There are 7 ways to get from Leipzig to Bansko by plane, bus, car, or train
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Fly from Leipzig-Halle Airport, bus
best- Fly from Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane LEJ - SOF
- Take the bus from Sofia Airport Terminal 1 Bus Stop to Bansko New Stationbus
9h 47m$188–449Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Leipzig to Sofia Central Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Banskobus
24h 28m$86–124Drive 1,619.1 km
- Drive from Leipzig to Banskocar 1,619.1 km
16h 50m$267–386Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly, bus
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane BER - SOF
- Take the bus from Sofia Airport Terminal 1 Bus Stop to Bansko New Stationbus
9h 18m$113–313Train, bus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly, bus
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the bus from Dresden to Praha Hlavní nádražíbus
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane PRG - SOF
- Take the bus from Sofia Airport Terminal 1 Bus Stop to Bansko New Stationbus
11h 31mBus via Sofia
- Take the bus from Leipzig Goethestraße to Sofia Serdica Bus Stationbus Racic Eurobus
- Take the bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Bansko New Stationbus Union Ivkoni
25h 35m$97–124Train, bus
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Chemnitz, Hauptbahnhoftrain Re6
- Take the bus from Chemnitz Bus Station to Sofia Serdica Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Banskobus
28h 31m$131–182
Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ) to Sofia Airport (SOF) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Leipzig to Bansko is to bus via Sofia which costs $95 - $130 and takes 25h 35m.
The fastest way to get from Leipzig to Bansko is to train and fly and bus which takes 9h 18m and costs $110 - $320.
No, there is no direct bus from Leipzig to Bansko. However, there are services departing from Leipzig and arriving at Bansko via Sofia Central Bus Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 24h 28m.
The distance between Leipzig and Bansko is 1470 km. The road distance is 1619.1 km.
The best way to get from Leipzig to Bansko without a car is to bus which takes 24h 28m and costs $85 - $130.
It takes approximately 9h 47m to get from Leipzig to Bansko, including transfers.
Leipzig to Bansko bus services, operated by Union Ivkoni, depart from Leipzig station.
Leipzig to Bansko bus services, operated by Union Ivkoni, arrive at Sofia Central Bus Station.
Bansko is 1h ahead of Leipzig. It is currently 8:38 AM in Leipzig and 9:38 AM in Bansko.
Yes, the driving distance between Leipzig to Bansko is 1619 km. It takes approximately 16h 50m to drive from Leipzig to Bansko.
What companies run services between Leipzig, Germany and Bansko, Bulgaria?
You can take a bus from Leipzig to Bansko via Sofia Central Bus Station in around 24h 28m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Sofia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $170–650
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 23m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–430
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $65–350
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $200–400
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–390
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–350
- Website
- air.bg
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $100–210
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Sofia Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $120–180
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–140
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–180
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $80–400
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Sofia Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $100–340
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Sofia Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $120–180
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $30–120
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $35–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $25–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $29–45
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Chemnitz, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- mitteldeutsche-regiobahn.de
- Phone
- +49 30 200 73-0
- kommunikation@transdev.de
- Website
- transdev.de
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Chemnitz, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $17–25
- Schedules at
- transdev.de
- Phone
- +359 2 493 0191
- info@traventuria.com
- Website
- traventuria.com
Bus from Sofia Airport Terminal 1 Bus Stop to Bansko New Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $14–20
- Website
- https://traventuria.com/
- Phone
- +359 88 949 0000
- office@union-ivkoni.com
- Website
- union-ivkoni.com
Bus from Leipzig to Sofia Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 31m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $65–100
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
Bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Bansko New Station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $7–12
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
- Phone
- 0898 448 696
- marketing@grad.bg
- Website
- bansko.net
Bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Bansko
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $6–10
- Schedules at
- https://bansko.org/bansko_bus_schedule
- Website
- https://bansko.org/
- info@bgrazpisanie.com
- Website
- bgrazpisanie.com
Bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Bansko
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 57m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $14
- Website
- https://bgrazpisanie.com/en
- Phone
- +359 894 77 44 02
- office@kaleiatravel.com
- Website
- kaleiatravel.com
Bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Bansko
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $18–27
- Website
- https://en.kaleiatravel.com/
- Phone
- +38 098-888-11-08
- igoruzhanskyi@grandbus.com.ua
- Website
- grandbus.com.ua
Bus from Dresden to Praha Hlavní nádraží
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.grandbus.com.ua/en
- Phone
- +359-887-208-506
- racic_bg@yahoo.com
- Website
- racicbg.com
Bus from Leipzig Goethestraße to Sofia Serdica Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $90–120
- Website
- https://www.racicbg.com/bg/
- Phone
- +359 0885700870
- support@citylines.eu
- Website
- citylines.eu
Bus from Chemnitz Bus Station to Sofia Serdica Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $95–130
- Website
- https://citylines.eu/
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