How to get here - Tourism in Vitoria-Gasteiz

Today, Vitoria-Gasteiz boasts major communications and road, rail and air transport infrastructures, with fast connections with the rest of Spain and Europe.

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By car

Vitoria-Gasteiz stands in the middle of the Llanada Alavesa, on the road that joins Madrid to the rest of Europe, via the N-1 highway. The city is less than an hour from Bilbao, one hour from Pamplona, two hours from Santander, three hours from Zaragoza and less than four hours from Madrid.

• Information on traffic and road conditions (General direction of traffic).
• Parking and getting around the city.
• Motorhome Park (Lakua)

By bus

If you choose the bus, here are the adresses and telephones of the different bus companies and all the information about the Vitoria-Gasteiz Bus Station. To move around the province there is the Álava bus service.

You can also seek and buy online bus tickets using Movelia platform.

By train

If you want to move by train, on the RENFE website you can check schedules, rates and tours. You can also inform yourself at the train station.

By plane

Vitoria Airport (VIT)

Vitoria airport (VIT) is located 8 km. from Vitoria-Gasteiz, in a privileged location that allows you to reach Bilbao in 45 minutes (58 km.) and the region of Rioja Alavesa and cities like Hondarribia (121 km.) or San Sebastián (116 km.) in just over one hour. Also known as the Foronda Airport, well-known since 1994 for its high volume of freight traffic.

• Connections: passenger routes connecting to Madrid and Barcelona (and Menorca from June to October 2026) with Volotea; to the airports of Seville, Alicante, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca (Malaga and Mallorca from March to October 2026), Brussels-Charleroi, and Milan-Bergamo with Ryanair; and to Gran Canaria Airport (June to September 2026) with Binter. More information is available on the website of VIA Vitoria-Gasteiz Airport Promotion Agency.
• Bus service: the A3700 line connects the airports to the city via Autobuses La Unión. More information about the airports bus service.
• Radio Taxi Service: telephone [[telephone: 945 27 35 00]].
• Parking: located just a few metres from the terminal. It's an unsupervised, free car park and bus car park.
• Tourist Office: the airport has an office to provide visitors with information.

Practical guide with more information on the bus, taxi and parking service at the airport: English | Spanish | Italian | euskara (Basque language)

More information on Vitoria-Gasteiz airport

Loiu airport (Bilbao)

If you arrive at Bilbao airport you can take the urban bus service (Bizkaibus) that takes you to the central Bus Station, and from there the journey to Vitoria-Gasteiz takes less than one hour.

More information about Bilbao airport.

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View latest comment (added 07/04/2026 10:56:20)  |  View content

• ¿Por qué un viajero que llega a Foronda no puede tener un autobús de línea como tenía el año pasado(2025)?

  Las opciones que tienes

  1. Tener un familiar que te vaya a recoger

  2. Reservar un taxi de antemano para que te lleve a tu destino, si es la ciudad de Gasteiz ,o a la estación de autobuses, si te diriges a otro lugar.

  3. Reservar el bus que viene de Loiu para llevarte a Vitoria, el cuál tiene una frecuencia de dos horas.

  Considero que esta no es la mejor manera de dar a conocer nuestra ciudad , ni nuestra provincia. Sigamos siendo una ciudad de tercera división con estas decisiones que toman tanto los políticos del ayuntamiento como los de la diputación de Álava

  Marije 11/03/2026 11:44:50

• Desde el 1 de julio de 2026, el servicio de transporte al Aeropuerto de Vitoria se integra dentro de la línea regular Vitoria-Bilbao que depende de la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia y la Diputación Foral de Álava. Todos los vuelos que aterrizan o parten del Aeropuerto de Vitoria quedan servidos mediante la línea A3720 que une Vitoria con el Aeropuerto de Loiu y con parada, a demanda en el Aeropuerto de Vitoria, por lo que es necesario reservar el billete previamente. Todos los horarios y la adquisición de billetes se pueden consultar en la web Lamentamos las molestias que le haya podido causar el nuevo sistema de transporte en autobús del aeropuerto.

  The City Council 07/04/2026 10:56:20