There are 9 ways to get from Wels to Riga by train, plane, bus, or car
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Train to Vienna International Airport, fly
best- Take the train from Wels Hbf to Flughafen Wien
- Fly from Vienna International Airport (VIE) to Riga International Airport (RIX)VIE - RIX
7h 6m$78–294Train
- Take the train from Wels Hbf to Wien HbfIc
- Take the train from Wien Hauptbahnhof to Warszawa WschodniaIc
- Take the train from Warszawa Wschodnia to Kaunas144
- Take the train from Kaisiadorys to Riga-Pasazieru254
25h 29m$171–272Train, bus
- Take the train from Wels Hbf to Wien WestbahnhofDrf / ...
- Take the bus from Vienna, International Busterminal (VIB) to Riga, Bus StationN1227
26h 18m$106–262Drive 1,471.7 km
- Drive from Wels to Riga1,471.7 km
15h 35m$277–400Train to Munich International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Wels Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to Riga International Airport (RIX)MUC - RIX
8h 11m$151–370Train to Salzburg Airport, fly
- Take the train from Wels Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Fly from Salzburg Airport (SZG) to Riga International Airport (RIX)SZG - RIX
6h 32m$144–405Train to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly
- Take the train from Linz Hbf to Praha Hlavni Nadrazi
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Riga International Airport (RIX)PRG - RIX
10h 20m$101–312Train to Graz, fly
- Take the train from Linz Hbf to Graz Hbf
- Fly from Graz (GRZ) to Riga International Airport (RIX)GRZ - RIX
13h 23m$237–664Train, bus via Prague
- Take the train from Linz Hbf to Praha Hlavni NadraziEc
- Take the bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Rīga848104
29h 18m$121–227
Wels to Riga by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Wels to Riga is to train and fly which costs $75 - $300 and takes 7h 6m.
The fastest way to get from Wels to Riga is to train and fly which takes 6h 32m and costs $140 - $410.
No, there is no direct train from Wels to Riga. However, there are services departing from Wels Hbf and arriving at Riga-Pasazieru via Wien Hauptbahnhof, Warszawa Wschodnia, Kaunas and Kaisiadorys. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 25h 29m.
The distance between Wels and Riga is 1334 km. The road distance is 1471.7 km.
The best way to get from Wels to Riga without a car is to train which takes 25h 29m and costs $170 - $280.
It takes approximately 7h 6m to get from Wels to Riga, including transfers.
Wels to Riga train services, operated by ÖBB Intercity, depart from Wels Hbf station.
Riga is 1h ahead of Wels. It is currently 10:40 PM in Wels and 11:40 PM in Riga.
Wels to Riga train services, operated by ÖBB Intercity, arrive at Wien Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between Wels to Riga is 1472 km. It takes approximately 15h 35m to drive from Wels to Riga.
What companies run services between Wels, Austria and Riga, Latvia?
You can take a train from Wels Hbf to Riga-Pasazieru via Wien Hbf, Wien Hauptbahnhof, Warszawa Wschodnia, Kaunas, and Kaisiadorys in around 25h 29m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $90–230
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Riga International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $140–600
Flights from Graz to Riga International Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 26m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $130–500
Flights from Graz to Riga International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $150–550
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–210
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $90–230
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $100–400
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $50–280
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Riga International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–430
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–220
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Riga International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–210
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–210
Flights from Graz to Riga International Airport via Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–450
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $45–200
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $60–170
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–340
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–380
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–320
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Graz to Riga International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Wednesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $150–600
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Wels Hbf to Flughafen Wien
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $23–65
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
Train from Wels Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 47m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $29–55
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
Train from Wels Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $11–35
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
Train from Wels Hbf to Flughafen Wien
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 3m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $40–65
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- $40–65
Train from Wels Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $35–60
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- $35–60
Train from Wels Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $23–35
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- $23–35
Train from Linz Hbf to Praha Hlavni Nadrazi
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 53m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $50–75
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- $50–75
Train from Wels Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $17–80
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Wels Hbf to Wien Westbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $29–70
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Wels Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $11–45
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Linz Hbf to Graz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $17–160
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Wels Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $50–60
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Wien Hauptbahnhof to Warszawa Wschodnia
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 56m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $110–130
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +370 700 55 111
- informacija@ltglink.lt
- Website
- ltglink.lt
Train from Warszawa Wschodnia to Kaunas
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 23m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $25–35
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
Train from Kaisiadorys to Riga-Pasazieru
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $16–26
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- meinenachricht@westbahn.at
- Website
- westbahn.at
Train from Wels Hbf to Wien Westbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $28–60
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
Train from Wels Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 19m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $40–95
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
Train from Wels Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $22–35
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Wels Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $55–75
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Linz Hbf to Praha Hlavni Nadrazi
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $22–80
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Vienna, International Busterminal (VIB) to Riga, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 30m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $75–190
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Rīga
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $90–120
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
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