There are 10 ways to get from Bucharest to Calais by plane, bus, train, night train, car, or car train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly to Beauvais–Tillé Airport, bus, train
best- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Beauvais–Tillé Airport (BVA)plane OTP - BVA
- Take the bus from Aéroport to Gare routierebus
- Take the train from Amiens to Calais Villetrain
9h 27m€87–355Bus via Cluj-Napoca
cheapest- Take the bus from București, Autogara Militari to Cluj-Napoca, Autogara Sens Vestbus N1382 / ...
- Take the bus from Cluj-Napoca, Autogara Sens Vest to Calaisbus
35h 20m€38–96Bus
- Take the bus from Bucharest to Calaisbus
28h 3m€144Train, night train
- Take the train from Bucuresti Nord to Budapest-Keletitrain Ir
- Take the nighttrain from Budapest-Keleti to Stuttgart Hbfnighttrain En
- Take the train from Stuttgart Hbf to Paris Esttrain Tgv
- Take the train from Paris Nord to Calais Frethuntrain Tgv
36h 56m€257–398Drive 2,337.5 km
- Drive from Bucharest to Calaiscar 2,337.5 km
22h 18m€428–618Fly to Brussels South Charleroi Airport, train
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL)plane OTP - CRL
- Take the train from Charleroi-Central to Lille Flandrestrain
- Take the train from Lille Flandres to Calais Villetrain
9h 41m€126–388Fly to Brussels Airport, train
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Brussels Airport (BRU)plane OTP - BRU
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Lille Europetrain
- Take the train from Lille Europe to Calais Frethuntrain
9h 2m€129–332Fly to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport, train
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG)plane OTP - CDG
- Take the train from Aeroport Cdg2 Tgv Roissy to Lille Europetrain
- Take the train from Lille Europe to Calais Frethuntrain
8h 56m€136–382Fly to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, train
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)plane OTP - AMS
- Take the train from Schiphol Airport to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Miditrain
- Take the train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Lille Europetrain
- Take the train from Lille Europe to Calais Frethuntrain
10h 56m€216–477Drive, bus, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Bucharest to Ostbahnhofcar
- Take the bus from Munich central bus station to Doverbus
- Take the cartrain from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthuncartrain
37h 40m€505–681
Bucharest to Calais by train, night train, and foot
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Bucharest to Calais is to bus via Cluj-Napoca which costs €35 - €100 and takes 35h 20m.
The fastest way to get from Bucharest to Calais is to fly and train which takes 8h 56m and costs €130 - €390.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from Bucharest and arriving at Calais. Services depart four times a week, and operate Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The journey takes approximately 28h 3m.
No, there is no direct train from Bucharest to Calais. However, there are services departing from Bucuresti Nord and arriving at Calais Ville via Budapest-Keleti, Stuttgart Hbf, Paris Nord and Calais Frethun. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 36h 56m.
The distance between Bucharest and Calais is 2130 km. The road distance is 2337.5 km.
The best way to get from Bucharest to Calais without a car is to bus which takes 28h 3m and costs €144.
It takes approximately 9h 27m to get from Bucharest to Calais, including transfers.
Bucharest to Calais bus services, operated by Maxibus Travel, depart from Bucharest station.
Bucharest to Calais train services, operated by Romanian Railways (CFR), depart from Bucuresti Nord station.
Bucharest to Calais bus services, operated by Maxibus Travel, arrive at Calais station.
What companies run services between Bucharest, Romania and Calais, France?
Maxibus Travel operates a bus from Bucharest to Calais twice a week. Tickets cost €144 and the journey takes 28h 3m. Euro Fratello Srl also services this route twice a week.
- Website
- tarom.ro
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Brussels Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–220
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 18m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–430
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–430
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Beauvais–Tillé Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–280
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Beauvais–Tillé Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–280
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Beauvais–Tillé Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–280
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Brussels South Charleroi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–350
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Brussels South Charleroi Airport via Venice Treviso
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 43m
- When
- Friday, Tuesday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €80–350
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Brussels Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–330
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–440
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–440
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 59m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–430
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 18m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–430
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–430
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Brussels Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–440
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €130–700
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Beauvais–Tillé Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €55–220
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Brussels South Charleroi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–300
- Website
- hisky.aero
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Brussels Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Monday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €75–180
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–250
- Website
- animawings.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–250
Rome2Rio's guide to Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF)
Contact Details
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Amiens to Calais Ville
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–50
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Lille Flandres to Calais Ville
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €19–35
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Lille Europe to Calais Frethun
- Ave. Duration
- 29 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €19–30
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Aeroport Cdg2 Tgv Roissy to Lille Europe
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €35–65
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Lille Europe to Calais Frethun
- Ave. Duration
- 29 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €19–30
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Lille Europe to Calais Frethun
- Ave. Duration
- 29 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €19–30
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
- Phone
- 0219521
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
Train from Bucuresti Nord to Budapest-Keleti
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 51m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €61–66
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- [email protected]
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
Night train from Budapest-Keleti to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 57m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €40–55
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Paris Est
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 13m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €110–170
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Paris Nord to Calais Frethun
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 51m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €65–95
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Lille Europe
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–30
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Aeroport Cdg2 Tgv Roissy to Lille Europe
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €40–60
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi to Lille Europe
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–30
- Website
- TGV inOui
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Paris Est
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €90–180
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Charleroi-Central to Lille Flandres
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 34m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €22–35
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Aeroport Cdg2 Tgv Roissy to Lille Europe
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 16m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40–60
- Website
- Belgian Railways
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from Schiphol Airport to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €75–120
- Website
- Eurostar
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- [email protected]
- Website
- LeShuttle
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €140
- Website
- LeShuttle
- Standard fare
- €140
- Phone
- 09 70 15 01 50
- [email protected]
- Website
- Oise - Réseau de l'Oise
Bus from Aéroport to Gare routiere
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €1
- Website
- Oise - Réseau de l'Oise
- Phone
- +40 745 766 766
- [email protected]
- Website
- maxibustravel.autogari.ro
Bus from Bucharest to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 3m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €144
- Schedules at
- maxibustravel.autogari.ro
- Phone
- 0724 122 272
- [email protected]
- Website
- euro-fratello.ro
Bus from Bucharest to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 40h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- euro-fratello.ro
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from București, Autogara Militari to Cluj-Napoca, Autogara Sens Vest
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €35–60
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Munich central bus station to Dover
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 45m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €95–150
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +40 741 607 941
- Website
- fany.ro
Bus from București, Autogara Militari to Cluj-Napoca, Autogara Sens Vest
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €26–40
- Schedules at
- fany.autogari.ro
- Standard Adult
- €26–40
- Phone
- 0745 638 910
- [email protected]
- Website
- transnicolaescu.ro
Bus from Cluj-Napoca, Autogara Sens Vest to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 27h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €11–60
- Schedules at
- transnicolaescu.ro
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Booking & Getting There
Calais is 1h behind Bucharest. It is currently 6:29 PM in Bucharest and 5:29 PM in Calais.
Bucharest to Calais train services, operated by Romanian Railways (CFR), arrive at Budapest-Keleti station.
Yes, the driving distance between Bucharest to Calais is 2338 km. It takes approximately 22h 18m to drive from Bucharest to Calais.
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