How to get to Lviv / Lvov

You can fly directly to Lviv from

■ Dortmund (Germany) – with Wizzair
■ Istambul (Turkey) – with Turkish airlines
■ Warsaw (Poland) – with LOT Polish airlines
■ Vienna (Austria) – with Austrian airlines
■ Frankfurt (Germany) – with Ukraine international airlines
■ Rome, Frankfurt, Paris, Munich, Milan, Verona… (Italy) – via Timisoara with Carpatair
■ Kyiv (Kiev) – with Aerosvit, and Lviv airlines

From West Europe, using low cost airlines, you can fly to
■ Rzeszow (in Poland) with Rayanair
■ Krakow (in Poland) with Rayanair, Easyjet, Skyeurope
■ Budapest (in Hungary) with Rayanair, Easyjet, Skyeurope
and then take a train or bus to Lviv.

It is also possible to fly to Kyiv (Kiev) and then make a change or take one of overnight trains to Lviv.

The easy train routes are from: Warsaw, Krakow, Budapest, Kiev, Odessa. Check timetable at www.bahn.de.

As a budget option you can consider an overnight bus from Krakow or Warsaw.

Note: when looking for a flight or a train to Lviv you have to try different spellings (like “Lvov”, “Lviv”, “Lwow”). Because of it’s long and complicated history the city name has now a few versions of how it can be spelled.

“Inlviv” can help you with choosing the itinerary and making bookings for the Ukrainian part of the journey. Please check our services for more information.

You can fly directly to Lviv from
■ Warsaw – with LOT Polish airlines
■ Vienna – with Austrian airlines
■ Frankfurt – with Ukraine international airlines
■ Rome, Frankfurt, Paris, Munich, Milan, Verona… – via Timisoara with Carpatair
■ Kiev – with Lviv airlines

From Europe, using low cost airlines, you can fly to
■ Rzeszow (in Poland) with Rayanair
■ Krakow (in Poland) with Rayanair, Easyjet, Skyeurope
■ Budapest (in Hungary) with Rayanair, Easyjet, Skyeurope
and then take a train or bus to Lviv.

It is also possible to fly to Kiev and then make a change or take one of overnight trains to Lviv.

The easy train routes are from: Warsaw, Krakow, Budapest, Kiev, Odessa. Check timetable at www.bahn.de.

As a budget option you can consider an overnight bus from Krakow or Warsaw.

Note: when looking for a flight or a train to Lviv you have to try different spellings (like “Lvov”, “Lviv”, “Lwow”). Because of it’s long and complicated history the city name has now a few versions of how it can be spelled.

“Inlviv” can help you with choosing the itinerary and making bookings for the Ukrainian part of the journey. Please check our services for more information.

20 comments to How to get to Lviv / Lvov

  • Allan Milnes

    Can you tell me the bus times from Rzeszow to Lviv please ? Thank you.

  • Maryana

    Hello!
    Unfortunately it is impossible to find out this kind of information in Lviv. Our bus station can only provide the schedule from Lviv to Rzeszow. You can try to find some buses on Polish web page:
    http://www.pks.pl/
    Otherwise you can contact any Polish or Rzeszow travel agency.
    Good luck!

  • Larissa

    Do you have a website for the overnight bus ride from Warsaw to Lviv?

  • Pete

    Hi if this is of any use to anyone, i have just returned from Rzeszow and anyone wishing to travel to the ukraine (Lviv) should consider taking the train, i would advise flying to rzeszow staying in a hotel one night going to the station and checking times of trains, the cost is about 130zl which is about £28 not bad for a 7hr train jouney to lviv

  • Pete

    Also while i am here i will mention that last year i flew to Krakow for £20 return Ryanair then took a train from krakow train station to lviv, i cant remember the cost but it was cheap but such a long journey 12 hours and two hours at the border because they had to change the wheels on the train, okay if you have got a good book to read or some good company any way good luck i will be travelling next year to lviv june time via Rzeszow

  • Roman

    “Note: when looking for a flight or a train to Lviv you have to try different spellings (like “Lvov”, “Lviv”, “Lwow”). ” – in Dortmund they spell “Lemberg”. I almost had a hart attack :) when I couldn’t find my destination city.

  • Roman

    Another good way : Easyjet (London – Dortmund) and Wizzair (Dortmund – Lviv) , all in one day. It cost me £115.-

  • Anna

    I travelled mid-November 2009 from Rzeszow to Lviv by train. It was great. The train was an express train that left at 0.48am from Rzeszow and got into Lviv at 6.05am. Coming back the train left Lviv at 7.19 am and we got into Rzeszow after changing trains at Przemysl at 11.05am. I understand you can now get an express train at the same time from Lviv to Rzeszow not needing to change trains. The price we paid was £123 return each. I must mention that the staff at Rzeszow train station were not helpful at all, not understanding English and when I tried to explain what I wanted in Ukrainian they didn’t understand either!

  • Valery

    Can you advice any way to get to Lviv from Milan by train or bus?

  • Nick

    I traveled yesterday from Rzeszow to Lviv. The cheapest and probably quickest way to do it is by getting a train from Rzeszow to Przemysl. This takes about 1.45 hours and costs 10 Zlotys (2 GBP). Przemysl is about 5 miles from the border. The border itself is at a village called Medyka. Apparently you can get a bus there from the bus station outside of the train station for about 2 Zlotys (0.4 GBP). Being a sunday it was very quiet and I was in a bit of a hurry so I took a taxi for 50 zloty (10GBP) to the border. This was probably well over the odds, but what the hell, the rest of the journey was so cheap. Walking across the border was very quick, I was through passport control in a couple of minutes. I’m told that buses are often held at the border for a couple of hours so I definitely saved a lot of time there. Once over the border I walked about 200 metres and then turned left into a car park. In the car park were yellow minibuses to Lviv. The price was a ridiculously low 15 GRN (1.4 GBP). The journey to Lviv took 2 hours and we were dropped outside the train station. Total traveling time from Rzeszow to Lviv was 4 hours. Total price was 13.4 GBP and most of that was the rip of taxi to the border. If I’d taken the bus it would have been a total cost of 3.4 GBP. Unbelievable!

  • Bogdan SugerMan

    Hi ! What i can take from Romania – Bucharest to Lviv ….cheap and good ? :) train…airplane … or bus ? Please reply !

  • admin

    Hello Bogdan.
    You could take a direct train #60 Sofiya-Moscow departing at 06:25 from Bucharest and arriving at 23:42 at Lviv. The ticket costs 570 UAH.

  • Marcel N

    Hello,
    I am planning to visit Lviv this August.
    What do you think is the best and cheapest way to travel from Nuremberg/Germany to Lviv?

    Thank you very much!

    Marcel

  • Hello Marcel.

    The cheapest way to get from Germany to L’viv is to take a budget flight through Wizz Air company from Drotmund to Lviv. There is also an option to take a plane/train to Poland and then a train/bus to Lviv.

    Have a nice trip!

  • Atanas

    Zdraveite iskam da popitam ako nqkoi znae dali ima abtobusi za LVOV ot burgas ili Sofiq.

  • Dear Atanas,

    There are no public buses going to Sofia or Burgas, only private ones. But you could get there by train. Train #128 goes every Saturday from Burgas to Lviv departing at 12:00 from Lviv and arriving at 09:20 at Burgas. Everyday train #59K to Sofia departs at 01:38 from Lviv and arrives at 05:55 at Sofia.

    We could buy the train ticket for you.

  • Alexander

    Hi,

    Does anyone know of a bus from Rzsezow to Przemysl and where it departs from?

    Thanks.

  • Maryana

    Hello!
    You can try to find some buses on Polish web page:
    http://www.pks.pl/
    Otherwise you can contact any Polish or Rzeszow travel agency.
    Good luck!

  • ian

    is it possible to get from odessa to Lviv by train .is it easy for a foreigner to book(probably in kiev)

  • Maryana

    Dear Ian,

    there are trains from Odesa to Lviv and you can easily buy (not book) the tickets in Kyiv. Please find the train details below (train number, final destinations, time of departure from Odesa and time of arrival in Lviv):
    108П Odesa > Uzhorod 18:12 05:52
    026Д Odesa > Lviv 19:00 07:10
    228Ш Odesa > Lviv 22:30 10:49

    Best wishes,
    Maryana

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