There are 11 ways to get from Jena to Riga by train, plane, bus, or car
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Train to Leipzig-Halle Airport, fly
best- Take the train from Jena Paradies to Halle(Saale)Hbftrain
- Fly from Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane LEJ - RIX
8h 15m$207–416Train, bus #2
cheapest- Take the train from Jena Paradies to Halle(Saale)Hbftrain Rb
- Take the train from Halle(Saale)Hbf to Magdeburg Hbftrain 55 / ...
- Take the bus from Magdeburg to Rīgabus
25h 3m$79–225Train, bus
- Take the train from Jena Paradies to Halle(Saale)Hbftrain Rb
- Take the train from Halle(Saale)Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain 29 / ...
- Take the bus from Berlin Airport BER to Riga, Bus Stationbus
21h 40m$135–347Train, bus via Puńsk
- Take the train from Jena Paradies to Halle(Saale)Hbftrain Rb
- Take the train from Halle(Saale)Hbf to Berlin Hbftrain 29 / ...
- Take the bus from Berlin Central Station to Szczecin, Bus Stationbus 157
- Take the train from Szczecin Glowny to Trakiszkitrain Ic
- Take the train from Trakiszki to Kaisiadorystrain
- Take the train from Kaisiadorys to Riga-Pasazierutrain 889
24h 28m$111–212Drive 1,281.9 km
- Drive from Jena to Rigacar 1,281.9 km
17h 14m$231–334Train, train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly
- Take the train from Jena Paradies to Halle(Saale)Hbftrain
- Take the train from Halle(Saale)Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane BER - RIX
7h 27m$115–337Train, train to Frankfurt, fly
- Take the train from Jena West to Erfurt Hbftrain
- Take the train from Erfurt Hbf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane FRA - RIX
8h 16m$148–402Train, bus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly
- Take the train from Jena West to Glauchau, Bahnhoftrain
- Take the bus from Chemnitz central bus station to Praguebus
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane PRG - RIX
9h 35m$110–309Train, train to Hamburg Airport, fly
- Take the train from Jena West to Göttingentrain
- Take the train from Göttingen to Hamburg Hbftrain
- Fly from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane HAM - RIX
9h 6m$142–399Train, train to Munich International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Jena West to Erfurt Hbftrain
- Take the train from Erfurt Hbf to Nürnberg Hbftrain
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to München Hbftrain
- Fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane MUC - RIX
8h 53m$156–481Bus
- Take the bus from Jena bus station to Chemnitz central bus stationbus N69 / ...
- Take the bus from Chemnitz central bus station to Riga, Bus Stationbus N1230
24h 5m$82–255
Jena to Riga by train, foot, and bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Jena to Riga is to bus which costs $80 - $260 and takes 24h 5m.
The fastest way to get from Jena to Riga is to train and fly which takes 7h 27m and costs $110 - $340.
No, there is no direct bus from Jena station to Riga station. However, there are services departing from Jena bus station and arriving at Riga, Bus Station via Chemnitz central bus station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 24h 5m.
The distance between Jena and Riga is 1088 km. The road distance is 1281.9 km.
The best way to get from Jena to Riga without a car is to train and bus which takes 21h 40m and costs $130 - $350.
It takes approximately 8h 15m to get from Jena to Riga, including transfers.
Jena to Riga bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Jena bus station.
Jena to Riga bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Chemnitz central bus station.
Riga is 1h ahead of Jena. It is currently 4:49 PM in Jena and 5:49 PM in Riga.
Yes, the driving distance between Jena to Riga is 1282 km. It takes approximately 17h 14m to drive from Jena to Riga.
What companies run services between Jena, Germany and Riga, Latvia?
You can take a bus from Jena bus station to Riga, Bus Station via Chemnitz central bus station in around 24h 5m.
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–180
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Riga International Airport via Vilnius
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $80–180
Flights from Frankfurt to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–350
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $50–200
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–180
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–270
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Riga International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $140–600
Flights from Frankfurt to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–350
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–270
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Friday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–320
Flights from Frankfurt to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–220
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Friday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–330
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $75–190
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Riga International Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $95–190
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95–370
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Riga International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–210
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–280
- Website
- finnair.com
Flights from Hamburg Airport to Riga International Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $150–250
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–190
- Phone
- +49 30 21300130
- info@abellio-mitteldeutschland.de
- Website
- abellio.de
Train from Jena Paradies to Halle(Saale)Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $19–25
- Schedules at
- abellio.de
- Phone
- 0800 2235546
- Website
- abellio.de
Train from Jena Paradies to Halle(Saale)Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $20–35
- Schedules at
- abellio.de
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Halle(Saale)Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $17–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Halle(Saale)Hbf to Berlin Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $22–65
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Jena West to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 31 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $27–30
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $21–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Göttingen to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $21–110
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $17–95
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- $21–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Halle(Saale)Hbf to Magdeburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 48 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $15–45
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Halle(Saale)Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $28–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Halle(Saale)Hbf to Berlin Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 33m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $29–45
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Jena West to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 32 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $12–18
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Jena West to Glauchau, Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $19–28
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Jena West to Göttingen
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $30–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Erfurt Hbf to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $30–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 52m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–45
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Halle(Saale)Hbf to Magdeburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $18–26
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Szczecin Glowny to Trakiszki
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $30–50
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- 2nd Class
- $30–45
- 1st Class
- $35–50
- Phone
- +370 700 55 111
- informacija@ltglink.lt
- Website
- ltglink.lt
Train from Trakiszki to Kaisiadorys
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 3m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $9–13
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
Train from Kaisiadorys to Riga-Pasazieru
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $16–26
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
- Phone
- +49 37343 808037
- verein@pressnitztalbahn.de
- Website
- pressnitztalbahn.de
Train from Jena West to Erfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Schedules at
- pressnitztalbahn.de
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Göttingen to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $70–110
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 69 9999 3640
- info@startgmbh.com
- Website
- startgmbh.com
Train from Halle(Saale)Hbf to Magdeburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Schedules at
- startgmbh.com
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Berlin Airport BER to Riga, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 15m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $90–230
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Berlin Central Station to Szczecin, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $15–28
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Chemnitz central bus station to Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $18–60
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Jena bus station to Chemnitz central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $12–15
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Chemnitz central bus station to Riga, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $70–240
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Magdeburg to Rīga
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 50m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $45–150
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
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