There are 10 ways to get from Ruffec to Sofia by train, plane, bus, car, or car train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train, train to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport, fly
best- Take the train from Gare de Ruffec to Angoulemetrain
- Take the train from Angouleme to Bordeaux St Jeantrain
- Fly from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane BOD - SOF
11h 54m$122–392Train, bus via Karlsruhe
- Take the train from Gare de Ruffec to Poitierstrain Ter
- Take the train from Poitiers to Strasbourgtrain Tgv
- Take the train from Strasbourg to Karlsruhe Hbftrain Ice / ...
- Take the bus from Karlsruhe Central Bus Station to Sofia Serdica Bus Stationbus
35h 11m$298–466Drive 2,255.7 km
- Drive from Ruffec to Sofiacar 2,255.7 km
22h 15m$404–584Train, train to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport, fly
- Take the train from Gare de Ruffec to Poitierstrain
- Take the train from Poitiers to Aeroport Cdg2 Tgv Roissytrain
- Fly from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane CDG - SOF
9h 24m$178–401Train, bus to Limoges-Bellegarde Airport, fly
- Take the train from Gare de Ruffec to Angoulemetrain
- Take the bus from Angouleme - Gare Sncf to Terminal Carsbus
- Fly from Limoges-Bellegarde Airport (LIG) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane LIG - SOF
14h 33m$166–299Train, train to Nantes Atlantique Airport, fly
- Take the train from Gare de Ruffec to Poitierstrain
- Take the train from Poitiers to St Pierre Des Corpstrain
- Take the train from St Pierre Des Corps to Nantestrain
- Fly from Nantes Atlantique Airport (NTE) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane NTE - SOF
12h 23m$148–443Train, train to Bergerac Dordogne Périgord Airport, fly
- Take the train from Gare de Ruffec to Angoulemetrain
- Take the train from Angouleme to Libournetrain
- Take the train from Libourne to Bergeractrain
- Fly from Bergerac Dordogne Périgord Airport (EGC) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane EGC - SOF
16h 27m$183–563Bus
- Take the bus from Gare de Ruffec to Poitiersbus
- Take the bus from Poitiers - Bus Station to Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine) to Ljubljana bus stationbus
- Take the bus from Ljubljana to Sofia Central Bus Stationbus
39h 26m$252–351Train, bus
- Take the train from Gare de Ruffec to Poitierstrain Ter
- Take the train from Poitiers to Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2train Tgv
- Take the bus from Saint-Denis to Niš, Autobuska Stanicabus
- Take the bus from Niš, Autobuska Stanica to Sofiya, Avtogara Serdikabus
42h 21mDrive, car train
- Drive from Ruffec to Fuldacar
- Take the cartrain from Fulda to Villach Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Villach Hbf to Sofiacar
28h 41m$484–676
Ruffec to Sofia by bus and foot
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Ruffec to Sofia is to train and bus and fly which costs $160 - $300 and takes 14h 33m.
The fastest way to get from Ruffec to Sofia is to train and fly which takes 9h 24m and costs $170 - $410.
No, there is no direct bus from Ruffec to Sofia station. However, there are services departing from Gare de Ruffec and arriving at Sofia Central Bus Station via Poitiers - Bus Station, Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine) and Ljubljana. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 39h 26m.
The distance between Ruffec and Sofia is 2149 km. The road distance is 2255.7 km.
The best way to get from Ruffec to Sofia without a car is to train and bus via Karlsruhe which takes 35h 11m and costs $290 - $470.
It takes approximately 11h 54m to get from Ruffec to Sofia, including transfers.
Ruffec to Sofia bus services, operated by SNCF Bus, depart from Gare de Ruffec station.
Ruffec to Sofia bus services, operated by SNCF Bus, arrive at Poitiers station.
Sofia is 1h ahead of Ruffec. It is currently 10:30 AM in Ruffec and 11:30 AM in Sofia.
Yes, the driving distance between Ruffec to Sofia is 2256 km. It takes approximately 22h 15m to drive from Ruffec to Sofia.
What companies run services between Ruffec, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France and Sofia, Bulgaria?
You can take a bus from Gare de Ruffec to Sofia Central Bus Station via Poitiers, Poitiers - Bus Station, Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station, Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine), Ljubljana bus station, and Ljubljana in around 39h 26m.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Limoges-Bellegarde Airport to Sofia Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 5m
- When
- Tuesday, Sunday, Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $100–340
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Sofia Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $65–140
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $75–290
Flights from Bergerac Dordogne Périgord Airport to Sofia Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 45m
- When
- Wednesday, Tuesday, Sunday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $140–490
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $90–420
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–410
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Sofia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 42m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $120–430
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $90–420
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–410
- Website
- air.bg
Flights from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport to Sofia Airport via Milan Malpensa
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $120–370
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–230
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–240
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Nantes Atlantique Airport to Sofia Airport via Nice
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $65–280
Rome2Rio's guide to Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF)
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Gare de Ruffec to Angouleme
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $9–16
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Angouleme to Bordeaux St Jean
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 26m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $26–45
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Gare de Ruffec to Poitiers
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $12–22
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Strasbourg to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $15–26
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Gare de Ruffec to Poitiers
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $12–22
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Poitiers to Aeroport Cdg2 Tgv Roissy
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $75–130
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Gare de Ruffec to Angouleme
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $9–16
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Gare de Ruffec to Poitiers
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $12–22
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Poitiers to St Pierre Des Corps
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $19–35
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from St Pierre Des Corps to Nantes
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $35–65
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Gare de Ruffec to Angouleme
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $9–16
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Angouleme to Libourne
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $19–35
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Libourne to Bergerac
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $12–20
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Gare de Ruffec to Poitiers
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $12–22
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Poitiers to Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 24m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $60–110
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Angouleme to Bordeaux St Jean
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–45
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Poitiers to Strasbourg
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $170–260
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Strasbourg to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $17–26
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Poitiers to Aeroport Cdg2 Tgv Roissy
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $85–130
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Poitiers to St Pierre Des Corps
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $22–35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from St Pierre Des Corps to Nantes
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $40–65
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Angouleme to Libourne
- Ave. Duration
- 42 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $22–35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Poitiers to Paris Montparnasse 1 Et 2
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 26m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $70–110
- Website
- TGV inOui
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Strasbourg to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 41 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $15–35
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
Car train from Fulda to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 1m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $110–130
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
- Phone
- +359 0885700870
- support@citylines.eu
- Website
- Citylines
Bus from Karlsruhe Central Bus Station to Sofia Serdica Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 35m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $100–150
- Website
- Citylines
Bus from Angouleme - Gare Sncf to Terminal Cars
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $6–9
- Schedules at
- Cars Régionaux Nouvelle-Aquitaine - Haute-Vienne (87)
Bus from Gare de Ruffec to Poitiers
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 46m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $16–22
- Website
- SNCF Bus
- Phone
- +3 318 576 2228
- Website
- BlaBlaCar Bus
Bus from Poitiers - Bus Station to Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $27–45
- Website
- BlaBlaCar Bus
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Poitiers - Bus Station to Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $30–50
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine) to Ljubljana bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 46m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $120–190
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +359 2 980 56 58
- info@mm-travel.bg
- Website
- mm-travel.bg
Bus from Ljubljana to Sofia Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 12h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $89
- Schedules at
- mm-travel.bg
- Book at
- tickets.mm-travel.bg
- Phone
- +381 65 567 12 19
- resavareisendoo@gmail.com
- Website
- resavareisen.ch
Bus from Saint-Denis to Niš, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 33h 14m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- resavareisen.ch
- Phone
- +359 2 981 58 56
- booking_matpu@abv.bg
- Website
- matpu.com
Bus from Niš, Autobuska Stanica to Sofiya, Avtogara Serdika
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $22–29
- Schedules at
- matpu.com
- Phone
- +381 18 255 177
- Website
- Niš-ekspres
Bus from Niš, Autobuska Stanica to Sofiya, Avtogara Serdika
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $17–25
- Website
- Niš-ekspres
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