Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Sofia to Amsterdam. From €144.83, fastest 5h 50m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Sofia to Amsterdam costs €144.83 at the cheapest and takes 5h 50m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 2 operators. The route covers 1,797 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 22, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 5h 54m | 2h 44m | 3h 10m | €188.35 | 442.1 kg | 6 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Graz, with 86 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 18h 47mCO2 267.5 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 5h 54mCO2 442.1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FlixBus-eu1 changes | FlixBus N981 | 08:22 | 19:29 | 35h 17m |
| FlixBus-eu2 changes | FlixBus N981 | 08:22 | 15:29 | 31h 17m |
| FlixBus-eu2 changes | FlixBus N981 | 08:20 | 22:50 | 38h 36m |
| FlixBus-eu1 changes | FlixBus N981 | 19:50 | 06:25 | 35h 35m |
| FlixBus-eu2 changes | FlixBus N981 | 19:50 | 05:44 | 34h 14m |
| FlixBus-eu3 changes | FlixBus N981 | 19:50 | 05:38 | 33h 59m |
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 Sofia to Amsterdam | TueSep 8 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | €257.58 | €269.68 | €318.08 | €259.23 | €271.88 | €213.58 | €210.83 | €161.33 | €177.28 | €188.83 | €171.23 | €222.38 | €184.98 | €164.63 |
| Flight | €332.31 | €279.80 | €375.97 | €311.66 | €275.67 | €276.26 | €228.47 | €220.80 | €237.32 | €233.78 | €210.18 | €221.39 | €205.46 | €188.35 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-22 · €144.83
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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 |
|---|---|---|
 Bulgaria Air | €157.67 | 5h 51m |
 Transavia Holland | €148.82 | 5h 50m |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €128.50 | 89% |
| Taxes | €12.85 | 9% |
| Supplier fees | €1.49 | 1% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 1% |
| Total you pay | €144.83 | 100% |
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The fastest journey from Sofia to Amsterdam takes 5h 50m door to door, of which 2h 44m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 6h 1m, 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 Sofia to Amsterdam is €144.83, checked on September 22, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €241.45. 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 Sofia to Amsterdam is by Flight, at €188.35 for one passenger on September 22, 2026. That journey takes 5h 54m 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 Sofia to Amsterdam bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €107.98. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 195 percent, measured on September 22, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Sofia to Amsterdam, at €161.33. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 22, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
January is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Sofia to Amsterdam, at €105.78 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 Sofia to Amsterdam across 1 modes: Bulgaria Air, Transavia Holland. 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 Sofia to Amsterdam are direct. The rest connect at Dortmund, Graz, Belgrade, Nuremberg, with about 49 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Sofia to Amsterdam by Flight leave from Sofia SOF and arrive at Amsterdam AMS. 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 Sofia to Amsterdam 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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