There are 10 ways to get from Lyon to Istria by plane, shuttle, train, ferry, car ferry, bus, 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.
Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport, shuttle
best- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)plane LYS - VCE
- Take a shuttle bus from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Novigrad
7h 46m€72–630Train, line 2 ferry, car ferry
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Milano Centraletrain Fr
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Venezia Santa Luciatrain
- Take the ferry from Ferrovia "A" to Tronchetto "A"ferry 2 / ...
- Take the car ferry from Port of Venice to Port of Pulacarferry
13h 25m€182–255Bus
- Take the bus from Lyon - Gerland Bus Station to Triestebus
- Take the bus from Trieste Centrale to Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvorbus
- Take the bus from Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvor to Pula , Autobusni Kolodvorbus
15h 52m€180–409Drive 956.6 km
- Drive from Lyon to Pulacar 956.6 km
9h 39m€146–210Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport, bus
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS)plane LYS - TRS
- Take the bus from Trieste Airport to Rovinj, Autobusni Kolodvorbus
8h 40m€150–575Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Ljubljana, shuttle, bus
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Ljubljana (LJU)plane LYS - LJU
- Take a shuttle bus from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Trieste Centrale
- Take the bus from Trieste Centrale to Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvorbus
9h 53m€205–695Train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Venice Marco Polo Airport, shuttle
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Genevetrain
- Fly from Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)plane GVA - VCE
- Take a shuttle bus from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Novigrad
9h 34m€97–681Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, train, bus
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane LYS - BLQ
- Take the train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestretrain
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centraletrain
- Take the bus from Trieste Centrale to Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvorbus
10h 39m€166–480Train, bus
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Milano Centraletrain Fr
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Venezia Mestretrain
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centraletrain Re
- Take the bus from Trieste Centrale to Rovinj, Autobusni Kolodvorbus
14h 8m€174–486Bus via Rijeka
- Take the bus from Lyon to Rijeka bus stationbus N406
- Take the bus from Rijeka bus station to Pula , Autobusni Kolodvorbus 971A / ...
17h 30m€114–162
Lyon to Istria by train, ferry, and car ferry
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Lyon to Istria is to bus via Rijeka which costs €110 - €170 and takes 17h 30m.
The fastest way to get from Lyon to Istria is to fly and shuttle which takes 7h 46m and costs €70 - €650.
No, there is no direct bus from Lyon station to Istria. However, there are services departing from Lyon - Gerland Bus Station and arriving at Pula , Autobusni Kolodvor via Trieste Centrale and Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvor. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 15h 52m.
The distance between Lyon and Istria is 803 km. The road distance is 956.6 km.
The best way to get from Lyon to Istria without a car is to train and line 2 ferry and car ferry which takes 13h 25m and costs €180 - €260.
It takes approximately 7h 46m to get from Lyon to Istria, including transfers.
Lyon to Istria bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Lyon station.
Lyon to Istria bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Rijeka bus station.
Yes, the driving distance between Lyon to Istria is 957 km. It takes approximately 9h 39m to drive from Lyon to Istria.
Book your Lyon to Istria bus tickets online with Omio and FlixBus.
What companies run services between Lyon, France and Istria, Croatia?
You can take a bus from Lyon - Gerland Bus Station to Pula , Autobusni Kolodvor via Trieste Centrale and Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvor in around 15h 52m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–360
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €140–800
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–260
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Ljubljana via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–390
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Ljubljana via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–390
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–320
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–260
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Ljubljana via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–430
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Ljubljana via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–470
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–260
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Ljubljana via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–470
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–260
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–300
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €29–170
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €30–170
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–260
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Ljubljana via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €90–360
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–260
- Website
- volotea.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €23–150
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Olbia
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €55–260
- Website
- vueling.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Ljubljana via Barcelona
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–250
- Website
- twinjet.fr
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €430–900
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 44m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €55–100
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €19–35
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €27–45
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- italotreno.it
Train from Milano Centrale to Venezia Santa Lucia
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–70
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–40
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €28–55
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
Train from Milano Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–70
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Geneve
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €24–60
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Geneve
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €22–45
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €30–60
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €15–35
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €21–50
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- info@goopti.com
- Website
- goopti.com
Shuttle from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Novigrad
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 46m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €33–430
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €33
- Private
- €182
Bus from Trieste Centrale to Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €60–150
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €100
- Private
- €148
Bus from Poreč, Autobusni Kolodvor to Pula , Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €60–150
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €21
- Private
- €117
Bus from Trieste Airport to Rovinj, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €36–290
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €36
- Private
- €122
Shuttle from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €31–260
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €31
- Private
- €138
Bus from Trieste Centrale to Rovinj, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €36–210
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €36
- Private
- €122
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Lyon - Gerland Bus Station to Trieste
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €55–110
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Lyon - Gerland Bus Station to Trieste
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €60–110
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Lyon to Rijeka bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €65–120
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Rijeka bus station to Pula , Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €7–13
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +385 (0) 32 308 935
- polet@polet.hr
- Website
- polet.hr
Bus from Rijeka bus station to Pula , Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €47
- Schedules at
- polet.hr
- Phone
- (+39) 041 041
- direzione@actv.it
- Website
- actv.avmspa.it
Ferry from Ferrovia "A" to Tronchetto "A"
- Ave. Duration
- 14 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €10
- Website
- https://actv.avmspa.it/en
- 75 min. Ticket
- €10
- Phone
- +385 52 451 200
- db.ferry@kompas-travel.com
- Website
- adriatic-lines.com
Car ferry from Port of Venice to Port of Pula
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €79
- Website
- https://adriatic-lines.com/
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