There are 10 ways to get from Ulm to Riga by train, plane, bus, train (TGV), or car
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Train to Stuttgart Airport, fly
best- Take the train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to Wendlingentrain
- Fly from Stuttgart Airport (STR) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane STR - RIX
7h 38m$115–301Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Ulm to Munich central bus stationbus 336 / ...
- Take the bus from Munich central bus station to Riga, Bus Stationbus N1230
30h$77–165Train, bus via Berlin
- Take the train from Ulm Hbf to Donauwoerthtrain Rb / ...
- Take the train from Donauwörth to Nürnberg Hbftrain 18 / ...
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhftrain 29 / ...
- Take the bus from Berlin Airport BER to Riga, Bus Stationbus
24h 22m$168–375Train
- Take the train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to München Hbftrain 42 / ...
- Take the train from Muenchen Hbf to Warszawa Zachodniatrain Ic
- Take the train from Warszawa Zachodnia to Kaunastrain 144
- Take the train from Kaišiadorys to Rīgastrain 889
29h 51m$117–586Drive 1,729.7 km
- Drive from Ulm to Rigacar 1,729.7 km
17h 10m$312–450Train to Munich International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to München Hbftrain
- Fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane MUC - RIX
6h 47m$118–376Train to Frankfurt, fly
- Take the train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane FRA - RIX
6h 43m$143–434Train, train to Nuremberg Airport, fly
- Take the train from Ulm Hbf to Donauwoerthtrain
- Take the train from Donauwörth to Nürnberg Hbftrain
- Fly from Nuremberg Airport (NUE) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane NUE - RIX
9h 17m$141–392Train, train to Zurich Airport, fly
- Take the train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to Friedrichsh. Stadtbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Friedrichsh. Stadtbahnhof to Schaffhausentrain
- Take the train from Schaffhausen to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane ZRH - RIX
9h 27m$172–366Train, bus
- Take the train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to Wendlingentrain Re200
- Take the bus from Stuttgart Airport to Rīgabus
34h 55m$80–171
Ulm to Riga by train, foot, and bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Ulm to Riga is to bus which costs $75 - $170 and takes 30h.
The fastest way to get from Ulm to Riga is to train and fly which takes 6h 43m and costs $140 - $440.
No, there is no direct bus from Ulm to Riga station. However, there are services departing from Ulm and arriving at Riga, Bus Station via Munich central bus station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 30h.
No, there is no direct train from Ulm to Riga. However, there are services departing from Ulm Hauptbahnhof and arriving at Rīgas via Muenchen Hbf, Warszawa Zachodnia, Kaunas and Kaišiadorys. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 29h 51m.
The distance between Ulm and Riga is 1430 km. The road distance is 1729.7 km.
The best way to get from Ulm to Riga without a car is to train and bus via Berlin which takes 24h 22m and costs $160 - $380.
It takes approximately 7h 38m to get from Ulm to Riga, including transfers.
Ulm to Riga bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Ulm station.
Ulm to Riga train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Ulm Hauptbahnhof station.
The best way to get from Ulm to Riga is to train which takes 29h 51m and costs $110 - $600. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs $75 - $170 and takes 30h.
What companies run services between Ulm, Germany and Riga, Latvia?
You can take a train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to Rīgas via München Hbf, Muenchen Hbf, Warszawa Zachodnia, Kaunas, and Kaišiadorys in around 29h 51m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Ulm to Riga, Bus Station via Munich central bus station in around 30h.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Riga International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 21m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95–470
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Riga International Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 21m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95–360
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–230
Flights from Frankfurt to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–330
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Riga International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 27m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–270
Flights from Zurich Airport to Riga International Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–250
Flights from Zurich Airport to Riga International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–270
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Riga International Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95–360
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–230
Flights from Frankfurt to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–330
Flights from Zurich Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–250
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–410
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95–370
Flights from Frankfurt to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–220
Flights from Zurich Airport to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–260
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Riga International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 32m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–380
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–220
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Riga International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–450
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Riga International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 7m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–390
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Riga International Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $130–490
Flights from Zurich Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Wednesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–250
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Riga International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $130–500
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Nuremberg Airport to Riga International Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–300
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to Wendlingen
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $14–21
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Donauwörth to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $20–28
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 800 589 28 40
- Website
- agilis.de
Train from Ulm Hbf to Donauwoerth
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $29
- Schedules at
- agilis.de
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Donauwörth to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $11–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 39m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $45–150
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $21–45
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to Friedrichsh. Stadtbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $29–34
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 34m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $100–160
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $28–95
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- $28–45
- 1st Class
- $55–95
Train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $45–170
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- $45–75
- 1st Class
- $100–170
- Phone
- +49 821 899 825 44
- servus@arverio.de
- Website
- arverio-by.de
Train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Schedules at
- arverio-by.de
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- meinenachricht@westbahn.at
- Website
- westbahn.at
Train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $16–55
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $35–80
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- 2nd Class
- $35–50
- 1st Class
- $60–80
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Muenchen Hbf to Warszawa Zachodnia
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 19m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $290–430
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Muenchen Hbf to Warszawa Zachodnia
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 19m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $55–170
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- Phone
- +370 700 55 111
- informacija@ltglink.lt
- Website
- ltglink.lt
Train from Warszawa Zachodnia to Kaunas
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 42m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $26–35
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
Train from Kaišiadorys to Rīgas
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 33m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $16–26
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
- Phone
- +49 731 1550-0
- servicecenter@dbregiobus-rab.de
- Website
- meine-rab.de
Train from Ulm Hauptbahnhof to Friedrichsh. Stadtbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $17–21
- Schedules at
- meine-rab.de
Train from Friedrichsh. Stadtbahnhof to Schaffhausen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $15–19
- Schedules at
- meine-rab.de
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Schaffhausen to Zürich Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–34
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Berlin Airport BER to Riga, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 15m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $75–120
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Ulm to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $9–16
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Munich central bus station to Riga, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $70–150
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Website
- global.flixbus.com
Bus from Berlin Airport BER to Riga, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 15m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- global.flixbus.com
Bus from Ulm to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- global.flixbus.com
Bus from Munich central bus station to Riga, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- global.flixbus.com
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Ulm to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $9–15
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
- Phone
- 07001 8282
- booking@union-ivkoni.com
- Website
- union-ivkoni.com
Bus from Ulm to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $7–10
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Stuttgart Airport to Rīga
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 35m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $65–150
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
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More Questions & Answers
Ulm to Riga bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Munich central bus station.
Riga is 1h ahead of Ulm. It is currently 10:43 AM in Ulm and 11:43 AM in Riga.
Ulm to Riga train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at München Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between Ulm to Riga is 1730 km. It takes approximately 17h 10m to drive from Ulm to Riga.
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