There are 10 ways to get from Chania to Bologna by plane, car ferry, bus, busferry, train, shuttle, or ferry
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Fly Chania International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
best- Fly from Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane CHQ - BLQ
5h 12m€47–213Car ferry, bus, bus and ferry, train
- Take the carferry from Port of Souda to Port of Piraeuscarferry
- Take the bus from Piraeus to Durrësbus
- Take the busferry from Durrës to Bari Portobusferry
- Take the train from Bari Centrale to Bologna Centraletrain Fr
34h 24mBus and ferry, car ferry, train
- Take the busferry from Chania to Patrabusferry
- Take the carferry from Port of Patras to Port of Anconacarferry
- Take the train from Ancona to Bologna Centraletrain Fr
38h 26m€217–344Private transfer to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”, fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Take a shuttle bus from Chania - Casa Delfino to Heraklion Airport
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane HER - BLQ
6h 32m€198–1,040Fly Chania International Airport to Florence Peretola Airport, train
- Fly from Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Florence Peretola Airport (FLR)plane CHQ - FLR
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centraletrain
8h 30m€133–375Fly Chania International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport, train
- Fly from Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)plane CHQ - VCE
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centraletrain
9h 11m€102–261Fly Chania International Airport to Treviso Airport, train
- Fly from Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Treviso Airport (TSF)plane CHQ - TSF
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centraletrain
7h 38m€96–265Bus and ferry, bus
- Take the busferry from Chania to Port of Piraeusbusferry
- Take the bus from Piraeus to Durrësbus
- Take the busferry from Durrës to Bologna Centralebusferry
35h 46mBus and ferry, ferry, train
- Take the busferry from Chania to Patrabusferry
- Take the ferry from Patras to Ancona M.Maferry Asf
- Take the train from Ancona to Bologna Centraletrain Fr
39h 26m€217–344Private transfer, bus and ferry
- Take a shuttle bus from Porto Veneziano Hotel, Chania Town to Heraklion Port
- Take the busferry from Heraklion Port to Tiranabusferry
- Take the busferry from Tirana to Bologna Centralebusferry
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Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Chania to Bologna is to fly and train which costs €95 - €270 and takes 7h 38m.
The fastest way to get from Chania to Bologna is to fly which takes 5h 12m and costs €45 - €220.
No, there is no direct bus from Chania to Bologna. However, there are services departing from Chania and arriving at Bologna Centrale via Piraeus and Durrës. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 35h 46m.
The distance between Chania and Bologna is 1499 km.
The best way to get from Chania to Bologna without a car is to car ferry and bus and bus and ferry and train which takes 34h 24m and costs .
It takes approximately 5h 12m to get from Chania to Bologna, including transfers.
Chania to Bologna bus services, operated by KTEL Chanion-Rethymnou S.A, depart from Chania station.
Chania to Bologna bus services, operated by KTEL Chanion-Rethymnou S.A, arrive at Port of Piraeus station.
Bologna is 1h behind Chania. It is currently 11:53 PM in Chania and 10:53 PM in Bologna.
There are 3632+ hotels available in Bologna.
What companies run services between Chania, Greece and Bologna, Italy?
Ryanair flies from Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ) 6 times a week.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Chania International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €40–200
Flights from Chania International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–200
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €50–220
Flights from Chania International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €75–130
Flights from Chania International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €75–130
Flights from Chania International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–130
Flights from Chania International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–130
Flights from Chania International Airport to Treviso Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €85–210
Flights from Chania International Airport to Treviso Airport via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Tuesday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €85–210
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Chania International Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 23m
- When
- Friday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–550
Flights from Chania International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Friday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €110–420
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–220
Flights from Chania International Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 17m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–350
Flights from Chania International Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–290
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Chania International Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–320
Flights from Chania International Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €70–290
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Chania International Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €120–550
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Chania International Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 25m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €110–320
- Phone
- +39 06 5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Bari Centrale to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €85–150
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Ancona to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €28–50
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €12–22
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–35
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–35
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Ancona to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €28–50
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Bari Centrale to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 6m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €65–130
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Ancona to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €21–40
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €9–18
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €16–30
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €16–30
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Ancona to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €21–40
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Ancona to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 41m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €24–35
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €11–15
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–25
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–25
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Ancona to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 41m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €24–35
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Ancona to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 18m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–75
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Ancona to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 18m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–75
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €11–18
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €18–29
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €18–29
- Website
- Italo Treno
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- [email protected]
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €27–70
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
- 1st Class
- €45–70
- 2nd Class
- €27–40
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Piraeus to Durrës
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 2m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €50
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355697278670
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Busferry from Durrës to Bari Porto
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 33m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- autobus.al
Busferry from Durrës to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 23m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €117
- Schedules at
- autobus.al
- Phone
- +393293958604
- [email protected]
- Website
- pistoia-viaggi.it
Busferry from Durrës to Bari Porto
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 14m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- pistoia-viaggi.it
- Phone
- +302821093052
- [email protected]
- Website
- KTEL Chanion-Rethymnou S.A
Busferry from Chania to Patra
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 32m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €40
- Website
- KTEL Chanion-Rethymnou S.A
Busferry from Chania to Port of Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Website
- KTEL Chanion-Rethymnou S.A
Busferry from Chania to Patra
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 32m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €40
- Website
- KTEL Chanion-Rethymnou S.A
- Phone
- +30 693-724-9486
- [email protected]
- Website
- Crete Taxi Transfers
Shuttle from Chania - Casa Delfino to Heraklion Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €120–240
- Website
- Crete Taxi Transfers
- Car (4 passengers)
- €120–180
- Mini Van (8 passengers)
- €200–230
- Mini Bus (10 passengers)
- €220–240
Shuttle from Porto Veneziano Hotel, Chania Town to Heraklion Port
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €120–240
- Website
- Crete Taxi Transfers
- Car (4 passengers)
- €120–180
- Mini Van (8 passengers)
- €200–220
- Mini Bus (10 passengers)
- €220–240
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Piraeus to Durrës
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +355 42 239 203 / +355 69 400 4075
- [email protected]
- Website
- Alb Trans
Busferry from Heraklion Port to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- Alb Trans
- Phone
- +355697580270
- Website
- mabaviaggi.com
Busferry from Tirana to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- viaggipullmanalbania.it
- Phone
- +30 210 89 19 800
- [email protected]
- Website
- ANEK Lines
Car ferry from Port of Souda to Port of Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–140
- Website
- ANEK Lines
- Economy
- €35–55
- Airplane-type seats
- €40–60
- 2 beds - outside cabin
- €100–140
- Phone
- +30 2108919800
- [email protected]
- Website
- Superfast Ferries
Car ferry from Port of Patras to Port of Ancona
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €150–220
- Website
- Superfast Ferries
Ferry from Patras to Ancona M.Ma
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €150–220
- Website
- Superfast Ferries
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