There are 10 ways to get from Trieste to Greece by plane, bus, train, ferry, car ferry, car, or shuttle
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Fly Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia
best- Fly from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS) to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG)plane TRS - SKG
9h 55m€90–269Fly Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Athens International Airport
cheapest- Fly from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS) to Athens International Airport (ATH)plane TRS - ATH
8h 2m€82–266Bus, train
- Take the bus from Trieste to Blagoevgradbus
- Take the bus from Blagoevgrad to Thessaloniki, Monastirioubus
- Take the train from Thessaloniki to Athenstrain Ic
26h 29m€147–167Train, line 2 ferry, car ferry, bus
- Take the train from Trieste Centrale to Venezia S. Luciatrain Re
- Take the ferry from Ferrovia "A" to Tronchetto "A"ferry 2 / ...
- Take the carferry from Port of Venice to Port of Patrascarferry
- Take the bus from Patras to Athens, Leoforou Kifisou - KTELbus
44h 25m€251–359Drive 1,537.8 km
- Drive from Trieste to Athenscar 1,537.8 km
20h 21m€296–428Shuttle to Ljubljana, fly to Athens International Airport
- Take a shuttle bus from Trieste Centrale to Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana
- Fly from Ljubljana (LJU) to Athens International Airport (ATH)plane LJU - ATH
6h 8m€249–529Shuttle to Venice Marco Polo Airport, fly to Athens International Airport
- Take a shuttle bus from Trieste Centrale to Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia
- Fly from Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) to Athens International Airport (ATH)plane VCE - ATH
7h 10m€265–567Shuttle, shuttle to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport, fly to Athens International Airport
- 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 Athens International Airport (ATH)plane ZAG - ATH
7h 33m€335–703Bus
- Take the bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Tiranabus
- Take the bus from Tirana to Athensbus
26h 30mBus via Tirana
- Take the bus from Trieste Piazza Libertà to Tiranabus
- Take the bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Athensbus
27h 27m
Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS) to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Trieste to Greece is to fly which costs €80 - €270 and takes 8h 2m.
The fastest way to get from Trieste to Greece is to shuttle and fly which takes 6h 8m and costs €240 - €550.
No, there is no direct bus from Trieste to Greece. However, there are services departing from Trieste, Autostazione and arriving at Athens via Tirana. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 26h 30m.
The distance between Trieste and Greece is 1018 km. The road distance is 1537.8 km.
The best way to get from Trieste to Greece without a car is to bus and train which takes 26h 29m and costs €140 - €170.
It takes approximately 9h 55m to get from Trieste to Greece, including transfers.
Trieste to Greece bus services, operated by Aleks Viaggi, depart from Trieste, Autostazione station.
The best way to get from Trieste to Greece is to fly which takes 9h 55m and costs €90 - €270. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs and takes 26h 30m.
Trieste to Greece bus services, operated by Aleks Viaggi, arrive at Tirana station.
Greece is 1h ahead of Trieste. It is currently 7:11 AM in Trieste and 8:11 AM in Greece.
What companies run services between Trieste, Italy and Greece?
ITA Airways, Aegean Airlines, and three other airlines fly from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS) to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG) 3 times a day. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Athens via Tirana in around 26h 30m.
- Website
- volotea.com
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 15m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–250
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Athens International Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 23m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–270
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 7m
- When
- Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €22–230
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–180
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 15m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–250
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Athens International Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–270
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Ljubljana to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–210
Flights from Ljubljana to Athens International Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–280
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–230
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–180
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–360
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Athens International Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–270
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–200
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €30–170
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Ljubljana to Athens International Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–280
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Athens International Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €50–210
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €25–160
- Website
- croatiaairlines.com
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Athens International Airport via Dubrovnik
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €120–270
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- Hellenic Train S.A.
Train from Thessaloniki to Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 9m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €30–50
- Website
- Hellenic Train S.A.
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Trieste Centrale to Venezia S. Lucia
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 31m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €26–40
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +359 2 980 56 58
- info@mm-travel.bg
- Website
- mm-travel.bg
Bus from Trieste to Blagoevgrad
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €90
- Schedules at
- mm-travel.bg
- Book at
- tickets.mm-travel.bg
- Phone
- +359 700 20 544
- Website
- Arda Tur
Bus from Blagoevgrad to Thessaloniki, Monastiriou
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €27
- Website
- Arda Tur
- Phone
- +30 2616 001 600
- info@ktelachaias.gr
- Website
- KTEL of Achaia S.A.
Bus from Patras to Athens, Leoforou Kifisou - KTEL
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–35
- Website
- KTEL of Achaia S.A.
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- info@goopti.com
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Trieste Centrale to Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €150–250
- Website
- GoOpti
- Private
- €204
Shuttle from Trieste Centrale to Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €220–370
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Trieste Centrale to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €120–204
- Website
- GoOpti
- Private
- €204
Shuttle from Ljubljana, Avtobusna Postaja to Zagreb Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €190–310
- Website
- GoOpti
- 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
- €130–220
- Schedules at
- slovenija.eu.com
- 1 -3 persons
- €170
- 4-8 persons
- €220
- Phone
- +355 69 209 3508
- aleksviaggi@gmail.com
Bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- Aleks Viaggi
- Phone
- +210 52 25 550
- arttouroe@gmail.com
- Website
- arttour.gr
Bus from Tirana to Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40
- Schedules at
- arttour.gr
- Phone
- +355 69 31 41 219
- info@artanitravel.com
- Website
- artanitravel.com
Bus from Trieste Piazza Libertà to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 10m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- artanitravel.com
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 17m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +355 68 204 4475
- amr_travel@hotmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 12h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- komatastours.al@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 22m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €50
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 67 604 2191
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- autobus.al
Ferry from Ferrovia "A" to Tronchetto "A"
- Ave. Duration
- 14 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €10
- Website
- ACTV — Azienda del Consorzio Trasporti Veneziano
- 75 min. Ticket
- €10
- Phone
- +30 2108919800
- superfast@superfast.com
- Website
- Superfast Ferries
Car ferry from Port of Venice to Port of Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 35h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €190–270
- Website
- Superfast Ferries
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