There are 13 ways to get from La Rochelle to Helsinki by train, plane, bus, ferry, night train, car, or car train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train to Nantes Atlantique Airport, fly to Helsinki Airport
best- Take the train from La Rochelle to Nantes
- Fly from Nantes Atlantique Airport (NTE) to Helsinki Airport (HEL)NTE - HEL
9h 53m€109–290Train, bus, ferry
- Take the train from La Rochelle Ville to Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2Tgv
- Take the train from Paris Est to Berlin SuedkreuzIce
- Take the bus from Berlin Airport BER to Tallinn, Harbour Terminal D
- Take the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki
39h 14m€267–570Train, Bus
- Take the train from La Rochelle Ville to Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2
- Take the train from Paris Est to Muenchen Hbf
- Take the train from Muenchen Hbf to Warszawa Centralna
- Take the train from Warszawa Centralna to Bialystok
- Take the bus from Białystok Bus Station to Helsinki Harbour Terminal 2
45h 38m€501–980Bus, night train, ferry
- Take the bus from La Rochelle - Bus Station to Tours - Édouard Vaillant Bus Station
- Take the bus from Tours Parking Peupliers to Salzburg Lastenstrasse
- Take the night train from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Stockholm CentralstationNt / ...
- Take the ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki
2d 21h€279–413Fly La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport to Helsinki Airport
- Fly from La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport (LRH) to Helsinki Airport (HEL)LRH - HEL
11h 36m€110–339Train to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport, fly to Helsinki Airport
- Take the train from La Rochelle to Bordeaux Saint-Jean
- Fly from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD) to Helsinki Airport (HEL)BOD - HEL
10h 49m€130–318Train to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport, fly to Helsinki Airport
- Take the train from La Rochelle Ville to Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2
- Fly from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG) to Helsinki Airport (HEL)CDG - HEL
9h 12m€145–388Fly La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport, ferry
- Fly from La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport (LRH) to Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL)LRH - TLL
- Take the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki
16h 7m€143–415Train to Nantes Atlantique Airport, fly to Lennart Meri International Airport, ferry
- Take the train from La Rochelle to Nantes
- Fly from Nantes Atlantique Airport (NTE) to Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL)NTE - TLL
- Take the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki
13h 4m€133–396Bus
- Take the bus from La Rochelle - Bus Station to Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station
- Take the bus from Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine) to Warsaw, Bus Station West
- Take the bus from Warsaw Bus Station West to Helsinki, Bus Station
2d 4h€147–320Train, night train, ferry
- Take the train from La Rochelle Ville to Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2Tgv
- Take the night train from Paris Est to Berlin HbfNj
- Take the night train from Berlin Hbf to Stockholm CentralstationNt
- Take the ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki
2d 5h€314–738Drive 4,142.6 km
- Drive from La Rochelle to Helsinki4,142.6 km
43h 8m€745–1,075Drive, car train
- Drive from La Rochelle to Würzburg Hbf
- Take the car train from Würzburg Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Drive from Hamburg Hbf to Helsinki
44h 51m€763–1,112
La Rochelle to Helsinki by train, foot, subway, bus, and ferry
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from La Rochelle to Helsinki is to train and fly which costs €100 - €290 and takes 9h 53m.
The fastest way to get from La Rochelle to Helsinki is to train and fly which takes 9h 12m and costs €140 - €390.
No, there is no direct bus from La Rochelle station to Helsinki station. However, there are services departing from La Rochelle - Bus Station and arriving at Helsinki, Bus Station via Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine) and Warsaw Bus Station West. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 2 days 4h.
The distance between La Rochelle and Helsinki is 2465 km. The road distance is 4142.6 km.
The best way to get from La Rochelle to Helsinki without a car is to train and bus and ferry which takes 39h 14m and costs €260 - €600.
It takes approximately 9h 53m to get from La Rochelle to Helsinki, including transfers.
La Rochelle to Helsinki bus services, operated by BlaBlaCar Bus, depart from La Rochelle - Bus Station.
The best way to get from La Rochelle to Helsinki is to fly which takes 11h 36m and costs €110 - €340. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €140 - €320 and takes 2 days 4h.
La Rochelle to Helsinki bus services, operated by BlaBlaCar Bus, arrive at Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station.
Helsinki is 1h ahead of La Rochelle. It is currently 10:36 AM in La Rochelle and 11:36 AM in Helsinki.
What companies run services between La Rochelle, France and Helsinki, Finland?
Ryanair, easyJet, and Finnair fly from La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport (LRH) to Helsinki Airport (HEL) 3 times a week. Alternatively, you can take a bus from La Rochelle - Bus Station to Helsinki, Bus Station via Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station, Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine), Warsaw, Bus Station West, and Warsaw Bus Station West in around 2d 4h.
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Helsinki Airport via Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–400
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Helsinki Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–400
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Helsinki Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–410
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–390
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Helsinki Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–240
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–330
- Website
- finnair.com
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Helsinki Airport via Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €140–360
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Helsinki Airport via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €150–380
Flights from La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport to Helsinki Airport via Geneva
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €220–550
Flights from La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport to Helsinki Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 35m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €220–550
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Helsinki Airport via Oslo
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €90–320
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Helsinki Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €120–240
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–240
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Helsinki Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–400
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Helsinki Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–410
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–330
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport to Helsinki Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €100–340
Flights from La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 57m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €100–340
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 5m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €90–410
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Helsinki Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €95–130
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Helsinki Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–370
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €95–370
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Helsinki Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 37m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–390
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from La Rochelle – Île De Ré Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Geneva
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €130–550
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–270
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 5m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–280
Rome2Rio's guide to Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF)
Contact Details
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from La Rochelle to Nantes
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 47m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €14–40
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from La Rochelle Ville to Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €60–120
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from La Rochelle to Bordeaux Saint-Jean
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €14–35
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from La Rochelle Ville to Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €45–110
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Paris Est to Muenchen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 41m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €55–170
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Paris Est to Berlin Suedkreuz
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 49m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €110–170
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Muenchen Hbf to Warszawa Centralna
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 25m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €50–210
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Warszawa Centralna to Bialystok
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €36–37
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- Phone
- +46 40 669 62 00
- snalltaget@snalltaget.se
- Website
- snalltaget.se
Night train from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Stockholm Centralstation
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €110–150
- Website
- https://www.snalltaget.se/en
Night train from Berlin Hbf to Stockholm Centralstation
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 6m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Website
- https://www.snalltaget.se/en
- Phone
- +43 51717
- Website
- nightjet.com
Night train from Paris Est to Berlin Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 14m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €85–280
- Website
- https://www.nightjet.com/en/#/home
- Sleeper Carriage
- €260–280
- Couchette Carriage
- €160–190
- Seating Carriage
- €85–110
- Phone
- +46 77 175 75 75
- kundservice@sj.se
- Website
- sj.se
Night train from Berlin Hbf to Stockholm Centralstation
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 26m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €110–180
- Website
- https://www.sj.se/en/
- 1st Class Ticket
- €110–160
- 2nd Class Ticket
- €130–180
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Würzburg Hbf to Hamburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €95–120
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Berlin Airport BER to Tallinn, Harbour Terminal D
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 30m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €65–180
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Białystok Bus Station to Helsinki Harbour Terminal 2
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €310–440
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine) to Warsaw, Bus Station West
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 20m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €65–130
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Warsaw Bus Station West to Helsinki, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €60–130
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from La Rochelle - Bus Station to Tours - Édouard Vaillant Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €24–35
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
Bus from La Rochelle - Bus Station to Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €22–60
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
- Phone
- 07001 8282
- booking@union-ivkoni.com
- Website
- union-ivkoni.com
Bus from Tours Parking Peupliers to Salzburg Lastenstrasse
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 29m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €45–75
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
Ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €35–75
- Website
- https://www.tallink.com/en
- Phone
- +358 9 123574
- Website
- vikingline.fi
Ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €95–150
- Website
- https://www.sales.vikingline.com/
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