There are 10 ways to get from Trieste to Bucharest by plane, bus, train, car, or shuttle
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport
best- Fly from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane TRS - OTP
8h 18m$139–389Train, bus
cheapest- Take the train from Trieste Centrale to Udinetrain Re / ...
- Take the bus from Gonars to Bucureştibus
24h 42m$86–125Bus
- Take the bus from Trieste Centrale to Maribor, Avtobusna Postajabus
- Take the bus from Maribor bus station to București, Autogara Militaribus 1922
23h 22m$325–753Train
- Take the train from Trieste Centrale to Wien Hbftrain Rjx
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Bucuresti Nordtrain 347
25h 15m$359–614Drive 1,208.5 km
- Drive from Trieste to Bucharestcar 1,208.5 km
13h 19m$219–316Shuttle to Ljubljana, fly
- Take a shuttle bus from Trieste Centrale to Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana
- Fly from Ljubljana (LJU) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane LJU - OTP
7h 39m$196–697Shuttle to Klagenfurt Airport, fly
- Take a shuttle bus from Trieste Centrale to Klagenfurt Flughafen
- Fly from Klagenfurt Airport (KLU) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane KLU - OTP
9h 3m$317–973Train to Treviso Airport, fly
- Take the train from Trieste Centrale to Treviso Centraletrain
- Fly from Treviso Airport (TSF) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane TSF - OTP
7h 37m$129–319Train, train to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, fly
- Take the train from Trieste Centrale to Venezia Mestretrain
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centraletrain
- Fly from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane BLQ - OTP
7h 43m$134–396Shuttle, shuttle to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport, fly
- Take a shuttle bus from Trieste Centrale to Ljubljana
- Take a shuttle bus from Ljubljana, Avtobusna Postaja to Zagreb Airport
- Fly from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport (ZAG) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane ZAG - OTP
6h 29m$201–970
Trieste to Bucharest by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Trieste to Bucharest is to train and bus which costs $85 - $130 and takes 24h 42m.
The fastest way to get from Trieste to Bucharest is to shuttle and fly which takes 6h 29m and costs $200 - $1,000.
No, there is no direct bus from Trieste to Bucharest. However, there are services departing from Trieste Centrale and arriving at București, Autogara Militari via Maribor bus station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 23h 22m.
No, there is no direct train from Trieste to Bucharest. However, there are services departing from Trieste Centrale and arriving at Bucuresti Nord via Wien Hbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 25h 15m.
The distance between Trieste and Bucharest is 1049 km. The road distance is 1208.5 km.
The best way to get from Trieste to Bucharest without a car is to bus which takes 23h 22m and costs $320 - $800.
It takes approximately 8h 18m to get from Trieste to Bucharest, including transfers.
Trieste to Bucharest bus services, operated by GoOpti, depart from Trieste Centrale station.
Trieste to Bucharest train services, operated by Railjet, depart from Trieste Centrale station.
The best way to get from Trieste to Bucharest is to fly which takes 8h 18m and costs $130 - $390. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs $320 - $800 and takes 23h 22m, you could also train, which costs $350 - $650 and takes 25h 15m.
What companies run services between Trieste, Italy and Bucharest, Romania?
Ryanair, ITA Airways, and three other airlines fly from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) 4 times a day. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Trieste Centrale to București, Autogara Militari via Maribor, Avtobusna Postaja and Maribor bus station in around 23h 22m.
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $40–200
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Bari
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $40–200
Flights from Klagenfurt Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Cologne Bonn
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $95–380
Flights from Klagenfurt Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 30m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $110–410
Flights from Treviso Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $30–160
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $28–160
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $50–200
Flights from Klagenfurt Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $60–290
Flights from Treviso Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $30–200
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $40–180
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $60–190
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Ljubljana to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–440
Flights from Ljubljana to Bucharest Otopeni via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–480
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Klagenfurt Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $130–550
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–340
- Website
- aeroitalia.com
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–370
Flights from Klagenfurt Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $240–380
- Website
- flexflight.dk
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–370
Flights from Klagenfurt Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $240–380
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Ljubljana to Bucharest Otopeni via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–210
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Ljubljana to Bucharest Otopeni via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–410
- Website
- smartwings.com
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $65–200
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Ljubljana to Bucharest Otopeni via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $190–320
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Ljubljana to Bucharest Otopeni via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $220–300
- Website
- croatiaairlines.com
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $85–270
Train from Trieste Centrale to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $95–150
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- $95–150
Train from Trieste Centrale to Udine
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $20–30
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- $20–30
Train from Wien Hbf to Bucuresti Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $260–470
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Trieste Centrale to Udine
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $19–35
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Trieste Centrale to Treviso Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 53m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $28–50
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Trieste Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 14m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $21–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $22–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Trieste Centrale to Udine
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 26m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $12–21
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Trieste Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $24–50
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $25–50
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Trieste Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $17–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 47m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $17–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- italotreno.it
Train from Trieste Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 53m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $21–45
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $22–45
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- info@goopti.com
- Website
- goopti.com
Bus from Trieste Centrale to Maribor, Avtobusna Postaja
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 22m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $230–600
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
Shuttle from Trieste Centrale to Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $36–310
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- $36
- Private
- $159
Shuttle from Trieste Centrale to Klagenfurt Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $180–470
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
Shuttle from Trieste Centrale to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $36–240
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- $36
- Private
- $159
Shuttle from Ljubljana, Avtobusna Postaja to Zagreb Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $37–390
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- $37
- Private
- $173
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Maribor bus station to București, Autogara Militari
- Ave. Duration
- 20h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $90–170
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +386 40 121 900
- mamut.slovenija@gmail.com
- Website
- slovenija.eu.com
Shuttle from Ljubljana, Avtobusna Postaja to Zagreb Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $130–254
- Schedules at
- slovenija.eu.com
- 1 -3 persons
- $196
- 4-8 persons
- $254
- Phone
- +4-0263-21.55.00
- Website
- tabitatour.ro
Bus from Gonars to Bucureşti
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $70–85
- Schedules at
- tabitatour.autogari.ro
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More Questions & Answers
Trieste to Bucharest bus services, operated by GoOpti, arrive at Maribor, Avtobusna Postaja station.
Bucharest is 1h ahead of Trieste. It is currently 11:12 AM in Trieste and 12:12 PM in Bucharest.
Trieste to Bucharest train services, operated by Railjet, arrive at Wien Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between Trieste to Bucharest is 1209 km. It takes approximately 13h 19m to drive from Trieste to Bucharest.
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