There are 13 ways to get from Cologne to Banja Luka by train, bus, car, car train, plane, or shuttle
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Train, bus via Augsburg
best- Take the train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Augsburg Hbftrain 47 / ...
- Take the bus from Augsburg Hbf to Prijedorbus
- Take the train from Prijedor to Banja Lukatrain
13h 23mFly Cologne Bonn Airport to Split Airport, bus
cheapest- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Split Airport (SPU)plane CGN - SPU
- Take the bus from Split Bus Station to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanicabus
9h 51m$129–362Drive, car train
- Drive from Cologne to Fuldacar
- Take the car train from Fulda to Villach Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Villach Hbf to Banja Lukacar
15h 45m$225–317Drive 1,257 km
- Drive from Cologne to Banja Lukacar 1,257 km
11h 6m$207–299Fly Cologne Bonn Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport, bus
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport (ZAG)plane CGN - ZAG
- Take the bus from Velika Gorica to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanicabus
9h 10mTrain, bus
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Frankfurt(Main)Hbftrain Ice
- Take the bus from Frankfurt(Main)Hbf to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanicabus
19h 34m$139–276Bus
- Take the bus from Cologne to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanicabus
21h 30mTrain to Dortmund Airport, fly to Mahovljani Airport
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Holzwickedetrain
- Fly from Dortmund Airport (DTM) to Mahovljani Airport (BNX)plane DTM - BNX
6h 53mTrain to Frankfurt, fly to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport, bus
- Take the train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport (ZAG)plane FRA - ZAG
- Take the bus from Velika Gorica to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanicabus
9h 35mFly Düsseldorf International Airport to Split Airport, bus
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Split Airport (SPU)plane DUS - SPU
- Take the bus from Split Bus Station to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanicabus
10h 25m$146–437Fly Cologne Bonn Airport to Zadar Airport, bus
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Zadar Airport (ZAD)plane CGN - ZAD
- Take the bus from Zadar, Autobusni Kolodvor to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanicabus
11h 4m$135–419Fly Cologne Bonn Airport to Tuzla International Airport, bus, train
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Tuzla International Airport (TZL)plane CGN - TZL
- Take the bus from Tuzla, Autobuska Stanica to Doboj, Autobuska Stanicabus
- Take the train from Doboj to Banja Lukatrain
10h 3mTrain to Frankfurt, fly to Ljubljana, shuttle, bus
- Take the train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Ljubljana (LJU)plane FRA - LJU
- Take a shuttle bus from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Zagreb
- Take the bus from Zagreb, Autobusni Kolodvor to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanicabus
10h 45m$201–1,048
Cologne to Banja Luka by train and bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Cologne to Banja Luka is to train and bus which costs $130 - $280 and takes 19h 34m.
The fastest way to get from Cologne to Banja Luka is to fly and bus which takes 9h 51m and costs $120 - $370.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from Cologne and arriving at Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica. Services depart once a week, and operate Saturday. The journey takes approximately 21h 30m.
The distance between Cologne and Banja Luka is 1389 km. The road distance is 1257 km.
The best way to get from Cologne to Banja Luka without a car is to train and bus via Augsburg which takes 13h 23m and costs .
It takes approximately 13h 23m to get from Cologne to Banja Luka, including transfers.
Cologne to Banja Luka bus services, operated by Bakic Reisen, depart from Cologne station.
Cologne to Banja Luka bus services, operated by Bakic Reisen, arrive at Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica station.
Yes, the driving distance between Cologne to Banja Luka is 1257 km. It takes approximately 11h 6m to drive from Cologne to Banja Luka.
There are 1012+ hotels available in Banja Luka.
What companies run services between Cologne, Germany and Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Bakic Reisen operates a bus from Cologne to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica once a week, and the journey takes 21h 30m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 33m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $55–400
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Split Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- When
- Friday, Monday, and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $120–440
Flights from Frankfurt to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 24m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–290
Flights from Frankfurt to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–290
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Split Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $120–460
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Split Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- When
- Friday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $120–490
Flights from Frankfurt to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $140–340
Flights from Frankfurt to Ljubljana via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $140–340
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–220
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Split Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–270
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Split Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–240
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Split Airport via Hamburg
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $100–240
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Zadar Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $95–290
- Website
- croatiaairlines.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 24m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–290
Flights from Frankfurt to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Split Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $100–290
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Split Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $120–460
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $55–220
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Split Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–270
Flights from Frankfurt to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Wednesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $100–370
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Split Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $130–460
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $180–320
Flights from Frankfurt to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $100–290
Flights from Frankfurt to Ljubljana via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $130–450
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Dortmund Airport to Mahovljani Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–330
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Zadar Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $45–250
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Tuzla International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $30–340
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Augsburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 41m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $110–470
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Koeln Hbf to Frankfurt(Main)Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $35–160
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $35–150
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $35–150
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +387 53 241 368
- [email protected]
- Website
- zrs-rs.com
Train from Prijedor to Banja Luka
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 26m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $5
- Schedules at
- zrs-rs.com
Train from Doboj to Banja Luka
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $7
- Schedules at
- zrs-rs.com
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- [email protected]
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Fulda to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 1m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $110–140
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Koeln Hbf to Frankfurt(Main)Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $23–50
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +49 221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Koeln Hbf to Holzwickede
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 16m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +387 61 197 121
- Website
- evropatours.com
Bus from Augsburg Hbf to Prijedor
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 16m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- evropatours.com
- Phone
- +385 (0)98 610 311
- [email protected]
- Website
- pepeks.hr
Bus from Velika Gorica to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- pepeks.hr
Bus from Velika Gorica to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- pepeks.hr
Bus from Zagreb, Autobusni Kolodvor to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Schedules at
- pepeks.hr
- Phone
- +387 63 330 312
- [email protected]
- Website
- cicko.eu
Bus from Frankfurt(Main)Hbf to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- cicko-tg.com
- Phone
- +387 34 206 501
- Website
- livnobus.com
Bus from Frankfurt(Main)Hbf to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $116
- Schedules at
- livnobus.com
- Phone
- +49 7476 9476939
- [email protected]
- Website
- bakic-reisen.com
Bus from Cologne to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- bakic-reisen.com
- Phone
- +387 51 211-850
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Split Bus Station to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 47m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Bus from Split Bus Station to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 47m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +387 51 215-725
- [email protected]
- Website
- bocactours.com
Bus from Split Bus Station to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 11m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $26–29
- Schedules at
- bocactours.com
Bus from Split Bus Station to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 11m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $26–29
- Schedules at
- bocactours.com
- Phone
- +387 066 890 490
- [email protected]
- Website
- touristcompany.ba
Bus from Zadar, Autobusni Kolodvor to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $70–110
- Schedules at
- touristcompany.ba
- Phone
- +387 62 788 723
- [email protected]
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tuzla, Autobuska Stanica to Doboj, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Website
- https://www.facebook.com/zettours2tesanj/
- Phone
- +387 65 042 685
- [email protected]
Bus from Tuzla, Autobuska Stanica to Doboj, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- https://www.facebook.com/rockobratunac/
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- [email protected]
- Website
- goopti.com
Shuttle from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Zagreb
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 6m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $30–600
- Website
- https://www.goopti.com/en/
- Shared
- $30–85
- Private
- $160–210
- Phone
- +385 (0) 91 6113 073
- [email protected]
- Website
- croatiabus.hr
Bus from Zagreb, Autobusni Kolodvor to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- croatiabus.hr
- Phone
- +387 (0)36 653 250
- [email protected]
- Website
- globtour.com
Bus from Zagreb, Autobusni Kolodvor to Banja Luka, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $15–19
- Website
- https://www.globtour.com/
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