There are 12 ways to get from Lyon to Wels by train (TGV, Trenitalia), bus, train, night train, car, or plane
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Train
best- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Paris Gare De Lyontrain Tgv
- Take the train from Paris Gare De Lyon to Muenchen Hbftrain Tgv
- Take the train from München Hbf to Wels Hbftrain Drf / ...
12h 25m€269–516Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Lyon Perrache Bus Station to Munich Central Bus Stationbus RegioJet 95
- Take the bus from Munich central bus station to Welsbus 951
14h 15m€62–94Train, night train
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Genevetrain Ter
- Take the train from Genève to St. Gallentrain Ic1 / ...
- Take the night train from St. Gallen(Ch) to Wels Hbfnighttrain Nj
16h 6m€327–967Drive 921.3 km
- Drive from Lyon to Welscar 921.3 km
9h 30m€149–215Bus, train
- Take the bus from Lyon, Perrache Bus Station to Geneva - Bus stationbus
- Take the bus from Geneva to Rosenheimbus
- Take the train from Rosenheim to Wels Hbftrain Drf / ...
15h 32mFly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Salzburg Airport, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Salzburg Airport (SZG)plane LYS - SZG
- Take the train from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Wels Hbftrain
7h 38m€128–419Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Linz Airport
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Linz Airport (LNZ)plane LYS - LNZ
9h 31m€271–514Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Vienna International Airport, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Vienna International Airport (VIE)plane LYS - VIE
- Take the train from Flughafen Wien to Wels Hbftrain
7h 2m€107–285Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Munich International Airport, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane LYS - MUC
- Take the train from Ostbahnhof to Wels Hbftrain
7h 55m€169–368Train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Vienna International Airport, train
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Genevetrain
- Fly from Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Vienna International Airport (VIE)plane GVA - VIE
- Take the train from Flughafen Wien to Wels Hbftrain
8h 50m€131–343Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)plane LYS - PRG
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Linz Hbftrain
10h 7m€109–345Train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Munich International Airport, train
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Genevetrain
- Fly from Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane GVA - MUC
- Take the train from Ostbahnhof to Wels Hbftrain
9h 43m€183–416
Lyon to Wels by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Lyon to Wels is to bus which costs €60 - €95 and takes 14h 15m.
The fastest way to get from Lyon to Wels is to fly and train which takes 7h 2m and costs €100 - €290.
No, there is no direct bus from Lyon station to Wels. However, there are services departing from Lyon Perrache Bus Station and arriving at Wels via Munich central bus station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 14h 15m.
No, there is no direct train from Lyon to Wels. However, there are services departing from Lyon Part Dieu and arriving at Wels Hbf via Paris Gare De Lyon and München Hbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 12h 25m.
The distance between Lyon and Wels is 1507 km. The road distance is 921.3 km.
The best way to get from Lyon to Wels without a car is to train which takes 12h 25m and costs €260 - €550.
It takes approximately 12h 25m to get from Lyon to Wels, including transfers.
Lyon to Wels bus services, operated by RegioJet, depart from Lyon Perrache Bus Station.
Lyon to Wels train services, operated by TGV inOui, depart from Lyon Part Dieu station.
The best way to get from Lyon to Wels is to train which takes 12h 25m and costs €260 - €550. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €60 - €95 and takes 14h 15m, you could also fly, which costs €270 - €550 and takes 9h 31m.
What companies run services between Lyon, France and Wels, Austria?
You can take a train from Lyon Part Dieu to Wels Hbf via Paris Gare De Lyon, Muenchen Hbf, and München Hbf in around 12h 25m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Lyon Perrache Bus Station to Wels via Munich central bus station in around 14h 15m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Salzburg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–500
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Linz Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €180–1,100
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Vienna International Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–350
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €45–310
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Munich International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–250
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Vienna International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–180
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 18m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–210
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–550
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–340
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Munich International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–380
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–180
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Vienna International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–180
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–340
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Munich International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–370
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–410
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–180
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Salzburg Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €100–380
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Salzburg Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €100–240
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €75–270
- Website
- dat.dk
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Linz Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €180–1,100
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–310
- Website
- volotea.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €40–140
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–180
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–340
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Paris Gare De Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €90–140
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Paris Gare De Lyon to Muenchen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 58m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €170–280
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
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
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Paris Gare De Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €50–90
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Rome2Rio's guide to Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF)
Contact Details
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Paris Gare De Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €70–160
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Geneve
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €26–60
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- meinenachricht@westbahn.at
- Website
- westbahn.at
Train from München Hbf to Wels Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 31m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €45–85
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
Train from Rosenheim to Wels Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €35–65
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
Train from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Wels Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €19–35
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
Train from Ostbahnhof to Wels Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €45–80
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Genève to St. Gallen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €120–360
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Night train from St. Gallen(Ch) to Wels Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 4m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €180–550
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Wels Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–25
- 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 Flughafen Wien to Wels Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €27–60
- 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 Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Wels Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €19–30
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €19–29
Train from Flughafen Wien to Wels Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 58m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €35–55
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €35–55
Train from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Wels Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €21–40
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €65–110
- 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 Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Linz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 53m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €30–60
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.com
Bus from Lyon Perrache Bus Station to Munich Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 5m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €45–70
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Munich central bus station to Wels
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €14–25
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +34 910 207 007
- Website
- alsa.es
Bus from Lyon, Perrache Bus Station to Geneva - Bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €12–25
- Website
- https://www.alsa.com/en/
Bus from Geneva to Rosenheim
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 36m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086702768199
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More Questions & Answers
Lyon to Wels bus services, operated by RegioJet, arrive at Munich Central Bus Station.
Lyon to Wels train services, operated by TGV inOui, arrive at Paris Gare De Lyon station.
Yes, the driving distance between Lyon to Wels is 921 km. It takes approximately 9h 30m to drive from Lyon to Wels.
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