There are 11 ways to get from Messina to Helsinki by train, plane, ferry, bus, car, or car ferry
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 Palermo Airport, fly to Helsinki Airport
best- Take the train from Messina Centrale to Palermo Centraletrain
- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Helsinki Airport (HEL)plane PMO - HEL
12h 19m€98–350Ferry, train, bus
- Take the ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa S.Giovanniferry M1 / ...
- Take the train from Villa S.Giovanni to Venezia Mestretrain Fr
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Wien Hbftrain Rjx
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Warszawa Zachodniatrain Ec
- Take the bus from Warszawa, Dworzec Zachodni to Tallinn, Harbour Terminal Dbus
- Take the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinkiferry
47h 13mBus
- Take the bus from Messina to Bologna Centralebus
- Take the bus from Bologna Centrale to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhofbus
- Take the bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Helsinki, Bus Stationbus
2d 11h€212–413Ferry, drive
- Take the ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa San Giovanniferry
- Drive from Villa San Giovanni to Helsinkicar
2d 4h€902–1,402Train to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, fly to Lennart Meri International Airport, ferry
- Take the train from Messina Centrale to Catania Centraletrain
- Fly from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA) to Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL)plane CTA - TLL
- Take the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinkiferry
13h 1mTrain to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, fly to Turku Airport, train
- Take the train from Messina Centrale to Catania Centraletrain
- Fly from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA) to Turku Airport (TKU)plane CTA - TKU
- Take the train from Turku to Helsinkitrain
17h 36m€103–335Ferry, train to Lamezia Terme International Airport, fly to Helsinki Airport
- Take the ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa S.Giovanniferry
- Take the train from Villa S.Giovanni to Lamezia Terme C.train
- Fly from Lamezia Terme International Airport (SUF) to Helsinki Airport (HEL)plane SUF - HEL
11h 41mTrain to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, fly to Helsinki Airport
- Take the train from Messina Centrale to Catania Centraletrain
- Fly from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA) to Helsinki Airport (HEL)plane CTA - HEL
8h 23m€113–300Ferry, train, bus via Vilnius
- Take the ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa S.Giovanniferry M1 / ...
- Take the train from Villa S.Giovanni to Venezia Mestretrain Fr
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Graz Hauptbahnhoftrain Rjx
- Take the train from Graz Hauptbahnhof to Krakow Glownytrain Ec
- Take the train from Kraków Główny to Vilniaus geležinkelio stotistrain 144
- Take the bus from Vilnius, Autobusų Stotis (Sodų g. 22) to Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2bus
2d 4hCar ferry, train, ferry
- Take the car ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa San Giovannicarferry
- Take the train from Villa S.Giovanni to Venezia S. Luciatrain Fr
- Take the train from Venezia Santa Lucia Station to Jenbachtrain 89
- Take the train from Jenbach to Stockholm Centralstationtrain
- Take the ferry from Stockholm to Helsinkiferry
2d 16hCar ferry, bus
- Take the car ferry from Messina to Port of Salernocarferry
- Take the bus from Salerno to Katowicebus
- Take the bus from Katowice to Tallinnbus
- Take the bus from Tallinn, Bus Station to Helsinki, Bus Stationbus
3d 1h
Palermo Airport (PMO) to Helsinki Airport (HEL) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Messina to Helsinki is to train and fly which costs €110 - €300 and takes 8h 23m.
The fastest way to get from Messina to Helsinki is to train and fly which takes 8h 23m and costs €110 - €300.
No, there is no direct bus from Messina to Helsinki station. However, there are services departing from Messina and arriving at Helsinki, Bus Station via Bologna Centrale and Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 2 days 11h.
The distance between Messina and Helsinki is 2879 km.
The best way to get from Messina to Helsinki without a car is to ferry and train and bus which takes 47h 13m and costs .
It takes approximately 12h 19m to get from Messina to Helsinki, including transfers.
Messina to Helsinki bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Messina station.
Messina to Helsinki bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Bologna Centrale station.
Helsinki is 1h ahead of Messina. It is currently 6:39 AM in Messina and 7:39 AM in Helsinki.
Book your Messina to Helsinki bus tickets online with Omio and FlixBus.
What companies run services between Messina, Italy and Helsinki, Finland?
You can take a bus from Messina to Helsinki, Bus Station via Bologna Centrale and Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof in around 2d 11h.
- Website
- finnair.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Helsinki Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €140–390
Flights from Palermo Airport to Helsinki Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–260
Flights from Palermo Airport to Helsinki Airport via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–260
Flights from Palermo Airport to Helsinki Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 5m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €70–310
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 28m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €140–380
Flights from Lamezia Terme International Airport to Helsinki Airport via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €150–400
Flights from Lamezia Terme International Airport to Helsinki Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–390
Flights from Lamezia Terme International Airport to Helsinki Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €55–240
Flights from Lamezia Terme International Airport to Helsinki Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–390
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €140–380
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 10m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–320
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €80–320
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Turku Airport via Vienna, Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 50m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–270
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Helsinki Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 25m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–360
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Turku Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–430
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Gdansk
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 25m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–270
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–180
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Turku Airport via Gdansk
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–290
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Helsinki Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 2m
- When
- Friday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–390
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Turku Airport via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 27m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–270
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Helsinki Airport via Warsaw Modlin
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 50m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €70–260
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–210
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Messina Centrale to Palermo Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €13–20
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Messina Centrale to Catania Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 48m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €7–10
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Lamezia Terme C.
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €7–11
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Messina Centrale to Palermo Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €21–50
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Messina Centrale to Catania Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €9–21
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Lamezia Terme C.
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €10–24
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 17m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €160–320
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Lamezia Terme C.
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €15–29
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Venezia S. Lucia
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 28m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €160–320
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Venezia Mestre to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 59m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €90–140
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €90–140
Train from Venezia Mestre to Graz Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €65–100
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €65–100
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Wien Hbf to Warszawa Zachodnia
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 52m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €110–150
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Graz Hauptbahnhof to Krakow Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 59m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €110–150
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Wien Hbf to Warszawa Zachodnia
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €140–220
- 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
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Wien Hbf to Warszawa Zachodnia
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 43m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €21–35
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- 2nd Class
- €21–30
- 1st Class
- €27–35
- Phone
- +358 0100 3232
- Website
- vr.fi
Train from Turku to Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 6m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €20–30
- Website
- https://www.vr.fi/en/
- Phone
- +370 700 55 111
- informacija@ltglink.lt
- Website
- ltglink.lt
Train from Kraków Główny to Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 42m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Venezia Santa Lucia Station to Jenbach
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €65–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +46 40 669 62 00
- snalltaget@snalltaget.se
- Website
- snalltaget.se
Train from Jenbach to Stockholm Centralstation
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 42m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €120–170
- Website
- https://www.snalltaget.se/en
- Phone
- +38 (067) 467-44-00
- transtempo@ukr.net
- Website
- transtempo.ua
Bus from Warszawa, Dworzec Zachodni to Tallinn, Harbour Terminal D
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €60–100
- Schedules at
- transtempo.ua
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Messina to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €65–120
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Bologna Centrale to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €70–120
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Helsinki, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €100–180
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Vilnius, Autobusų Stotis (Sodų g. 22) to Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €40–75
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Tallinn, Bus Station to Helsinki, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €5–10
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- (+39) 0923 98.11.20
- Website
- autoservizisalemi.it
Bus from Messina to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 15m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €40–60
- Schedules at
- autoservizisalemi.it
- Phone
- 13 43 232 76
- biuro@miskrosno.pl
- Website
- miskrosno.pl
Bus from Salerno to Katowice
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- miskrosno.pl
- Book at
- api.euroticket.pl
- Phone
- +373 789 18 888
- info@busline.md
- Website
- busline.md
Bus from Katowice to Tallinn
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 24m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Website
- https://busline.md/en/
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Website
- en.tallink.com
Ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- en.tallink.com
- Phone
- 3409848540
- info@blujetlines.it
- Website
- blujetlines.it
Ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa San Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €2–3
- Schedules at
- blujetlines.it
- Phone
- +39.090.57.37
- servizioclienti@carontetourist.it
- Website
- carontetourist.it
Car ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa San Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €2–40
- Schedules at
- carontetourist.it
- Passenger
- €2–7
- Moto
- €16–22
- Car
- €30–40
Car ferry from Messina to Port of Salerno
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €28–160
- Schedules at
- carontetourist.it
- Passenger
- €28–40
- Moto
- €45–65
- Car
- €120–160
- Cars
- €60
- Website
- vikingline.com
Ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- vikingline.com
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