There are 10 ways to get from Trieste to Budapest by bus, train, car, shuttle, or plane
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Bus
best- Take the bus from Trieste to Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvarbus N403 / ...
7h 40mFt 11,000–28,000Train
- Take the train from Trieste Centrale to Wien Meidlingtrain Rjx
- Take the train from Vienna Meidling Train Station to Budapest-Kelenföldtrain RegioJet RJ 1035 / ...
10h 2mFt 38,562–57,701Drive 525.3 km
- Drive from Trieste to Budapestcar 525.3 km
5h 34mFt 31,126–44,960Shuttle to Venice Marco Polo Airport, fly to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Take a shuttle bus from Trieste Centrale to Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia
- Fly from Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane VCE - BUD
6hFt 27,976–163,742Bus, train
- Take the bus from Trieste to Ljubljana bus stationbus N907 / ...
- Take the train from Ljubljana to Budapest-Delitrain Ic
10h 8mFt 11,057–19,785Bus, train via Budapest-Keleti
- Take the bus from Trieste to Ljubljanabus BlaBlaCar Bus
- Take the train from Ljubljana to Budapest-Keletitrain 351
11h 24mFt 18,707–39,597Train to Treviso Airport, fly to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Take the train from Trieste Centrale to Treviso Centraletrain
- Fly from Treviso Airport (TSF) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane TSF - BUD
7h 26mFt 31,713–84,606Shuttle, shuttle to Vienna International Airport, fly to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Take a shuttle bus from Trieste Centrale to Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana
- Take a shuttle bus from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Wien Hbf
- Fly from Vienna International Airport (VIE) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane VIE - BUD
7h 3mFt 55,105–355,629Shuttle to Klagenfurt Airport, fly to Vienna International Airport, train
- Take a shuttle bus from Trieste Centrale to Klagenfurt Flughafen
- Fly from Klagenfurt Airport (KLU) to Vienna International Airport (VIE)plane KLU - VIE
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeldtrain
7h 41mFt 50,458–223,449Train, train to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, fly to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- 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 Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane BLQ - BUD
8h 17mFt 33,271–99,937
Trieste to Budapest by bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Trieste to Budapest is to bus and train which costs 11 000 Ft - 20 000 Ft and takes 10h 8m.
The fastest way to get from Trieste to Budapest is to drive which takes 5h 34m and costs 31 000 Ft - 45 000 Ft.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from Trieste and arriving at Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar. Services depart three times a day, and operate every day. The journey takes approximately 7h 40m.
No, there is no direct train from Trieste to Budapest. However, there are services departing from Trieste Centrale and arriving at Budapest-Kelenföld via Vienna Meidling Train Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 10h 2m.
The distance between Trieste and Budapest is 557 km. The road distance is 525.3 km.
The best way to get from Trieste to Budapest without a car is to bus which takes 7h 40m and costs 11 000 Ft - 28 000 Ft.
The bus from Trieste to Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar takes 7h 40m including transfers and departs three times a day.
Trieste to Budapest bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Trieste station.
Trieste to Budapest train services, operated by Railjet, depart from Trieste Centrale station.
The best way to get from Trieste to Budapest is to bus which takes 7h 40m and costs 11 000 Ft - 28 000 Ft. Alternatively, you can train, which costs 38 000 Ft - 60 000 Ft and takes 10h 2m.
What companies run services between Trieste, Italy and Budapest, Hungary?
FlixBus operates a bus from Trieste to Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar 3 times a day. Tickets cost Ft 11,000–28,000 and the journey takes 7h 40m. Alternatively, you can take a train from Trieste Centrale to Budapest-Kelenföld via Wien Meidling and Vienna Meidling Train Station in around 10h 2m.
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- Ft 30,000–100,000
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 37,000–170,000
Flights from Klagenfurt Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 45 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 30,000–95,000
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- Ft 24,000–100,000
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Klagenfurt Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 45 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 30,000–95,000
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 27,000–110,000
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Treviso Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 25,000–75,000
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 15,000–55,000
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- Ft 9,500–47,000
- Website
- airalgerie.dz
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- Ft 6,500–75,000
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- Ft 26,000–110,000
Train from Trieste Centrale to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 38m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 32,000–48,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- Ft 32,000–48,000
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 14,000–22,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- Ft 14,000–22,000
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.com
Train from Vienna Meidling Train Station to Budapest-Kelenföld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 24m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 6,000–10,000
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 31m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 3,400–10,000
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- info@mavcsoport.hu
- Website
- jegy.mav.hu
Train from Ljubljana to Budapest-Deli
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 44m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 8,500–10,000
- Website
- https://jegy.mav.hu/
- Phone
- +386 1 29 13 331
- potnik.info@slo-zeleznice.si
- Website
- potniski.sz.si
Train from Ljubljana to Budapest-Keleti
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 44m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 13,000–30,000
- Website
- https://potniski.sz.si/en/
- Intercity 2nd Class Ticket
- Ft 13,000–20,000
- Regional Train Ticket
- Ft 18,000–20,000
- Intercity 1st Class Ticket
- Ft 26,000–30,000
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Trieste Centrale to Treviso Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 53m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 4,500–6,500
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Trieste Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 14m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Ft 6,913
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 9,000–21,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 7,000–22,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
- 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
- Ft 6,000–12,000
- 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
- Ft 3,800–10,000
- 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
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 4,900–10,000
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 6,000–14,000
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Trieste to Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 11,000–28,000
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Trieste to Ljubljana bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 24m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 5,500–10,000
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- info@goopti.com
- Website
- goopti.com
Shuttle from Trieste Centrale to Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- Ft 13,000–100,000
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- Ft 13,000–14,500
- Private
- Ft 50,000–100,000
Shuttle from Trieste Centrale to Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- Ft 11,000–70,000
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- Ft 11,000–13,000
- Private
- Ft 36,000–70,000
Shuttle from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- Ft 15,000–200,000
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- Ft 15,000–19,000
- Private
- Ft 100,000–200,000
Shuttle from Trieste Centrale to Klagenfurt Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- Ft 13,000–100,000
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- Ft 13,000–14,500
- Private
- Ft 55,000–100,000
- Phone
- +39 06 88 93 82 32
- Website
- itabus.it
Bus from Trieste to Ljubljana bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 2,500–3,500
- Website
- https://www.itabus.it/en/home
- Phone
- +43 50 678910
- service@verbundlinie.at
- Website
- verbundlinie.at
Bus from Trieste to Ljubljana bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Website
- https://www.verbundlinie.at/en/
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- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Trieste to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- Ft 5,500–10,000
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
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Trieste to Budapest bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar station.
Trieste to Budapest train services, operated by Railjet, arrive at Wien Meidling station.
Yes, the driving distance between Trieste to Budapest is 525 km. It takes approximately 5h 34m to drive from Trieste to Budapest.
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