There are 11 ways to get from Austria to Bilbao by plane, train, bus, car, or train (TGV, Renfe)
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly from Vienna International Airport
best- Fly from Vienna International Airport (VIE) to Bilbao Airport (BIO)plane VIE - BIO
5h 48m€71–270Train, bus via Antony
- Take the train from Wien Westbahnhof to Hauptbahnhoftrain Drf / ...
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof to Strasbourg Bahnhoftrain 83
- Take the train from Strasbourg to Massy Tgvtrain Tgv
- Take the train from Massy Tgv to St Jean De Luz Cibouretrain Tgv
- Take the bus from Saint-Jean-de-Luz to Bilbao Intermodalbus
22h 37m€393–675Bus via Lyon
- Take the bus from Vienna Erdberg to Lyonbus FlixBus N882 / ...
- Take the bus from Lyon to Bilbaobus FlixBus N1149 / ...
31h 42m€177–272Drive 1,909.4 km
- Drive from Vienna to Bilbaocar 1,909.4 km
19h 41m€322–465Fly from Salzburg Airport
- Fly from Salzburg Airport (SZG) to Bilbao Airport (BIO)plane SZG - BIO
7h 15m€99–286Fly from Graz Airport
- Fly from Graz Airport (GRZ) to Bilbao Airport (BIO)plane GRZ - BIO
8h 13m€175–349Fly from Linz Airport
- Fly from Linz Airport (LNZ) to Bilbao Airport (BIO)plane LNZ - BIO
9h 2m€155–397Train to Munich International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Salzburg Hbf to Muenchen Osttrain
- Fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to Bilbao Airport (BIO)plane MUC - BIO
7h 56m€105–269Train
- Take the train from Wien Westbahnhof to Hauptbahnhoftrain Drf / ...
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof to Strasbourg Bahnhoftrain 83
- Take the train from Strasbourg to Lyon Part Dieutrain Tgv
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Barcelona-Santstrain
- Take the train from Barcelona-Sants to Bilbao-Abandotrain Alv
29h 14m€404–677Bus
- Take the bus from Wien Hbf to Maribor, Avtobusna Postajabus
- Take the bus from Maribor, Avtobusna Postaja to Padovabus
- Take the bus from Padova to Bilbao Intermodalbus
32h 14m€287–1,442Train, bus
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Venezia Mestretrain Rjx
- Take the bus from Padova to Bilbao Intermodalbus
32h 31m€205–347
Austria to Bilbao by subway, train, and bus
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Austria to Bilbao is to fly which costs €70 - €270 and takes 5h 48m.
The fastest way to get from Austria to Bilbao is to fly which takes 5h 48m and costs €70 - €270.
No, there is no direct bus from Austria to Bilbao. However, there are services departing from Vienna Erdberg and arriving at Bilbao via Lyon. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 31h 42m.
No, there is no direct train from Austria to Bilbao. However, there are services departing from Stephansplatz and arriving at Bilbao-Abando via Wien Westbahnhof, Hauptbahnhof, Strasbourg, Lyon Part Dieu and Barcelona-Sants. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 29h 14m.
The distance between Austria and Bilbao is 1633 km. The road distance is 1909.4 km.
The best way to get from Austria to Bilbao without a car is to train and bus via Antony which takes 22h 37m and costs €390 - €700.
It takes approximately 5h 48m to get from Austria to Bilbao, including transfers.
Austria to Bilbao bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Vienna Erdberg station.
Austria to Bilbao train services, operated by WESTbahn Gmbh, depart from Wien Westbahnhof station.
The best way to get from Austria to Bilbao is to fly which takes 5h 48m and costs €70 - €270. Alternatively, you can bus via Lyon, which costs €170 - €280 and takes 31h 42m, you could also train, which costs €400 - €700 and takes 29h 14m.
What companies run services between Austria and Bilbao, Spain?
Austrian Airlines, Edelweiss Air, and Lufthansa fly from Vienna International Airport (VIE) to Bilbao Airport (BIO) 4 times a day. Alternatively, you can take a subway from Stephansplatz to Bilbao via Erdberg, Vienna Erdberg, and Lyon in around 31h 42m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Bilbao Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–330
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Bilbao Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 26m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €130–470
Flights from Graz Airport to Bilbao Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €140–550
Flights from Graz Airport to Bilbao Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €150–550
Flights from Linz Airport to Bilbao Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €150–550
Flights from Munich International Airport to Bilbao Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–160
Flights from Munich International Airport to Bilbao Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–350
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Bilbao Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–340
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Bilbao Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 26m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €130–470
Flights from Graz Airport to Bilbao Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €150–550
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Vienna International Airport to Bilbao Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–340
Flights from Graz Airport to Bilbao Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 40m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–550
Flights from Munich International Airport to Bilbao Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–160
Flights from Munich International Airport to Bilbao Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–340
- Website
- vueling.com
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Bilbao Airport via Barcelona
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €95–380
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Bilbao Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–380
Flights from Linz Airport to Bilbao Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–450
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Salzburg Airport to Bilbao Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €100–380
Flights from Graz Airport to Bilbao Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €170–340
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- [email protected]
- Website
- Westbahn
Train from Wien Westbahnhof to Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 31m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €130–220
- Website
- Westbahn
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €28–45
- Website
- Westbahn
Train from Wien Westbahnhof to Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 31m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €130–220
- Website
- Westbahn
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Hauptbahnhof to Strasbourg Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €27–65
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €24–55
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Hauptbahnhof to Strasbourg Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €27–65
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Strasbourg to Massy Tgv
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 3m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €100–150
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Massy Tgv to St Jean De Luz Ciboure
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 24m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €140–220
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Strasbourg to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 13m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €100–150
- Website
- TGV inOui
Rome2Rio's guide to Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF)
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Strasbourg to Massy Tgv
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 1m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €85–150
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Strasbourg to Lyon Part Dieu
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €85–150
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
- Phone
- +49 30 200 73-0
- [email protected]
- Website
- Transdev GmbH
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €26–40
- Schedules at
- Transdev GmbH
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 9m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €26–40
- Website
- Belgian Railways
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €33–38
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Phone
- +43 (0)5 1717
- Website
- Railjet
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- *
- €25–40
Train from Wien Hbf to Venezia Mestre
- *
- €90–140
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €15–28
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- [email protected]
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €13–19
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- [email protected]
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €6–8
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
- Phone
- +34 91 232 03 20
- Website
- Renfe Viajeros
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Barcelona-Sants
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 48m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Website
- Renfe Viajeros
Train from Barcelona-Sants to Bilbao-Abando
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 3m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Website
- Renfe Viajeros
- Phone
- +3 318 576 2228
- Website
- BlaBlaCar Bus
Bus from Saint-Jean-de-Luz to Bilbao Intermodal
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €9–17
- Website
- BlaBlaCar Bus
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Saint-Jean-de-Luz to Bilbao Intermodal
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €11–18
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Vienna Erdberg to Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 10m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €100–150
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Lyon to Bilbao
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €75–120
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- [email protected]
- Website
- GoOpti
Bus from Wien Hbf to Maribor, Avtobusna Postaja
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €69–490
- Website
- GoOpti
- Shared
- €69
- Private
- €345
Bus from Maribor, Avtobusna Postaja to Padova
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €111–800
- Website
- GoOpti
- Shared
- €111
- Private
- €411
- Phone
- +4-0263-21.55.00
- Website
- tabitatour.ro
Bus from Padova to Bilbao Intermodal
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 9m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €110–150
- Schedules at
- tabitatour.ro
Bus from Padova to Bilbao Intermodal
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 9m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €110–150
- Schedules at
- tabitatour.ro
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Booking & Getting There
Austria to Bilbao bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Lyon station.
Austria to Bilbao train services, operated by WESTbahn Gmbh, arrive at Hauptbahnhof station.
Yes, the driving distance between Austria to Bilbao is 1909 km. It takes approximately 19h 41m to drive from Austria to Bilbao.
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