There are 8 ways to get from Koper to Bulgaria by bus, car, plane, shuttle, or train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Bus
best- Take the bus from Trieste to Sofiabus
14h 31m$108–109Bus via Ljubljana
cheapest- Take the bus from Avtobusna postaja Koper to Avtobusna postaja Ljubljanabus Lucija Tpc - Ac - Ljubljana Ap / ...
- Take the bus from Ljubljana bus station to Sofiabus N981
17h 38m$55–93Drive 1,023 km
- Drive from Koper to Sofiacar 1,023 km
9h 24m$162–233Bus to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport, fly to Sofia Airport
- Take the bus from Koper Banka to Trieste Airportbus
- Fly from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane TRS - SOF
8h 53m$99–322Shuttle to Venice Marco Polo Airport, fly to Sofia Airport
- Take a shuttle bus from Portorož to Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia
- Fly from Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane VCE - SOF
10h 10m$94–524Shuttle to Treviso Airport, fly to Bucharest Otopeni, shuttle
- Take a shuttle bus from Portorož to Treviso, Aeroporto
- Fly from Treviso Airport (TSF) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane TSF - OTP
- Take a shuttle bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
9h 36m$182–763Shuttle, shuttle to Vienna International Airport, fly to Sofia Airport
- Take a shuttle bus from Koper, Avtobusna Postaja to Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana
- Take a shuttle bus from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Wien Hbf
- Fly from Vienna International Airport (VIE) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane VIE - SOF
9h 33m$197–983Train, train to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, fly to Sofia Airport
- Take the train from Trieste Centrale to Venezia Mestretrain
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centraletrain
- Fly from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane BLQ - SOF
9h 41m$92–359
Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS) to Sofia Airport (SOF) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Koper to Bulgaria is to bus via Ljubljana which costs $55 - $95 and takes 17h 38m.
The fastest way to get from Koper to Bulgaria is to bus and fly which takes 8h 53m and costs $95 - $330.
The distance between Koper and Bulgaria is 1036 km. The road distance is 1023 km.
The best way to get from Koper to Bulgaria without a car is to bus via Ljubljana which takes 17h 38m and costs $55 - $95.
It takes approximately 14h 31m to get from Koper to Bulgaria, including transfers.
Bulgaria is 1h ahead of Koper. It is currently 3:58 PM in Koper and 4:58 PM in Bulgaria.
Yes, the driving distance between Koper to Bulgaria is 1023 km. It takes approximately 9h 24m to drive from Koper to Bulgaria.
There are 2102+ hotels available in Bulgaria.
What companies run services between Koper, Slovenia and Bulgaria?
M&M Travel operates a bus from Trieste to Sofia twice a week. Tickets cost $103 and the journey takes 14h.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Sofia Airport via Catania
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–340
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Sofia Airport via Bari
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $90–340
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Sofia Airport via Bari
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–140
Flights from Treviso Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $26–200
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $35–150
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $28–180
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Sofia Airport via Bari
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $28–180
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 36m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $80–320
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–180
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–340
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–380
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Sofia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $100–250
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Sofia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $95–230
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Sofia Airport via Varna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–180
- Website
- air.bg
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Sofia Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $120–320
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Treviso Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $30–150
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Trieste Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $18–35
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Trieste Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 14m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $17–26
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Trieste Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $11–35
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- italotreno.it
Train from Trieste Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 53m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $15–35
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $18–45
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- +359 2 980 56 58
- info@mm-travel.bg
- Website
- mm-travel.bg
Bus from Trieste to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 14h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $103
- Schedules at
- mm-travel.bg
- Book at
- mm-travel.bg
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Koper Banka to Trieste Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $8–12
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Ljubljana bus station to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $45–80
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +386 090 74 11
- info@arriva.si
- Website
- arriva.si
Bus from Avtobusna postaja Koper to Avtobusna postaja Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $11–13
- Website
- https://arriva.si/en/
- Phone
- +386 2 530 16 00
- vozni.redi@apms.si
- Website
- apms.si
Bus from Avtobusna postaja Koper to Avtobusna postaja Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 58m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $9–12
- Schedules at
- apms.si
- Phone
- +386 3 425 34 00
- marko.caks@izletnik.si
- Website
- nomago.si
Bus from Avtobusna postaja Koper to Avtobusna postaja Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- nomago.si
- Phone
- +386 041 666 213
- samu.turizem@gmail.com
- Website
- samu-turs.com
Bus from Avtobusna postaja Koper to Avtobusna postaja Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- samu-turs.com
- Website
- global.flixbus.com
Bus from Ljubljana bus station to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- global.flixbus.com
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- info@goopti.com
- Website
- goopti.com
Shuttle from Portorož to Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 31m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $30–320
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- $30–45
- Private
- $170–320
Shuttle from Portorož to Treviso, Aeroporto
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $30–310
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- $30–45
- Private
- $170–310
Shuttle from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $45–650
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- $45–60
- Private
- $320–650
- Phone
- +359 89 345 5533
- info@atlastaxi.eu
- Website
- atlastaxi.eu
Shuttle from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $120–290
- Website
- https://atlastaxi.eu/
- Phone
- +386 (0) 31 30 41 41
- info@zup-prevozi.eu
- Website
- zup-prevozi.eu
Shuttle from Koper, Avtobusna Postaja to Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 48m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $100–130
- Schedules at
- zup-prevozi.eu
- Economy class
- $100–130
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