There are 10 ways to get from Plovdiv to Leipzig by bus, plane, train, night train, car, or car train
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Bus, fly to Leipzig-Halle Airport
best- Take the bus from Plovdiv North Bus and Coach Station to Sofia Airport Terminal 1 Bus Stop
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Leipzig-Halle Airport (LEJ)SOF - LEJ
9h 22m€123–340Bus, fly to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, train
cheapest- Take the bus from Plovdiv North Bus and Coach Station to Sofia Airport Terminal 1 Bus Stop
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)SOF - BER
- Take the train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Leipzig Hbf
8h 12m€68–282Bus
- Take the bus from Plovdiv Bus Station South to Leipzig GoethestraßeRacic Eurobus
26h 10m€80–110Train, night train
- Take the train from Plovdiv to Dimitrovgrad
- Take the night train from Dimitrovgrad to Bucharest
- Take the night train from Bucuresti Nord to Wien Meidling
- Take the train from Wien Meidling to Leipzig/Halle FlughafenIce
32h 33m€215–264Drive 1,624.7 km
- Drive from Plovdiv to Leipzig1,624.7 km
16h 30m€228–329Bus, fly to Dresden Airport, train
- Take the bus from Plovdiv North Bus and Coach Station to Sofia Airport Terminal 1 Bus Stop
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Dresden Airport (DRS)SOF - DRS
- Take the train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
10h 43m€125–409Bus, fly to Nuremberg Airport, train
- Take the bus from Plovdiv North Bus and Coach Station to Sofia Airport Terminal 1 Bus Stop
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Nuremberg Airport (NUE)SOF - NUE
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Leipzig Hbf
8h 59m€113–333Bus, fly to Václav Havel Airport Prague, train
- Take the bus from Plovdiv North Bus and Coach Station to Sofia Airport Terminal 1 Bus Stop
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)SOF - PRG
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Dresden Hbf
- Take the train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbf
11h 25m€88–211Train, bus
- Take the train from Plovdiv to Sofia
- Take the bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Station to Chemnitz Bus Station
- Take the train from Chemnitz Hbf to Leipzig HbfRe
29h 6m€95–139Drive, car train
- Drive from Plovdiv to Villach Hbf ARZ
- Take the car train from Villach Hbf ARZ to Würzburg Hbf
- Drive from Würzburg Hbf to Leipzig
17h 35m€322–455
Plovdiv to Leipzig by bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Plovdiv to Leipzig is to bus which costs €80 - €110 and takes 26h 10m.
The fastest way to get from Plovdiv to Leipzig is to bus and fly and train which takes 8h 12m and costs €65 - €290.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from Plovdiv Bus Station South station and arriving at Leipzig Goethestraße. Services depart twice a week, and operate Tuesday and Saturday. The journey takes approximately 26h 10m.
No, there is no direct train from Plovdiv to Leipzig. However, there are services departing from Plovdiv and arriving at Leipzig Markt via Dimitrovgrad, Bucuresti Nord, Wien Meidling and Leipzig/Halle Flughafen. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 32h 33m.
The distance between Plovdiv and Leipzig is 1443 km. The road distance is 1624.7 km.
The best way to get from Plovdiv to Leipzig without a car is to bus which takes 26h 10m and costs €80 - €110.
It takes approximately 9h 22m to get from Plovdiv to Leipzig, including transfers.
Plovdiv to Leipzig bus services, operated by Racic Eurobus, depart from Plovdiv Bus Station South.
Plovdiv to Leipzig train services, operated by Bulgarian Railways (BDZh), depart from Plovdiv station.
Plovdiv to Leipzig bus services, operated by Racic Eurobus, arrive at Leipzig Goethestraße station.
What companies run services between Plovdiv, Bulgaria and Leipzig, Germany?
Racic Eurobus operates a bus from Plovdiv Bus Station South to Leipzig Goethestraße twice a week. Tickets cost €80–110 and the journey takes 26h 10m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–430
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–300
Flights from Sofia Airport to Dresden Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–380
Flights from Sofia Airport to Dresden Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 31m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–210
Flights from Sofia Airport to Nuremberg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 38m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–380
Flights from Sofia Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–280
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–170
Flights from Sofia Airport to Nuremberg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–210
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 7m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–240
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–290
Flights from Sofia Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–270
- Website
- air.bg
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–160
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–140
Flights from Sofia Airport to Nuremberg Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €80–280
Flights from Sofia Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–120
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–140
Flights from Sofia Airport to Nuremberg Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–280
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Leipzig-Halle Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 20m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €230–700
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–270
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €30–120
- Phone
- +35929311111
- onlineticket@bdz.bg
- Website
- bdz.bg
Train from Plovdiv to Dimitrovgrad
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €2–5
- Website
- https://www.bdz.bg/en
- 2nd Class
- €2–4
- 1st Class
- €3–5
Night train from Dimitrovgrad to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €10–24
- Website
- https://www.bdz.bg/en
- 2nd Class
- €10–15
- 1st Class
- €14–18
Train from Plovdiv to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €4–7
- Website
- https://www.bdz.bg/en
- 2nd Class
- €4–7
- 1st Class
- €6–7
- Phone
- 0219521
- petitii@cfrcalatori.ro
- Website
- cfrcalatori.ro
Night train from Bucuresti Nord to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 6m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €85–95
- Website
- https://www.cfrcalatori.ro/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Wien Meidling to Leipzig/Halle Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 18m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €110–130
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €23–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–90
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- info@flixbus.de
- Website
- flixtrain.de
Train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €4–13
- Website
- https://www.flixtrain.com/
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €19–27
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €19–28
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €28–40
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Dresden Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 22m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €35–55
- 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 Nürnberg Hbf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 27m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €65–100
- 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
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Dresden Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 19m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €11–24
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
- 2nd Class
- €11–16
- 1st Class
- €18–24
- Business
- €19–21
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- info@mavcsoport.hu
- Website
- jegy.mav.hu
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Dresden Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €8–10
- Website
- https://jegy.mav.hu/
- Phone
- +49 30 200730
- post@transdev.de
- Website
- transdev.de
Train from Chemnitz Hbf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–22
- Schedules at
- transdev.de
Train from Chemnitz Hbf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- mitteldeutsche-regiobahn.de
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Villach Hbf ARZ to Würzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 34m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €95–120
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- 07001 8282
- booking@union-ivkoni.com
- Website
- union-ivkoni.com
Bus from Plovdiv North Bus and Coach Station to Sofia Airport Terminal 1 Bus Stop
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €6–9
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
- Phone
- +359-887-208-506
- racic_bg@yahoo.com
- Website
- racicbg.com
Bus from Plovdiv Bus Station South to Leipzig Goethestraße
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €80–110
- Website
- https://www.racicbg.com/bg/
- Phone
- +359 0885700870
- support@citylines.eu
- Website
- citylines.eu
Bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Station to Chemnitz Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €75–110
- Website
- https://citylines.eu/
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More Questions & Answers
Leipzig is 1h behind Plovdiv. It is currently 3:13 PM in Plovdiv and 2:13 PM in Leipzig.
Plovdiv to Leipzig train services, operated by Bulgarian Railways (BDZh), arrive at Dimitrovgrad station.
Yes, the driving distance between Plovdiv to Leipzig is 1625 km. It takes approximately 16h 30m to drive from Plovdiv to Leipzig.
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