By bus
Buses are very frequent from Zagreb and take around 90 minutes - check the timetables or the Zagreb Bus Station's website for times. Services into the neighbouring areas are quite frequent, some going over the border into Hungary. Buses also leave from other major Croatian cities almost daily for Vara�din. Online information for buses to Vara�din can be found at the Vara�din Transit website.
International departures (especially for Austria, Germany, Hungary and beyond) often make a stop in the town, and if there is a later bus that day, companies normally honour a 'break of journey' to visit the town for a few hours.
Note in Vara�din that the bus station is located on the western side of town, and the railway station is located on the eastern side, with a distance of around 2km between.
By car
Those travelling from Graz in Austria should proceed to Maribor taking the M3 road to Ptuj from which they can cross into Croatia.
Travellers coming from Nagykanizsa or Budapest should use the A4 motorway once they enter Croatia which connects Vara�din with the Hungarian border.
Travellers from Zagreb can use A4 motorway which will take them to their destination in less than an hour.
By train
The most scenic and cheapest (but slowest) way to get to Vara�din from Zagreb is a local train (2h20) stopping at every station between the two cities. The price of a return ticket is 80kn (roughly 10 euros), with discounts for ISIC card holders. Recently, the speed of the journey dramatically improved with the addition of a faster (though more expensive) alternative of the high-speed tilting train connection operated by Hrvatske �eljeznice (Croatian railways).
Train services also operate north to ?akovec and Koprivnica (with further connections to Slavonia and Hungary), and there is a daily service to Split and to Budapest in Hungary.
As of May 2008, the train station in Vara�din
