There are 10 ways to get from Prague to Zakopane by train, bus, car, plane, or shuttle
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Train, bus
best- Take the train from Prague Main Train Station to Kraków Główny Train Stationtrain RegioJet RJ 1023
- Take the bus from MDA dworzec autobusowy to Zakopane ZDAbus K1
8h 14mzł 156–248Bus
- Take the bus from Prague to Krakow, MDA Bus Stationbus N1310 / ...
- Take the bus from MDA dworzec autobusowy to Zakopane ZDAbus K1
9h 35mzł 195–317Drive 492 km
- Drive from Prague to Zakopanecar 492 km
6h 10mzł 325–470Fly to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice, train
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK)plane PRG - KRK
- Take the train from Krakow Glowny to Zakopanetrain
7h 25mzł 184–808Train
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Krakow Glownytrain 411 / ...
- Take the train from Krakow Glowny to Zakopanetrain Eip / ...
8h 29mzł 156–848Train via Ostrava
- Take the train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Bohumintrain Sc / ...
- Take the train from Bohumin to Krakow Glownytrain Ec
- Take the train from Krakow Glowny to Zakopanetrain Eip / ...
8h 32mzł 165–889Fly to Košice International Airport, train, bus
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Košice International Airport (KSC)plane PRG - KSC
- Take the train from Kosice to Poprad-Tatrytrain
- Take the bus from Poprad AS to Zakopane Aleja 3 Maja Dolnebus
9h 14mzł 299–1,185Fly to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, shuttle
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane PRG - BUD
- Take a shuttle bus from Budapest to Zakopane
10h 17mzł 442–956Fly to Katowice International Airport, shuttle, train
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Katowice International Airport (KTW)plane PRG - KTW
- Take a shuttle bus from Katowice Airport to Kraków Główny Station
- Take the train from Krakow Glowny to Zakopanetrain
10h 6mzł 404–1,129Fly to Warsaw Chopin Airport, train
- Fly from Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) to Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)plane PRG - WAW
- Take the train from Warszawa Zachodnia to Zakopanetrain
9h 14mzł 553–1,827
Prague to Zakopane by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Prague to Zakopane is to train and bus which costs 150 zł - 250 zł and takes 8h 14m.
The fastest way to get from Prague to Zakopane is to drive which takes 6h 10m and costs 320 zł - 470 zł.
No, there is no direct bus from Prague to Zakopane. However, there are services departing from Prague and arriving at Zakopane ZDA via MDA dworzec autobusowy. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 9h 35m.
No, there is no direct train from Prague to Zakopane. However, there are services departing from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi and arriving at Zakopane via Krakow Glowny. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 8h 29m.
The distance between Prague and Zakopane is 611 km. The road distance is 492 km.
The best way to get from Prague to Zakopane without a car is to train and bus which takes 8h 14m and costs 150 zł - 250 zł.
It takes approximately 8h 14m to get from Prague to Zakopane, including transfers.
Prague to Zakopane bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Prague station.
Prague to Zakopane train services, operated by LEO Express, depart from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi station.
The best way to get from Prague to Zakopane is to bus which takes 9h 35m and costs 190 zł - 320 zł. Alternatively, you can train, which costs 150 zł - 850 zł and takes 8h 29m.
What companies run services between Prague, Czechia and Zakopane, Poland?
You can take a bus from Prague to Zakopane ZDA via MDA dworzec autobusowy in around 9h 35m. Alternatively, you can take a train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Zakopane via Krakow Glowny in around 8h 29m.
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Warsaw Chopin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 370–750
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Katowice International Airport via Warsaw Chopin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 340–1,100
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Warsaw Chopin Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 300–750
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 300–1,100
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Košice International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 550–1,300
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 270–950
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Warsaw Chopin Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 300–1,000
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- zł 120–600
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Košice International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 220–950
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- zł 150–500
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Katowice International Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- zł 290–1,000
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 550–1,000
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 310–1,100
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Václav Havel Airport Prague to Katowice International Airport via Eindhoven
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- zł 380–950
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- [email protected]
- Website
- RegioJet
Train from Prague Main Train Station to Kraków Główny Train Station
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 49m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- zł 120–200
- Website
- RegioJet
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Krakow Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 49m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- zł 120–200
- Website
- RegioJet
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Bohumin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- zł 90–150
- Website
- RegioJet
Train from Kosice to Poprad-Tatry
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- zł 25–40
- Website
- RegioJet
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- [email protected]
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Krakow Glowny to Zakopane
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 85–310
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Krakow Glowny to Zakopane
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 85–310
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Krakow Glowny to Zakopane
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 85–310
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Krakow Glowny to Zakopane
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 85–310
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Warszawa Zachodnia to Zakopane
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- zł 270–1,000
- Website
- PKP Intercity
- Phone
- +48 (12) 30 71 714
- [email protected]
- Website
- Koleie Malopolskie
Train from Krakow Glowny to Zakopane
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- zł 29–35
- Website
- Koleie Malopolskie
Train from Krakow Glowny to Zakopane
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- zł 29–35
- Website
- Koleie Malopolskie
Train from Krakow Glowny to Zakopane
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- zł 29–35
- Website
- Koleie Malopolskie
Train from Krakow Glowny to Zakopane
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- zł 29–35
- Website
- Koleie Malopolskie
- Phone
- +420 220 311 700
- [email protected]
- Website
- LEO Express
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Krakow Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- zł 130–210
- Website
- LEO Express
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Bohumin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 9m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 95–150
- Website
- LEO Express
Train from Bohumin to Krakow Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- zł 45–70
- Website
- LEO Express
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Krakow Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- zł 460–850
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Bohumin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- zł 330–600
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Bohumin to Krakow Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- zł 150–270
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- [email protected]
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
Train from Praha Hlavni Nadrazi to Bohumin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- zł 180–280
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
Train from Bohumin to Krakow Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 48m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- zł 85–130
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
- Phone
- +421 24 48 58 188
- [email protected]
- Website
- Railways of Slovak Republic (ZSSK)
Train from Kosice to Poprad-Tatry
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 53m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- zł 21–40
- Website
- Railways of Slovak Republic (ZSSK)
- Phone
- +48 669 060 060
- [email protected]
- Website
- majerbus.pl
Bus from MDA dworzec autobusowy to Zakopane ZDA
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- zł 30–50
- Schedules at
- majerbus.pl
Bus from MDA dworzec autobusowy to Zakopane ZDA
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- zł 30–50
- Schedules at
- majerbus.pl
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Prague to Krakow, MDA Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- zł 160–270
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +48 (12) 30 71 714
- [email protected]
- Website
- Koleie Malopolskie
Bus from Poprad AS to Zakopane Aleja 3 Maja Dolne
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- zł 14–20
- Website
- Koleie Malopolskie
- Phone
- +36 70 282 1827
- [email protected]
- Website
- eurobusways.com
Shuttle from Budapest to Zakopane
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- zł 220–310
- Schedules at
- eurobusways.com
- Phone
- +48 32 236 11 11
- [email protected]
- Website
- Matuszek
Shuttle from Katowice Airport to Kraków Główny Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- zł 25–80
- Website
- Matuszek
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Prague to Zakopane bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Krakow, MDA Bus Station.
Prague to Zakopane train services, operated by LEO Express, arrive at Krakow Glowny station.
Yes, the driving distance between Prague to Zakopane is 492 km. It takes approximately 6h 10m to drive from Prague to Zakopane.
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