Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Plovdiv to Izmir. From €38.13, fastest 4h 11m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Plovdiv to Izmir costs €38.13 at the cheapest and takes 4h 11m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 477 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 14m | 1h 4m | 3h 10m | €53.83 | 117.3 kg | 1 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Sofia, with 45 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 12h 57mCO2 21.9 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 4h 14mCO2 117.3 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 modeled until our booking connectors are live.
| Operator | Service | Departs | Arrives | Takes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgarian State Railways7 changes | БВ 8651 | 10:09 | 03:34 | 41h 25m |
| FlixBus-eu4 changes | FlixBus N981 | 17:05 | 06:56 | 37h 51m |
| FlixBus-eu5 changes | FlixBus N981 | 17:05 | 05:00 | 35h 55m |
| TCDD Taşımacılık A.Ş.2 changes | 12504 | 18:58 | 16:17 | 45h 19m |
| Bulgarian State Railways4 changes | БВ 1612 | 05:10 | 16:17 | 35h 7m |
| FlixBus-eu4 changes | FlixBus N981 | 17:05 | 06:56 | 37h 51m |
| FlixBus-eu5 changes | FlixBus N981 | 17:05 | 05:00 | 35h 55m |
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 Plovdiv to Izmir | SatSep 12 | SunSep 13 | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 | WedSep 23 | ThuSep 24 | FriSep 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | €123.93 | €89.28 | €87.08 | €56.28 | €70.03 | €81.58 | €85.43 | €60.13 | €56.83 | €46.93 | €53.53 | €60.13 | €67.28 | €66.18 |
| Flight | €150.00 | €90.41 | €93.36 | €79.20 | €80.97 | €116.37 | €76.84 | €85.69 | €80.38 | €53.83 | €72.71 | €72.12 | €90.41 | €69.17 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-28 · €38.13
The flight gets you into Izmir. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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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.
The fare from ADB into Izmir is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
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 | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 SunExpress | €53.83 | 4h 11m | 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 | €31.50 | 83% |
| Taxes | €3.15 | 8% |
| Supplier fees | €1.49 | 4% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 5% |
| Total you pay | €38.13 | 100% |
We cannot promise Izmir Basmane still has a baggage check, because plenty of stations closed theirs.
Priced by the bag and by the day, booked before you get there, and insured while it sits.
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The fastest journey from Plovdiv to Izmir takes 4h 11m door to door, of which 1h 4m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 4h 14m, 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 Plovdiv to Izmir is €38.13, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €73.89. 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 Plovdiv to Izmir is by Flight, at €53.83 for one passenger on September 28, 2026. That journey takes 4h 14m 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 Plovdiv to Izmir bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €33.17. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 274 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Plovdiv to Izmir, at €46.93. 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 Plovdiv to Izmir, at €33.17 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 Plovdiv to Izmir across 1 modes: SunExpress. 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.
50 percent of the services we sell from Plovdiv to Izmir are direct. The rest connect at Sofia, with about 45 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Plovdiv to Izmir by Flight leave from Plovdiv PDV and arrive at İzmir ADB. 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 Plovdiv to Izmir 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.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
Our job ends at the platform. What fills the days in Izmir afterward does not belong to us.
Day trips that leave Izmir in the morning and cover a good part of Türkiye by evening.
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