There are 11 ways to get from Messina to Helsinki by bus, plane, ferry, train, car, car ferry, or night train
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Bus to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, fly to Lennart Meri International Airport, ferry
best- Take the bus from Messina Viale Boccetta to Catania Fontanarossa Airport Departure Terminalbus
- Fly from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA) to Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL)plane CTA - TLL
- Take the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinkiferry
12h 20mBus to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, fly to Turku Airport, train
cheapest- Take the bus from Messina Viale Boccetta to Catania Fontanarossa Airport Departure Terminalbus
- Fly from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA) to Turku Airport (TKU)plane CTA - TKU
- Take the train from Turku to Helsinkitrain
21h 30m€97–309Ferry, 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 via Bologna
- Take the bus from Messina Main Train Station 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 12h€139–287Ferry, drive
- Take the ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa San Giovanniferry
- Drive from Villa San Giovanni to Helsinkicar
2d 4h€902–1,402Train to Palermo Airport, fly to Helsinki Airport
- Take the train from Messina Centrale to Palermo Centraletrain
- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Helsinki Airport (HEL)plane PMO - HEL
12h 22m€127–326Ferry, 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 47mBus to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, fly to Helsinki Airport
- Take the bus from Messina Viale Boccetta to Catania Fontanarossa Airport Departure Terminalbus
- Fly from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA) to Helsinki Airport (HEL)plane CTA - HEL
7h 44m€107–254Ferry, 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 Hbftrain Rjx
- Take the train from Graz Hbf 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 4hBus
- Take the bus from Messina Main Train Station to Napoli, Autostazione Metroparkbus
- Take the bus from Neapol to Katowicebus
- Take the bus from Katowice to Tallinna bussijaambus
- Take the bus from Tallinn, Bus Station to Helsinki, Bus Stationbus
2d 14hCar ferry, train, night 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 night train from Jenbach to Stockholm Centralnighttrain 304
- Take the ferry from Stockholm to Helsinkiferry
2d 16h
Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA) to Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Messina to Helsinki is to bus and fly which costs €100 - €260 and takes 7h 44m.
The fastest way to get from Messina to Helsinki is to bus and fly which takes 7h 44m and costs €100 - €260.
No, there is no direct bus from Messina station to Helsinki station. However, there are services departing from Messina Main Train Station and arriving at Helsinki, Bus Station via Bologna Centrale and Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 2 days 12h.
The distance between Messina and Helsinki is 2725 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 20m to get from Messina to Helsinki, including transfers.
Messina to Helsinki bus services, operated by Itabus S.p.A., depart from Messina Main Train Station.
Messina to Helsinki bus services, operated by Itabus S.p.A., arrive at Bologna Centrale station.
Helsinki is 1h ahead of Messina. It is currently 6:28 PM in Messina and 7:28 PM 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 Main Train Station to Helsinki, Bus Station via Bologna Centrale and Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof in around 2d 12h.
- Website
- finnair.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 33m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €140–360
Flights from Palermo Airport to Helsinki Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €140–380
Flights from Palermo Airport to Helsinki Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €70–270
Flights from Palermo Airport to Helsinki Airport via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–270
Flights from Lamezia Terme International Airport to Helsinki Airport via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €140–380
Flights from Lamezia Terme International Airport to Helsinki Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–370
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 Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Helsinki Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €140–360
- 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
- €70–250
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–190
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Turku Airport via Gdansk
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–280
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Turku Airport via Vilnius
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 35m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €65–280
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 10m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–340
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €85–340
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Lennart Meri International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–250
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Helsinki Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–360
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Turku Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–410
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Catania–Fontanarossa Airport to Turku Airport via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 27m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–260
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Helsinki Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Friday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–400
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Helsinki Airport via Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–310
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Helsinki Airport via Warsaw Modlin
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 50m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €70–270
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 17m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €85–170
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Lamezia Terme C.
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €17–35
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Venezia S. Lucia
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 28m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €100–200
- 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 Hbf
- 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
- €28–130
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Graz Hbf to Krakow Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 59m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €28–95
- 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
- €35–140
- 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 35m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €21–35
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- 2nd Class
- €21–30
- 1st Class
- €27–35
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Messina Centrale to Palermo Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €17
- 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
- €10–35
- 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
- €12–26
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Lamezia Terme C.
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €13–18
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +358 0100 3232
- Website
- vr.fi
Train from Turku to Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 6m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- 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
Night train from Jenbach to Stockholm Central
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 42m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €120–170
- Website
- https://www.snalltaget.se/en
- Phone
- 800 21 10 20
- saisautolineeweb@gmail.com
- Website
- saisautolinee.it
Bus from Messina Viale Boccetta to Catania Fontanarossa Airport Departure Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €6–9
- Schedules at
- saisautolinee.it
- 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
- +39 06 88 93 82 32
- Website
- itabus.it
Bus from Messina Main Train Station to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 5m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €35–65
- Website
- https://www.itabus.it/en/home
Bus from Messina Main Train Station to Napoli, Autostazione Metropark
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 5m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €18–25
- Website
- https://www.itabus.it/en/home
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Messina Main Train Station to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €30–85
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Bologna Centrale to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €50–85
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof to Helsinki, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €55–120
- 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
- €40–65
- 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
- €40–160
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- (+39) 0923 98.11.20
- Website
- autoservizisalemi.it
Bus from Messina Main Train Station to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 15m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €40–65
- Schedules at
- autoservizisalemi.it
- Phone
- 13 43 232 76
- biuro@miskrosno.pl
- Website
- miskrosno.pl
Bus from Neapol to Katowice
- Ave. Duration
- 25h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- miskrosno.pl
- Book at
- api.euroticket.pl
- Website
- flixbus.pl
Bus from Katowice to Tallinna bussijaam
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €1–2
- Schedules at
- flixbus.pl
- Phone
- +373 789 18 888
- info@busline.md
- Website
- busline.md
Bus from Katowice to Tallinna bussijaam
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 24m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Website
- https://busline.md/en/
- Website
- en.tallink.com
Ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- en.tallink.com
- 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
- Phone
- 342 32 55 869
- 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
- Website
- vikingline.com
Ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- vikingline.com
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