There are 10 ways to get from Kraków to Trieste by plane, train, bus, car, shuttle, or train (Trenitalia)
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport
best- Fly from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK) to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS)plane KRK - TRS
4h 32m€45–269Train
- Take the train from Krakow Glowny to Wien Hbftrain Ic
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Trieste Centraletrain Rj / ...
13h 26m€124–211Bus
- Take the bus from Krakow, MDA Bus Station to Triestebus N1301 / ...
16h 15m€80–130Drive 848.4 km
- Drive from Kraków to Triestecar 848.4 km
9h 41m€138–199Fly to Venice Marco Polo Airport, shuttle
- Fly from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK) to Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)plane KRK - VCE
- Take a shuttle bus from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Trieste Centrale
6h 19m€240–552Fly to Ljubljana, shuttle
- Fly from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK) to Ljubljana (LJU)plane KRK - LJU
- Take a shuttle bus from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Trieste Centrale
7h 6m€232–482Fly to Klagenfurt Airport, shuttle
- Fly from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK) to Klagenfurt Airport (KLU)plane KRK - KLU
- Take a shuttle bus from Klagenfurt Flughafen to Trieste Centrale
9h 45m€372–712Fly to Treviso Airport, train
- Fly from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK) to Treviso Airport (TSF)plane KRK - TSF
- Take the train from Treviso Centrale to Trieste Centraletrain
7h 23m€60–299Train via Ostrava
- Take the train from Krakow Glowny to Bohumintrain Ic
- Take the train from Bohumin to Wien Hbftrain Ic
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Udinetrain Rjx / ...
- Take the train from Udine to Trieste Centraletrain Re
13h 49m€114–243Bus, train
- Take the bus from Kraków to Udinebus
- Take the train from Udine to Trieste Centraletrain Re / ...
16h 49m€85–105
Kraków to Trieste by train
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Kraków to Trieste is to fly and train which costs €60 - €300 and takes 7h 23m.
The fastest way to get from Kraków to Trieste is to fly which takes 4h 32m and costs €45 - €270.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from Krakow, MDA Bus Station station and arriving at Trieste. Services depart once daily, and operate every day. The journey takes approximately 16h 15m.
No, there is no direct train from Kraków to Trieste. However, there are services departing from Krakow Glowny and arriving at Trieste Centrale via Wien Hbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 13h 26m.
The distance between Kraków and Trieste is 713 km. The road distance is 848.4 km.
The best way to get from Kraków to Trieste without a car is to train which takes 13h 26m and costs €120 - €220.
It takes approximately 4h 32m to get from Kraków to Trieste, including transfers.
Kraków to Trieste bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Krakow, MDA Bus Station.
Kraków to Trieste train services, operated by PKP Intercity, depart from Krakow Glowny station.
The best way to get from Kraków to Trieste is to fly which takes 4h 32m and costs €45 - €270. Alternatively, you can train, which costs €120 - €220 and takes 13h 26m, you could also bus, which costs €80 - €130 and takes 16h 15m.
What companies run services between Kraków, Poland and Trieste, Italy?
Ryanair flies from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK) to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS) 5 times a week. Alternatively, you can take a train from Krakow Glowny to Trieste Centrale via Wien Hbf in around 13h 26m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–280
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Ljubljana via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–170
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Ljubljana via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–170
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Klagenfurt Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–310
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Klagenfurt Airport via Munich, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 15m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–800
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Klagenfurt Airport via Warsaw Chopin, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–480
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–260
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Klagenfurt Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 12m
- When
- Wednesday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–430
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Klagenfurt Airport via Budapest, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–320
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Klagenfurt Airport via Prague, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–320
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Klagenfurt Airport via Warsaw Chopin, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–480
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €40–180
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €40–180
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Venice Marco Polo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €65–200
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Treviso Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Tuesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €30–230
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–230
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Ljubljana via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €160–260
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–280
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Ljubljana via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–140
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Venice Marco Polo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €18–130
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice to Ljubljana via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €90–220
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- [email protected]
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Krakow Glowny to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €45–95
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Krakow Glowny to Bohumin
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 53m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–35
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Bohumin to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–60
- Website
- PKP Intercity
- Phone
- +43 (0)5 1717
- Website
- Railjet
Train from Wien Hbf to Trieste Centrale
- *
- €75–120
Train from Wien Hbf to Udine
- *
- €75–120
Train from Udine to Trieste Centrale
- *
- €17–26
Train from Udine to Trieste Centrale
- *
- €17–26
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Treviso Centrale to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €22–35
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Udine to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 24m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €9–14
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Udine to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 24m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €9–14
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +420 220 311 700
- [email protected]
- Website
- LEO Express
Train from Krakow Glowny to Bohumin
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 46m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €8–13
- Website
- LEO Express
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- [email protected]
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
Train from Bohumin to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €23
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
- Phone
- _AUSTRIAN_RAILWAYS_(ÖBB)
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Udine to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €16–29
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Udine to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €16–29
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Krakow, MDA Bus Station to Trieste
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–130
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- [email protected]
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €210–350
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €140–240
- Website
- GoOpti
- Private
- €204
Shuttle from Klagenfurt Flughafen to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 11m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €210–360
- Website
- GoOpti
- Phone
- 13 43 232 76
- [email protected]
- Website
- miskrosno.pl
Bus from Kraków to Udine
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 15m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €77
- Schedules at
- miskrosno.pl
- Book at
- api.euroticket.pl
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Booking & Getting There
Kraków to Trieste bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Trieste station.
Kraków to Trieste train services, operated by PKP Intercity, arrive at Wien Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between Kraków to Trieste is 848 km. It takes approximately 9h 41m to drive from Kraków to Trieste.
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