There are 9 ways to get from Helsinki to Plovdiv by plane, train, bus, night train, car, or ferry
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Fly Helsinki Airport to Sofia Airport, train
best- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane HEL - SOF
- Take the train from Iskarsko Shose to Plovdivtrain
10h 47m$127–352Fly Helsinki Airport to Bucharest Otopeni, night train, train
cheapest- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane HEL - OTP
- Take the nighttrain from Bucharest to Dimitrovgradnighttrain
- Take the train from Dimitrovgrad to Plovdivtrain
12h 25m$112–371Bus
- Take the bus from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 to Tallinn, Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Tallinn, Bus Station to Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvarbus
- Take the bus from Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar to Plovdivbus
46h 36m$228–357Bus, train, night train via Vienna
- Take the bus from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 to Kaunas, Bus Stationbus
- Take the train from Kaunas to Warszawa Centralnatrain
- Take the train from Warszawa Centralna to Wien Hbftrain Ic
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Bucuresti Nordtrain 347
- Take the nighttrain from Bucharest to Dimitrovgradnighttrain
- Take the train from Dimitrovgrad to Plovdivtrain Re / ...
2d 5h$423–760Drive 4,770.6 km
- Drive from Helsinki to Plovdivcar 4,770.6 km
2d 3h$1,009–1,458Ferry to Lennart Meri International Airport, fly to Sofia Airport, train
- Take the ferry from Helsinki Terminal 2 to Tallinnferry
- Fly from Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane TLL - SOF
- Take the train from Iskarsko Shose to Plovdivtrain
13h 5m$123–303Fly Helsinki Airport to Plovdiv Airport
- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Plovdiv Airport (PDV)plane HEL - PDV
12h 3m$210–612Ferry, bus, train
- Take the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinnferry
- Take the bus from Tallinn, Harbour Terminal D to Zhytomyrbus
- Take the bus from Zhytomyr Bus Station to Stara Zagorabus
- Take the train from Stara Zagora to Plovdivtrain Re / ...
2d 7h$185–262Bus, train, night train
- Take the bus from Helsinki, Bus Station to Tallinn, Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Tallinn to Chisinau, Gara Feroviarabus
- Take the train from Chisinau to Bucuresti Nordtrain 401
- Take the nighttrain from Bucharest to Stara Zagoranighttrain
- Take the train from Stara Zagora to Plovdivtrain Re / ...
3d 5h$253–564
Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Sofia Airport (SOF) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Helsinki to Plovdiv is to ferry and fly and train which costs $120 - $310 and takes 13h 5m.
The fastest way to get from Helsinki to Plovdiv is to fly and train which takes 10h 47m and costs $120 - $360.
No, there is no direct bus from Helsinki to Plovdiv. However, there are services departing from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 and arriving at Plovdiv via Tallinn, Bus Station and Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 46h 36m.
The distance between Helsinki and Plovdiv is 2137 km. The road distance is 4770.6 km.
The best way to get from Helsinki to Plovdiv without a car is to bus which takes 46h 36m and costs $220 - $360.
It takes approximately 10h 47m to get from Helsinki to Plovdiv, including transfers.
Helsinki to Plovdiv bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 station.
The best way to get from Helsinki to Plovdiv is to bus which takes 46h 36m and costs $220 - $360. Alternatively, you can fly, which costs $210 - $650 and takes 12h 3m.
Helsinki to Plovdiv bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Tallinn, Bus Station.
Yes, the driving distance between Helsinki to Plovdiv is 4771 km. It takes approximately 2 days 3h to drive from Helsinki to Plovdiv.
What companies run services between Helsinki, Finland and Plovdiv, Bulgaria?
You can take a bus from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 to Plovdiv via Tallinn, Bus Station and Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar in around 46h 36m. Alternatively, Ryanair, Ryanair UK, and Finnair fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Plovdiv Airport (PDV) 4 times a week.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $140–390
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Sofia Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $95–200
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Plovdiv Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 37m
- When
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $210–650
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Plovdiv Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 55m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $220–650
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Sofia Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 17m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $200–440
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Sofia Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $90–350
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95–340
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $140–390
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–220
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Sofia Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $90–220
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Sofia Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–340
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Sofia Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $120–270
- Website
- air.bg
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Sofia Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $200–440
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Sofia Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $120–410
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $150–410
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $95–380
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Plovdiv Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 8h
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $200–600
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $95–320
- Phone
- +359 2 931 11 11
- bdz_passengers@bdz.bg
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
Train from Iskarsko Shose to Plovdiv
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $2–5
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $2–4
- 1st Class
- $3–5
Night train from Bucharest to Dimitrovgrad
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 39m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $6–27
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $6–9
- 1st Class
- $7–9
Train from Dimitrovgrad to Plovdiv
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $1–3
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $1–3
- 1st Class
- $2–3
Train from Iskarsko Shose to Plovdiv
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 19m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $2–5
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $2–4
- 1st Class
- $3–5
Night train from Bucharest to Dimitrovgrad
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 39m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $6–27
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $6–9
- 1st Class
- $7–9
Train from Dimitrovgrad to Plovdiv
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $1–3
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $1–3
- 1st Class
- $2–3
Train from Stara Zagora to Plovdiv
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $1–4
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $1–3
- 1st Class
- $2–4
Night train from Bucharest to Stara Zagora
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 11m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $5–23
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $5–8
- 1st Class
- $6–8
Train from Stara Zagora to Plovdiv
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $1–4
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $1–3
- 1st Class
- $2–4
- Phone
- +370 700 55 111
- informacija@ltglink.lt
- Website
- LTG Link
Train from Kaunas to Warszawa Centralna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $23–35
- Website
- LTG Link
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- sekretariat@intercity.pl
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Warszawa Centralna to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $80–160
- Website
- PKP Intercity
- Phone
- _AUSTRIAN_RAILWAYS_(ÖBB)
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Wien Hbf to Bucuresti Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $250–440
- Website
- Austrian Railways
- Phone
- (+373) 22 83 33 33
- cfm@railway.md
- Website
- Moldovan Railways (CFM)
Train from Chisinau to Bucuresti Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 48m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $19–35
- Schedules at
- Moldovan Railways (CFM)
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 to Tallinn, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $8–12
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Tallinn, Bus Station to Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 6m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $160–250
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Helsinki, Harbour Terminal 2 to Kaunas, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $60–95
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Helsinki, Bus Station to Tallinn, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $8–13
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +359 2 812 0 812
- operations@eurolines.bg
- Website
- karat-s.com
Bus from Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar to Plovdiv
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $60–95
- Schedules at
- karat-s.com
- Phone
- +38 (067) 467-44-00
- transtempo@ukr.net
- Website
- TransTempo
Bus from Tallinn, Harbour Terminal D to Zhytomyr
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $95–130
- Website
- TransTempo
- Phone
- +380 (93) 320-44-44
- help@gunsel.ua
- Website
- Gunsel
Bus from Zhytomyr Bus Station to Stara Zagora
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 35m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $75–100
- Website
- Gunsel
- Phone
- +373 789 18 888
- info@busline.md
- Website
- Express Busline
Bus from Tallinn to Chisinau, Gara Feroviara
- Ave. Duration
- 2d 3h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $220–490
- Website
- Express Busline
- Phone
- 06000 4300
- Website
- eckeroline.fi
Ferry from Helsinki Terminal 2 to Tallinn
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $19–35
- Schedules at
- Eckeroline
- Economy
- $22–35
- Phone
- +358 3 4399880
- individual.sales@vikingline.com
- Website
- Viking Line
Ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $14–29
- Website
- Viking Line
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