Cheapest€12.83
- FlixBus FB231806:313h 26m09:57Ancona AutostazionePrato Piazzale Del Museo
Door to door 4h 10mCO2 6.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Ancona to Prato bus
Buses from Ancona to Prato start at €16.13 and take 4h 10m at their fastest.
The Buses from Ancona to Prato starts at €16.13 and takes 4h 10m door to door, run by 1 operator over 226 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 4h 10mDoor to door
- 3h 26mMoving
- €16.13From
- 6.1 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 30 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Fastest€28.77
- FlixBus FB730407:301h 23m08:53Ancona AutostazioneRimini FS
- Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori NT424009:391h 3m10:42RiminiPrato Centrale
Changes at Rimini, with 46 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 3h 56mCO2 7.1 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 FlixBus | €12.83 | 3h 46m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
The journey ends at Prato Centrale. Everything past the barriers belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
Rooms within reach of Prato Centrale
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When to book Ancona to Prato
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €15.0390 days
- €11.7360 days
- €13.9345 days
- €12.2830 days
- €12.8321 days
- €18.3314 days
- €18.337 days
- €25.483 days
- €41.431 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.73.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 253 percent. The dearest point is €41.43, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €18.33Sun
- €16.68Mon
- €16.13Tue
- €18.33Wed
- €24.38Thu
- €22.18Fri
- €18.88Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Ancona
Coach
- Ancona Autostazione
- Centro Scambiatore Brecce Bianche
Prato
Coach
- Prato Piazzale Del Museo
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 226 km against 196 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Rimini, Arezzo, Cesena, Forlì. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Ancona at 06:31 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Ancona to Prato
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.
How long does the Coach from Ancona to Prato take?
The Coach from Ancona to Prato takes 4h 10m door to door, of which 3h 26m is spent moving. The route runs 226 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.
How much does the Coach from Ancona to Prato cost?
The Coach from Ancona to Prato starts at €16.13 for one passenger, checked on 30 September 2026. A typical fare is €27.13. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Coach from Ancona to Prato?
1 operators run the Coach from Ancona to Prato: FlixBus. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Coach from Ancona to Prato use?
The Coach from Ancona to Prato leaves from Ancona Autostazione and arrives at Prato Piazzale Del Museo. 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.
When should I book the Coach from Ancona to Prato?
Fares for the Coach from Ancona to Prato bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.73. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 253 percent, measured on 30 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Ancona to Prato produce?
The Coach from Ancona to Prato produces about 6.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 226 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
What is provided on board the Coach from Ancona to Prato?
Operators on the Coach from Ancona to Prato publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 10m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Ancona to Prato on 9 September 2026: 226 km of route against 196 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €16.13, and 4h 10m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Related journeys
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What to book in Prato before you go
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