There are 10 ways to get from Udine to Messina by shuttle, plane, ferry, train, car ferry, 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.
Shuttle to Venice Marco Polo Airport, fly to Reggio Calabria Airport, ferry
best- Take a shuttle bus from Udine to Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia
- Fly from Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) to Reggio Calabria Airport (REG)plane VCE - REG
- Take the ferry from Reggio di Calabria to Messina Marittimaferry
6h 33m€228–667Bus to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport, fly to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, train
cheapest- Take the bus from Udine to Trieste Airportbus
- Fly from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)plane TRS - CTA
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
6h 59m€56–154Train, car ferry
- Take the train from Udine to Venezia Mestretrain Re
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Villa S.Giovannitrain Fr
- Take the carferry from Villa San Giovanni to Messina Marittimacarferry
13h 7m€166–404Bus
- Take the bus from Udine to Bologna Centralebus 466 / ...
- Take the bus from Bologna Centrale to Messinabus N597
19h 25m€114–176Drive, ferry
- Drive from Udine to Villa San Giovannicar
- Take the ferry from Villa San Giovanni to Messina Marittimaferry
12h 37m€211–305Shuttle to Venice Marco Polo Airport, fly to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport, train
- Take a shuttle bus from Udine to Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia
- Fly from Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)plane VCE - CTA
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
7h 46m€208–455Bus to Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport, fly to Palermo Airport, train
- Take the bus from Udine to Trieste Airportbus
- Fly from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport (TRS) to Palermo Airport (PMO)plane TRS - PMO
- Take the train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
8h 50m€77–197Shuttle to Venice Marco Polo Airport, fly to Palermo Airport, train
- Take a shuttle bus from Udine to Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia
- Fly from Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) to Palermo Airport (PMO)plane VCE - PMO
- Take the train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
9h 37m€210–458Train, train to Verona Villafranca Airport, fly to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Take the train from Udine to Venezia Mestretrain
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Verona Porta Nuovatrain
- Fly from Verona Villafranca Airport (VRN) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)plane VRN - CTA
- Take the train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centraletrain
9h 48m€67–335Bus, train
- Take the bus from Udine - Autostazione to Sapribus
- Take the train from Sapri to Messina Centraletrain Ic
20h 34m€84–132
Udine to Messina by train and car ferry
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Udine to Messina is to bus and fly and train which costs €55 - €160 and takes 6h 59m.
The fastest way to get from Udine to Messina is to shuttle and fly and ferry which takes 6h 33m and costs €220 - €700.
No, there is no direct bus from Udine to Messina. However, there are services departing from Udine and arriving at Messina via Bologna Centrale. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 19h 25m.
The distance between Udine and Messina is 1024 km.
The best way to get from Udine to Messina without a car is to train and car ferry which takes 13h 7m and costs €160 - €410.
It takes approximately 6h 33m to get from Udine to Messina, including transfers.
Udine to Messina bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Udine station.
Udine to Messina bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Bologna Centrale station.
Book your Udine to Messina bus tickets online with Omio and FlixBus.
There are 1162+ hotels available in Messina.
What companies run services between Udine, Italy and Messina, Italy?
You can take a bus from Udine to Messina via Bologna Centrale in around 19h 25m.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €40–370
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €30–130
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Malta
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €30–130
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €28–160
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €35–90
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Palermo Airport via Bari
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €35–90
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €26–140
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Palermo Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €26–140
Flights from Verona Villafranca Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–220
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–410
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 54m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–120
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–150
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Palermo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–140
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Palermo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–140
Flights from Verona Villafranca Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–220
- Website
- volotea.com
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Reggio Calabria Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–410
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–120
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €30–180
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 46m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–150
Flights from Trieste – Friuli Venezia Giulia Airport to Palermo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–140
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Palermo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–140
Flights from Verona Villafranca Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €19–160
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €18–80
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Palermo Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €7–85
Flights from Verona Villafranca Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €17–180
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Udine to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–21
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–16
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–16
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €26–40
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €26–40
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Udine to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–21
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Venezia Mestre to Verona Porta Nuova
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–18
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Catania Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–16
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Udine to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €15–25
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Udine to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €15–25
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Venezia Mestre to Verona Porta Nuova
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–22
- Website
- Italo Treno
- Phone
- +39 06 5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Udine to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 34m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €17–30
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Venezia Mestre to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 8m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €150–270
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Udine to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 34m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €17–30
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Venezia Mestre to Verona Porta Nuova
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–26
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +43 (0)5 1717
- Website
- Railjet
Train from Udine to Venezia Mestre
- *
- €23–35
Train from Udine to Venezia Mestre
- *
- €23–35
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €24–45
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €24–45
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Sapri to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 49m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €28–55
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- [email protected]
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
Train from Venezia Mestre to Verona Porta Nuova
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €30–75
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
- 1st Class
- €50–75
- 2nd Class
- €30–40
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- [email protected]
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Udine to Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €170–280
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Udine to Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €170–280
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Udine to Venezia, Aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- €170–280
- Website
- GoOpti
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Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Udine to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €24–40
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Bologna Centrale to Messina
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €90–140
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +39 0481 593511
- [email protected]
- Website
- aptgorizia.it
Bus from Udine to Trieste Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Schedules at
- aptgorizia.it
Bus from Udine to Trieste Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Schedules at
- aptgorizia.it
- Phone
- +39 089 233 899
- [email protected]
- Website
- Curcio Viaggi
Bus from Udine - Autostazione to Sapri
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €55–80
- Website
- Curcio Viaggi
- Phone
- 0923.873813
- [email protected]
- Website
- libertylines.it
Ferry from Reggio di Calabria to Messina Marittima
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €4–9
- Schedules at
- libertylines.it
- Phone
- +39.090.57.37
- [email protected]
- Website
- carontetourist.it
Car ferry from Villa San Giovanni to Messina Marittima
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €1–100
- Schedules at
- carontetourist.it
- Passenger
- €3
- Car
- €35–100
- Phone
- 3409848540
- [email protected]
- Website
- blujetlines.it
Ferry from Villa San Giovanni to Messina Marittima
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €2–3
- Schedules at
- blujetlines.it
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