There are 10 ways to get from Sofia to Kulmbach by plane, train, bus, or car
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Fly to Nuremberg Airport, train
best- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Nuremberg Airport (NUE)plane SOF - NUE
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Kulmbachtrain
9h 46m€56–381Bus, train via Leipzig
- Take the bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Leipzigbus
- Take the train from Leipzig Hbf to Bambergtrain 28 / ...
- Take the train from Bamberg to Kulmbachtrain
24h 56m€114–238Drive 1,509 km
- Drive from Sofia to Kulmbachcar 1,509 km
14h 25m€223–322Fly to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane SOF - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Würzburg Hbftrain
- Take the train from Würzburg Hbf to Bambergtrain
- Take the train from Bamberg to Kulmbachtrain
9h 11m€154–428Fly to Václav Havel Airport Prague, bus, train
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)plane SOF - PRG
- Take the bus from Prague Airport Terminal 1/2 to Cheb Central Bus Stationbus
- Take the train from Cheb to Kirchenlaibachtrain
10h 19m€64–260Fly to Munich International Airport, train
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane SOF - MUC
- Take the train from München Hbf to Bambergtrain
- Take the train from Bamberg to Kulmbachtrain
9h 17m€149–433Fly to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, train
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)plane SOF - BER
- Take the train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Bambergtrain
- Take the train from Bamberg to Kulmbachtrain
9h 45m€138–456Bus, train
- Take the bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Station to Hof Bahnhofsplatzbus Citylines 9
- Take the train from Hof Hbf to Kulmbachtrain Re35
26h 55m€95–161Bus
- Take the bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Station to Nuremberg Central Bus Stationbus Arda-Tur
- Take the bus from Nürnberg Hbf to Bayreuth Hbfbus Re30 / ...
27h 24mBus, train #2
- Take the bus from Sofiya, Avtogara Serdika to Niš, Autobuska Stanicabus
- Take the bus from Niš, Autobuska Stanica to Bambergbus
- Take the train from Bamberg to Kulmbachtrain
30h 2m€115–185
Sofia Airport (SOF) to Nuremberg Airport (NUE) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Sofia to Kulmbach is to bus and train which costs €95 - €170 and takes 26h 55m.
The fastest way to get from Sofia to Kulmbach is to fly and train which takes 9h 11m and costs €150 - €430.
No, there is no direct bus from Sofia station to Kulmbach. However, there are services departing from Sofia Serdica Bus Station and arriving at Kulmbach Bayreuther Straße via Nürnberg Hbf and Bayreuth Hbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 27h 24m.
The distance between Sofia and Kulmbach is 1360 km. The road distance is 1509 km.
The best way to get from Sofia to Kulmbach without a car is to bus and train via Leipzig which takes 24h 56m and costs €110 - €240.
It takes approximately 9h 46m to get from Sofia to Kulmbach, including transfers.
Sofia to Kulmbach bus services, operated by Arda Tur, depart from Sofia Serdica Bus Station.
Sofia to Kulmbach bus services, operated by Arda Tur, arrive at Nuremberg Central Bus Station.
Kulmbach is 1h behind Sofia. It is currently 8:09 AM in Sofia and 7:09 AM in Kulmbach.
Yes, the driving distance between Sofia to Kulmbach is 1509 km. It takes approximately 14h 25m to drive from Sofia to Kulmbach.
What companies run services between Sofia, Bulgaria and Kulmbach, Germany?
You can take a bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Station to Kulmbach Bayreuther Straße via Nuremberg Central Bus Station, Nürnberg Hbf, and Bayreuth Hbf in around 27h 24m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Nuremberg Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–480
Flights from Sofia Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–320
Flights from Sofia Airport to Frankfurt via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–230
Flights from Sofia Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–340
Flights from Sofia Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–350
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–350
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Frankfurt via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 58m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–330
Flights from Sofia Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–320
Flights from Sofia Airport to Munich International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–360
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–280
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Nuremberg Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Friday and Monday
- Estimated price
- €110–300
Flights from Sofia Airport to Frankfurt via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–250
Flights from Sofia Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–120
Flights from Sofia Airport to Munich International Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 37m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, Monday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €70–140
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Saturday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–170
- Website
- air.bg
Flights from Sofia Airport to Nuremberg Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €110–300
Flights from Sofia Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €95–270
Flights from Sofia Airport to Frankfurt via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–250
Flights from Sofia Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–140
Flights from Sofia Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–120
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–270
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Saturday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–170
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Nuremberg Airport via Bari
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €28–240
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–210
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–320
Flights from Sofia Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €60–350
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €30–160
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €27–220
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–250
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Nuremberg Airport via Milan Malpensa
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €150–430
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Kulmbach
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 26m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €21–95
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Bamberg to Kulmbach
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €10–50
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Würzburg Hbf to Bamberg
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €16–75
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Bamberg to Kulmbach
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €10–50
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Cheb to Kirchenlaibach
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €9–45
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Bamberg to Kulmbach
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €10–50
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Bamberg to Kulmbach
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €10–50
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Hof Hbf to Kulmbach
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €10–50
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Bamberg to Kulmbach
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €10–50
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Leipzig Hbf to Bamberg
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €45–90
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Frankfurt to Würzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €25–50
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from München Hbf to Bamberg
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–90
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Bamberg
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €75–150
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +49 800 589 28 40
- [email protected]
- Website
- agilis
Train from Bamberg to Kulmbach
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €19–35
- Schedules at
- agilis
Train from Bamberg to Kulmbach
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €19–35
- Schedules at
- agilis
Train from Bamberg to Kulmbach
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €19–35
- Schedules at
- agilis
Train from Bamberg to Kulmbach
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €19–35
- Schedules at
- agilis
Train from Bamberg to Kulmbach
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €19–35
- Schedules at
- agilis
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- [email protected]
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
Train from Cheb to Kirchenlaibach
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €5
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
- Phone
- +359 88 949 0000
- [email protected]
- Website
- Union Ivkoni
Bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Leipzig
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 42m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €55–100
- Website
- Union Ivkoni
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- [email protected]
- Website
- RegioJet
Bus from Prague Airport Terminal 1/2 to Cheb Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €10–16
- Website
- RegioJet
- Phone
- +359 0885700870
- [email protected]
- Website
- Citylines
Bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Station to Hof Bahnhofsplatz
- Ave. Duration
- 25h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €85–120
- Website
- Citylines
- Phone
- +359 700 20 544
- Website
- Arda Tur
Bus from Sofia Serdica Bus Station to Nuremberg Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 55m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €206
- Website
- Arda Tur
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Bus from Nürnberg Hbf to Bayreuth Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
- Phone
- +359 2 981 58 56
- [email protected]
- Website
- matpu.com
Bus from Sofiya, Avtogara Serdika to Niš, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €20–26
- Schedules at
- matpu.com
- Phone
- +381 18 255 177
- Website
- Niš-ekspres
Bus from Sofiya, Avtogara Serdika to Niš, Autobuska Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €15–22
- Website
- Niš-ekspres
- Phone
- +381 (11) 761-4545
- Website
- srbijatours.com
Bus from Niš, Autobuska Stanica to Bamberg
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 49m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €90–110
- Schedules at
- srbijatours.com
- Prices
- €90–110
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