Buses from Anantapur to Chennai start at €39.78 and take 6h 55m at their fastest.
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The Buses from Anantapur to Chennai starts at €39.78 and takes 6h 55m door to door, run by 2 operators over 485 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 13 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€49.68 to €125.58 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.
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What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
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BMTC BM300407:303h 21m10:51APSRTC Bus Station , AnantapurKGF Bus Station
Indian Railway IR988811:461h 55m13:41Oorgaum railway stationChennai Fort railway stationChanges at Robertsonpet, with 55 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 6h 55mCO2 16.2 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
| Operator | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|
| BMTC | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
| Indian Railway | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power sockets, Wi-Fi |
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 6h 3m | 3h 42m | 2h 21m | €53.14 | 15.7 kg | 1 |
| Coach | 6h 55m | 5h 16m | 1h 39m | €39.78 | 16.2 kg | 1 |
The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
The Coach from Anantapur to Chennai takes 6h 55m door to door, of which 5h 16m is spent moving. The route runs 485 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
The Coach from Anantapur to Chennai starts at €39.78 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €39.78. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
2 operators run the Coach from Anantapur to Chennai: BMTC, Indian Railway. Between them they file around 1 departure a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
The Coach from Anantapur to Chennai leaves from APSRTC Bus Station , Anantapur and arrives at Chennai Fort railway station. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Travelling from Anantapur to Chennai by Train costs €53.14 and takes 6h 3m door to door, against 6h 55m by Coach. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
Fares for the Coach from Anantapur to Chennai bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €39.78. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 216 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Coach from Anantapur to Chennai produces about 16.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 485 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Operators on the Coach from Anantapur to Chennai publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 55m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
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6h 55m
5h 16m
€49.68 to €125.58
07:30 to 07:30
1
16.2 kg
Coach