There are 12 ways to get from Zwickau to Istanbul by train, plane, bus, night train, car or car train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2rio's travel planner.
Recommended option
Train to Leipzig, fly to Istanbul
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Take the train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig/Halle Flughafen
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Fly from Leipzig (LEJ) to Istanbul (IST)
Cheapest option
Bus via Plovdiv
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Take the bus from Chemnitz to Plovdiv
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Take the bus from Plovdiv Bus Station South to Istanbul Büyük Otogari
10 alternative options
Train, bus to Prague, fly to Istanbul
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Take the train from Zwickau(Sachs)Hbf to Karlovy Vary Dolni Nadrazi
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Take the bus from Karlovy Vary Terminal Bus Station to Prague Airport Terminal 1/2
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Fly from Prague (PRG) to Istanbul (IST)
Train, train to Nuremberg, fly to Istanbul
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Take the train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Hof Hbf
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Take the train from Hof Hbf to Nürnberg Hbf
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Fly from Nuremberg (NUE) to Istanbul (IST)
Train, bus to Prague, fly to Sabiha Gokcen
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Take the train from Zwickau(Sachs)Hbf to Karlovy Vary Dolni Nadrazi
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Take the bus from Karlovy Vary Terminal Bus Station to Prague Airport Terminal 1/2
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Fly from Prague (PRG) to Sabiha Gokcen (SAW)
Train, train to Berlin Brandenburg, fly to Istanbul
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Take the train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbf
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Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
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Fly from Berlin Brandenburg (BER) to Istanbul (IST)
Train, bus via Bratislava
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Take the train from Zwickau(Sachs)Hbf to Dresden Hbf
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Take the train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Decin hl.n.
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Take the train from Decin hl.n. to Bratislava hl.st.
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Take the bus from Bratislava to Sofia
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Take the train from Sofia to Halkali
Train, bus
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Take the train from Zwickau(Sachs)Hbf to Dresden Hbf
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Take the bus from Dresden Central Train Station to Sofia Serdica Bus Station
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Take the train from Sofia to Halkali
Train, bus, night train
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Take the train from Zwickau, Pölbitzer Bahnhof to Chemnitz, Hauptbahnhof
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Take the bus from Chemnitz to Stara Zagora
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Take the night train from Stara Zagora to Halkali
Bus
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Take the bus from Zwickau central train station to Prague
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Take the bus from Praha to Burgas
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Take the bus from Burgas to Malko Tarnovo
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Take the bus from Malko Tarnovo to Istanbul - Aksaray
Drive, car train
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Drive from Zwickau to Villach Hbf/Bbf
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Take the car train from Villach Hbf/Bbf to Edirne
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Drive from Edirne to Istanbul
Drive
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Drive from Zwickau to Istanbul
Zwickau to Istanbul by train and bus
Travel safe during COVID-19
International entry into Turkey from Germany
- Entry is unrestricted for citizens and permanent residents of Germany
Conditions of entry into Turkey from Germany
- There are no current restrictions
Rules to follow in Turkey
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, entry into Turkey is currently allowed from Germany.
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- Face masks are recommended
- There is a social distancing requirement of 2 metres
- Nationwide control measures in place
- Health pass is required for long-distance travel by plane, train or coach, as well as in some public venues
- Observe COVID-19 safety rules
The national COVID-19 helpline number in Istanbul is 184.
Wearing a face mask on public transport in Istanbul is recommended.
The social distance requirement in Istanbul is 2 metres.
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Questions & Answers
The most affordable way to get from Zwickau to Istanbul is to bus via Plovdiv, which costs €110 - €150 and takes 33h 4m.
The quickest way to get from Zwickau to Istanbul is to train and fly which costs €150 - €490 and takes 7h 8m.
No, there is no direct bus from Zwickau station to Istanbul. However, there are services departing from Zwickau central train station and arriving at Istanbul - Aksaray via Praha, Burgas and Malko Tarnovo. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 37h 26m.
The distance between Zwickau and Istanbul is 1664 km. The road distance is 2032.3 km.
The best way to get from Zwickau to Istanbul without a car is to bus via Plovdiv which takes 33h 4m and costs €110 - €150.
It takes approximately 7h 8m to get from Zwickau to Istanbul, including transfers.
Zwickau to Istanbul bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Zwickau central train station.
The quickest flight from Leipzig Airport to Istanbul Airport is the direct flight which takes 3h.
Zwickau to Istanbul bus services, operated by TransEvren, arrive at Istanbul - Aksaray station.
Istanbul is 2h ahead of Zwickau. It is currently 6:25 PM in Zwickau and 8:25 PM in Istanbul.
- Distance: 1664 km
- Duration: 7h 8m
What companies run services between Zwickau, Germany and Istanbul, Turkey?
You can take a bus from Zwickau to Istanbul via Chemnitz, Plovdiv, Plovdiv Bus Station South, Istanbul Büyük Otogari, and Otogar in around 33h 4m.
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Leipzig to Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- 2.400 ₺ - 9.500 ₺
Flights from Prague to Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 33m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 2.900 ₺ - 12.000 ₺
Flights from Nuremberg to Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 1.800 ₺ - 14.000 ₺
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg to Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 2.200 ₺ - 11.000 ₺
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg to Istanbul via Ankara
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- 2.200 ₺ - 11.000 ₺
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg to Istanbul via Izmir
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- 2.200 ₺ - 11.000 ₺
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Leipzig to Istanbul via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 4.200 ₺ - 15.000 ₺
Flights from Prague to Istanbul via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- 4.200 ₺ - 16.000 ₺
Flights from Nuremberg to Istanbul via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 3.800 ₺ - 16.000 ₺
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg to Istanbul via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 3.200 ₺ - 15.000 ₺
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Nuremberg to Istanbul via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 2m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- 2.600 ₺ - 13.000 ₺
Flights from Berlin Brandenburg to Istanbul via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- 2.000 ₺ - 8.500 ₺
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Prague to Istanbul via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- 2.800 ₺ - 11.000 ₺
- Website
- tarom.ro
Flights from Prague to Istanbul via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- 3.200 ₺ - 12.000 ₺
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Prague to Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 2.200 ₺ - 13.000 ₺
Deutsche Bahn’s regional network is made up of IRE (Interregio-Express), RE (Regional-Express), RB (Regionalbahn) and S-Bahn trains. Ticket prices are fixed and there’s no seat reservations – just turn up, buy a ticket and jump on the next train. All regional trains depart regularly and connect to local and long-distance services.
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 311682904
- Website
- bahn.com
Train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig/Halle Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- 340 ₺ - 480 ₺
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regional
Train from Hof Hbf to Nürnberg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 47m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- 500 ₺ - 750 ₺
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regional
Train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- 280 ₺ - 400 ₺
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regional
Train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Decin hl.n.
- Ave. Duration
- 48 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- 210 ₺ - 300 ₺
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regional
- Phone
- 0 89 54 888 97 - 25
- info@laenderbahn.com
- Website
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Zwickau(Sachs)Hbf to Karlovy Vary Dolni Nadrazi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 32m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Website
- Die Länderbahn
Train from Zwickau(Sachs)Hbf to Hof Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Website
- Die Länderbahn
- Phone
- 0341 231898288
- info@mitteldeutsche-regiobahn.de
- Website
- mitteldeutsche-regiobahn.de
Train from Zwickau, Hauptbahnhof to Hof Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn
Train from Zwickau, Pölbitzer Bahnhof to Chemnitz, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn
- Phone
- 030 200730
- Website
- transdev.de
Train from Zwickau(Sachs)Hbf to Hof Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- Transdev
Train from Zwickau(Sachs)Hbf to Dresden Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- Transdev
Train from Zwickau-Poelbitz to Chemnitz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- Transdev
German rail company Deutsche Bahn is known for its efficient and comfortable service. It offers many different types of rail transportation, including ICE or Intercity-Express for high-speed services between major cities and regions, IC (InterCity) for long-distance trains, RE (Regional Express) trains that connect regions and cities, and the S-Bahn rapid transit service. There are two main tickets on offer: the Flexpreis that has full flexibility, and the Sparpreis which is the cheaper, advanced fare (bookings usually open 6 months in advance for domestic tickets).
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 0180 6 99 66 33
- Website
- bahn.com
Train from Leipzig Hbf to S Südkreuz Bhf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- 700 ₺ - 1.000 ₺
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn
Train from Dresden Hauptbahnhof to Decin hl.n.
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- 390 ₺ - 550 ₺
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn
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- Phone
- +43 (0)5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Berlin Suedkreuz
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- 650 ₺ - 950 ₺
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from Decin hl.n. to Bratislava hl.st.
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 52m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- 500 ₺ - 900 ₺
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
- 2nd Class
- 500 ₺ - 650 ₺
- Business
- 700 ₺ - 850 ₺
- 1st Class
- 700 ₺ - 900 ₺
- Phone
- 0700 10 200
- Website
- bdz.bg
Train from Sofia to Halkali
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 54m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- 260 ₺ - 390 ₺
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- 260 ₺ - 320 ₺
- 1st Class
- 330 ₺ - 390 ₺
Night train from Stara Zagora to Halkali
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 28m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- 170 ₺ - 260 ₺
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- 170 ₺ - 210 ₺
- 1st Class
- 210 ₺ - 260 ₺
- Phone
- +49 89 54880111
- info@optimatours.de
- Website
- optimatours.de
Car train from Villach Hbf/Bbf to Edirne
- Ave. Duration
- 30h 59m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- optimatours.de
- Phone
- +420 542 42 42 42
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.com
Bus from Karlovy Vary Terminal Bus Station to Prague Airport Terminal 1/2
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- 95 ₺ - 140 ₺
- Website
- RegioJet
- Phone
- +359 879 321 588
- radinavip@gmail.com
- Website
- radinavip.com
Bus from Chemnitz to Plovdiv
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- 1.900 ₺ - 2.400 ₺
- Website
- Radina VIP
Bus from Dresden to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- 1.900 ₺ - 2.400 ₺
- Website
- Radina VIP
Bus from Chemnitz to Stara Zagora
- Ave. Duration
- 26h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- 1.900 ₺ - 2.400 ₺
- Website
- Radina VIP
- Phone
- 0700 20 544
- Website
- ardatur.bg
Bus from Plovdiv Bus Station South to Istanbul Büyük Otogari
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- 480 ₺ - 600 ₺
- Website
- Arda Tur
Bus from Dresden Central Train Station to Sofia Serdica Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- 1.300 ₺ - 1.700 ₺
- Website
- Arda Tur
- Phone
- +359 2 812 0810
- support@citylines.bg
- Website
- citylines.eu
Bus from Plovdiv Bus Station South to Istanbul Büyük Otogari
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- 280 ₺ - 470 ₺
- Website
- Citylines
Bus from Dresden to Sofia Serdica Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- 600 ₺ - 2.400 ₺
- Website
- Citylines
- Phone
- 02/989 0000
- Website
- union-ivkoni.com
Bus from Bratislava to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 2m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- 550 ₺ - 800 ₺
- Website
- Union Ivkoni
Bus from Dresden to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 3m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- 900 ₺ - 1.300 ₺
- Website
- Union Ivkoni
- Phone
- +359-887-208-506
- racic_bg@yahoo.com
- Website
- racicbg.com
Bus from Dresden Bayrische Strasse to Sofia Serdica Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 20h
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- 1.500 ₺ - 2.200 ₺
- Website
- Racic Eurobus
One of Europe’s leading bus companies, Flixbus serves 2000+ destinations in 29 countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands and Croatia and into Scandinavia and eastern Europe, as well as some US cities. Coaches have toilets, free WiFi and power outlets, plus snacks and drinks for purchase on board. Flixbus is a good choice for the budget-conscious traveller; purchase tickets in advance for the cheapest fares (note: there is no option to reserve a seat in advance).
Rome2rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.de
Bus from Zwickau central train station to Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- 300 ₺ - 370 ₺
- Website
- flixbus.co.uk
Frequently asked questions
- Phone
- + 359/38/66 34 04
- georg_ltd@abv.bg
- Website
- georg-bg.com
Bus from Praha to Burgas
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 30m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- 3.500 ₺ - 4.500 ₺
- Schedules at
- georg-bg.com
- Phone
- 056 844 966
- Website
- mbus-bg.com
Bus from Burgas to Malko Tarnovo
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- 80 ₺ - 170 ₺
- Schedules at
- mbus-bg.com
- Phone
- 05952/ 36 35
- park@strandja.bg
- Website
- strandja.bg
Bus from Burgas to Malko Tŭrnovo
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Schedules at
- strandja.bg
- Phone
- +4-0241-831.491
- transevren1@yahoo.com
- Website
- transevren.ro
Bus from Malko Tarnovo to Istanbul - Aksaray
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- 210 ₺ - 270 ₺
- Schedules at
- transevren.ro
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