There are 13 ways to get from Pavia to Messina by plane, train, ferry, 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.
Fly Milan Linate Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, train
best- Fly from Milan Linate Airport (LIN) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)plane LIN - CTA
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
6h 47m€70–170Train, train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
cheapest- Take the train from Pavia to Milano Bovisa Politecnicotrain
- Take the train from Milano Bovisa Politecnico to Malpensa Aeroporto T1train
- Fly from Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)plane MXP - CTA
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
7h 34m€43–155Train, ferry
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Villa S.Giovannitrain 8111
- Take the ferry from Villa S.Giovanni to Messina Marittimaferry V1 / ...
12h 40mBus via rogoredo m3
- Take the bus from Milano, San Donato M3 to Messinabus N528
20h 26m€54–192Night train
- Take the night train from Pavia to Messina Centralenighttrain Ini
16h 2m€110–220Bus to Il Caravaggio International Airport, fly to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, train
- Take the bus from Piazza Luigi di Savoia to Bergamo Airport Bus Stationbus
- Fly from Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)plane BGY - CTA
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
7h 25m€58–249Train to Milan Linate Airport, fly to Reggio Calabria Airport, train, ferry
- Take the train from Pavia to Milano Dateotrain
- Fly from Milan Linate Airport (LIN) to Reggio Calabria Airport (REG)plane LIN - REG
- Take the train from Reggio Calabria C.Le to Villa S.Giovannitrain
- Take the ferry from Villa S.Giovanni to Messina Marittimaferry
6h 49mTrain to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport, fly to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, train
- Take the train from Pavia to Genova P.Za Principetrain
- Fly from Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)plane GOA - CTA
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
7h 52m€71–284Fly Milan Linate Airport to Palermo Airport, train
- Fly from Milan Linate Airport (LIN) to Palermo Airport (PMO)plane LIN - PMO
- Take the train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
8h 29m€86–194Train, train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly to Palermo Airport
- Take the train from Pavia to Milano Bovisa Politecnicotrain
- Take the train from Milano Bovisa Politecnico to Malpensa Aeroporto T1train
- Fly from Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Palermo Airport (PMO)plane MXP - PMO
- Take the train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
9h 27m€64–199Fly Milan Linate Airport to Vincenzo Magliocco Airport, bus, train
- Fly from Milan Linate Airport (LIN) to Vincenzo Magliocco Airport (CIY)plane LIN - CIY
- Take the bus from Ragusa Bus Terminal to Catania Via Archimedebus
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
9h 48m€130–334Bus
- Take the bus from Milano to Messinabus Milano
21h 34m€74–162Drive, ferry
- Drive from Pavia to Villa San Giovannicar
- Take the ferry from Villa San Giovanni to Messina Marittimaferry
11h 43m€193–278
Pavia to Messina by train and bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Pavia to Messina is to train and fly which costs €40 - €160 and takes 7h 34m.
The fastest way to get from Pavia to Messina is to fly and train which takes 6h 47m and costs €65 - €170.
Yes, there is an overnight train departing from Pavia and arriving at Messina Centrale. This train operates Saturday. The journey takes approximately 16h 2m.
The distance between Pavia and Messina is 1149 km.
The best way to get from Pavia to Messina without a car is to train and ferry which takes 12h 40m and costs .
It takes approximately 6h 47m to get from Pavia to Messina, including transfers.
Pavia to Messina train services, operated by Trenitalia Intercity Night, depart from Pavia station.
Pavia to Messina train services, operated by Trenitalia Intercity Night, arrive at Messina Centrale station.
There are 1130+ hotels available in Messina.
What companies run services between Pavia, Italy and Messina, Italy?
FlixBus operates a bus from Milano, San Donato M3 to Messina once daily. Tickets cost €90–160 and the journey takes 18h 40m. Autoservizi Salemi Srl also services this route 3 times a week. Alternatively, Trenitalia Intercity Night operates a vehicle from Pavia to Messina Centrale once a week. Tickets cost €110–220 and the journey takes 16h 2m.
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–140
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–140
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–140
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–140
Flights from Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–130
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–120
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Palermo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–120
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €45–130
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Wednesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €45–130
Flights from Il Caravaggio International Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–180
Flights from Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–160
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–130
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Palermo Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €40–130
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €35–120
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €35–120
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 44m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €35–150
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Palermo Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €35–150
- Website
- aeroitalia.com
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Cagliari
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–250
Flights from Il Caravaggio International Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–220
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Vincenzo Magliocco Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–310
- Website
- flexflight.dk
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Cagliari
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–250
Flights from Il Caravaggio International Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–220
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Vincenzo Magliocco Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–310
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €17–110
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €13–110
- Website
- neosair.it
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €220–410
Flights from Il Caravaggio International Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €230–440
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–19
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Reggio Calabria C.Le to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 33 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €1–3
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Pavia to Genova P.Za Principe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €12–21
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 49m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €27–45
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €9–21
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Reggio Calabria C.Le to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 16 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €1–4
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Pavia to Genova P.Za Principe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €10–23
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 58m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €22–50
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- italotreno.it
Train from Milano Centrale to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 3m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €160–310
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
Train from Reggio Calabria C.Le to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 15 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €1–4
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- 06 3000
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Night train from Pavia to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 2m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €110–220
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Pavia to Milano Bovisa Politecnico
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €4–5
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Milano Bovisa Politecnico to Malpensa Aeroporto T1
- Ave. Duration
- 31 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Pavia to Milano Dateo
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €3–5
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Reggio Calabria C.Le to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 16 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €2–4
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Pavia to Genova P.Za Principe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €15–29
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Pavia to Genova P.Za Principe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €35–110
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Milano, San Donato M3 to Messina
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €90–160
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- (+39) 0923 98.11.20
- Website
- autoservizisalemi.it
Bus from Milano, San Donato M3 to Messina
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 55m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €50–75
- Schedules at
- autoservizisalemi.it
- info@flibco.com
- Website
- flibco.com
Bus from Piazza Luigi di Savoia to Bergamo Airport Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €8–21
- Website
- https://www.flibco.com/en
- customerservices@terravision.eu
- Website
- terravision.eu
Bus from Piazza Luigi di Savoia to Bergamo Airport Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €5–25
- Website
- https://www.terravision.eu/
- Phone
- +39 02 3008 9000
- mail@autostradale.it
- Website
- autostradale.it
Bus from Piazza Luigi di Savoia to Bergamo Airport Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €4–8
- Website
- https://autostradale.it/?lang=en-GB
- Phone
- +39 0935 22 460
- Website
- interbus.it
Bus from Ragusa Bus Terminal to Catania Via Archimede
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €6–12
- Schedules at
- interbus.it
- Phone
- +39 06 88 93 82 32
- Website
- itabus.it
Bus from Milano to Messina
- Ave. Duration
- 20h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €70–130
- Website
- https://www.itabus.it/en/home
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Ferry from Villa S.Giovanni to Messina Marittima
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- 3409848540
- info@blujetlines.it
- Website
- blujetlines.it
Ferry from Villa San Giovanni to Messina Marittima
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €2–3
- Schedules at
- blujetlines.it
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