There are 11 ways to get from Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca by train, bus, train (TGV), car, or plane
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train, bus via Padova
best- Take the train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Valence Tgv Rhone-Alpes Sudtrain Tgv
- Take the train from Valence Tgv Rhone-Alpes Sud to Chambery Challes Les Eauxtrain Ter
- Take the train from Chambery Challes Les Eaux to Milano Centraletrain Fr
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Padovatrain Fr
- Take the bus from Padua to Cluj-Napoca, Autogara Sens Vestbus
28h 3m$158–375Fly from Fréjorgues Airport
cheapest- Fly from Fréjorgues Airport (MPL) to Cluj-Napoca (CLJ)plane MPL - CLJ
17h 4m$87–432Train
- Take the train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Paris Gare De Lyontrain Tgv
- Take the train from Paris Est to Muenchen Hbftrain Tgv
- Take the train from Muenchen Hbf Gl.5-10 to Wien Westbahnhoftrain 967 / ...
- Take the train from Wien Westbahnhof to Alba Iuliatrain 347
- Take the train from Alba Iulia to Cluj Napocatrain Ic
30h 27m$580–935Drive 1,879.6 km
- Drive from Montpellier to Cluj-Napocacar 1,879.6 km
22h 1m$396–572Bus
- Take the bus from Montpellier to Alba Iuliabus
- Take the bus from Alba Iulia to Cluj-Napocabus
33h 36mTrain, bus
- Take the train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Avignon Centretrain Ter
- Take the bus from Avignon to Cluj-Napoca, Autogara Sens Vestbus
36h 12m$170–238Bus via Orăștie
- Take the bus from Montpellier to Orăștiebus 1922
- Take the bus from Orăștie to Cluj-Napocabus
39h 40mTrain to Marseille Provence Airport, fly
- Take the train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Vitrolles Aéroport Marseille Ptrain
- Fly from Marseille Provence Airport (MRS) to Cluj-Napoca (CLJ)plane MRS - CLJ
9h 6m$114–421Train to Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport, fly
- Take the train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Lyon-Saint Exupery Tgvtrain
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Cluj-Napoca (CLJ)plane LYS - CLJ
9h 37m$157–458Train to Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, fly
- Take the train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Toulouse Matabiautrain
- Fly from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS) to Cluj-Napoca (CLJ)plane TLS - CLJ
10h 21m$135–431Train to Barcelona–El Prat Airport, fly
- Take the train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Barcelona-Santstrain
- Fly from Barcelona–El Prat Airport (BCN) to Cluj-Napoca (CLJ)plane BCN - CLJ
9h 15m$109–379
Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca by train and foot
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca is to train and bus which costs $170 - $240 and takes 36h 12m.
The fastest way to get from Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca is to train and fly which takes 9h 6m and costs $110 - $430.
No, there is no direct bus from Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca. However, there are services departing from Montpellier and arriving at Cluj-Napoca via Alba Iulia. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 33h 36m.
No, there is no direct train from Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca. However, there are services departing from Montpellier Saint-Roch and arriving at Cluj Napoca via Paris Gare de Lyon, Paris Est, Muenchen Hbf Gl.5-10, Wien Westbahnhof and Alba Iulia. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 30h 27m.
The distance between Montpellier and Cluj-Napoca is 2216 km. The road distance is 1879.6 km.
The best way to get from Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca without a car is to train and bus via Padova which takes 28h 3m and costs $150 - $380.
It takes approximately 28h 3m to get from Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca, including transfers.
Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca bus services, operated by Tabita Tour, depart from Montpellier station.
Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca train services, operated by TGV inOui, depart from Montpellier Saint-Roch station.
The best way to get from Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca is to train which takes 30h 27m and costs $550 - $950. Alternatively, you can fly, which costs $85 - $440 and takes 17h 4m, you could also bus, which costs and takes 33h 36m.
What companies run services between Montpellier, France and Cluj-Napoca, Romania?
You can take a train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Cluj Napoca via Paris Gare de Lyon, Paris Nord, Paris Est, Muenchen Hbf Gl.5-10, Wien Westbahnhof, and Alba Iulia in around 30h 27m. Alternatively, Swiss, Volotea, and four other airlines fly from Fréjorgues Airport (MPL) to Cluj-Napoca (CLJ) 5 times a week.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Marseille Provence Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 2m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $140–490
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $130–470
Flights from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–550
Flights from Barcelona–El Prat Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–400
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Fréjorgues Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Madrid
- Ave. Duration
- 14h
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $130–500
Flights from Fréjorgues Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $85–430
Flights from Marseille Provence Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $70–390
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $95–390
Flights from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Venice Treviso
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $60–310
Flights from Barcelona–El Prat Airport to Cluj-Napoca
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $45–230
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Marseille Provence Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 35m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–280
Flights from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 55m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $80–370
Flights from Barcelona–El Prat Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Thursday, Monday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $60–220
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Fréjorgues Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 18h
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $200–900
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95–390
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Fréjorgues Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 15m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $150–650
- Website
- tarom.ro
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95–390
- Website
- animawings.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Cluj-Napoca via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95–390
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Valence Tgv Rhone-Alpes Sud
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $45–75
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Paris Gare De Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 29m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $160–250
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Paris Est to Muenchen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 41m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $180–280
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Toulouse Matabiau
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $55–85
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Barcelona-Sants
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 16m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $75–120
- Website
- TGV inOui
Rome2Rio's guide to Renfe Viajeros
Contact Details
- Phone
- +34 91 232 03 20
- Website
- Renfe Viajeros
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Valence Tgv Rhone-Alpes Sud
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $29–45
- Website
- Renfe Viajeros
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Barcelona-Sants
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $45–70
- Website
- Renfe Viajeros
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Valence Tgv Rhone-Alpes Sud
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $40–70
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Valence Tgv Rhone-Alpes Sud to Chambery Challes Les Eaux
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 53m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–55
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Paris Gare De Lyon
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 29m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $150–250
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Avignon Centre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $20–35
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Vitrolles Aéroport Marseille P
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $30–55
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Lyon-Saint Exupery Tgv
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 33m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $60–100
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Toulouse Matabiau
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $50–85
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
- Phone
- +33 4 13 94 30 50
- Website
- Zou! Lignes Express Régionales
Train from Valence Tgv Rhone-Alpes Sud to Chambery Challes Les Eaux
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 53m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $45–60
- Website
- Zou! Lignes Express Régionales
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Avignon Centre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $28–40
- Website
- Zou! Lignes Express Régionales
Train from Montpellier Saint-Roch to Vitrolles Aéroport Marseille P
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 47m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $40–60
- Website
- Zou! Lignes Express Régionales
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Chambery Challes Les Eaux to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $45–65
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +39 06 5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Milano Centrale to Padova
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $35–60
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- [email protected]
- Website
- Westbahn
Train from Muenchen Hbf Gl.5-10 to Wien Westbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $100–160
- Website
- Westbahn
- Phone
- _AUSTRIAN_RAILWAYS_(ÖBB)
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Wien Westbahnhof to Alba Iulia
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 47m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $140–240
- Website
- Austrian Railways
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- [email protected]
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
Train from Alba Iulia to Cluj Napoca
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 3m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $6–8
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
- Phone
- +40 230 560 555
- [email protected]
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Padua to Cluj-Napoca, Autogara Sens Vest
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 22m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $18–120
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- +4-0263-21.55.00
- Website
- tabitatour.ro
Bus from Montpellier to Alba Iulia
- Ave. Duration
- 30h 46m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $140–180
- Schedules at
- tabitatour.autogari.ro
- Phone
- +4 0250 997
- Website
- normandiatransport.com
Bus from Alba Iulia to Cluj-Napoca
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- normandia.autogari.ro
Bus from Orăștie to Cluj-Napoca
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- normandia.autogari.ro
- Phone
- 0040374557200
- Website
- romfour.com
Bus from Avignon to Cluj-Napoca, Autogara Sens Vest
- Ave. Duration
- 34h 2m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $150–200
- Schedules at
- romfour-door2door.autogari.ro
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Montpellier to Orăștie
- Ave. Duration
- 36h 10m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $210–330
- Website
- Flixbus
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Booking & Getting There
Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca bus services, operated by Tabita Tour, arrive at Alba Iulia station.
Cluj-Napoca is 1h ahead of Montpellier. It is currently 9:06 PM in Montpellier and 10:06 PM in Cluj-Napoca.
Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca train services, operated by TGV inOui, arrive at Paris Gare De Lyon station.
Yes, the driving distance between Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca is 1880 km. It takes approximately 22h 1m to drive from Montpellier to Cluj-Napoca.
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