There are 12 ways to get from Hagen to Sofia by train, plane, bus, night train, car, or car train
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Train to Cologne Bonn Airport, fly
best- Take the train from Hagen Hbf to Köln Hbftrain
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane CGN - SOF
6h 13m$82–351Fly from Dortmund Airport
cheapest- Fly from Dortmund Airport (DTM) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane DTM - SOF
5h 40m$58–443Train, bus via Leipzig
- Take the train from Hagen Hbf to Magdeburg Hbftrain 19 / ...
- Take the train from Magdeburg Hbf to Leipzig Hbftrain 55 / ...
- Take the bus from Leipzig to Sofia Central Bus Stationbus
27h 43m$161–351Train, night train
- Take the train from Dortmund Hbf to Wien Meidlingtrain
- Take the train from Wien Meidling to Bucuresti Nordtrain 347
- Take the nighttrain from Bucharest to Gorna Oryahovitsanighttrain
- Take the train from Gorna Oryahovitsa to Sofia Severtrain Ic / ...
40h 16m$422–761Drive 1,869.6 km
- Drive from Hagen to Sofiacar 1,869.6 km
16h 39m$308–445Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Hagen Hbf to Duesseldorf Hbftrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane DUS - SOF
7h 35m$96–365Train to Frankfurt, fly
- Take the train from Hagen Hbf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane FRA - SOF
6h 35m$159–389Train, train to Eindhoven Airport, fly
- Take the train from Hagen Hbf to Venlotrain
- Take the train from Venlo to Eindhoven Centraaltrain
- Fly from Eindhoven Airport (EIN) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane EIN - SOF
8h 29m$79–410Bus
- Take the bus from Wuppertal-Barmen to Kumanovobus
- Take the bus from Kumanovo to Sofiabus
29h 30m$109–144Train, bus
- Take the train from Dortmund Hbf to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehetrain Re
- Take the bus from Kassel Grüner Waldweg to Sofia Serdica Bus Stationbus Citylines 17
31h 13m$140–267Bus via Niš
- Take the bus from Dortmund Hbf to Niš, Autobuska Stanicabus
- Take the bus from Niš, Autobuska Stanica to Sofiya, Avtogara Serdikabus
38h 21m$161–236Drive, car train
- Drive from Hagen to Fuldacar
- Take the cartrain from Fulda to Villach Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Villach Hbf to Sofiacar
21h 8m$338–465
Hagen to Sofia by train and bus
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Hagen to Sofia is to bus which costs $100 - $150 and takes 29h 30m.
The fastest way to get from Hagen to Sofia is to fly which takes 5h 40m and costs $55 - $450.
No, there is no direct bus from Hagen to Sofia. However, there are services departing from Wuppertal-Barmen and arriving at Sofia via Kumanovo. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 29h 30m.
No, there is no direct train from Hagen to Sofia. However, there are services departing from Hagen Hbf and arriving at Sofia Sever via Dortmund Hbf, Wien Meidling, Bucharest and Gorna Oryahovitsa. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 40h 16m.
The distance between Hagen and Sofia is 1632 km. The road distance is 1869.6 km.
The best way to get from Hagen to Sofia without a car is to train and bus via Leipzig which takes 27h 43m and costs $160 - $360.
It takes approximately 6h 13m to get from Hagen to Sofia, including transfers.
Hagen to Sofia bus services, operated by Lasta, depart from Dortmund Hbf station.
Hagen to Sofia train services, operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), depart from Dortmund Hbf station.
The best way to get from Hagen to Sofia is to fly which takes 5h 40m and costs $55 - $450. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs $100 - $150 and takes 29h 30m.
What companies run services between Hagen, Germany and Sofia, Bulgaria?
Wizz Air flies from Dortmund Airport (DTM) to Sofia Airport (SOF) once daily. Alternatively, you can take a train from Hagen Hbf to Sofia via Wuppertal-Barmen, Wuppertal-Barmen, and Kumanovo in around 29h 30m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $75–370
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 21m
- When
- Saturday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $75–390
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Sofia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–380
Flights from Frankfurt to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 11m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $65–350
Flights from Frankfurt to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–260
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Friday, Sunday, and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $35–310
Flights from Eindhoven Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Sunday, Saturday, Tuesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $55–350
Flights from Eindhoven Airport to Sofia Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 36m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–350
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 27m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $90–380
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $95–390
Flights from Frankfurt to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–350
- Website
- air.bg
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Sofia Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 17m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–260
Flights from Frankfurt to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $100–290
Flights from Frankfurt to Sofia Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $110–230
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–370
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $75–390
Flights from Frankfurt to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–350
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Dortmund Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $45–430
Flights from Eindhoven Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $40–330
Flights from Eindhoven Airport to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $40–330
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Sofia Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 17m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–260
Flights from Frankfurt to Sofia Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $110–230
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Hagen Hbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $14–30
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Hagen Hbf to Magdeburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $75–160
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Magdeburg Hbf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 16m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $25–55
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Hagen Hbf to Duesseldorf Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $10–23
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Hagen Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $45–100
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $40–90
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +49 221 13 999 444
- Website
- National Express
Train from Hagen Hbf to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- National Express
Train from Hagen Hbf to Duesseldorf Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 45 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- National Express
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 17m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- National Express
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Magdeburg Hbf to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 33m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $21–90
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Hagen Hbf to Duesseldorf Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $9–40
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 34m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $130–270
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
Train from Venlo to Eindhoven Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $6–13
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $26–55
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
- Phone
- _AUSTRIAN_RAILWAYS_(ÖBB)
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Wien Meidling to Bucuresti Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $260–440
- 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
- Phone
- 0219521
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
Train from Gorna Oryahovitsa to Sofia Sever
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 51m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $25–28
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
- Phone
- 0180 6 9 27 37 27
- [email protected]
- Website
- Eurobahn
Train from Hagen Hbf to Duesseldorf Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $13–19
- Website
- Eurobahn
Train from Hagen Hbf to Venlo
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $22–35
- Website
- Eurobahn
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- [email protected]
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
Car train from Fulda to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 1m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $110–130
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
- Phone
- +359 88 949 0000
- [email protected]
- Website
- Union Ivkoni
Bus from Leipzig to Sofia Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 43m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $65–110
- Website
- Union Ivkoni
- Phone
- +389 42 218 007
- Website
- Nasir Tours
Bus from Wuppertal-Barmen to Kumanovo
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 13m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $93
- Website
- Nasir Tours
- Phone
- +359 2 981 58 56
- [email protected]
- Website
- matpu.com
Bus from Kumanovo to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $25–35
- Schedules at
- matpu.com
Bus from Niš, Autobuska Stanica to Sofiya, Avtogara Serdika
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $22–29
- Schedules at
- matpu.com
- Phone
- +359 0885700870
- [email protected]
- Website
- Citylines
Bus from Kumanovo to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $12–35
- Website
- Citylines
Bus from Kassel Grüner Waldweg to Sofia Serdica Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 27h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $110–160
- Website
- Citylines
- Phone
- +389 47 231 192
- [email protected]
- Website
- transkop.mk
Bus from Kumanovo to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $18–35
- Schedules at
- transkop.mk
- Phone
- +381 800 334 334
- [email protected]
- Website
- lasta.rs
Bus from Dortmund Hbf to Niš, Autobuska Stanica
- Phone
- +381 18 255 177
- Website
- Niš-ekspres
Bus from Niš, Autobuska Stanica to Sofiya, Avtogara Serdika
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $17–25
- Website
- Niš-ekspres
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Booking & Getting There
Hagen to Sofia bus services, operated by Lasta, arrive at Niš, Autobuska Stanica station.
Sofia is 1h ahead of Hagen. It is currently 7:12 AM in Hagen and 8:12 AM in Sofia.
Hagen to Sofia train services, operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), arrive at Wien Meidling station.
Yes, the driving distance between Hagen to Sofia is 1870 km. It takes approximately 16h 39m to drive from Hagen to Sofia.
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