There are 10 ways to get from Neuchâtel to Bologna by train, bus, car, plane, 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.
Train via Zurich
best- Take the train from Neuchâtel to Zürich HBtrain Ic5
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Como S. Giovannitrain Ec
- Take the train from Como S. Giovanni to Milano Centraletrain S11
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Bologna centraletrain
7h 52m€170–252Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Yverdon, Petits-Champs to Bolognabus
11h 18m€55–76Drive 573.2 km
- Drive from Neuchâtel to Bolognacar 573.2 km
6h 28m€103–149Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Take the train from Neuchâtel to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane ZRH - BLQ
5h 6m€141–378Train
- Take the train from Neuchâtel to Fribourg/Freiburgtrain S21 / ...
- Take the train from Fribourg/Freiburg to Locarnotrain Ic
- Take the train from Locarno to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Bologna Centraletrain Fr
9h 17m€172–282Train, bus
- Take the train from Neuchâtel to Lausannetrain Ic51 / ...
- Take the bus from Lausanne to Bologna Centralebus 144
11h 40m€87–127Train to Basel, fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Take the train from Neuchâtel to Basel SBBtrain
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane BSL - BLQ
7h 13m€109–303Train, train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Take the train from Neuchâtel to Renens VDtrain
- Take the train from Renens VD to Genève-Aéroporttrain
- Fly from Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane GVA - BLQ
7h 10m€118–281Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Florence Peretola Airport, train
- Take the train from Neuchâtel to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Florence Peretola Airport (FLR)plane ZRH - FLR
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centraletrain
6h 6m€162–440Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Venice Marco Polo Airport, train
- Take the train from Neuchâtel to Zürich Flughafentrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)plane ZRH - VCE
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centraletrain
6h 54m€158–365
Neuchâtel to Bologna by train, bus, and foot
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Neuchâtel to Bologna is to bus which costs €55 - €80 and takes 11h 18m.
The fastest way to get from Neuchâtel to Bologna is to train and fly which takes 5h 6m and costs €140 - €380.
No, there is no direct bus from Neuchâtel to Bologna. However, there are services departing from Yverdon-les-Bains, gare and arriving at Bologna via Yverdon, Petits-Champs. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 11h 18m.
No, there is no direct train from Neuchâtel to Bologna. However, there are services departing from Neuchâtel and arriving at Bologna centrale via Zürich HB, Como S. Giovanni and Milano Centrale. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 7h 52m.
The distance between Neuchâtel and Bologna is 609 km. The road distance is 573.2 km.
The best way to get from Neuchâtel to Bologna without a car is to train via Zurich which takes 7h 52m and costs €170 - €260.
It takes approximately 7h 52m to get from Neuchâtel to Bologna, including transfers.
Neuchâtel to Bologna bus services, operated by Sellitto, depart from Yverdon, Petits-Champs station.
Neuchâtel to Bologna train services, operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), depart from Neuchâtel station.
The best way to get from Neuchâtel to Bologna is to train via Zurich which takes 7h 52m and costs €170 - €260. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €55 - €80 and takes 11h 18m.
What companies run services between Neuchâtel, Switzerland and Bologna, Italy?
You can take a train from Neuchâtel to Bologna centrale via Zürich HB, Como S. Giovanni, and Milano Centrale in around 7h 52m. Alternatively, Sellitto operates a bus from Yverdon, Petits-Champs to Bologna 4 times a week. Tickets cost €40–55 and the journey takes 9h 35m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €130–440
Flights from Basel to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €160–550
Flights from Basel to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–600
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 58m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–550
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–600
Flights from Zurich Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €160–550
Flights from Zurich Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €130–400
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–430
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–330
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–280
Flights from Zurich Airport to Florence Peretola Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–340
Flights from Zurich Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–360
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–430
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–330
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–280
Flights from Zurich Airport to Florence Peretola Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–340
Flights from Zurich Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–360
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Basel to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €160–550
Flights from Basel to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €160–600
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €150–550
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €160–600
Flights from Zurich Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €160–550
Flights from Zurich Airport to Venice Marco Polo Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €130–400
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Basel to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–360
- Website
- luxair.lu
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Luxembourg
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–400
Train from Neuchâtel to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 34m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €50–75
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich HB to Como S. Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €75–110
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Como S. Giovanni to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 41 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €17–24
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Neuchâtel to Zürich Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €55–80
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Fribourg/Freiburg to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 24m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €100–160
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Locarno to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €40–60
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Neuchâtel to Lausanne
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €27–40
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Neuchâtel to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 33m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–55
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Neuchâtel to Renens VD
- Ave. Duration
- 39 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €25–40
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Renens VD to Genève-Aéroport
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €22–35
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Neuchâtel to Zürich Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €55–80
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Neuchâtel to Zürich Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €55–80
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Milano Centrale to Bologna centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €25–45
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Milano Centrale to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €25–45
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 39 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €11–18
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–29
- Website
- Italo Treno
- Phone
- +41 26 351 02 00
- [email protected]
- Website
- tpf.ch
Train from Neuchâtel to Fribourg/Freiburg
- Phone
- +39 06 5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Milano Centrale to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €29–50
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €12–22
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €21–35
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Milano Centrale to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 41m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €22–45
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €9–18
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 47m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €16–30
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €11–15
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Venezia Mestre to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 47m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–25
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- [email protected]
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €27–70
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
- 1st Class
- €45–70
- 2nd Class
- €27–40
- Phone
- +39 0824 46304
- [email protected]
- Website
- sellitto.com
Bus from Yverdon, Petits-Champs to Bologna
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 35m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €40–55
- Schedules at
- sellitto.com
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Lausanne to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €55–85
- Website
- Flixbus
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Booking & Getting There
Neuchâtel to Bologna bus services, operated by Sellitto, arrive at Bologna station.
Neuchâtel to Bologna train services, operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), arrive at Zürich HB station.
Yes, the driving distance between Neuchâtel to Bologna is 573 km. It takes approximately 6h 28m to drive from Neuchâtel to Bologna.
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