Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Nuremberg to Sofia. From €63.98, fastest 5h 8m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Travelling from Nuremberg to Sofia costs €63.98 at the cheapest and takes 5h 8m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 2 operators. The route covers 1,241 km. Cheapest is by Flight, fastest is by Flight.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on 28 September 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 5h 16m | 2h 6m | 3h 10m | €110.47 | 305.3 kg | 7 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Graz, with 63 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 22h 10mCO2 37.4 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 5h 16mCO2 305.3 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modelled until our booking connectors are live.
| Operator | Service | Departs | Arrives | Takes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DB Fernverkehr AG2 changes | ICE 783 | 08:56 | 06:06 | 21h 16m |
| DB Fernverkehr AG2 changes | ICE 583 | 09:51 | 08:12 | 22h 27m |
| DB Fernverkehr AG1 changes | ICE 725 | 18:02 | 16:55 | 22h 59m |
| DB Fernverkehr AG2 changes | ICE 927 | 19:32 | 03:30 | 32h 4m |
| DB Fernverkehr AG3 changes | ICE 727 | 19:48 | 03:30 | 31h 48m |
| DB Fernverkehr AG1 changes | ICE 581 | 07:29 | 06:35 | 23h 12m |
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of travelling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Nuremberg to Sofia | Tue8 Sept | Wed9 Sept | Thu10 Sept | Fri11 Sept | Sat12 Sept | Sun13 Sept | Mon14 Sept | Tue15 Sept | Wed16 Sept | Thu17 Sept | Fri18 Sept | Sat19 Sept | Sun20 Sept | Mon21 Sept |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | €137.13 | €137.13 | €164.63 | €140.43 | €149.23 | €123.93 | €120.08 | €78.83 | €96.43 | €106.33 | €107.98 | €101.38 | €92.03 | €79.93 |
| Flight | €209.59 | €200.74 | €244.99 | €175.96 | €187.76 | €183.63 | €153.54 | €125.22 | €148.82 | €162.39 | €141.74 | €150.59 | €145.87 | €110.47 |
| Train | €261.59 | €281.39 | €320.99 | €263.79 | €246.19 | €241.24 | €225.29 | €138.39 | €160.94 | €232.44 | €217.59 | €176.89 | €169.19 | €148.29 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-28 · €63.98
That is the travelling done. What happens after you walk out into Sofia is not something we sell.
Hotels and flats near the centre, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
SOF is not in Sofia, and the road in from it is the part of the trip nobody plans. We sell the flight and stop at the terminal door.
A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.
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Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From |
|---|---|
 Ryanair | €116.37 |
 Wizz Air | €106.93 |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €55.00 | 86% |
| Taxes | €5.50 | 9% |
| Supplier fees | €1.49 | 2% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 3% |
| Total you pay | €63.98 | 100% |
The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Most of the points near Sofia Central open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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The fastest journey from Nuremberg to Sofia takes 5h 8m door to door, of which 2h 6m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 5h 16m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Nuremberg to Sofia is €63.98, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €169.18. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Nuremberg to Sofia is by Flight, at €110.47 for one passenger on 28 September 2026. That journey takes 5h 16m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
Fares from Nuremberg to Sofia bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €59.58. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 176 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Nuremberg to Sofia, at €78.83. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on 28 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Nuremberg to Sofia, at €52.43 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
2 operators sell services from Nuremberg to Sofia across 1 modes: Ryanair, Wizz Air. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
60 percent of the services we sell from Nuremberg to Sofia are direct. The rest connect at Graz, Belgrade, Zagreb, Vienna, with about 63 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Nuremberg to Sofia by Flight leave from Nuremberg NUE and arrive at Sofia SOF. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
0 of the 2 operators we sell from Nuremberg to Sofia allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
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Plenty of what is worth seeing sits outside Sofia and elsewhere in Bulgaria. None of it is ours to sell.
The tickets worth having in advance, because the queue at the door is usually the whole morning.
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