Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Limerick to Edinburgh. From €45.99, fastest 4h 14m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Limerick to Edinburgh costs €45.99 at the cheapest and takes 4h 14m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 522 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 September 28, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 4h 15m | 1h 5m | 3h 10m | €57.37 | 128.4 kg | 3 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Dublin, with 104 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 5h 50mCO2 94.8 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 4h 15mCO2 128.4 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 modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Limerick to Edinburgh | WedSep 9 | ThuSep 10 | FriSep 11 | SatSep 12 | SunSep 13 | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | €117.55 | €110.47 | €102.80 | €85.69 | €82.15 | €69.76 | €69.76 | €66.22 | €76.25 | €76.25 | €73.89 | €66.81 | €60.32 | €57.37 |
| Train | €123.54 | €129.59 | €113.64 | €98.24 | €87.79 | €91.64 | €92.19 | €72.39 | €86.69 | €74.59 | €89.44 | €79.54 | €64.14 | €59.19 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-28 · €45.99
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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.
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Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ryanair | €54.42 | 4h 14m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €40.00 | 87% |
| Taxes | €4.00 | 9% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 4% |
| Total you pay | €45.99 | 100% |
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The fastest journey from Limerick to Edinburgh takes 4h 14m door to door, of which 1h 5m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 4h 17m, 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 Limerick to Edinburgh is €45.99, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €75.07. 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 Limerick to Edinburgh is by Flight, at €57.37 for one passenger on September 28, 2026. That journey takes 4h 15m 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 Limerick to Edinburgh bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €47.64. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 147 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Limerick to Edinburgh, at €57.37. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 28, 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 Limerick to Edinburgh, at €40.49 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.
1 operators sell services from Limerick to Edinburgh across 1 modes: Ryanair. 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.
33 percent of the services we sell from Limerick to Edinburgh are direct. The rest connect at Galway, Cork, Belfast, Dublin, with about 55 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Limerick to Edinburgh by Flight leave from Limerick SNN and arrive at Edinburgh EDI. 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 1 operators we sell from Limerick to Edinburgh 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 modeled number pass for a filed one.
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