There are 15 ways to get from Darlington to Sofia by plane, train, bus, night train, car, car train, busferry, or car ferry
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 Durham Tees Valley Airport
best- Fly from Durham Tees Valley Airport (MME) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane MME - SOF
9h 18m$273–804Train to Newcastle, fly
cheapest- Take the train from Darlington to Newcastletrain
- Fly from Newcastle (NCL) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane NCL - SOF
9h 26m$99–447Train, bus via Paris
- Take the train from Darlington to King's Crosstrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nordtrain Eil
- Take the train from Paris Est to Muenchen Hbftrain Tgv
- Take the train from Muenchen Hbf Gl.5-10 to Linz/Donau Hbftrain 967 / ...
- Take the bus from Linz to Sofia Knyaginya Maria Luiza Stationbus
33h 28m$665–968Train, night train
- Take the train from Darlington to King's Crosstrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Miditrain Eil
- Take the nighttrain from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Wien Hbfnighttrain Nj
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Bucuresti Nordtrain 347
- Take the nighttrain from Bucharest to Gorna Oryahovitsanighttrain
- Take the train from Gorna Oryahovitsa to Sofia Severtrain Ic / ...
47h 20m$571–1,195Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Darlington to Folkestonecar
- Take the cartrain from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthuncartrain
- Drive from Calais-Fréthun to Sofiacar
26h 10m$728–1,003Train, train to Manchester Airport, fly
- Take the train from Darlington to Leedstrain
- Take the train from Leeds to Manchester Airporttrain
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane MAN - SOF
8h 45m$112–394Train to Birmingham Airport, fly
- Take the train from Darlington to Birmingham New Streettrain
- Fly from Birmingham Airport (BHX) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane BHX - SOF
8h 23m$147–525Train to Leeds Bradford International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Darlington to Leedstrain
- Fly from Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBA) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane LBA - SOF
10h 15m$130–315Train to Liverpool, fly
- Take the train from Darlington to Liverpool Lime Streettrain
- Fly from Liverpool (LPL) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane LPL - SOF
9h 22m$156–313Train to Luton Airport, fly
- Take the train from Darlington to Stevenagetrain
- Fly from Luton Airport (LTN) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane LTN - SOF
9h 25m$161–479Train, train to London Stansted Airport, fly
- Take the train from Darlington to Peterboroughtrain
- Take the train from Peterborough to Stansted Airporttrain
- Fly from London Stansted Airport (STN) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane STN - SOF
9h 43m$155–595Bus
- Take the bus from Dolphin Centre to London Victoriabus 815
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Bucharestbus
- Take the bus from Bucharest to Sofia Central Bus Stationbus
44h 15m$257–291Train, bus
- Take the train from Darlington to King's Crosstrain
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Munich central bus stationbus
- Take the bus from Munich to Sofia Central Bus Stationbus
2d 2h$349–497Train, bus and ferry
- Take the train from Darlington to Manchester Victoriatrain
- Take the busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Craiova, Autogara Pelendava Nordbusferry
- Take the train from Craiova to Vidintrain
- Take the train from Vidin to Sofia Severtrain Ic
2d 11h$138–286Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Darlington to Port of Dovercar
- Take the carferry from Port of Dover to Calaiscarferry
- Drive from Calais to Sofiacar
27h 17m$605–952
Durham Tees Valley Airport (MME) to Sofia Airport (SOF) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Darlington to Sofia is to train and fly which costs $95 - $450 and takes 9h 26m.
The fastest way to get from Darlington to Sofia is to train and fly which takes 8h 23m and costs $140 - $550.
No, there is no direct bus from Darlington to Sofia station. However, there are services departing from Dolphin Centre and arriving at Sofia Central Bus Station via London Victoria and Bucharest. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 44h 15m.
No, there is no direct train from Darlington to Sofia. However, there are services departing from Darlington and arriving at Sofia Sever via London St Pancras Intl, Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi, Wien Hbf, Bucharest and Gorna Oryahovitsa. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 47h 20m.
The distance between Darlington and Sofia is 2252 km.
The best way to get from Darlington to Sofia without a car is to train and bus via Paris which takes 33h 28m and costs $650 - $1,000.
It takes approximately 9h 18m to get from Darlington to Sofia, including transfers.
Darlington to Sofia bus services, operated by National Express, depart from Dolphin Centre station.
Darlington to Sofia train services, operated by London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER), depart from Darlington station.
The best way to get from Darlington to Sofia is to fly which takes 9h 18m and costs $270 - $850. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs $250 - $300 and takes 44h 15m.
What companies run services between Darlington, England and Sofia, Bulgaria?
KLM and Bulgaria Air fly from Durham Tees Valley Airport (MME) to Sofia Airport (SOF) once daily. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Dolphin Centre to Sofia Central Bus Station via London Victoria and Bucharest in around 44h 15m.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Newcastle to Sofia Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–410
Flights from Newcastle to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 45m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $70–410
Flights from Newcastle to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $80–280
Flights from Manchester Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 8m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $60–160
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $45–280
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $95–320
Flights from Liverpool to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–210
Flights from London Stansted Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $40–240
Flights from London Stansted Airport to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $40–240
Flights from London Stansted Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 7m
- When
- Thursday and Monday
- Estimated price
- $40–240
Flights from London Stansted Airport to Sofia Airport via Memmingen
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $40–240
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Sofia Airport via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95–330
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Sofia Airport via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $80–320
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Sofia Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $70–320
Flights from Luton Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday
- Estimated price
- $29–290
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Sofia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–370
Flights from Manchester Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $100–370
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $85–400
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Sofia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $100–370
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Durham Tees Valley Airport to Sofia Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $270–800
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Sofia Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $170–480
- Website
- air.bg
Flights from Newcastle to Sofia Airport via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–290
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–260
Train from Darlington to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 31m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $100–150
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
Train from Darlington to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 31m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $100–150
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
Train from Darlington to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $15–22
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
Train from Darlington to Leeds
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $30–45
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
Train from Darlington to Leeds
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $30–45
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
Train from Darlington to Stevenage
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $90–130
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
Train from Darlington to Peterborough
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $65–100
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
Train from Darlington to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 31m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $100–150
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $200–330
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $170–270
- Website
- Eurostar
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Paris Est to Muenchen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 41m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $180–280
- Website
- TGV inOui
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- [email protected]
- Website
- Westbahn
Train from Muenchen Hbf Gl.5-10 to Linz/Donau Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $60–95
- Website
- Westbahn
- Phone
- +43 (0) 51717
- Website
- Nightjet
Night train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 51m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $70–170
- Website
- Nightjet
- Sleeper Carriage
- $130–170
- Couchette Carriage
- $100–120
- Seating Carriage
- $70–85
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Night train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 30m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $250–390
- Website
- Belgian Railways
- Phone
- _AUSTRIAN_RAILWAYS_(ÖBB)
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Wien Hbf to Bucuresti Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $220–380
- Website
- Austrian Railways
- Phone
- +359 2 931 11 11
- [email protected]
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
Night train from Bucharest to Gorna Oryahovitsa
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 14m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $3–6
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $3–5
- 1st Class
- $4–6
Train from Gorna Oryahovitsa to Sofia Sever
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 43m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $4–7
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $4–7
- 1st Class
- $5–7
Train from Vidin to Sofia Sever
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $4–6
- Website
- Bulgarian Railways (BDZh)
- 2nd Class
- $4–6
- 1st Class
- $4–6
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- [email protected]
- Website
- LeShuttle
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $156
- Website
- LeShuttle
- Standard fare
- $156
- Phone
- +44 3447 369 123
- [email protected]
- Website
- Cross Country
Train from Darlington to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 32 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $20–35
- Website
- Cross Country
Train from Darlington to Leeds
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $40–60
- Website
- Cross Country
Train from Darlington to Birmingham New Street
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $95–150
- Website
- Cross Country
Train from Darlington to Leeds
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $40–60
- Website
- Cross Country
Train from Peterborough to Stansted Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 29m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $40–60
- Website
- Cross Country
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- [email protected]
- Website
- TransPennine Express
Train from Darlington to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $13–23
- Website
- TransPennine Express
Train from Darlington to Leeds
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $27–45
- Website
- TransPennine Express
Train from Leeds to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $20–35
- Website
- TransPennine Express
Train from Darlington to Leeds
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $27–45
- Website
- TransPennine Express
Train from Darlington to Liverpool Lime Street
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 56m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $55–95
- Website
- TransPennine Express
Train from Darlington to Manchester Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $45–75
- Website
- TransPennine Express
- Phone
- +44 800 200 6060
- [email protected]
- Website
- Northern Trains Limited
Train from Darlington to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 39 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $15–29
- Website
- Northern Trains Limited
- Phone
- 0219521
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
Train from Craiova to Vidin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 13m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $12–14
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
- Phone
- 00359 2 971 11 11
- [email protected]
- Website
- Air Kona
Bus from Linz to Sofia Knyaginya Maria Luiza Station
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $121
- Website
- Air Kona
- Phone
- +44 (0)3717 81 81 81
- Website
- National Express
Bus from Dolphin Centre to London Victoria
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $60–100
- Website
- National Express
- Phone
- +40 745 766 766
- [email protected]
- Website
- maxibustravel.autogari.ro
Bus from London Victoria to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 30h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $161
- Schedules at
- maxibustravel.autogari.ro
- Phone
- +38(098) 343 8282
- [email protected]
- Website
- likebus.ua
Bus from Bucharest to Sofia Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $33
- Schedules at
- likebus.ua
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from London Victoria to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 45m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $120–190
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- 02 981 10 40
- [email protected]
- Website
- yubim.eu
Bus from Munich to Sofia Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $120–160
- Schedules at
- yubim.eu
- Phone
- 0040263701919
- [email protected]
- Website
- latinoexpres.ro
Busferry from Manchester Piccadilly to Craiova, Autogara Pelendava Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 45h 51m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $75–190
- Schedules at
- latinoexpres.ro
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- [email protected]
- Website
- Irish Ferries
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $30–100
- Website
- Irish Ferries
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Booking & Getting There
Darlington to Sofia bus services, operated by National Express, arrive at London Victoria station.
Sofia is 2h ahead of Darlington. It is currently 1:29 PM in Darlington and 3:29 PM in Sofia.
Darlington to Sofia train services, operated by London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER), arrive at King's Cross station.
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