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 37m$422–736Fly from Inverness Dalcross Airport
cheapest- Fly from Inverness Dalcross Airport (INV) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)plane INV - ALA
14h 8m$317–961Train, 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$793–1,349Train 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 32m$418–1,222Train 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 22m$384–1,244Train, 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 43m$422–1,144Train, 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
22h 50m$396–1,219
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 - $750 and takes 17h 37m.
The fastest way to get from Inverness to Almaty is to fly which takes 14h 8m and costs $310 - $1,000.
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 37m to get from Inverness to Almaty, including transfers.
Almaty is 4h ahead of Inverness. It is currently 10:22 PM in Inverness and 2:22 AM in Almaty.
There are 3491+ 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) once daily.
- Website
- airastana.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $350–1,000
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $410–1,200
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Luton, Tbilisi
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 50m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $370–1,000
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 25m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $480–1,400
Flights from Dundee Riverside Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 50m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $430–1,200
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 8m
- When
- Saturday, Friday, and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $340–950
Flights from Newcastle to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 40m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $380–1,100
Flights from Newcastle to Almaty International Airport via Antalya
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 40m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $440–1,300
Flights from Newcastle to Almaty International Airport via Larnaca
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 50m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $450–1,300
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Almaty International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 40m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $310–950
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Almaty International Airport via Copenhagen, Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 50m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $350–1,100
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Almaty International Airport via Gdansk, Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 35m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $350–1,100
Flights from Dundee Riverside Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow, Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 5m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $330–1,100
Flights from Newcastle to Almaty International Airport via Copenhagen, Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 30m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $280–900
- Website
- uzairways.com
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Gatwick, Tashkent
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 55m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $440–1,100
Flights from Inverness Dalcross Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow, Tashkent
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 20m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $440–1,100
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Gatwick, Tashkent
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $500–1,200
Flights from Aberdeen Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow, Tashkent
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 25m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $500–1,200
Flights from Dundee Riverside Airport to Almaty International Airport via London Heathrow, Tashkent
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 50m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $460–1,100
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Almaty International Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $320–1,100
- 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
- $280–1,000
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Almaty International Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 40m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $270–900
- Website
- neosair.it
Flights from Glasgow Airport to Almaty International Airport via Milan Malpensa
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $400–1,100
- 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 Inverness to Aberdeen
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $60–120
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Perth to Glasgow Queen Street
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $35–65
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Inverness to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $100–200
- 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
- $50–70
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Inverness to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 4m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $250–350
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Inverness to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $80–110
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Edinburgh Waverley to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $50–75
- 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
- $40–75
- 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
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $60–140
- 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
- $45–90
- Website
- https://eng.rzd.ru/
- 1nd Class (SW)
- $200–280
- 3rd Class (Platzcart)
- $45–60
- 2nd Class (Kupé)
- $60–90
- 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
- $230–440
- 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)
- $230–320
- 2nd Class (Coupe)
- $310–440
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
- $55–110
- 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
- +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
- $69
- Website
- https://vissareiss.lv/
- Schedules at
- https://vissareiss.lv/?highlight=0&sitepage=#Schedule
- Book at
- https://vissareiss.lv/index.php?sitepage=ticket_offer_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
- 11h 50m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $77
- Website
- https://markatek.travel/
- Schedules at
- https://markatek.travel/schedule/
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