There are 7 ways to get from Inverness to Almaty by train, bus, or plane
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 to Edinburgh Airport, fly
best- Take the train from Inverness to Perthtrain
- Take the bus from Perth station to Edinburgh Airportbus
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)plane EDI - ALA
17h 42m$422–688Fly from Inverness Dalcross Airport
cheapest- Fly from Inverness Dalcross Airport (INV) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)plane INV - ALA
14h 49m$366–1,112Train, bus
- Take the train from Inverness to King's Crosstrain
- Take the train from London St. Pancras Int. to Rotterdam Centraaltrain
- Take the bus from Rotterdam Centraal to Rīgas SAObus
- Take the bus from Riga Central Bus Station to Saint Petersburg Bus Terminalbus
- Take the train from Moskovsky Railway Terminal to Kazan-Passtrain
- Take the train from Kazan-Pass to Almaty 2train
5d 23h$752–1,400Train, train to Glasgow Airport, fly
- Take the train from Inverness to Perthtrain
- Take the train from Perth to Glasgow Queen Streettrain
- Fly from Glasgow Airport (GLA) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)plane GLA - ALA
17h 44m$432–1,301Train, train to Newcastle, fly
- Take the train from Inverness to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
- Take the train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastletrain
- Fly from Newcastle (NCL) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)plane NCL - ALA
21h 5m$487–1,622Train to Aberdeen Airport, fly
- Take the train from Inverness to Aberdeentrain
- Fly from Aberdeen Airport (ABZ) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)plane ABZ - ALA
18h 2m$460–1,523Train to Dundee Riverside Airport, fly
- Take the train from Inverness to Perthtrain
- Fly from Dundee Riverside Airport (DND) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)plane DND - ALA
25h 42m$497–1,550
Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Almaty International Airport (ALA) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Inverness to Almaty is to train and bus and fly which costs $420 - $700 and takes 17h 42m.
The fastest way to get from Inverness to Almaty is to fly which takes 14h 49m and costs $360 - $1,200.
The distance between Inverness and Almaty is 5874 km.
The best way to get from Inverness to Almaty without a car is to train and bus which takes 5 days 23h and costs $750 - $1,400.
It takes approximately 17h 42m to get from Inverness to Almaty, including transfers.
Almaty is 4h ahead of Inverness. It is currently 1:53 PM in Inverness and 5:53 PM in Almaty.
There are 3559+ hotels available in Almaty.
What companies run services between Inverness, Scotland and Almaty, Kazakhstan?
British Airways, Air Astana, and four other airlines fly from Inverness Dalcross Airport (INV) to Almaty International Airport (ALA) twice daily.
- Website
- airastana.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 45m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $340–1,200
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 23m
- When
- Tuesday, Sunday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $330–1,200
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $410–1,500
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Luton, Tbilisi
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 50m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $360–1,100
Flights from Newcastle to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $370–1,400
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 55m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $470–1,700
Flights from Dundee Riverside Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 15m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $450–1,600
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Almaty International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 25m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $300–1,200
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Almaty International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $330–1,200
Flights from Newcastle to Almaty International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $370–1,300
- Website
- uzairways.com
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Gatwick, Tashkent
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 55m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $470–1,300
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow, Tashkent
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 20m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $470–1,300
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow, Tashkent
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 25m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $500–1,400
Flights from Dundee Riverside Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow, Tashkent
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 50m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $500–1,400
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Almaty International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $350–1,300
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Almaty International Airport via Gdansk, Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $390–1,400
Flights from Dundee Riverside Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow, Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 5m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $400–1,500
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Almaty International Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $320–1,200
- Website
- neosair.it
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Almaty International Airport via Milan Malpensa
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $360–1,100
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Almaty International Airport via Milan Malpensa
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 35m
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $350–1,100
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Almaty International Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 40m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $250–1,100
- Website
- azal.az
Flights from Dundee Riverside Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow, Baku Heydar Aliyev
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $440–1,400
- Phone
- +44 344 811 0141
- Website
- scotrail.co.uk
Train from Inverness to Perth
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $65–130
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Perth to Glasgow Queen Street
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $35–70
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Inverness to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $110–200
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Inverness to Aberdeen
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $60–120
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from Inverness to Perth
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $45–70
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Inverness to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 4m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $220–330
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Inverness to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $70–110
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $45–75
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- enquiry@sleeper.scot
- Website
- sleeper.scot
Train from Inverness to Perth
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 38m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $40–80
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
Train from Inverness to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 11m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $65–120
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $45–80
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from London St. Pancras Int. to Rotterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $65–150
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- 8 (800) 775-00-00
- Website
- eng.rzd.ru
Train from Moskovsky Railway Terminal to Kazan-Pass
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $50–100
- Website
- https://eng.rzd.ru/
- 1nd Class (SW)
- $220–310
- 3rd Class (Platzcart)
- $50–70
- 2nd Class (Kupé)
- $70–100
- Phone
- +7 (717) 260-66-60
- KensePP@railways.kz
- Website
- railways.kz
Train from Kazan-Pass to Almaty 2
- Ave. Duration
- 2d 13h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $220–430
- Website
- https://railways.kz/en/
- Schedules at
- https://bilet.railways.kz/post/schedule?_locale=us
- Book at
- https://bilet.railways.kz/?_locale=us
- 3rd Class (Berth)
- $220–310
- 2nd Class (Coupe)
- $310–430
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 29m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $80–120
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 44m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $55–100
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 (0)131 510 4007
- ride@ember.to
- Website
- ember.to
Bus from Perth station to Edinburgh Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $9–14
- Website
- https://www.ember.to/
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Rotterdam Centraal to Rīgas SAO
- Ave. Duration
- 31h 30m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $130–260
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
- Phone
- +372 680 0909
- info@luxexpress.eu
- Website
- luxexpress.eu
Bus from Riga Central Bus Station to Saint Petersburg Bus Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 13h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $65–130
- Website
- https://luxexpress.eu/en/
- Phone
- +7 (901) 374-41-56
- markatek_spb@mail.ru
- Website
- markatek.travel
Bus from Riga Central Bus Station to Saint Petersburg Bus Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $76
- Website
- https://markatek.travel/
- Schedules at
- https://markatek.travel/schedule/
- Phone
- +371 22 474 814
- vissa@apollo.lv
- Website
- vissareiss.lv
Bus from Riga Central Bus Station to Saint Petersburg Bus Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $70
- Website
- https://vissareiss.lv/
- Schedules at
- https://vissareiss.lv/?highlight=0&sitepage=#Schedule
- Book at
- https://vissareiss.lv/index.php?sitepage=ticket_offer_en
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