There are 11 ways to get from Helsinki to Messina by plane, train, ferry, bus, car, 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.
Fly Helsinki Airport to Lamezia Terme International Airport, train, ferry
best- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Lamezia Terme International Airport (SUF)plane HEL - SUF
- Take the train from Lamezia Terme C. to Villa S.Giovannitrain
- Take the ferry from Villa S.Giovanni to Messina Marittimaferry
11h 3mFly Helsinki Airport to Palermo Airport, train
cheapest- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Palermo Airport (PMO)plane HEL - PMO
- Take the train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
12h 49m€99–349Bus, train, ferry
- Take the bus from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 to Warsaw, Bus Station Westbus
- Take the train from Warszawa Zachodnia to Wien Hbftrain Ic
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Venezia Mestretrain Rjx
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Villa S.Giovannitrain Fr
- Take the ferry from Villa S.Giovanni to Messina Marittimaferry V1 / ...
46h 29mBus
- Take the bus from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhofbus
- Take the bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Bologna Centralebus
- Take the bus from Bologna Centrale to Messinabus
2d 8h€230–467Drive, ferry
- Drive from Helsinki to Villa San Giovannicar
- Take the ferry from Villa San Giovanni to Messina Marittimaferry
2d 4h€922–1,332Fly Helsinki Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, train
- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)plane HEL - CTA
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
9h 9m€113–260Ferry to Lennart Meri International Airport, fly to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, train
- Take the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinnferry
- Fly from Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)plane TLL - CTA
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
16h 43m€101–288Fly Helsinki Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport, ferry
- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Reggio Calabria Airport (REG)plane HEL - REG
- Take the ferry from Reggio Calabria to Messina Marittimaferry
10h 51m€103–301Bus, train, ferry via Vilnius
- Take the bus from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 to Vilnius, Autobusų Stotis (Sodų g. 22)bus
- Take the train from Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis to Kraków Głównytrain
- Take the train from Krakow Glowny to Graz Hbftrain Ic
- Take the train from Graz Hbf to Venezia Mestretrain Rjx
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Villa S.Giovannitrain Fr
- Take the ferry from Villa S.Giovanni to Messina Marittimaferry V1 / ...
2d 2hBus, train, car ferry
- Take the bus from Helsinki, Bus Station to Kielce, Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Kielce to Salernobus
- Take the train from Salerno to Villa S.Giovannitrain Fr / ...
- Take the car ferry from Villa San Giovanni to Messina Marittimacarferry
2d 17h€262–443Ferry, bus, car ferry
- Take the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinnferry
- Take the bus from Tallinn, Harbour Terminal D to Rivne Central Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Rivne Central Bus Station to Salernobus
- Take the car ferry from Port of Salerno to Messinacarferry
3d 3h€224–331
Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Lamezia Terme International Airport (SUF) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Helsinki to Messina is to fly and train which costs €110 - €260 and takes 9h 9m.
The fastest way to get from Helsinki to Messina is to fly and train which takes 9h 9m and costs €110 - €260.
No, there is no direct bus from Helsinki to Messina. However, there are services departing from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 and arriving at Messina via Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof and Bologna Centrale. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 2 days 8h.
The distance between Helsinki and Messina is 2596 km.
The best way to get from Helsinki to Messina without a car is to bus and train and ferry which takes 46h 29m and costs .
It takes approximately 11h 3m to get from Helsinki to Messina, including transfers.
Helsinki to Messina bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 station.
Helsinki to Messina bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof station.
Messina is 1h behind Helsinki. It is currently 5:21 AM in Helsinki and 4:21 AM in Messina.
Book your Helsinki to Messina bus tickets online with Omio and FlixBus.
What companies run services between Helsinki, Finland and Messina, Italy?
You can take a bus from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 to Messina via Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof and Bologna Centrale in around 2d 8h.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Lamezia Terme International Airport via Warsaw Modlin
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 19m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €95–250
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Lamezia Terme International Airport via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–250
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Palermo Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–330
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Palermo Airport via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–270
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Palermo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 57m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €130–330
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Palermo Airport via Bologna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €130–340
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €90–230
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport via Venice
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €150–400
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport via Bologna
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 40m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €160–400
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Lamezia Terme International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €95–360
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €160–400
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Lamezia Terme International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €95–360
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €160–400
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–270
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–270
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Vilnius
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 20m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–270
- Website
- smartwings.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Lamezia Terme International Airport via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 57m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €140–370
- Website
- finnair.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–310
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–200
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Palermo Airport via Bologna
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 15m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €130–340
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Lamezia Terme C. to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–23
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €12–20
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €29–50
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Lamezia Terme C. to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €15–30
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Venezia Mestre to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €160–320
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Salerno to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 34m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €55–110
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Lamezia Terme C. to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 31m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €10–24
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €9–22
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €22–55
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Salerno to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 56m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €35–90
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Warszawa Zachodnia to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €100–230
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Krakow Glowny to Graz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 19m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €100–230
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Wien Hbf to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 59m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €90–140
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €90–140
Train from Graz Hbf to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €65–100
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €65–100
- Phone
- +370 700 55 111
- informacija@ltglink.lt
- Website
- ltglink.lt
Train from Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis to Kraków Główny
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 9m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–55
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- italotreno.it
Train from Salerno to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €50–100
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 to Warsaw, Bus Station West
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €75–130
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €110–200
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €75–140
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Bologna Centrale to Messina
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €70–130
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 to Vilnius, Autobusų Stotis (Sodų g. 22)
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 8m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45–85
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Helsinki, Bus Station to Kielce, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 25h
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €95–170
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- (+39) 0923 98.11.20
- Website
- autoservizisalemi.it
Bus from Bologna Centrale to Messina
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 10m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €40–60
- Schedules at
- autoservizisalemi.it
- Phone
- 13 43 232 76
- biuro@miskrosno.pl
- Website
- miskrosno.pl
Bus from Kielce to Salerno
- Ave. Duration
- 33h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €131
- Schedules at
- miskrosno.pl
- Book at
- api.euroticket.pl
- Phone
- +38 (067) 467-44-00
- transtempo@ukr.net
- Website
- transtempo.ua
Bus from Tallinn, Harbour Terminal D to Rivne Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €75–120
- Website
- https://transtempo.ua/
- Phone
- +38 (032) 221-68-58
- altransinfo@gmail.com
- Website
- al-trans.com.ua
Bus from Rivne Central Bus Station to Salerno
- Ave. Duration
- 35h 48m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €100–120
- Website
- https://al-trans.com.ua/en
- Schedules at
- https://al-trans.com.ua/en/routes
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Ferry from Villa S.Giovanni to Messina Marittima
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- 3409848540
- info@blujetlines.it
- Website
- blujetlines.it
Ferry from Villa San Giovanni to Messina Marittima
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €2–3
- Schedules at
- blujetlines.it
Ferry from Reggio Calabria to Messina Marittima
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €3–4
- Schedules at
- blujetlines.it
Ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €18–29
- Website
- https://www.tallink.com/en
- Phone
- +39.090.57.37
- servizioclienti@carontetourist.it
- Website
- carontetourist.it
Car ferry from Villa San Giovanni to Messina Marittima
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €1–39
- Schedules at
- carontetourist.it
- Passenger
- €3
- Car
- €39
Car ferry from Port of Salerno to Messina
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €29–60
- Schedules at
- carontetourist.it
- Passenger
- €29
- Cars
- €60
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