There are 12 ways to get from Liège to Sofia by train, plane, bus, car, or car train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train to Brussels Airport, fly
best- Take the train from Liège-Guillemins to Brussels Airport-Zaventemtrain
- Fly from Brussels Airport (BRU) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane BRU - SOF
6h 20m$108–317Bus to Brussels South Charleroi Airport, fly
cheapest- Take the bus from Liège Rue du Plan Inclined to Charleroi Airportbus
- Fly from Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane CRL - SOF
6h 13m$55–356Train, bus via Leipzig
- Take the train from Liège, Guillemins Bf to Frankfurttrain 79
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Leipzig Hbftrain 50 / ...
- Take the bus from Leipzig to Sofia Central Bus Stationbus
28h 49m$200–393Drive 1,979.2 km
- Drive from Liège to Sofiacar 1,979.2 km
17h 32m$353–510Train to Cologne Bonn Airport, fly
- Take the train from Liege-Guillemins to Koeln Hbftrain
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane CGN - SOF
6h 27m$91–401Train to Eindhoven Airport, fly
- Take the train from Maastricht to Eindhoven Centraaltrain
- Fly from Eindhoven Airport (EIN) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane EIN - SOF
7h 37m$69–404Train to Frankfurt, fly
- Take the train from Liege-Guillemins to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbftrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane FRA - SOF
6h 57m$168–409Train, train to Dortmund Airport, fly
- Take the train from Liege-Guillemins to Koeln Hbftrain
- Take the train from Koeln Hbf to Holzwickedetrain
- Fly from Dortmund Airport (DTM) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane DTM - SOF
8h 26mBus via Bucharest
- Take the bus from Liege Gare des Guillemins to Bucharestbus
- Take the bus from Bucharest to Sofia Central Bus Stationbus Sofia-Bucharest
31h 21m$195Train, bus
- Take the train from Liège, Guillemins Bf to Frankfurttrain 79
- Take the bus from Frankfurt Central Train Station to Sofia Serdica Bus Stopbus
33h 35m$170–293Bus
- Take the bus from Liege to Pristinabus
- Take the bus from Pristina to Sofiya, Avtogara Serdikabus
35h 43mDrive, car train
- Drive from Liège to Fuldacar
- Take the cartrain from Fulda to Villach Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Villach Hbf to Sofiacar
22h 20m$364–503
Brussels Airport (BRU) to Sofia Airport (SOF) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Liège to Sofia is to bus and fly which costs $55 - $360 and takes 6h 13m.
The fastest way to get from Liège to Sofia is to bus and fly which takes 6h 13m and costs $55 - $360.
No, there is no direct bus from Liège to Sofia station. However, there are services departing from Liege Gare des Guillemins and arriving at Sofia Central Bus Station via Bucharest. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 31h 21m.
The distance between Liège and Sofia is 1799 km. The road distance is 1979.2 km.
The best way to get from Liège to Sofia without a car is to train and bus via Leipzig which takes 28h 49m and costs $200 - $400.
It takes approximately 6h 20m to get from Liège to Sofia, including transfers.
Liège to Sofia bus services, operated by Maxibus Travel, depart from Liege Gare des Guillemins station.
Liège to Sofia bus services, operated by Maxibus Travel, arrive at Bucharest station.
Sofia is 1h ahead of Liège. It is currently 3:20 PM in Liège and 4:20 PM in Sofia.
Yes, the driving distance between Liège to Sofia is 1979 km. It takes approximately 17h 32m to drive from Liège to Sofia.
What companies run services between Liège, Belgium and Sofia, Bulgaria?
You can take a bus from Liege Gare des Guillemins to Sofia Central Bus Station via Bucharest in around 31h 21m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Brussels Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $75–370
Flights from Brussels Airport to Sofia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160–260
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $75–370
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 Brussels South Charleroi Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–350
Flights from Brussels South Charleroi Airport to Sofia Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 13m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–350
Flights from Brussels South Charleroi Airport to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $55–350
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Sunday, and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $35–310
Flights from Eindhoven Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Wednesday, Sunday, Saturday, Tuesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $55–350
Flights from Eindhoven Airport to Sofia Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–350
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Brussels Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $65–370
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 27m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $90–380
Flights from Frankfurt to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–350
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Brussels South Charleroi Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $40–270
Flights from Brussels South Charleroi Airport to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $40–270
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
- 5h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $40–330
Flights from Dortmund Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $45–430
- Website
- air.bg
Flights from Brussels Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $120–210
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
- airserbia.com
Flights from Brussels Airport to Sofia Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Tuesday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- $90–160
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
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–370
Flights from Frankfurt to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–350
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Liège-Guillemins to Brussels Airport-Zaventem
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $18–28
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Liege-Guillemins to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $55–90
- Website
- Belgian Railways
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Liège-Guillemins to Brussels Airport-Zaventem
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $18–40
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Liège, Guillemins Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $60–130
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Frankfurt to Leipzig Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $75–160
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Liege-Guillemins to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $24–50
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Liege-Guillemins to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $55–120
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Liege-Guillemins to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $24–50
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Liège, Guillemins Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $60–130
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from Liege-Guillemins to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $45–80
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from Liege-Guillemins to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $45–80
- Website
- Eurostar
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
Train from Maastricht to Eindhoven Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $12–24
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
- Phone
- 0800-0232 545
- Website
- Arriva NL
Train from Maastricht to Eindhoven Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $17–26
- Website
- Arriva NL
- Second Class Single
- $17–26
- Phone
- +49 221 13 999 444
- Website
- National Express
Train from Koeln Hbf to Holzwickede
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- National Express
- 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
- +352 50 55 62 63 10
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flibco
Bus from Liège Rue du Plan Inclined to Charleroi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $15–27
- Website
- Flibco
- Phone
- +40 745 766 766
- [email protected]
- Website
- maxibustravel.autogari.ro
Bus from Liege Gare des Guillemins to Bucharest
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 31m
- 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
- $34
- Schedules at
- likebus.ua
- Phone
- +359 2 812 0 812
- [email protected]
- Website
- karat-s.com
Bus from Frankfurt Central Train Station to Sofia Serdica Bus Stop
- Ave. Duration
- 30h 22m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $110–170
- Schedules at
- karat-s.com
- Phone
- +359 0885700870
- [email protected]
- Website
- Citylines
Bus from Frankfurt Central Train Station to Sofia Serdica Bus Stop
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 45m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $110–160
- Website
- Citylines
- [email protected]
Bus from Liege to Pristina
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 59m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- Fertours
- Phone
- +383 49 196 565
- [email protected]
Bus from Pristina to Sofiya, Avtogara Serdika
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 30m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $45
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
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