There are 9 ways to get from Linz to Chania by train, plane, bus, busferry, night train, ferry, car ferry, or shuttle
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Train to Vienna International Airport, fly to Chania International Airport
best- Take the train from Linz Hbf to Flughafen Wientrain
- Fly from Vienna International Airport (VIE) to Chania International Airport (CHQ)plane VIE - CHQ
7h 5m€80–240Bus, bus and ferry
- Take the bus from Linz to Kumanovobus
- Take the bus from Kumanovo to Thessaloniki Macedonia KTEL Bus Stationbus
- Take the busferry from Thessaloniki Macedonia KTEL Bus Station to Chaniabusferry
34h 46m€124–171Night train, line 2 ferry, car ferry, bus and ferry
- Take the night train from Linz Hbf to Venezia S. Lucianighttrain Nj
- Take the ferry from Ferrovia "A" to Tronchetto "A"ferry 2 / ...
- Take the car ferry from Port of Venice to Port of Patrascarferry
- Take the busferry from Patra to Chaniabusferry
2d 10h€235–466Train to Vienna International Airport, fly to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”, Private transfer
- Take the train from Linz Hbf to Flughafen Wientrain
- Fly from Vienna International Airport (VIE) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane VIE - HER
- Take a shuttle bus from Heraklion Airport to Chania - Casa Delfino
8h€215–530Train to Munich International Airport, fly to Chania International Airport
- Take the train from Linz Hbf to Muenchen Osttrain
- Fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to Chania International Airport (CHQ)plane MUC - CHQ
9h 11m€145–396Train to Munich International Airport, fly to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”, Private transfer
- Take the train from Linz Hbf to Muenchen Osttrain
- Fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane MUC - HER
- Take a shuttle bus from Heraklion Airport to Chania - Casa Delfino
10h 11m€240–646Train to Graz Airport, fly to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”, Private transfer
- Take the train from Linz Hbf to Graz Hbftrain
- Fly from Graz Airport (GRZ) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane GRZ - HER
- Take a shuttle bus from Heraklion Airport to Chania - Casa Delfino
10h 15m€266–758Train, bus, bus and ferry
- Take the train from Linz Hbf to Wien Hbftrain Rjx / ...
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Bratislava Hlavna Stanicatrain Re
- Take the train from Bratislava Hlavna Stanica to Budapest-Nyugatitrain Rj
- Take the bus from Budapest-Nyugati to Athensbus
- Take the busferry from Port of Piraeus to Chaniabusferry
40h 19mBus, car ferry
- Take the bus from Linz Wissensturm to Sofia Serdica Bus Stopbus
- Take the bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Piraeus Port Astiggosbus
- Take the car ferry from Port of Piraeus to Port of Soudacarferry
43h 5m€111–245
Vienna International Airport (VIE) to Chania International Airport (CHQ) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Linz to Chania is to train and fly which costs €80 - €240 and takes 7h 5m.
The fastest way to get from Linz to Chania is to train and fly which takes 7h 5m and costs €80 - €240.
No, there is no direct bus from Linz to Chania. However, there are services departing from Linz and arriving at Chania via Kumanovo and Thessaloniki Macedonia KTEL Bus Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 34h 46m.
The distance between Linz and Chania is 1749 km.
The best way to get from Linz to Chania without a car is to bus and bus and ferry which takes 34h 46m and costs €120 - €180.
It takes approximately 7h 5m to get from Linz to Chania, including transfers.
Linz to Chania bus services, operated by Euro Bus MK, depart from Linz station.
Linz to Chania bus services, operated by Euro Bus MK, arrive at Kumanovo station.
Chania is 1h ahead of Linz. It is currently 6:25 PM in Linz and 7:25 PM in Chania.
There are 4312+ hotels available in Chania.
What companies run services between Linz, Austria and Chania, Greece?
There is no direct connection from Linz to Chania. However, you can take the train to Flughafen Wien, walk to Vienna International Airport (VIE) airport, fly to Chania International Airport (CHQ), walk to Chania Airport, then take the shuttle to Chania. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Linz to Chania via Kumanovo, Thessaloniki Macedonia KTEL Bus Station, and Thessaloniki Macedonia KTEL Bus Station in around 34h 46m.
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–340
Flights from Munich International Airport to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €100–310
Flights from Munich International Airport to Chania International Airport via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €130–250
Flights from Munich International Airport to Chania International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–420
Flights from Munich International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 43m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–410
Flights from Munich International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–410
Flights from Munich International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–300
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €100–310
Flights from Munich International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 43m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–410
Flights from Graz Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 7m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €130–550
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–170
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–240
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–350
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–340
- Website
- skyexpress.gr
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Chania International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–170
Flights from Munich International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–260
- Website
- corendonairlines.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–260
Flights from Graz Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €190–460
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Wednesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–270
Flights from Munich International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–140
- Website
- airbus.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €100–310
Flights from Munich International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–310
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €75–240
- Website
- tui.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €180–450
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Graz Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €130–490
Train from Linz Hbf to Flughafen Wien
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–50
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €30–50
Train from Linz Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–45
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €30–45
Train from Wien Hbf to Bratislava Hlavna Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €15–23
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €15–23
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Linz Hbf to Flughafen Wien
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–50
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
Train from Linz Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 58m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €86
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
Train from Linz Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €9–45
- 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
- +43 51717
- Website
- nightjet.com
Night train from Linz Hbf to Venezia S. Lucia
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 24m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €50–265
- Website
- https://www.nightjet.com/en/#/home
- Sleeper Carriage
- €259–265
- Couchette Carriage
- €140–160
- Seating Carriage
- €50–65
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- meinenachricht@westbahn.at
- Website
- westbahn.at
Train from Linz Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 56m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–95
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Linz Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 58m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €28–75
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Linz Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €9–18
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- 2nd Class
- €9–14
- 1st Class
- €14–18
Train from Bratislava Hlavna Stanica to Budapest-Nyugati
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 32m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €10–19
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- 2nd Class
- €10–15
- 1st Class
- €14–19
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Linz Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 14m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €25–90
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Linz Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €9–45
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Wien Hbf to Bratislava Hlavna Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €20–27
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Bratislava Hlavna Stanica to Budapest-Nyugati
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €41–42
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from Linz Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 58m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €16–35
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
- 2nd Class
- €16–23
- 1st Class
- €25–35
- Business
- €27–30
Train from Bratislava Hlavna Stanica to Budapest-Nyugati
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €12–26
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
- 2nd Class
- €12–18
- 1st Class
- €20–26
- Business
- €22–24
Train from Linz Hbf to Graz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €14–95
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Linz Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €9–45
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Wien Hbf to Bratislava Hlavna Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €12–20
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Linz Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €40–45
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +421 24 48 58 188
- info@slovakrail.sk
- Website
- zssk.sk
Train from Bratislava Hlavna Stanica to Budapest-Nyugati
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €10–19
- Website
- https://www.zssk.sk/en/
- Phone
- +389 46 787 312
- info@eurobus.mk
- Website
- eurobus.mk
Bus from Linz to Kumanovo
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 16m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €55–80
- Schedules at
- eurobus.mk
- Phone
- 0030 2108219900
- vsiamos@otenet.gr
- Website
- siamostours.com
Bus from Kumanovo to Thessaloniki Macedonia KTEL Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €14–16
- Schedules at
- siamostours.com
- Phone
- +302821093306
- info@e-ktel.gr
- Website
- e-ktel.com
Busferry from Thessaloniki Macedonia KTEL Bus Station to Chania
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €55–75
- Website
- https://www.e-ktel.com/en/
Busferry from Patra to Chania
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 8m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €35–50
- Website
- https://www.e-ktel.com/en/
Busferry from Port of Piraeus to Chania
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 28m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €21–30
- Website
- https://www.e-ktel.com/en/
- Phone
- +30 693-724-9486
- info@cretetaxitransfers.gr
- Website
- cretetaxitransfers.gr
Shuttle from Heraklion Airport to Chania - Casa Delfino
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €120–240
- Book at
- Crete Taxi Transfers
- Car (4 passengers)
- €120–180
- Mini Van (8 passengers)
- €200–220
- Mini Bus (10 passengers)
- €220–240
- Phone
- +381 011 7614787
- fptravelpatrikalos@gmail.com
- Website
- fptravelpatrikalos.rs
Bus from Budapest-Nyugati to Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- fptravelpatrikalos.rs
- Phone
- 07001 8282
- booking@union-ivkoni.com
- Website
- union-ivkoni.com
Bus from Linz Wissensturm to Sofia Serdica Bus Stop
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €45–65
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
Bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Piraeus Port Astiggos
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €30–50
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
- Phone
- (+39) 041 041
- direzione@actv.it
- Website
- actv.avmspa.it
Ferry from Ferrovia "A" to Tronchetto "A"
- Ave. Duration
- 14 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €10
- Website
- https://actv.avmspa.it/en
- 75 min. Ticket
- €10
- Phone
- +30 210 8919700
- superfast@superfast.com
- Website
- superfast.com
Car ferry from Port of Venice to Port of Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 35h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €134–135
- Website
- https://www.superfast.com
- Phone
- +30 21 0419 7400
- info@anek.gr
- Website
- anek.gr
Car ferry from Port of Piraeus to Port of Souda
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–130
- Website
- ANEK Lines
- Economy
- €35–55
- Airplane-type seats
- €35–55
- 2 beds - outside cabin
- €95–130
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