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)plane LEJ - OTP
- Take a shuttle bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
7h 57m$274–640Bus via Prague
cheapest- Take the bus from Leipzig central train station to Praha, ÚAN Florencbus N67 / ...
- Take the bus from Praga to Rusebus
21h$105–204Train
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Passau Hbftrain 91
- Take the train from Passau Hbf to Wien Meidlingtrain Ice
- Take the train from Wien Meidling to Bucuresti Nordtrain 347
- Take the train from Bucuresti Nord to Rusetrain 461
29h 59m$435–907Drive 1,637 km
- Drive from Leipzig to Rusecar 1,637 km
16h 40m$270–390Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Bucharest Otopeni, shuttle
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane BER - OTP
- Take a shuttle bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
7h 48m$205–584Train to Dresden Airport, fly to Bucharest Otopeni, shuttle
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadttrain
- Fly from Dresden Airport (DRS) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane DRS - OTP
- Take a shuttle bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
10h 3m$317–903Train to Nuremberg Airport, fly to Bucharest Otopeni, shuttle
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Nürnberg Hbftrain
- Fly from Nuremberg Airport (NUE) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane NUE - OTP
- Take a shuttle bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
8h 42m$250–681Train to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, fly to Varna Airport, shuttle
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain
- Fly from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) to Varna Airport (VAR)plane BER - VAR
- Take a shuttle bus from Varna Airport to Ruse
9h 8m$195–664Train, bus to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly to Bucharest Otopeni, shuttle
- 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 Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane PRG - OTP
- Take a shuttle bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
10h 5mBus
- Take the bus from Leipzig central train station to București, Autogara Militaribus 1926
- Take the bus from București, Autogara Militari to Ruse Eastbus N984 / ...
31h 10m$142–236Train, night train
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhoftrain 50 / ...
- Take the night train from Dresden Hbf to Wien Hbfnighttrain Nj
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Bucuresti Nordtrain 347
- Take the train from Bucuresti Nord to Rusetrain 461
33h 22m$350–677
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.
The fastest way to get from Leipzig to Ruse is to train and fly and shuttle which takes 7h 48m and costs $200 - $600.
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.
No, there is no direct train from Leipzig to Ruse. However, there are services departing from Leipzig Hbf and arriving at Ruse via Passau Hbf, Wien Meidling and Bucuresti Nord. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 29h 59m.
The distance between Leipzig and Ruse is 1394 km. The road distance is 1637 km.
The best way to get from Leipzig to Ruse without a car is to bus via Prague which takes 21h and costs $100 - $210.
It takes approximately 7h 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 and costs $100 - $210. Alternatively, you can train, which costs $430 - $950 and takes 29h 59m.
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. Alternatively, you can take a train from Leipzig Hbf to Ruse via Passau Hbf, Wien Meidling, and Bucuresti Nord in around 29h 59m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–650
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–420
Flights from Dresden Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $180–700
Flights from Dresden Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $170–700
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–550
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $100–390
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Leipzig-Halle Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $140–550
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–380
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bucharest Otopeni via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–240
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $40–180
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $40–230
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $45–130
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $130–230
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bucharest Otopeni via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $130–330
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $100–240
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $110–340
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Dresden Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $170–700
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–210
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Varna Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $60–280
- Website
- worldticket.com
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg Airport to Varna Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $850–1,100
- Website
- animawings.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–150
- Website
- smartwings.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $55–120
- Website
- tarom.ro
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–200
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Passau Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 7m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $110–280
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Passau Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $60–150
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
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 Bahnhof Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $25–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $65–160
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $26–65
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Passau Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $70–120
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Wien Meidling to Bucuresti Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $270–470
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Wien Hbf to Bucuresti Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $270–470
- 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
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Passau Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 33m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $35–85
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 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 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $28–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $29–45
- 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
- $30–50
- 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
- $40–130
- Website
- https://www.nightjet.com/en/#/home
- Sleeper Carriage
- $115–130
- Couchette Carriage
- $80–95
- Seating Carriage
- $40–55
- 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
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Leipzig central train station to Praha, ÚAN Florenc
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $20–35
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Leipzig central train station to București, Autogara Militari
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 50m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $130–230
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from București, Autogara Militari to Ruse East
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $6–11
- 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
- $85–170
- Website
- https://bgrazpisanie.com/en/transport_company/omega+group+84
- 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
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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 3:16 PM in Leipzig and 4:16 PM in Ruse.
Leipzig to Ruse train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Passau Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between Leipzig to Ruse is 1637 km. It takes approximately 16h 40m to drive from Leipzig to Ruse.
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