
Shuttle from Tirana, Airport to Fier
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €8–11
- Schedules at
- tirana-airport.com
- Phone
- +302110120492
- saimiritoursandtravels@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Fier to Agrínio
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 38m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +30 26410 54444
- info@ktel-aitolnias.gr
- Website
- ktel-aitolnias.gr
Bus from Agrinio to Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €7–11
- Schedules at
- ktel-aitolnias.gr
- Phone
- +353 21 427 7801
- reservations@brittanyferries.ie
- Website
- brittanyferries.ie
Car ferry from Cork Port to Port de Roscoff
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €70–190
- Website
- Brittany Ferries
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