There are 8 ways to get from Florence to Galway by plane, bus, car, car ferry, or train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly Florence Peretola Airport to Shannon Airport, bus
best- Fly from Florence Peretola Airport (FLR) to Shannon Airport (SNN)plane FLR - SNN
- Take the bus from Shannon Airport to Galway Ceanntbus
9h 59m€138–264Train to Pisa International Airport, fly to Dublin Airport, train
cheapest- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Pisa Centraletrain
- Fly from Pisa International Airport (PSA) to Dublin Airport (DUB)plane PSA - DUB
- Take the train from Dublin Heuston to Galwaytrain
10h 21m€83–247Bus
- Take the bus from Firenze to Rădăuțibus
- Take the bus from Rădăuți to Dublinbus
- Take the bus from Crampton Quay to Galway Coach Stnbus 761 / ...
3d 5h€84–365Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Florence to Port de Roscoffcar
- Take the carferry from Port de Roscoff to Cork Portcarferry
- Drive from Cork Port to Galwaycar
33h 15m€404–536Train to Pisa International Airport, fly to Shannon Airport, bus
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Pisa Centraletrain
- Fly from Pisa International Airport (PSA) to Shannon Airport (SNN)plane PSA - SNN
- Take the bus from Shannon Airport to Galway Ceanntbus
10h 42m€90–162Train to Pisa International Airport, fly to Ireland West Airport Knock, bus
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Pisa Centraletrain
- Fly from Pisa International Airport (PSA) to Ireland West Airport Knock (NOC)plane PSA - NOC
- Take the bus from Ireland W Airport to Galway Ceanntbus
10h 51m€110–352Train to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, fly to Dublin Airport, train
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centraletrain
- Fly from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ) to Dublin Airport (DUB)plane BLQ - DUB
- Take the train from Dublin Heuston to Galwaytrain
9h 39m€84–316Train to Roma Ciampino Airport, fly to Shannon Airport, bus
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Roma Terminitrain
- Fly from Roma Ciampino Airport (CIA) to Shannon Airport (SNN)plane CIA - SNN
- Take the bus from Shannon Airport to Galway Ceanntbus
10h 13m€91–388
Florence Peretola Airport (FLR) to Shannon Airport (SNN) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Florence to Galway is to train and fly and bus which costs €90 - €170 and takes 10h 42m.
The fastest way to get from Florence to Galway is to train and fly which takes 9h 39m and costs €80 - €320.
No, there is no direct bus from Florence to Galway. However, there are services departing from Firenze and arriving at Galway Coach Stn via Rădăuți, Navan Rd Stn and Crampton Quay. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 3 days 5h.
The distance between Florence and Galway is 1875 km.
The best way to get from Florence to Galway without a car is to bus which takes 3 days 5h and costs €80 - €370.
It takes approximately 9h 59m to get from Florence to Galway, including transfers.
Florence to Galway bus services, operated by Tarsin, depart from Firenze station.
Florence to Galway bus services, operated by Tarsin, arrive at Rădăuți station.
Galway is 1h behind Florence. It is currently 5:24 AM in Florence and 4:24 AM in Galway.
There are 546+ hotels available in Galway.
What companies run services between Florence, Italy and Galway, Ireland?
You can take a bus from Firenze to Galway Coach Stn via Rădăuți, Dublin, Navan Rd Stn, Bachelors Walk, and Crampton Quay in around 3d 5h.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Shannon Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Monday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €120–240
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Shannon Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €110–550
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Shannon Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €60–110
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Shannon Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Thursday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–350
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Shannon Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–300
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Ireland West Airport Knock via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–310
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Ireland West Airport Knock via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €80–310
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Dublin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €50–170
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Dublin Airport via Charleroi
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €50–170
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Dublin Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 47m
- When
- Sunday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €50–170
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Dublin Airport via Beauvais
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–170
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Dublin Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €50–170
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Dublin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday, Monday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €50–170
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Dublin Airport via Beauvais
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €50–170
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Dublin Airport via Charleroi
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €50–170
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Dublin Airport via Manchester
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €50–170
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Dublin Airport via Birmingham
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €50–170
Flights from Roma Ciampino Airport to Shannon Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–290
Flights from Roma Ciampino Airport to Shannon Airport via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €45–290
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Shannon Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–550
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Shannon Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 10m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €110–550
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Shannon Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €110–340
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Dublin Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–300
- Website
- aerlingus.com
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Shannon Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–500
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Dublin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–180
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Pisa Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €9–13
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Pisa Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €9–13
- 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 Firenze S.M.N. to Pisa Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €9–13
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 51m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–45
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +39 06 5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €12–22
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €35–65
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 39 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €11–18
- 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
- +39 06 68475475
- 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 Firenze S.M.N. to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €28–55
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
- Phone
- 0818 294 015
- Website
- Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail)
Train from Dublin Heuston to Galway
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 36m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–25
- Website
- Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail)
- Flexible
- €18–25
Train from Dublin Heuston to Galway
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 36m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–25
- Website
- Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail)
- Flexible
- €18–25
- Phone
- 0818 15 15 15
- Website
- Expressway (Bus Éireann)
Bus from Shannon Airport to Galway Ceannt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €16–22
- Website
- Expressway (Bus Éireann)
Bus from Shannon Airport to Galway Ceannt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €16–22
- Website
- Expressway (Bus Éireann)
Bus from Ireland W Airport to Galway Ceannt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €16–22
- Website
- Expressway (Bus Éireann)
Bus from Shannon Airport to Galway Ceannt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €16–22
- Website
- Expressway (Bus Éireann)
- Phone
- +40 230 560 555
- [email protected]
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Firenze to Rădăuți
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 27m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €20–120
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Rădăuți to Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 47h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €29–200
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- +353 91 564 164
- [email protected]
- Website
- Citylink
Bus from Crampton Quay to Galway Coach Stn
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €19–27
- Website
- Citylink
- Phone
- +353 21 427 7801
- [email protected]
- Website
- Brittany Ferries
Car ferry from Port de Roscoff to Cork Port
- Ave. Duration
- 14h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €117
- Website
- Brittany Ferries
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