There are 8 ways to get from Melbourne to Rijeka by plane, shuttle, bus, 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 to Rijeka Airport
best- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Rijeka Airport (RJK)plane MEL - RJK
28h 54m€518–1,518Fly to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport, bus
cheapest- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS)plane MEL - TRS
- Take the bus from Trieste Airport to Rijeka bus stationbus
30h 24m€437–1,232Fly to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport, shuttle
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport (ZAG)plane MEL - ZAG
- Take a shuttle bus from Velika Gorica, Zagreb Airport to Rijeka
29h 15m€789–1,480Fly to Ljubljana, shuttle, bus
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Ljubljana (LJU)plane MEL - LJU
- Take a shuttle bus from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Trieste Centrale
- Take the bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Rijeka, Željeznički Kolodvorbus
30h 51m€913–1,528Fly to Venice Marco Polo Airport, shuttle, bus
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)plane MEL - VCE
- Take a shuttle bus from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Trieste Centrale
- Take the bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Rijeka, Željeznički Kolodvorbus
31h 44m€833–1,498Fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, train, bus
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane MEL - BLQ
- Take the train from Bologna centrale to Venezia Mestretrain
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centraletrain
- Take the bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Rijeka, Željeznički Kolodvorbus
33h 35m€701–1,463Fly to Vienna International Airport, train, shuttle, bus
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Vienna International Airport (VIE)plane MEL - VIE
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Klagenfurt Hbftrain
- Take a shuttle bus from Klagenfurt - Hauptbahnhof to Trieste Centrale
- Take the bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Rijeka, Željeznički Kolodvorbus
33h 10m€819–1,613Fly to Sarajevo, bus
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Sarajevo (SJJ)plane MEL - SJJ
- Take the bus from Sarajevo to Zagreb, Autobusni Kolodvorbus
- Take the bus from Zagreb, Autobusni Kolodvor to Rijeka, Autobusni Kolodvorbus
33h 35m€756–1,821
Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Rijeka Airport (RJK) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Melbourne to Rijeka is to fly and bus which costs €430 - €1300 and takes 30h 24m.
The fastest way to get from Melbourne to Rijeka is to fly which takes 28h 54m and costs €500 - €1600.
The distance between Melbourne and Rijeka is 15901 km.
It takes approximately 28h 54m to get from Melbourne to Rijeka, including transfers.
Rijeka is 10h behind Melbourne. It is currently 4:50 AM in Melbourne and 6:50 PM in Rijeka.
There are 6090+ hotels available in Rijeka.
What companies run services between Melbourne, VIC, Australia and Rijeka, Croatia?
Qatar Airways, Air Serbia, and four other airlines fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Rijeka Airport (RJK) 6 times a week.
- Website
- qatarairways.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 36m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €500–1,400
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Ljubljana via Doha, Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 45m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €600–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Vienna International Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €490–1,400
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Sarajevo via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €600–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Sarajevo via Doha, Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 40m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €600–1,700
- Website
- emirates.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €550–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Doha, Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €600–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Ljubljana via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €650–2,000
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,600
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €550–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Vienna International Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,600
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Sarajevo via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €650–2,000
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Rijeka Airport via Doha, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €800–2,200
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Rijeka Airport via Abu Dhabi, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 5m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €500–1,500
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Rijeka Airport via Dubai, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €850–2,600
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Doha, Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €600–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Ljubljana via Suvarnabhumi, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 45m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €600–2,100
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Vienna International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €490–1,500
- Website
- virginaustralia.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 36m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €500–1,400
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Vienna International Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €490–1,400
- Website
- etihad.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Abu Dhabi, Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €410–1,200
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Singapore Changi, Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 25h
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €500–3,100
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Doha, Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €600–1,300
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Vienna International Airport via Abu Dhabi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €330–950
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Abu Dhabi, Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €410–1,200
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Singapore Changi, Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 25h
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €500–3,100
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Doha, Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €600–1,700
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport via Doha, Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €600–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Ljubljana via Suvarnabhumi, Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €550–1,900
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Rijeka Airport via Doha, Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 45m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €750–2,100
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Ljubljana via Doha, Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 45m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €600–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Sarajevo via Doha, Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 40m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €600–1,700
- Website
- croatiaairlines.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Rijeka Airport via Doha, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €800–2,200
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Rijeka Airport via Abu Dhabi, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 5m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €500–1,500
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Rijeka Airport via Dubai, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €850–2,600
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Ljubljana via Abu Dhabi, Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €420–1,200
- Website
- airindia.in
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Vienna International Airport via Delhi
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 30m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €330–900
- Website
- thaiairways.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Vienna International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €490–1,500
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Bologna centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–29
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €25–40
- Website
- Italo Treno
- Phone
- +39 06 5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Bologna centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €21–35
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €29–50
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Bologna centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–25
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €25–35
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Bologna centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €16–30
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €22–45
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- [email protected]
- Website
- Westbahn
Train from Wien Hbf to Klagenfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €65–110
- Website
- Westbahn
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Wien Hbf to Klagenfurt Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 33m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–70
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- [email protected]
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Velika Gorica, Zagreb Airport to Rijeka
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €220–360
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €150–250
- Website
- GoOpti
- Private
- €204
Bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Rijeka, Željeznički Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €95–160
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €220–370
- Website
- GoOpti
Bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Rijeka, Željeznički Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €95–160
- Website
- GoOpti
Bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Rijeka, Željeznički Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €95–160
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Klagenfurt - Hauptbahnhof to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 7m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €220–360
- Website
- GoOpti
Bus from Trieste, Autostazione to Rijeka, Željeznički Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €95–160
- Website
- GoOpti
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Trieste Airport to Rijeka bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €9–14
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Zagreb, Autobusni Kolodvor to Rijeka, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €14–21
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +385 (0)72 660 660
- [email protected]
- Website
- Arriva Croatia
Bus from Zagreb, Autobusni Kolodvor to Rijeka, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €1–12
- Website
- Arriva Croatia
- Phone
- +385 52 356 500
- [email protected]
- Website
- Brioni Pula d.o.o.
Bus from Zagreb, Autobusni Kolodvor to Rijeka, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 29m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €11–22
- Website
- Brioni Pula d.o.o.
- Phone
- +385 043 277 100
- [email protected]
- Website
- Cazmatrans NOVA d.o.o.
Bus from Zagreb, Autobusni Kolodvor to Rijeka, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 38m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €25
- Website
- Cazmatrans NOVA d.o.o.
- Phone
- +385 (0) 32 308 935
- [email protected]
- Website
- polet.hr
Bus from Zagreb, Autobusni Kolodvor to Rijeka, Autobusni Kolodvor
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 38m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €47
- Schedules at
- polet.hr
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