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Bangkok to Sofia

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Bangkok to Sofia. From €649.73, fastest 15h 55m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Bangkok to Sofia runs about 2 times a day, with the first departure around 07:30 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €649.73, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 15h 55m over 8,426 km, on services run by 4 operators across 1 mode.

Checked September 22, 2026Priced for October 12, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €649.73, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for October 12, 2026

€649.73

  • 151%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Bangkok

Typical first and last departure on this corridor.

  • 07:30First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 2Services per day
  • 0%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €1,457.44Wed23
  2. about €1,885.19Thu24
  3. about €1,609.66Fri25
  4. about €1,466.29Sat26
  5. about €1,370.71Sun27
  6. about €1,258.02Mon28
  7. about €1,136.48Tue29
  8. about €827.91Wed30
  9. about €1,295.78Thu1
  10. about €976.00Fri2
  11. about €1,046.21Sat3
  12. about €978.95Sun4
  13. about €933.52Mon5
  14. about €773.04Tue6
  15. about €695.75Wed7
  16. about €1,045.03Thu8
  17. about €753.57Fri9
  18. about €764.19Sat10
  19. about €714.04Sun11
  20. about €649.73Mon12
  21. about €722.89Tue13

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

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 Bangkok to Sofia

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

  1. €691.0390 days
  2. €641.4760 days
  3. €739.4145 days
  4. €877.4730 days
  5. €722.8921 days
  6. €773.0414 days
  7. €1,136.487 days
  8. €1,609.663 days
  9. €1,457.441 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €641.47.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 151 percent. The most expensive point is €1,609.66, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€1,609.66€641.47137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Bangkok to Sofia and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

4 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.

The shape of it

8,426 km

7,935 km as the crow flies, 6% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north-west.

Who lives at each end

5,104,4761,152,556

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

The route

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The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

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 8,426 km against 7,935 km in a straight line, a detour of 6 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Dubai, Istanbul. The gap between arriving and leaving is 86 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 11 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.

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

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Sofia

Settled in advance, so the ride into Sofia costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Sofia Central

Most of the points near Sofia Central open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Questions about Bangkok to Sofia

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 it take to get from Bangkok to Sofia?

The fastest journey from Bangkok to Sofia takes 15h 55m door to door, of which 12h 15m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 16h 59m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Bangkok to Sofia?

The cheapest fare from Bangkok to Sofia is €649.73, as of September 22, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €1,052.70. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Bangkok to Sofia?

The cheapest way from Bangkok to Sofia is by flight, at €649.73 for one passenger on October 12, 2026. That journey takes 16h 51m 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.

When should I book Bangkok to Sofia?

Fares from Bangkok to Sofia bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €641.47. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 151 percent, measured on September 22, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Bangkok to Sofia?

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Bangkok to Sofia, at €773.04. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 22, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Bangkok to Sofia?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Bangkok to Sofia, at €637.34 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.

Who runs service from Bangkok to Sofia?

4 operators sell services from Bangkok to Sofia across 1 mode: Emirates, Flydubai, Pegasus Airlines, Turkish Airlines. 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.

Is there a direct service from Bangkok to Sofia?

0 percent of the services we sell from Bangkok to Sofia are direct. The rest connect at Dubai, Istanbul, with about 86 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Bangkok to Sofia use?

Services from Bangkok to Sofia by flight leave from Suvarnabhumi Airport BKK and arrive at Sofia Airport 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.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Bangkok to Sofia?

0 of the 4 operators we sell from Bangkok 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.

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 labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Bangkok to Sofia on September 22, 2026: 8426 km of route against 7935 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 4 operators a cheapest fare of €649.73, and 15h 55m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Sofia is somebody else's catalog.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Sofia and across Bulgaria

Day trips that leave Sofia in the morning and cover a good part of Bulgaria by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Bangkok reaches 337 places in 74 countries on services we hold, over distances from 12 to 15,367 km. Sofia reaches 153 places in 44 countries, from 60 to 9,522 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Bangkok

  • 337Places you can leave for
  • 74Countries
  • 129Operators

Arriving in Sofia

Leaving Sofia

  • 153Places you can leave for
  • 44Countries
  • 41Operators

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