Baku to Sofia flight

Flights from Baku to Sofia start at €178.91 and take 8h 17m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Baku to Sofia starts at €178.91 and takes 8h 17m door to door, run by 3 operators over 2,333 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 22 September 2026Priced for 7 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 17mDoor to door
  • 4h 2mMoving
  • €211.95 to €511.08From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 424.8 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 7 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€211.95 to €511.08 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €424.35Wed23
  2. about €511.08Thu24
  3. about €498.10Fri25
  4. about €429.07Sat26
  5. about €335.26Sun27
  6. about €262.69Mon28
  7. about €317.56Tue29
  8. about €280.98Wed30
  9. about €268.00Thu1
  10. about €263.28Fri2
  11. about €240.86Sat3
  12. about €211.95Sun4
  13. about €215.49Mon5
  14. about €247.35Tue6

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 7 October 2026

Cheapest€178.91
  1. Azerbaijan Airlines AA613607:302h 35m09:05Heydar Aliyev International Airport GYDEsenboğa International Airport ESB
  2. FlixBus FB810809:5013h 17m23:07Ankara ASTISofia Central Bus Station

Changes at Ankara, with 45 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 18h 34mCO2 344.8 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€205.46
  1. Azerbaijan Airlines AA146707:302h 57m09:27Heydar Aliyev International Airport GYDİstanbul Airport IST
  2. Pegasus Airlines PA380310:321h 5m11:37İstanbul Airport ISTSofia Airport SOF

Changes at Istanbul, with 65 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 8h 17mCO2 487.6 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Azerbaijan Airlines740 km/hFixed fareNot published
Pegasus Airlines740 km/hFixed fareNot published
FlixBus72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • Azerbaijan Airlines
  • Pegasus Airlines
  • FlixBus

The flight gets you into Sofia. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Sofia for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Sofia Central and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Baku to Sofia

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €206.0590 days
  2. €194.8460 days
  3. €170.6545 days
  4. €200.1530 days
  5. €182.4521 days
  6. €247.3514 days
  7. €317.567 days
  8. €498.103 days
  9. €424.351 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €170.65.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 192 percent. The dearest point is €498.10, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €222.57Sun
  2. €215.49Mon
  3. €247.35Tue
  4. €280.98Wed
  5. €268.00Thu
  6. €263.28Fri
  7. €240.86Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Baku

Air
  • GYD

Sofia

Air
  • SOF
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 2,333 km against 2,217 km in a straight line, a detour of 11 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Ankara, Istanbul, İzmir. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Baku at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Baku to Sofia

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Baku to Sofia take?

The Flight from Baku to Sofia takes 8h 17m door to door, of which 4h 2m is spent moving. The route runs 2,333 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Baku to Sofia cost?

The Flight from Baku to Sofia starts at €178.91 for one passenger, as of 22 September 2026. A typical fare is €201.92. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Baku to Sofia?

3 operators run the Flight from Baku to Sofia: Azerbaijan Airlines, Pegasus Airlines, FlixBus. Between them they file around 3 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Baku to Sofia use?

The Flight from Baku to Sofia leaves from Heydar Aliyev International Airport GYD and arrives at Sofia Airport SOF. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Baku to Sofia?

Fares for the Flight from Baku to Sofia bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €170.65. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 192 percent, measured on 22 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Baku to Sofia produce?

The Flight from Baku to Sofia produces about 424.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2333 km, which works out at roughly 182 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Flight from Baku to Sofia?

Operators on the Flight from Baku to Sofia publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 17m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Baku to Sofia on 22 September 2026: 2333 km of route against 2217 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 3 operators a cheapest fare of €178.91, and 8h 17m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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Sofia is large, and the road in from SOF can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

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A car waiting when you land in Sofia

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