Flying to Croatia via a Stopover

You may have read our page on Travelling to Croatia Indirectly (for options on reaching Croatia by flying to a neighbouring country) and decided that this kind of travel option wasn’t quite for you. As an alternative, you could also try flying to Croatia via a stopover. Below, you will find a list of destinations in Croatia that you can reach via a stopover in Europe.

We should point out that this page started life on the Visit Croatia website many moons ago, when there weren’t many direct flights to Croatia from the UK and Ireland. These days, there are! (Well, in the summer months, anyway.) Take a look at our Flights to Croatia from the UK & Ireland page for details of all of these flights.

Nevertheless, the suggestions of flight routes with a stopover may be helpful to give you more options on routes that don’t operate daily, or in some cases, if you’re travelling out of season.

We realise some of these routes may be a little nonsensical – such as travelling via Norway! However, for reasons of completeness, we have kept the details here.

Flying to Croatia with a Stopover – Possible Flight Routes

(N.B. Not all of these routes operate all year round)
Flights to…	Airline…	From…	Via..
Pula	Lufthansa	London Heathrow	Munich
	EuroWings	London Stansted	Cologne/Bonn*
	Ryanair	London Stansted	Frankfurt Hahn
Rijeka	EuroWings	London Heathrow or London Stansted	Cologne/Bonn*
	Lufthansa	London Heathrow	Munich
Zadar	EuroWings	London Stansted or Edinburgh	Cologne/Bonn
	Easyjet	London Gatwick	Milan Malpensa
	Lufthansa	London Heathrow or Manchester	Munich
Split	EuroWings	London Heathrow, London Stansted, Manchester or Edinburgh	Cologne/Bonn*
	Easyjet	Many British airports – see the Easyjet website!	Geneva, Paris CDG, Amsterdam, Berlin, Milan or Lyon
	Swiss	Manchester	Zurich
	Lufthansa	Manchester or Edinburgh	Frankfurt
	Austrian Airlines	London Heathrow	Vienna
	Lufthansa	London Heathrow	Dusseldorf
	Vueling	London Gatwick	Barcelona
Dubrovnik	Easyjet	Many British airports – see the Easyjet website!	Geneva, Paris CDG, Amsterdam, Berlin or Milan
	Vueling	London Gatwick	Barcelona
	Austrian Airlines	London Heathrow	Vienna
	EuroWings	London Heathrow or London Stansted	Cologne/Bonn
Zagreb	EuroWings	London Heathrow, London Stansted, Manchester or Edinburgh	Cologne/Bonn*
	Easyjet	Bristol, Liverpool, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast or Dublin **	Paris CDG

*This sign means we have noted the best airport to fly via. It is possible, however, to travel via stopovers at other German airports as well. Please check the EuroWings website for full details!

**Travelling from a London airport with Easyjet is also available on this route. Because there are already a considerable number of direct services from London to Zagreb, Split and Dubrovnik, we haven’t therefore included London in this column!

PLEASE NOTE! We have listed all these routes purely on the basis that a stopover exists; flight connection times mean that a same-day stopover may not be possible. Please check airline websites carefully!