There are 11 ways to get from Trieste to Leuven by shuttle, plane, train (Trenitalia, TGV, Eurostar), bus, car, train, car train, or train (Eurostar)
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Shuttle to Ljubljana, fly to Brussels Airport
best- Take a shuttle bus from Trieste Centrale to Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana
- Fly from Ljubljana (LJU) to Brussels Airport (BRU)plane LJU - BRU
5h 25m€260–506Train to Treviso Airport, fly to Brussels South Charleroi Airport, train
cheapest- Take the train from Trieste Centrale to Treviso Centraletrain
- Fly from Treviso Airport (TSF) to Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL)plane TSF - CRL
- Take the train from Charleroi-Central to Louvaintrain
9h 1m€69–256Train via Chambéry
- Take the train from Trieste Centrale to Torino Porta Susatrain Fr
- Take the train from Torino Porta Susa to Chambery Challes Les Eauxtrain Tgv
- Take the train from Chambery Challes Les Eaux to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Miditrain
15h 16m€433–745Bus
- Take the bus from Trieste to Frankfurt central train stationbus 127 / ...
- Take the bus from Frankfurt central train station to Leuven Stationbus N84
20h 55m€115–173Drive 1,120.2 km
- Drive from Trieste to Leuvencar 1,120.2 km
12h 20m€203–293Fly Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Brussels Airport
- Fly from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS) to Brussels Airport (BRU)plane TRS - BRU
6h 59m€87–284Shuttle to Venice Marco Polo Airport, fly to Brussels Airport
- Take a shuttle bus from Trieste Centrale to Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia
- Fly from Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) to Brussels Airport (BRU)plane VCE - BRU
6h 12m€295–600Shuttle, shuttle to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport, fly to Brussels Airport
- Take a shuttle bus from Trieste Centrale to Ljubljana
- Take a shuttle bus from Ljubljana, Avtobusna Postaja to Zagreb Airport
- Fly from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport (ZAG) to Brussels Airport (BRU)plane ZAG - BRU
7h€340–771Drive, car train
- Drive from Trieste to Villach Hbfcar
- Take the cartrain from Villach Hbf to Fuldacartrain
- Drive from Fulda to Leuvencar
15h 24m€203–288Train
- Take the train from Trieste Centrale to Villach Hbftrain Rjx
- Take the train from Villach Hauptbahnhof to Köln Hbftrain Drf
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Liège, Guillemins Bftrain 79
- Take the train from Liège-Guillemins to Louvaintrain Ic / ...
19h 28m€111–284Bus, shuttle, train
- Take the bus from Trieste Centrale to Kranj, Avtobusna Postaja Kranjbus
- Take a shuttle bus from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Luxembourg
- Take the train from Luxembourg to Liège-Guilleminstrain Ic / ...
- Take the train from Liège-Guillemins to Louvaintrain Ic / ...
16h 47m€672–1,021
Trieste to Leuven by train
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Trieste to Leuven is to bus which costs €110 - €180 and takes 20h 55m.
The fastest way to get from Trieste to Leuven is to shuttle and fly which takes 5h 25m and costs €260 - €550.
No, there is no direct bus from Trieste to Leuven station. However, there are services departing from Trieste and arriving at Leuven Station via Frankfurt central train station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 20h 55m.
No, there is no direct train from Trieste to Leuven. However, there are services departing from Trieste Centrale and arriving at Louvain via Torino Porta Susa, Chambery Challes Les Eaux and Bruxelles-Midi. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 15h 16m.
The distance between Trieste and Leuven is 1036 km. The road distance is 1120.2 km.
The best way to get from Trieste to Leuven without a car is to train via Chambéry which takes 15h 16m and costs €430 - €750.
It takes approximately 5h 25m to get from Trieste to Leuven, including transfers.
Trieste to Leuven bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Trieste station.
Trieste to Leuven train services, operated by Trenitalia Frecce, depart from Trieste Centrale station.
The best way to get from Trieste to Leuven is to train via Chambéry which takes 15h 16m and costs €430 - €750. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €110 - €180 and takes 20h 55m, you could also fly, which costs €85 - €290 and takes 6h 59m.
What companies run services between Trieste, Italy and Leuven, Belgium?
You can take a train from Trieste Centrale to Louvain via Torino Porta Susa, Chambery Challes Les Eaux, and Bruxelles-Midi in around 15h 16m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Trieste to Leuven Station via Frankfurt central train station in around 20h 55m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Ljubljana to Brussels Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–290
Flights from Ljubljana to Brussels Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–440
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Brussels Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 37m
- When
- Tuesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–550
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Brussels Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–200
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Brussels Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–300
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Brussels Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–280
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Ljubljana to Brussels Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–290
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Brussels Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 26m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–320
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Brussels Airport via Milan Linate
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–300
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Brussels Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–200
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Brussels Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–280
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Treviso Airport to Brussels South Charleroi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €30–200
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Brussels Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–320
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Brussels Airport via Milan Linate
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–300
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Brussels Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–200
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Ljubljana to Brussels Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–290
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Brussels Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–200
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Brussels Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–280
- Website
- croatiaairlines.com
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Brussels Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–280
- Website
- tuifly.be
Flights from Ljubljana to Brussels Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–420
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Brussels Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–330
- Phone
- +39 06 5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Trieste Centrale to Torino Porta Susa
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 48m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €75–130
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Torino Porta Susa to Chambery Challes Les Eaux
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 34m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €35–60
- Website
- TGV inOui
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Torino Porta Susa to Chambery Challes Les Eaux
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €23–35
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Trieste Centrale to Treviso Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 57m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €22–35
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from Chambery Challes Les Eaux to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 2m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €330–550
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from Köln Hbf to Liège, Guillemins Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €45–75
- Website
- Eurostar
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Charleroi-Central to Louvain
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €12–19
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Köln Hbf to Liège, Guillemins Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €22–35
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Liège-Guillemins to Louvain
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €13–20
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Luxembourg to Liège-Guillemins
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 38m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €29–45
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Liège-Guillemins to Louvain
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €13–20
- Website
- Belgian Railways
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- [email protected]
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
Car train from Villach Hbf to Fulda
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €95–120
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
- Phone
- +43 (0) 51717
- Website
- Nightjet
Train from Villach Hauptbahnhof to Köln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 8m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €50–140
- Website
- Nightjet
- Sleeper Carriage
- €110–140
- Couchette Carriage
- €80–95
- Seating Carriage
- €50–60
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Köln Hbf to Liège, Guillemins Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €19–40
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Liège-Guillemins to Louvain
- Ave. Duration
- 26 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €11–24
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Liège-Guillemins to Louvain
- Ave. Duration
- 26 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €11–24
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- [email protected]
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Trieste Centrale to Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €150–260
- Website
- GoOpti
- Private
- €204
Shuttle from Trieste Centrale to Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €230–390
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Trieste Centrale to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €120–210
- Website
- GoOpti
- Private
- €204
Shuttle from Ljubljana, Avtobusna Postaja to Zagreb Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €190–330
- Website
- GoOpti
Bus from Trieste Centrale to Kranj, Avtobusna Postaja Kranj
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €30–250
- Website
- GoOpti
- Shared
- €30
- Private
- €125
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Trieste to Frankfurt central train station
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–120
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Frankfurt central train station to Leuven Station
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €35–55
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +386 40 121 900
- [email protected]
- Website
- slovenija.eu.com
Shuttle from Ljubljana, Avtobusna Postaja to Zagreb Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €130–220
- Schedules at
- slovenija.eu.com
- 1 -3 persons
- €170
- 4-8 persons
- €220
- Phone
- +386 (0) 31 30 41 41
- [email protected]
- Website
- zup-prevozi.eu
Shuttle from Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana to Luxembourg
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €600–700
- Schedules at
- zup-prevozi.eu
- Economy class
- €600–700
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Booking & Getting There
Trieste to Leuven bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Frankfurt central train station.
Trieste to Leuven train services, operated by Trenitalia Frecce, arrive at Torino Porta Susa station.
Yes, the driving distance between Trieste to Leuven is 1120 km. It takes approximately 12h 20m to drive from Trieste to Leuven.
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