There are 9 ways to get from Riga to Messina by plane, train, ferry, bus, car ferry, 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 to Lamezia Terme International Airport, train, ferry
best- Fly from Riga International Airport (RIX) to Lamezia Terme International Airport (SUF)plane RIX - SUF
- Take the train from Lamezia Terme C. to Villa S.Giovannitrain
- Take the ferry from Villa S.Giovanni to Messina Marittimaferry
16h 52mFly to Reggio Calabria Airport, ferry
cheapest- Fly from Riga International Airport (RIX) to Reggio Calabria Airport (REG)plane RIX - REG
- Take the ferry from Reggio Calabria to Messina Marittimaferry
10h 55m€79–250Train, ferry
- Take the train from Rīgas Centrālā stacija to Vilniustrain 12
- Take the train from Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis to Kraków Głównytrain
- Take the train from Krakow Glowny to Graz Hbftrain Ic
- Take the train from Graz Hbf to Venezia Mestretrain Rjx
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Villa S.Giovannitrain Fr
- Take the ferry from Villa S.Giovanni to Messina Marittimaferry V1 / ...
42h 29mBus, train, car ferry
- Take the bus from Riga, Bus Station to Munich central bus stationbus
- Take the train from München Hbf to Venezia Mestretrain 89
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Villa S.Giovannitrain Fr
- Take the car ferry from Villa San Giovanni to Messina Marittimacarferry
47h 4m€384–801Drive, ferry
- Drive from Riga to Villa San Giovannicar
- Take the ferry from Villa San Giovanni to Messina Marittimaferry
30h 35m€472–682Fly to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, train
- Fly from Riga International Airport (RIX) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)plane RIX - CTA
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
9h 3m€110–256Fly to Palermo Airport, train
- Fly from Riga International Airport (RIX) to Palermo Airport (PMO)plane RIX - PMO
- Take the train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
13h 43m€94–292Bus
- Take the bus from Riga, Bus Station to Wroclaw, Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from WROCŁAW, Dworzec autobusowy - Galeria Wroclavia, ul.Sucha 1 to BATTIPAGLIA, Via Belvedere, 26A , naprzeciw stacji Q8bus
- Take the bus from Battipaglia Ospedale to Messina Piazza della Repubblicabus
2d 3h€198–456Bus, car ferry
- Take the bus from Rīga to Katowicebus
- Take the bus from Katowice to Salernobus
- Take the car ferry from Port of Salerno to Messinacarferry
2d 12h€225–396
Riga International Airport (RIX) to Lamezia Terme International Airport (SUF) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Riga to Messina is to fly and ferry which costs €75 - €250 and takes 10h 55m.
The fastest way to get from Riga to Messina is to fly and train which takes 9h 3m and costs €110 - €260.
No, there is no direct bus from Riga station to Messina. However, there are services departing from Riga, Bus Station and arriving at Messina Piazza della Repubblica via WROCŁAW, Dworzec autobusowy - Galeria Wroclavia, ul.Sucha 1 and Battipaglia Ospedale. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 2 days 3h.
The distance between Riga and Messina is 2208 km.
The best way to get from Riga to Messina without a car is to train and ferry which takes 42h 29m and costs .
It takes approximately 16h 52m to get from Riga to Messina, including transfers.
Riga to Messina bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Riga, Bus Station.
Riga to Messina bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Wroclaw, Bus Station.
Messina is 1h behind Riga. It is currently 2:50 AM in Riga and 1:50 AM in Messina.
Book your Riga to Messina bus tickets online with Omio.
What companies run services between Riga, Latvia and Messina, Italy?
You can take a bus from Riga, Bus Station to Messina Piazza della Repubblica via WROCŁAW, Dworzec autobusowy - Galeria Wroclavia, ul.Sucha 1, BATTIPAGLIA, Via Belvedere, 26A , naprzeciw stacji Q8, and Battipaglia Ospedale in around 2d 3h.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Lamezia Terme International Airport via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 17m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–200
Flights from Riga International Airport to Lamezia Terme International Airport via Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 55m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €95–330
Flights from Riga International Airport to Lamezia Terme International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €95–330
Flights from Riga International Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €90–280
Flights from Riga International Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 15m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €75–250
Flights from Riga International Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport via Charleroi
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 45m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–270
Flights from Riga International Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €70–250
Flights from Riga International Airport to Palermo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–200
Flights from Riga International Airport to Palermo Airport via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 5m
- When
- Monday and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €65–200
Flights from Riga International Airport to Palermo Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–200
Flights from Riga International Airport to Palermo Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 20m
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–200
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Lamezia Terme International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €95–330
Flights from Riga International Airport to Palermo Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 15m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €85–360
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Lamezia Terme International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–350
Flights from Riga International Airport to Palermo Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 10m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €90–320
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–380
Flights from Riga International Airport to Palermo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–310
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Lamezia Terme International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–350
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Lamezia Terme International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–250
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–290
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Lamezia Terme C. to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–23
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €12–20
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €29–50
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Lamezia Terme C. to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €15–30
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Venezia Mestre to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €160–320
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Lamezia Terme C. to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 31m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €10–24
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €9–22
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €22–55
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +370 700 55 111
- informacija@ltglink.lt
- Website
- ltglink.lt
Train from Rīgas Centrālā stacija to Vilnius
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €16–22
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
Train from Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis to Kraków Główny
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 9m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–55
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Krakow Glowny to Graz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 19m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €100–230
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Graz Hbf to Venezia Mestre
- 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
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from München Hbf to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €100–230
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Riga, Bus Station to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 28h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €120–220
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Riga, Bus Station to Wroclaw, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €70–130
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +48 801 22 33 44
- bilety@sindbad.pl
- Website
- sindbad.pl
Bus from WROCŁAW, Dworzec autobusowy - Galeria Wroclavia, ul.Sucha 1 to BATTIPAGLIA, Via Belvedere, 26A , naprzeciw stacji Q8
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €110–310
- Website
- https://www.sindbad.pl/en/home
- Phone
- (+39) 0923 98.11.20
- Website
- autoservizisalemi.it
Bus from Battipaglia Ospedale to Messina Piazza della Repubblica
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €17–24
- Schedules at
- autoservizisalemi.it
- Phone
- +373 789 18 888
- info@busline.md
- Website
- busline.md
Bus from Rīga to Katowice
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 56m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €80–220
- Website
- https://busline.md/en/
- Phone
- 13 43 232 76
- biuro@miskrosno.pl
- Website
- miskrosno.pl
Bus from Katowice to Salerno
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 15m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €115
- Schedules at
- miskrosno.pl
- Book at
- api.euroticket.pl
- 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
- +39.090.57.37
- servizioclienti@carontetourist.it
- Website
- carontetourist.it
Car ferry from Villa San Giovanni to Messina Marittima
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €1–39
- Schedules at
- carontetourist.it
- Passenger
- €3
- Car
- €39
Car ferry from Port of Salerno to Messina
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €29–60
- Schedules at
- carontetourist.it
- Passenger
- €29
- Cars
- €60
- 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
Ferry from Reggio Calabria to Messina Marittima
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €3–4
- Schedules at
- blujetlines.it
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