There are 11 ways to get from Olten to Trieste by train, plane, shuttle, train (Trenitalia), bus, night train, 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.
Train, fly to Ljubljana, shuttle
best- Take the train from Olten to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Ljubljana (LJU)plane ZRH - LJU
- Take a shuttle bus from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Trieste Centrale
5h 38m€148–583Train, fly to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport
cheapest- Take the train from Olten to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS)plane ZRH - TRS
7h 22m€111–320Train via Milan
- Take the train from Olten to Luganotrain Ec / ...
- Take the train from Lugano to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Venezia Mestretrain
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centraletrain Re
10h 37m€152–415Train, bus
- Take the train from Olten to Luzerntrain
- Take the bus from Luzern to Venice Mestrebus
- Take the bus from Stazione Mestre to Trieste, Autostazionebus
12h 7m€194–448Train, night train
- Take the train from Olten to Zürich HBtrain Ic5 / ...
- Take the night train from Zuerich Hb to Villach Hbfnighttrain En / ...
- Take the train from Villach Hbf to Trieste Centraletrain Rjx
13h 45m€263–678Train, fly to Venice Marco Polo Airport, shuttle
- Take the train from Olten to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)plane ZRH - VCE
- Take a shuttle bus from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Trieste Centrale
6h 26m€253–683Train, fly to Graz Airport, shuttle
- Take the train from Olten to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Graz Airport (GRZ)plane ZRH - GRZ
- Take a shuttle bus from Graz Airport to Trieste Centrale
7h 39m€383–1,223Train, fly to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport, shuttle
- Take the train from Olten to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport (ZAG)plane ZRH - ZAG
- Take a shuttle bus from Velika Gorica, Zagreb Airport to Trieste Centrale
7h 44m€154–845Train, fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Take the train from Olten to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane ZRH - BLQ
- Take the train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestretrain
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centraletrain
8h 51m€134–428Train
- Take the train from Olten to Bellinzonatrain Ec / ...
- Take the train from Bellinzona to Como S. Giovannitrain S10 / ...
- Take the train from Como S.Giovanni to Venezia Mestretrain Ec
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centraletrain Re
10h 50m€148–321Drive 671.1 km
- Drive from Olten to Triestecar 671.1 km
7h 7m€116–167
Olten to Trieste by train and night train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Olten to Trieste is to drive which costs €110 - €170 and takes 7h 7m.
The fastest way to get from Olten to Trieste is to train and fly and shuttle which takes 5h 38m and costs €140 - €600.
No, there is no direct train from Olten to Trieste. However, there are services departing from Olten and arriving at Trieste Centrale via Lugano, Milano Centrale and Venezia Mestre. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 10h 37m.
The distance between Olten and Trieste is 651 km. The road distance is 671.1 km.
The best way to get from Olten to Trieste without a car is to train via Milan which takes 10h 37m and costs €150 - €420.
It takes approximately 5h 38m to get from Olten to Trieste, including transfers.
Olten to Trieste train services, operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), depart from Olten station.
Olten to Trieste train services, operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), arrive at Lugano station.
Yes, the driving distance between Olten to Trieste is 671 km. It takes approximately 7h 7m to drive from Olten to Trieste.
Book your Olten to Trieste train tickets online with Omio.
What companies run services between Olten, Switzerland and Trieste, Italy?
You can take a train from Olten to Trieste Centrale via Lugano, Milano Centrale, and Venezia Mestre in around 10h 37m.
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–340
Flights from Zurich Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–220
Flights from Zurich Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–160
Flights from Zurich Airport to Graz Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €110–440
Flights from Zurich Airport to Graz Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–550
Flights from Zurich Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–270
Flights from Zurich Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–390
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–220
Flights from Zurich Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–160
Flights from Zurich Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €160–600
Flights from Zurich Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–390
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €160–600
Flights from Zurich Airport to Graz Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–700
Flights from Zurich Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–360
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Graz Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €110–440
Flights from Zurich Airport to Graz Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–550
Flights from Zurich Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–330
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Zurich Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €160–600
- Website
- croatiaairlines.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–270
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Monday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €95–270
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Olten to Zürich Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €22–65
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Olten to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €75–210
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Lugano to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €26–75
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Olten to Luzern
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €19–55
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Olten to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €19–55
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Night train from Zuerich Hb to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 19m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €210–600
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Olten to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €65–190
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Bellinzona to Como S. Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–55
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- italotreno.it
Train from Milano Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–70
- 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 Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–40
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €26–45
- 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
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 57m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €30–60
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €22–45
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
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
Train from Bologna Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €15–35
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +41 58 580 70 70
- Website
- sob.ch
Train from Olten to Luzern
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €22–35
- Schedules at
- sob.ch
Train from Olten to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €22–35
- Schedules at
- sob.ch
Train from Olten to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €55–90
- Schedules at
- sob.ch
Train from Villach Hbf to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €30–45
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €30–45
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Bellinzona to Como S. Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €3–4
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- ufficiogruppi@trenitalia.it
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Como S.Giovanni to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €65–120
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- €80–120
- 2nd Class
- €65–90
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- info@goopti.com
- Website
- goopti.com
Shuttle from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €31–250
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €31
- Private
- €138
Bus from Stazione Mestre to Trieste, Autostazione
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 26m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €140–330
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
Shuttle from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €150–370
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
Shuttle from Graz Airport to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 8m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €240–802
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Private
- €802
Shuttle from Velika Gorica, Zagreb Airport to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 47m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €44–550
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- €44
- Private
- €170
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Luzern to Venice Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–65
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
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