There are 10 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 Wientrain
- Fly from Vienna International Airport (VIE) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane VIE - RIX
6h 39m$92–296Train
cheapest- Take the train from Linz Hbf to Warszawa Centralnatrain Ic
- Take the train from Warszawa Centralna to Mockavatrain Ic
- Take the train from Mockava to Kaišiadorystrain 36
- Take the train from Kaišiadorys to Rīgas Centrālā stacijatrain 889
24h 19m$76–137Train, bus
- Take the train from Linz Hbf to Praha Hlavni Nadrazitrain Ec
- Take the bus from Praha, ÚAN Florenc to Rīgabus 848104
29h 10m$102–224Drive 1,472.1 km
- Drive from Wels to Rigacar 1,472.1 km
15h 32m$277–400Train to Salzburg Airport, fly
- Take the train from Wels Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Fly from Salzburg Airport (SZG) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane SZG - RIX
8h 5m$144–397Train to Munich International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Wels Hbf to Muenchen Osttrain
- Fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane MUC - RIX
7h 43m$147–399Train to Václav Havel Airport Prague, fly
- Take the train from Linz Hbf to Praha Hlavni Nadrazitrain
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane PRG - RIX
9h 51m$112–317Train to Graz Airport, fly
- Take the train from Linz Hbf to Graz Hbftrain
- Fly from Graz Airport (GRZ) to Riga International Airport (RIX)plane GRZ - RIX
12h 56m$308–585Bus
- Take the bus from Wels to Munich central bus stationbus 951
- Take the bus from Munich central bus station to Riga, Bus Stationbus N1230
31h 35m$145–245Bus via Kraków
- Take the bus from Wels to Wien Hauptbahnhofbus
- Take the bus from Vienna, Central Station Südtiroler Platz to Kraków, Dworzec Autobusowy MDAbus
- Take the bus from Kraków to Rīgabus
35h 52m
Wels to Riga by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Wels to Riga is to train which costs $75 - $140 and takes 24h 19m.
The fastest way to get from Wels to Riga is to train and fly which takes 6h 39m and costs $90 - $300.
No, there is no direct bus from Wels to Riga station. However, there are services departing from Wels and arriving at Riga, Bus Station via Munich central bus station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 31h 35m.
No, there is no direct train from Wels to Riga. However, there are services departing from Wels Hbf and arriving at Rīgas Centrālā stacija via Linz Hbf, Warszawa Centralna, Mockava and Kaišiadorys. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 24h 19m.
The distance between Wels and Riga is 1334 km. The road distance is 1472.1 km.
The best way to get from Wels to Riga without a car is to train which takes 24h 19m and costs $75 - $140.
It takes approximately 6h 39m to get from Wels to Riga, including transfers.
Wels to Riga bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Wels station.
Wels to Riga train services, operated by ÖBB Intercity, depart from Linz Hbf station.
The best way to get from Wels to Riga is to train which takes 24h 19m and costs $75 - $140. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs $140 - $250 and takes 31h 35m.
What companies run services between Wels, Austria and Riga, Latvia?
You can take a train from Wels Hbf to Rīgas Centrālā stacija via Linz Hbf, Warszawa Centralna, Mockava, and Kaišiadorys in around 24h 19m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Wels to Riga, Bus Station via Munich central bus station in around 31h 35m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Riga International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $140–600
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–350
Flights from Graz Airport to Riga International Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 26m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $140–550
Flights from Graz Airport to Riga International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $150–600
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–250
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Riga International Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–390
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–350
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–200
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Riga International Airport via Vilnius
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–200
Flights from Graz Airport to Riga International Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $140–550
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Riga International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–310
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $150–250
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
- $130–210
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $45–190
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–180
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Riga International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $80–250
Flights from Graz Airport to Riga International Airport via Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $130–470
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $85–380
Flights from Munich International Airport to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–140
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Riga International Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–340
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Graz Airport to Riga International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $160–600
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Wels Hbf to Flughafen Wien
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $55–90
- 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 Linz Hbf to Warszawa Centralna
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 14m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $210–320
- 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
- $25–40
- 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 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 Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $22–35
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- $22–35
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Linz Hbf to Warszawa Centralna
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 22m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $30–50
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- 2nd Class
- $30–45
- 1st Class
- $35–50
Train from Warszawa Centralna to Mockava
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 46m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $16–27
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- 2nd Class
- $16–23
- 1st Class
- $21–27
- Phone
- +370 700 55 111
- informacija@ltglink.lt
- Website
- ltglink.lt
Train from Mockava to Kaišiadorys
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $8–12
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
Train from Kaišiadorys to Rīgas Centrālā stacija
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $16–21
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Linz Hbf to Praha Hlavni Nadrazi
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $60–85
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
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
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- meinenachricht@westbahn.at
- Website
- westbahn.at
Train from Wels Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $22–55
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
- Standard Ticket
- $22–35
- First Class
- $40–55
Train from Wels Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 19m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $45–120
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
- Standard Ticket
- $45–70
- First Class
- $85–120
Train from Wels Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $21–30
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Linz Hbf to Graz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $50–75
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
- 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
- $45–110
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Wels to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $15–26
- 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
- $130–220
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +389 46 787 312
- info@eurobus.mk
- Website
- eurobus.mk
Bus from Wels to Wien Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 19m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $11–15
- Schedules at
- eurobus.mk
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.com
Bus from Vienna, Central Station Südtiroler Platz to Kraków, Dworzec Autobusowy MDA
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $35–55
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
- Phone
- +373 789 18 888
- info@busline.md
- Website
- busline.md
Bus from Kraków to Rīga
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 47m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Website
- https://busline.md/en/
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More Questions & Answers
Wels to Riga bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Munich central bus station.
Riga is 1h ahead of Wels. It is currently 8:00 AM in Wels and 9:00 AM in Riga.
Wels to Riga train services, operated by ÖBB Intercity, arrive at Warszawa Centralna station.
Yes, the driving distance between Wels to Riga is 1472 km. It takes approximately 15h 32m to drive from Wels to Riga.
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