There are 13 ways to get from Manchester to Macedonia by plane, train, car, bus, car train, busferry, or car ferry
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Fly Manchester Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia, train, drive
best- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG)MAN - SKG
- Take the train from Thessaloniki to Rodopolis
- Drive from Rodopolis to Macedonia
10h 25m$125–241Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Manchester, Coach Station to Bucharest Obor
- Take the bus from Bucharest Gară Filaret to Sofia Central Bus Station
- Take the bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Petrich Bus Station
37h 24m$68–89Train, bus, drive
- Take the train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris NordEil
- Take the train from Paris Est to Stuttgart HbfTgv
- Take the bus from Stuttgart Hbf to Strumica
- Drive from Strumica to Macedonia
28h 58mDrive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Manchester to Folkestone
- Take the car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Drive from Calais-Fréthun to Macedonia
28h 3mFly Manchester Airport to Sofia Airport, bus, train
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Sofia Airport (SOF)MAN - SOF
- Take the bus from Sofia Airport Terminal 1 Bus Stop to Dupnitsa Bus Station
- Take the train from Dupnitsa to Petrich
11h 17m$102–216Train to Liverpool, fly to Sofia Airport, bus, train
- Take the train from Manchester Piccadilly to Liverpool South Parkway
- Fly from Liverpool (LPL) to Sofia Airport (SOF)LPL - SOF
- Take the bus from Sofia Airport Terminal 1 Bus Stop to Dupnitsa Bus Station
- Take the train from Dupnitsa to Petrich
11h 59m$118–290Train to Birmingham Airport, fly to Sofia Airport, bus, train
- Take the train from Manchester Piccadilly to Birmingham International
- Fly from Birmingham Airport (BHX) to Sofia Airport (SOF)BHX - SOF
- Take the bus from Sofia Airport Terminal 1 Bus Stop to Dupnitsa Bus Station
- Take the train from Dupnitsa to Petrich
12h 49m$119–405Fly Manchester Airport to Skopje International Airport, train, drive
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Skopje International Airport (SKP)MAN - SKP
- Take the train from Skopje, Transporten Centar to Miravtsi
- Drive from Miravtsi to Macedonia
15h 8m$95–330Train to London Stansted Airport, fly to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia, train, drive
- Take the train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston
- Fly from London Stansted Airport (STN) to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG)STN - SKG
- Take the train from Thessaloniki to Rodopolis
- Drive from Rodopolis to Macedonia
13h 5m$167–601Train, bus, drive via Munich
- Take the train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris NordEil
- Take the train from Paris l'Est to München Hbf83
- Take the bus from München, ZOB to Strumica
- Drive from Strumica to Macedonia
29h 3mTrain, bus
- Take the train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston
- Take the train from London St. Pancras Int. to Rotterdam Centraal
- Take the bus from Rotterdam Conradstraat to Sofia Serdica Bus Stop
- Take the train from Sofia to Petrich
46h 8m$246–785Bus and ferry, bus, train
- Take the busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Motru
- Take the bus from Motru to Drobeta-Turnu Severin
- Take the bus from Drobeta-Turnu Severin to Sofia
- Take the train from Sofia to Petrich
2d 9hDrive, car ferry
- Drive from Manchester to Port of Dover
- Take the car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Drive from Calais to Macedonia
29h 11m$558–827
Manchester Airport (MAN) to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Manchester to Macedonia is to bus which costs $65 - $90 and takes 37h 24m.
The fastest way to get from Manchester to Macedonia is to fly and train and drive which takes 10h 25m and costs $120 - $250.
The distance between Manchester and Macedonia is 2566 km.
The best way to get from Manchester to Macedonia without a car is to bus which takes 37h 24m and costs $65 - $90.
It takes approximately 10h 25m to get from Manchester to Macedonia, including transfers.
Macedonia is 2h ahead of Manchester. It is currently 6:56 PM in Manchester and 8:56 PM in Macedonia.
There are 321+ hotels available in Macedonia.
What companies run services between Manchester, England and Macedonia, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria?
You can take a bus from Manchester, Coach Station to Macedonia via Bucharest Obor, Bd. Garii Obor, Piata Unirii 1, Soseaua Viilor, Bucharest Gară Filaret, Sofia Central Bus Station, and Petrich Bus Station in around 37h 24m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–310
Flights from Manchester Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 13m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–400
Flights from Manchester Airport to Sofia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $90–370
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Sofia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–380
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $95–380
Flights from Manchester Airport to Skopje International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 22m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $100–430
Flights from Manchester Airport to Skopje International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–260
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Liverpool to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–250
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Tuesday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $60–190
Flights from London Stansted Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $65–280
Flights from London Stansted Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $65–280
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $75–260
Flights from Manchester Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–230
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $85–280
Flights from London Stansted Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $75–240
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $95–310
Flights from Manchester Airport to Skopje International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 25m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95–460
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Skopje International Airport via Venice
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–260
Flights from Manchester Airport to Skopje International Airport via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $75–270
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $85–400
- Website
- flexflight.dk
Flights from Manchester Airport to Skopje International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $170–950
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Skopje International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–260
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- hellenictrain.gr
Train from Thessaloniki to Rodopolis
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $5–9
- Website
- https://www.hellenictrain.gr/en
- Phone
- +44 345 528 0253
- Website
- avantiwestcoast.co.uk
Train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 6m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $45–240
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
Train from Manchester Piccadilly to Birmingham International
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 53m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $75–190
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $85–390
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
Train from London St. Pancras Int. to Rotterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $85–380
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Paris Est to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 22m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $45–250
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Paris Est to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $45–180
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Paris l'Est to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 46m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $70–190
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Phone
- +35929311111
- onlineticket@bdz.bg
- Website
- bdz.bg
Train from Dupnitsa to Petrich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $4–7
- Website
- https://www.bdz.bg/en
- 2nd Class
- $4–6
- 1st Class
- $6–7
Train from Sofia to Petrich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $6–11
- Website
- https://www.bdz.bg/en
- 2nd Class
- $6–10
- 1st Class
- $9–11
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Manchester Piccadilly to Liverpool South Parkway
- Ave. Duration
- 42 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $6–19
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- 03457 125 678
- Website
- eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk
Train from Manchester Piccadilly to Liverpool South Parkway
- Ave. Duration
- 40 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $7–27
- Website
- https://www.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/
Train from Manchester Piccadilly to Birmingham International
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 47m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $29–95
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +389 (2) 3 164 255
- mztransportad@mztransportad.com.mk
- Website
- mzt.mk
Train from Skopje, Transporten Centar to Miravtsi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $9–35
- Schedules at
- mzt.mk
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from London St. Pancras Int. to Rotterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 16m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $90–320
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- $90–140
- 1st Class
- $190–320
- Phone
- +389 70 638 014
- info@metaktrans.mk
- Website
- metaktrans.mk
Bus from Stuttgart Hbf to Strumica
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 19m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- metaktrans.mk
Bus from München, ZOB to Strumica
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 49m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- metaktrans.mk
- Phone
- +359 2 493 0191
- info@traventuria.com
- Website
- traventuria.com
Bus from Sofia Airport Terminal 1 Bus Stop to Dupnitsa Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $10–15
- Website
- https://traventuria.com/
- Phone
- +40 230 562 929
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Manchester, Coach Station to Bucharest Obor
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 32m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $30–40
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- 07001 8282
- booking@union-ivkoni.com
- Website
- union-ivkoni.com
Bus from Bucharest Gară Filaret to Sofia Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 8h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $18–26
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
Bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Petrich Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $9–13
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
Bus from Rotterdam Conradstraat to Sofia Serdica Bus Stop
- Ave. Duration
- 33h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $100–150
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
- Phone
- 0040263701919
- latinoexpres@yahoo.com
- Website
- latinoexpres.ro
Busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Motru
- Ave. Duration
- 43h 16m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $75–200
- Schedules at
- latinoexpres.ro
- Phone
- +4-0745-779.908
- Website
- dikeltour.autogari.ro
Bus from Motru to Drobeta-Turnu Severin
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- dikeltour.autogari.ro
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Drobeta-Turnu Severin to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $40–65
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $40–50
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
- Car
- $90–220
- On Foot
- $40–50
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