There are 11 ways to get from Linz to Palermo by train, plane, ferry, bus, night train, train (Trenitalia), or car
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 Vienna International Airport, fly
best- Take the train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Flughafen Wientrain
- Fly from Vienna International Airport (VIE) to Palermo Airport (PMO)plane VIE - PMO
6h 28m€75–283Train, train to Bratislava Airport, fly
cheapest- Take the train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Wien Hbftrain
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Bratislava Hlavna Stanicatrain
- Fly from Bratislava Airport (BTS) to Palermo Airport (PMO)plane BTS - PMO
8h 2m€66–243Train, ferry
- Take the train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Wien Meidlingtrain Rjx / ...
- Take the train from Wien Meidling to Venezia Mestretrain Rjx
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Villa S.Giovannitrain Fr
- Take the ferry from Villa S.Giovanni to Messina Marittimaferry V1 / ...
- Take the train from Messina Centrale to Palermo Centraletrain Re
23h 33mBus via Bologna
- Take the bus from Linz Industriezeile to Venezia, Viale Stazione (Mestre Stazione - fermata ATVO)bus 861
- Take the bus from Venezia, Viale Stazione (Mestre Stazione - fermata ATVO) to Bologna Centralebus 482 / ...
- Take the bus from Bologna Centrale to Palermobus
30h 10m€167–256Night train, train
- Take the nighttrain from Wels Hbf to Roma Tiburtinanighttrain Nj
- Take the train from Roma Termini to Palermo Centraletrain Ic
28h 50m€145–328Train, train to Munich International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Rosenheimtrain
- Take the train from Rosenheim to Muenchen Osttrain
- Fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to Palermo Airport (PMO)plane MUC - PMO
8h 32m€125–409Fly from Linz Airport
- Fly from Linz Airport (LNZ) to Palermo Airport (PMO)plane LNZ - PMO
7h 53m€157–559Train to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly
- Take the train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Praha Hlavni Nadrazitrain
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Palermo Airport (PMO)plane PRG - PMO
9h 43m€112–296Train
- Take the train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhoftrain Rjx / ...
- Take the train from Brennero - Brenner to Bolzano Bozentrain Re
- Take the train from Bolzano Bozen to Roma Terminitrain Fr
- Take the train from Roma Termini to Palermo Centraletrain Ic
24h 23m€239–474Bus
- Take the bus from Linz Industriezeile to Munich central bus stationbus FlixBus 882 / ...
- Take the bus from München Hackerbrücke to Palermo Piazza Cairolibus
31h 41m€249–350Drive, ferry
- Drive from Linz to Naples Beverellocar
- Take the ferry from Naples Beverello to Port of Palermoferry
19h 38m€235–366
Vienna International Airport (VIE) to Palermo Airport (PMO) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Linz to Palermo is to train and fly which costs €65 - €250 and takes 8h 2m.
The fastest way to get from Linz to Palermo is to train and fly which takes 6h 28m and costs €75 - €290.
No, there is no direct bus from Linz to Palermo. However, there are services departing from Linz Industriezeile and arriving at Palermo via Venezia, Viale Stazione (Mestre Stazione - fermata ATVO) and Bologna Centrale. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 30h 10m.
No, there is no direct train from Linz to Palermo. However, there are services departing from Linz/Donau Hbf and arriving at Palermo Notarbartolo via Wels Hbf, Roma Tiburtina, Roma Termini and Palermo Centrale. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 28h 50m.
The distance between Linz and Palermo is 1373 km.
The best way to get from Linz to Palermo without a car is to train and ferry which takes 23h 33m and costs .
It takes approximately 6h 28m to get from Linz to Palermo, including transfers.
Linz to Palermo bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Linz Industriezeile station.
Linz to Palermo train services, operated by Railjet, depart from Linz/Donau Hbf station.
The best way to get from Linz to Palermo is to bus via Bologna which takes 30h 10m and costs €160 - €260. Alternatively, you can fly, which costs €150 - €600 and takes 7h 53m, you could also train, which costs €230 - €480 and takes 24h 23m.
What companies run services between Linz, Austria and Palermo, Italy?
You can take a bus from Linz Industriezeile to Palermo via Venezia, Viale Stazione (Mestre Stazione - fermata ATVO) and Bologna Centrale in around 30h 10m. Alternatively, DAT Danish Air Transport and Lufthansa fly from Linz Airport (LNZ) to Palermo Airport (PMO) 3 times a week.
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Saturday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €85–230
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Palermo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–230
Flights from Munich International Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–200
Flights from Munich International Airport to Palermo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–300
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Palermo Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–300
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Tuesday to Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €45–200
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Palermo Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €45–200
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Palermo Airport via Venice
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €45–200
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Palermo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–200
Flights from Bratislava Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €35–120
Flights from Bratislava Airport to Palermo Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €35–120
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–220
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–200
Flights from Munich International Airport to Palermo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–300
Flights from Linz Airport to Palermo Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €150–550
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Palermo Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–300
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Saturday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €85–230
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Palermo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–230
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Bratislava Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €24–220
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–210
- Phone
- +43 (0)5 1717
- Website
- Railjet
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Flughafen Wien
- *
- €30–50
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Wien Meidling
- *
- €30–45
Train from Wien Meidling to Venezia Mestre
- *
- €90–140
Train from Rosenheim to Muenchen Ost
- *
- €14–21
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Wien Hbf
- *
- €30–45
Train from Wien Hbf to Bratislava Hlavna Stanica
- *
- €15–23
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Praha Hlavni Nadrazi
- *
- €40–65
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof
- *
- €45–70
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Flughafen Wien
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €21–40
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 26m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €19–40
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Rosenheim
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €22–45
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €19–40
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €28–45
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €29–45
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Praha Hlavni Nadrazi
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €45–70
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Phone
- +39 06 5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Venezia Mestre to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 8m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €150–270
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Bolzano Bozen to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €85–150
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Messina Centrale to Palermo Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €26–40
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Brennero - Brenner to Bolzano Bozen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €10–15
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Messina Centrale to Palermo Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 3m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €23–45
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Roma Termini to Palermo Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 32m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €90–170
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Roma Termini to Palermo Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 32m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €90–170
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
- Phone
- +43 (0) 51717
- Website
- Nightjet
Night train from Wels Hbf to Roma Tiburtina
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 18m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €50–140
- Website
- Nightjet
- Sleeper Carriage
- €110–140
- Couchette Carriage
- €80–95
- Seating Carriage
- €50–65
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- service@westbahn.at
- Website
- Westbahn
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Rosenheim
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–70
- Website
- Westbahn
Train from Rosenheim to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 41 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €11–18
- Website
- Westbahn
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 19m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €65–110
- Website
- Westbahn
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- sekretariat@intercity.pl
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Rosenheim
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €23–45
- Website
- PKP Intercity
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- informacio@mavcsoport.hu
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Rosenheim
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 19m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €10–12
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
Train from Linz/Donau Hbf to Rosenheim
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €17
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
- Phone
- +49 30 200 73-0
- kommunikation@transdev.de
- Website
- Transdev GmbH
Train from Rosenheim to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 39 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €10–16
- Schedules at
- Transdev GmbH
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Rosenheim to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 40 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €10–21
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- _AUSTRIAN_RAILWAYS_(ÖBB)
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Wien Hbf to Bratislava Hlavna Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €13–23
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Brennero - Brenner to Bolzano Bozen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €17–35
- Website
- Austrian Railways
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Linz Industriezeile to Venezia, Viale Stazione (Mestre Stazione - fermata ATVO)
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €45–70
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Venezia, Viale Stazione (Mestre Stazione - fermata ATVO) to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €12–18
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Bologna Centrale to Palermo
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €110–170
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Linz Industriezeile to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €19–29
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +359 700 20 544
- Website
- Arda Tur
Bus from Linz Industriezeile to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €31
- Website
- Arda Tur
- Phone
- +39 0362 185 0590
- info@onebus.it
- Website
- Onebus
Bus from München Hackerbrücke to Palermo Piazza Cairoli
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 6m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €230–320
- Website
- Onebus
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Ferry from Villa S.Giovanni to Messina Marittima
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +39.081.496.444
- info@grimaldi.napoli.it
- Website
- Grimaldi Lines
Ferry from Naples Beverello to Port of Palermo
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €30–70
- Website
- Grimaldi Lines
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Booking & Getting There
Linz to Palermo bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Venezia, Viale Stazione (Mestre Stazione - fermata ATVO) station.
Linz to Palermo train services, operated by Railjet, arrive at Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof station.
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