There are 11 ways to get from Leipzig to Ruse by plane, shuttle, bus, train, car, or night train
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Fly Leipzig-Halle Airport to Bucharest Otopeni, shuttle
best- Fly from Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)LEJ - OTP
- Take a shuttle bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
8h 57m$258–592Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Leipzig central train station to București, Autogara Militari1926
- Take the bus from București, Autogara Militari to Ruse Central Bus StationUnion Ivkoni - Unibus 7
30h 50m$85–253Bus via Prague
- Take the bus from Leipzig central train station to Praha, ÚAN FlorencN367 / ...
- Take the bus from Praga to Ruse
21h 5m$105–204Train
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Nürnberg Hbf28 / ...
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Passau Hbf91 / ...
- Take the train from Passau Hbf to Wien MeidlingIce
- Take the train from Wien Meidling to Bucuresti Nord347
- Take the train from Bucuresti Nord to Ruse
30h 41m$338–631Drive 1,636.5 km
- Drive from Leipzig to Ruse1,636.5 km
16h 34m$270–390Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Bucharest Otopeni, shuttle
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)BER - OTP
- Take a shuttle bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
7h 48m$179–613Train to Dresden Airport, fly to Bucharest Otopeni, shuttle
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt
- Fly from Dresden Airport (DRS) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)DRS - OTP
- Take a shuttle bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
9h 58m$288–773Train to Nuremberg Airport, fly to Bucharest Otopeni, shuttle
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Nürnberg Hbf
- Fly from Nuremberg Airport (NUE) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)NUE - OTP
- Take a shuttle bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
8h 25m$204–624Train, bus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly to Bucharest Otopeni, shuttle
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Take the bus from Dresden central station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)PRG - OTP
- Take a shuttle bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
10h 50m$204–547Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Varna Airport, shuttle
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Varna Airport (VAR)BER - VAR
- Take a shuttle bus from Varna Airport to Ruse
10h 3m$159–613Train, night train
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhof50 / ...
- Take the night train from Dresden Hbf to Wien HbfNj
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Bucuresti Nord347
- Take the train from Bucuresti Nord to Ruse
33h 22m$335–718
Leipzig to Ruse by bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Leipzig to Ruse is to bus via Prague which costs $100 - $210 and takes 21h 5m.
The fastest way to get from Leipzig to Ruse is to train and fly and shuttle which takes 7h 48m and costs $170 - $650.
No, there is no direct bus from Leipzig station to Ruse. However, there are services departing from Leipzig central train station and arriving at Ruse via Praga. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 21h 5m.
No, there is no direct train from Leipzig to Ruse. However, there are services departing from Leipzig Hbf and arriving at Ruse via Nürnberg Hbf, Passau Hbf, Wien Meidling and Bucuresti Nord. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 30h 41m.
The distance between Leipzig and Ruse is 1394 km. The road distance is 1636.5 km.
The best way to get from Leipzig to Ruse without a car is to bus via Prague which takes 21h 5m and costs $100 - $210.
It takes approximately 8h 57m to get from Leipzig to Ruse, including transfers.
Leipzig to Ruse bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Leipzig central train station.
Leipzig to Ruse train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Leipzig Hbf station.
The best way to get from Leipzig to Ruse is to bus via Prague which takes 21h 5m and costs $100 - $210. Alternatively, you can train, which costs $330 - $650 and takes 30h 41m.
What companies run services between Leipzig, Germany and Ruse, Bulgaria?
You can take a bus from Leipzig central train station to Ruse via Praha, ÚAN Florenc and Praga in around 21h 5m. Alternatively, you can take a train from Leipzig Hbf to Ruse via Nürnberg Hbf, Passau Hbf, Wien Meidling, and Bucuresti Nord in around 30h 41m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $180–340
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 27m
- When
- Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–370
Flights from Dresden Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–550
Flights from Dresden Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 18m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–390
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $110–440
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $60–330
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Varna Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $130–410
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $110–230
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–350
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bucharest Otopeni via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–310
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Varna Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $120–500
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 8m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $170–260
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $40–210
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $35–210
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $35–120
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $90–180
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $75–300
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Varna Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–420
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–300
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bucharest Otopeni via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–220
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $50–220
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Dresden Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $130–550
- Website
- tarom.ro
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $45–170
- Website
- smartwings.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $55–140
- Website
- animawings.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–240
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Varna Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $40–190
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–120
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Passau Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $29–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Passau Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $60–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $25–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $21–45
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $21–45
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Passau Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $23–75
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Wien Meidling to Bucuresti Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $240–340
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Wien Hbf to Bucuresti Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $240–340
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Passau Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $50–75
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- $50–75
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Passau Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $23–75
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
- Phone
- 0219521
- petitii@cfrcalatori.ro
- Website
- cfrcalatori.ro
Train from Bucuresti Nord to Ruse
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $14–16
- Website
- https://www.cfrcalatori.ro/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- info@flixbus.de
- Website
- flixtrain.de
Train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $5–19
- Website
- https://www.flixtrain.com/
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $22–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $23–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $30–45
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +43 51717
- Website
- nightjet.com
Night train from Dresden Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $60–315
- Website
- https://www.nightjet.com/en/#/home
- Sleeper Carriage
- $305–315
- Couchette Carriage
- $160–190
- Seating Carriage
- $60–80
- 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/
Shuttle from Varna Airport to Ruse
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $90–260
- Website
- https://atlastaxi.eu/
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Leipzig central train station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $25–35
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Dresden central station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $17–50
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Leipzig central train station to București, Autogara Militari
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 50m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $80–250
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +359 899199328
- omega_group@abv.bg
- Website
- bgrazpisanie.com
Bus from Praga to Ruse
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $80–170
- Website
- https://bgrazpisanie.com/en/transport_company/omega+group+84
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.com
Bus from Dresden central station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $10–16
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
- Phone
- 07001 8282
- booking@union-ivkoni.com
- Website
- union-ivkoni.com
Bus from Dresden central station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $8–12
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
Bus from București, Autogara Militari to Ruse Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $4–7
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
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More Questions & Answers
Leipzig to Ruse bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at București, Autogara Militari station.
Ruse is 1h ahead of Leipzig. It is currently 5:42 PM in Leipzig and 6:42 PM in Ruse.
Leipzig to Ruse train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Nürnberg Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between Leipzig to Ruse is 1637 km. It takes approximately 16h 34m to drive from Leipzig to Ruse.
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