There are 11 ways to get from Edinburgh to Alba Iulia by train, bus, train (Eurostar), car, car train, plane, busferry, or car ferry
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train, bus
best- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Manchester Piccadillytrain
- Take the bus from Manchester, Coach Station to Cluj-Napoca, Autogara Sens Vestbus
- Take the bus from Cluj-Napoca, Railway Station Square to Alba Iuliabus
26h 17mFly Edinburgh Airport to Cluj-Napoca, bus
cheapest- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Cluj-Napoca (CLJ)plane EDI - CLJ
- Take the bus from Cluj-Napoca to Alba Iuliabus
17h 33m$83–312Train
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Crosstrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nordtrain Eil
- Take the train from Paris l'Est to München Hbftrain 83
- Take the train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhoftrain 90 / ...
- Take the train from Salzburg Hbf to Wien Hbftrain Rjx / ...
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Alba Iuliatrain 347
30h 11m$416–974Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Edinburgh to Folkestonecar
- Take the car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthuncartrain
- Drive from Calais-Fréthun to Alba Iuliacar
27h 20mTrain, bus and ferry
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Manchester Piccadillytrain Edinburgh - Manchester Airport / ...
- Take the busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Alba Iuliabusferry
43h 37m$134–312Bus
- Take the bus from Edinburgh, Bus Station to Finchley Road / O2 Centrebus Ukxn10 / ...
- Take the bus from London Stonebridge to Alba Iuliabus
44h 25mDrive, car ferry
- Drive from Edinburgh to Port of Dovercar
- Take the car ferry from Port of Dover to Calaiscarferry
- Drive from Calais to Alba Iuliacar
28h 28m$546–816Train to Glasgow Airport, fly to Cluj-Napoca, bus
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Streettrain
- Fly from Glasgow Airport (GLA) to Cluj-Napoca (CLJ)plane GLA - CLJ
- Take the bus from Cluj-Napoca to Alba Iuliabus
12h 10m$98–297Train to Glasgow Airport, fly to Sibiu, bus
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Streettrain
- Fly from Glasgow Airport (GLA) to Sibiu (SBZ)plane GLA - SBZ
- Take the bus from Sibiu to Alba Iuliabus
10h 53m$123–389Fly Edinburgh Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, train
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane EDI - BUD
- Take the train from Ferihegy to Alba Iuliatrain
13h 52m$180–350Fly Edinburgh Airport to Sibiu, bus
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Sibiu (SBZ)plane EDI - SBZ
- Take the bus from Sibiu to Alba Iuliabus
13h 1m$103–384
Edinburgh to Alba Iulia by train and foot
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Edinburgh to Alba Iulia is to fly and bus which costs $80 - $320 and takes 17h 33m.
The fastest way to get from Edinburgh to Alba Iulia is to train and fly and bus which takes 10h 53m and costs $120 - $390.
No, there is no direct bus from Edinburgh station to Alba Iulia. However, there are services departing from Edinburgh, Bus Station and arriving at Alba Iulia via Finchley Road / O2 Centre, Prince Charles Drive and London Stonebridge. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 44h 25m.
No, there is no direct train from Edinburgh to Alba Iulia. However, there are services departing from Edinburgh Waverley and arriving at Alba Iulia via London St Pancras Intl, Paris l'Est, München Hbf, Salzburg Hbf and Wien Hbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 30h 11m.
The distance between Edinburgh and Alba Iulia is 2948 km.
The best way to get from Edinburgh to Alba Iulia without a car is to train and bus which takes 26h 17m and costs .
It takes approximately 26h 17m to get from Edinburgh to Alba Iulia, including transfers.
Edinburgh to Alba Iulia bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Edinburgh, Bus Station.
Edinburgh to Alba Iulia train services, operated by London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER), depart from Edinburgh Waverley station.
The best way to get from Edinburgh to Alba Iulia is to train which takes 30h 11m and costs $410 - $1,000. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs and takes 44h 25m.
What companies run services between Edinburgh, Scotland and Alba Iulia, Romania?
You can take a train from Edinburgh Waverley to Alba Iulia via London Kings Cross, London St Pancras Intl, Paris Nord, Paris l'Est, München Hbf, Salzburg Hauptbahnhof, Salzburg Hbf, and Wien Hbf in around 30h 11m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Edinburgh, Bus Station to Alba Iulia via Finchley Road / O2 Centre, Prince Charles Drive, Harrow Road /North Circular Rd, and London Stonebridge in around 44h 25m.
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Charleroi
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–270
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 52m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $65–280
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Milan Malpensa
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $55–250
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 5m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $60–260
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Cluj-Napoca via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $55–250
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Sibiu via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–340
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Sibiu via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 35m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $75–340
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Sibiu via Frankfurt, Nuremberg
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $140–600
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Sibiu via Amsterdam Schiphol, Nuremberg
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 15m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–330
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Sibiu via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 13m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–350
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Sibiu via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $100–380
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Sibiu via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 50m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $75–350
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Charleroi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 50m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–230
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 5m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $70–270
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–170
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 10m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $80–460
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Sibiu via Frankfurt, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $140–600
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Sibiu via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 15m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $110–380
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Stuttgart
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $65–270
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $65–270
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–360
- Website
- hisky.aero
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95–330
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Sibiu via Prague, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–360
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Manchester Piccadilly
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $50–110
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $80–140
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $85–310
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Paris l'Est to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 7m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $75–170
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $15–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 200730
- post@transdev.de
- Website
- transdev.de
Train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–45
- Schedules at
- transdev.de
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- meinenachricht@westbahn.at
- Website
- westbahn.at
Train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $10–50
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 8024 997171
- info@brb.de
- Website
- brb.de
Train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $35–55
- Schedules at
- brb.de
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $35–60
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 52m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $23–80
- 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
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $15–50
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 46m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $15–26
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- 2nd Class
- $15–22
- 1st Class
- $21–26
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $50–85
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- $50–80
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 42m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $23–55
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $23–80
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Wien Hbf to Alba Iulia
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 9m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $150–220
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Ferihegy to Alba Iulia
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 1m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $100–140
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Phone
- +44 344 811 0141
- Website
- scotrail.co.uk
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $24–25
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
- Phone
- +40 230 562 929
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Manchester, Coach Station to Cluj-Napoca, Autogara Sens Vest
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 27m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $30–45
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- +40751451862
- Website
- starcof.autogari.ro
Bus from Cluj-Napoca, Railway Station Square to Alba Iulia
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- starcof.autogari.ro
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Cluj-Napoca to Alba Iulia
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $5–9
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Edinburgh, Bus Station to Finchley Road / O2 Centre
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $28–75
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- 0040263701919
- latinoexpres@yahoo.com
- Website
- latinoexpres.ro
Busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Alba Iulia
- Ave. Duration
- 39h 23m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $80–210
- Schedules at
- latinoexpres.ro
- Phone
- 0724 122 272
- contact@euro-fratello.ro
- Website
- euro-fratello.ro
Bus from London Stonebridge to Alba Iulia
- Ave. Duration
- 34h 52m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- euro-fratello.ro
- Phone
- +4-0231-517.509
- Website
- apetrans.ro
Bus from Sibiu to Alba Iulia
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $14–20
- Schedules at
- apetrans.autogari.ro
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $40–55
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
- Car
- $90–220
- On Foot
- $40–55
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More Questions & Answers
Edinburgh to Alba Iulia bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Finchley Road / O2 Centre station.
Alba Iulia is 2h ahead of Edinburgh. It is currently 6:46 PM in Edinburgh and 8:46 PM in Alba Iulia.
Edinburgh to Alba Iulia train services, operated by London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER), arrive at King's Cross station.
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