--- title: "Sarafovo to Plovdiv – 3 ways by car, taxi, plane | Mixroutes" description: "Sarafovo to Plovdiv is 232 km. Fastest: undefined in 0 min. Cheapest: undefined from –. Real timetables, prices labelled live, quoted or estimated." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sarafovo-to-plovdiv" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sarafovo-to-plovdiv.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- # How to get from Sarafovo to Plovdiv [Plan it for your day](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sarafovo&to=Plovdiv) [Plovdiv to Sarafovo](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/plovdiv-to-sarafovo) **Fastest:** –\ \ **Cheapest:** –\ \ **Distance:** 232 km\ as the crow flies\ **Departures today:** 1\ 3 ways, Wed 28 Oct\ ## 3 ways to travel 232 km apart. Times are the timetables for Wed 28 Oct, planned from 08:00; every price says whether it is live, the operator's fare or our estimate. We add nothing to any fare. best Лв160 cheaper than a cab and about as quick. - [**Drive** best 2h 34m лв23–30 Estimated 255 km · fuel only](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sarafovo&to=Plovdiv) - [**Taxi** 2h 34m лв150–225 Estimated one-way cab](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sarafovo&to=Plovdiv) - [**Fly** 4h 52m лв180–270 Estimated BOJ → SOF · non-stop · typical times](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sarafovo&to=Plovdiv) Data: [Roads © OpenStreetMap contributors, routed by OSRM](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) · [Typical flight routes from OpenFlights (ODbL), a 2014 snapshot](https://openflights.org/data) · [Places from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · [All credits and licences](https://www.mixroutes.com/credits) ## Departures today 1. [08:14 → 13:06 4h 52m · direct лв180–270](https://www.mixroutes.com/itinerary?from=Sarafovo&to=Plovdiv&date=2026-10-28&time=08%3A00&it=fly) Timetable data via Transitous and the operators' own GTFS feeds. Live delays arrive when an operator publishes a real-time feed. ## Questions people ask How long does it take to get from Sarafovo to Plovdiv? The fastest way is by car: about 2h 34m door to door. The straight-line distance is 232 km. What is the cheapest way from Sarafovo to Plovdiv? Drive is the cheapest, from лв23. That figure is an estimate from the operator's fare bands, not a live quote. How long is the flight from Sarafovo to Plovdiv? About 1h 6m in the air (BOJ → SOF), about 4h 52m door to door once you add the ride to the airport, check-in and the cab at the other end. Typical fares run лв180–270; live prices are on Flights70. How far is Plovdiv from Sarafovo by road? About 255 km, roughly 2h 34m of driving in normal traffic. Fuel alone costs around лв23–30; tolls and parking are extra. ## In Plovdiv Oldest and second-largest city in Bulgaria Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria and the most populous city in the Bulgarian part of the historic region of Thrace, located 144 km southeast of the capital Sofia. It is considered the oldest European continually inhabited city, having been inhabited since c. 6,000 BCE. It had a population of 329,489 as of 2024 and 540,000 in its greater metropolitan area. An important economic, transport, cultural, and educational hub of Bulgaria, Plovdiv was the European Capital of Culture in 2019, and joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2016. [The Plovdiv guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/plovdiv) Worth your time - Roman Theatre The Roman Theatre, discovered in the 1970s during a construction project, is part of the pedestrian zone, and typically has merchants selling art and other items nearby. - Bachkovo Monastery and Asenovgrad Krepost There are many bus connections Asenovgrad by bus from the Rhodope bus station. From Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA) [Hotels in Plovdiv Compare prices on Hotels70](https://www.hotels70.com) ## More routes - [Kochi to Bengaluru](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-bengaluru) - [Kochi to Chennai](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-chennai) - [Kochi to Thiruvananthapuram](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-thiruvananthapuram) - [Kochi to Munnar](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-munnar) - [Kochi to Alappuzha](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-alappuzha) - [Kochi to Kozhikode](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-kozhikode) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sarafovo-to-plovdiv, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt