There are 10 ways to get from Portofino to Sofia by ferry, plane, train, bus, or car
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Line 1 ferry to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport, fly
best- Take the ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligureferry
- Fly from Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane GOA - SOF
8h 57m$86–310Line 1 ferry, train, bus to Il Caravaggio International Airport, fly
cheapest- Take the ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligureferry
- Take the train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the bus from Piazza Luigi di Savoia to Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airportbus
- Fly from Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane BGY - SOF
8h 57m$62–216Line 1 ferry, train, bus via Trieste
- Take the ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligureferry 1
- Take the train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Milano Centraletrain Ic
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Venezia Mestretrain
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centraletrain Fr
- Take the bus from Trieste to Sofia Central Bus Stationbus
23h 5m$186–283Drive 1,485.2 km
- Drive from Portofino to Sofiacar 1,485.2 km
15h 27m$269–389Line 1 ferry, train to Turin Caselle Airport, fly
- Take the ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligureferry
- Take the train from Genova P.Za Principe to Torino Lingottotrain
- Fly from Turin Caselle Airport (TRN) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane TRN - SOF
9h 13m$92–368Line 1 ferry, train, train to Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport, fly
- Take the ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligureferry
- Take the train from Genova P.Za Principe to Ventimigliatrain
- Take the train from Ventimiglia to Saint-Laurent-du-Vartrain
- Fly from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport (NCE) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane NCE - SOF
10h 15m$89–382Line 1 ferry, train to Pisa International Airport, fly
- Take the ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligureferry
- Take the train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Pisa Centraletrain
- Fly from Pisa International Airport (PSA) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane PSA - SOF
7h 58m$78–340Line 1 ferry, train, train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly
- Take the ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligureferry
- Take the train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Malpensa Aeroporto T1train
- Fly from Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane MXP - SOF
8h 59m$92–304Line 1 ferry, train, bus
- Take the ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligureferry 1
- Take the train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Milano Centraletrain Ic
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Verona Porta Nuovatrain Fr
- Take the bus from Verona Porta Nuova to Sofia Central Bus Stationbus
23h 51m$161–256Line 1 ferry, bus
- Take the ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligureferry 1
- Take the bus from Genoa to Sofia Central Bus Stationbus
26h 11m$119–123
Portofino to Sofia by ferry, foot, train, and bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Portofino to Sofia is to line 1 ferry and train and bus and fly which costs $60 - $220 and takes 8h 57m.
The fastest way to get from Portofino to Sofia is to line 1 ferry and train and fly which takes 7h 58m and costs $75 - $340.
The distance between Portofino and Sofia is 1238 km. The road distance is 1485.2 km.
The best way to get from Portofino to Sofia without a car is to line 1 ferry and train and bus via Trieste which takes 23h 5m and costs $180 - $290.
It takes approximately 8h 57m to get from Portofino to Sofia, including transfers.
Sofia is 1h ahead of Portofino. It is currently 7:19 PM in Portofino and 8:19 PM in Sofia.
Yes, the driving distance between Portofino to Sofia is 1485 km. It takes approximately 15h 27m to drive from Portofino to Sofia.
There are 2305+ hotels available in Sofia.
What companies run services between Portofino, Italy and Sofia, Bulgaria?
There is no direct connection from Portofino to Sofia. However, you can take the line 1 ferry to Santa Margherita Ligure, walk to S.Margherita L.-Port, take the train to Genova Sestri Ponen., walk to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA) airport, fly to Sofia Airport (SOF), walk to Летище София Терминал 1, then take the line 84 bus to Ул. Ген. Гурко. Alternatively, you can take a ferry from Portofino to Sofia Central Bus Station via Santa Margherita Ligure, S.Margherita L.-Port, Milano Centrale, Venezia Mestre, Trieste Centrale, and Trieste in around 23h 5m.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport to Sofia Airport via Bari
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–230
Flights from Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport to Sofia Airport via Il Caravaggio International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $55–230
Flights from Turin Caselle Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $50–220
Flights from Il Caravaggio International Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $30–150
Flights from Il Caravaggio International Airport to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $30–150
Flights from Il Caravaggio International Airport to Sofia Airport via Bari
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 42m
- When
- Sunday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $30–150
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $30–140
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Sofia Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $30–140
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport to Sofia Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $70–220
Flights from Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport to Sofia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $70–220
Flights from Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport to Sofia Airport via Bari
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $55–230
Flights from Turin Caselle Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $55–240
Flights from Il Caravaggio International Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $19–110
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $45–190
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport to Sofia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–360
Flights from Turin Caselle Airport to Sofia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–400
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Sofia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–370
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–230
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Turin Caselle Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–420
- Website
- air.bg
Flights from Turin Caselle Airport to Sofia Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–400
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–230
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Sofia Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–400
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Sofia Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 42m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–260
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $20–45
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $18–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Genova P.Za Principe to Torino Lingotto
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $19–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $20–45
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Genova P.Za Principe to Ventimiglia
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 4m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $17–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Pisa Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $16–35
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $20–45
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $20–45
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $23–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $20–35
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Genova P.Za Principe to Torino Lingotto
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $22–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $23–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Genova P.Za Principe to Ventimiglia
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $20–35
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Pisa Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 47m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $19–35
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $23–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $23–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- italotreno.it
Train from Milano Centrale to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $35–75
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $21–45
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Venezia Mestre to Trieste Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $25–50
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Genova P.Za Principe to Torino Lingotto
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $26–55
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Milano Centrale to Verona Porta Nuova
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $25–50
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +33 4 13 94 30 50
- Website
- zou.maregionsud.fr
Train from Ventimiglia to Saint-Laurent-du-Var
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Schedules at
- zou.maregionsud.fr
- Phone
- +33 4 13 94 30 50
- Website
- zou.maregionsud.fr
Train from Ventimiglia to Saint-Laurent-du-Var
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $12–25
- Website
- https://zou.maregionsud.fr/en/
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from S.Margherita L.-Port to Pisa Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $55–180
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- [email protected]
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Milano Centrale to Malpensa Aeroporto T1
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $5–7
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- [email protected]
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Milano Centrale to Verona Porta Nuova
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $40–95
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- $65–95
- 2nd Class
- $40–60
- Phone
- +359 2 980 56 58
- [email protected]
- Website
- mm-travel.bg
Bus from Trieste to Sofia Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 14h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $101
- Schedules at
- mm-travel.bg
- Book at
- tickets.mm-travel.bg
Bus from Verona Porta Nuova to Sofia Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 18h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $104
- Schedules at
- mm-travel.bg
- Book at
- tickets.mm-travel.bg
Bus from Genoa to Sofia Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $104
- Schedules at
- mm-travel.bg
- Book at
- tickets.mm-travel.bg
- [email protected]
- Website
- terravision.eu
Bus from Piazza Luigi di Savoia to Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $5–29
- Website
- https://www.terravision.eu/
- Phone
- +39 0185 284670
- [email protected]
- Website
- traghettiportofino.it
Ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligure
- Ave. Duration
- 15 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $12
- Schedules at
- traghettiportofino.it
Ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligure
- Ave. Duration
- 15 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $12
- Schedules at
- traghettiportofino.it
Ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligure
- Ave. Duration
- 15 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $12
- Schedules at
- traghettiportofino.it
Ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligure
- Ave. Duration
- 15 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $12
- Schedules at
- traghettiportofino.it
Ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligure
- Ave. Duration
- 15 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $12
- Schedules at
- traghettiportofino.it
Ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligure
- Ave. Duration
- 15 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $12
- Schedules at
- traghettiportofino.it
Ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligure
- Ave. Duration
- 15 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $12
- Schedules at
- traghettiportofino.it
Ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligure
- Ave. Duration
- 15 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $12
- Schedules at
- traghettiportofino.it
Ferry from Portofino to Santa Margherita Ligure
- Ave. Duration
- 15 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $12
- Schedules at
- traghettiportofino.it
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