Bochum to Zurich bus

Buses from Bochum to Zurich start at €29.88 and take 8h 14m at their fastest.

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Aerial view of the picturesque old town of Zürich, highlighting historical architecture and iconic churches.

The Buses from Bochum to Zurich starts at €29.88 and takes 8h 14m door to door, run by 1 operator over 538 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 13 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 14mDoor to door
  • 7h 30mMoving
  • €29.88 to €69.48From
  • 06:50 to 06:50First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 14.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 28 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€29.88 to €69.48 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey costs by departure date, from our own model. Read it as a guide to which days are dearer, not as a quote.

Indicative fares

  1. about €69.48Mon14
  2. about €46.38Tue15
  3. about €63.43Wed16
  4. about €54.08Thu17
  5. about €62.33Fri18
  6. about €51.88Sat19
  7. about €59.03Sun20
  8. about €29.88Mon21
  9. about €35.93Tue22
  10. about €39.78Wed23
  11. about €39.23Thu24
  12. about €45.28Fri25
  13. about €50.78Sat26
  14. about €43.63Sun27

Modelled from what this route has cost, not from live availability. Nothing here is held for you, and the operator sets the price on the day.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026

Cheapest€25.48
  1. FlixBus FB205906:507h 30m14:20Bochum Central StationZurich Sihlquai

Door to door 8h 14mCO2 14.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
FlixBus€25.487h 53m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • FlixBus

The coach gets you into Zurich. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Zurich for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Bochum to Zurich

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €41.4390 days
  2. €27.1360 days
  3. €28.2345 days
  4. €21.6330 days
  5. €29.8821 days
  6. €43.6314 days
  7. €59.037 days
  8. €63.433 days
  9. €69.481 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €21.63.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 221 percent. The dearest point is €69.48, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €43.63Sun
  2. €29.88Mon
  3. €35.93Tue
  4. €39.78Wed
  5. €39.23Thu
  6. €45.28Fri
  7. €50.78Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Bochum

Coach
  • Bochum Central Station
  • Niedersprockhövel Kirche

Zürich

Coach
  • Zurich Sihlquai
  • Zürich Bus Station
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 538 km against 468 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 Bonn, Mainz, Karlsruhe, Wiesbaden. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Bochum at 06:50 and the last at 06:50, across 1 departure The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Buses against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Train4h 46m4h 2m44m€68.5417.8 kg5
Coach8h 14m7h 30m44m€29.8814.5 kg1

Questions about Bochum to Zurich

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 Bochum to Zurich take?

The Coach from Bochum to Zurich takes 8h 14m door to door, of which 7h 30m is spent moving. The route runs 538 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 Bochum to Zurich cost?

The Coach from Bochum to Zurich starts at €29.88 for one passenger, checked on 13 September 2026. A typical fare is €25.48. 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 Bochum to Zurich?

1 operators run the Coach from Bochum to Zurich: FlixBus. 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.

Which terminal does the Coach from Bochum to Zurich use?

The Coach from Bochum to Zurich leaves from Bochum Central Station and arrives at Zurich Sihlquai. 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.

Is the Coach the best way from Bochum to Zurich?

Travelling from Bochum to Zurich by Train costs €68.54 and takes 4h 46m door to door, against 8h 14m 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.

When should I book the Coach from Bochum to Zurich?

Fares for the Coach from Bochum to Zurich bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €21.63. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 221 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Bochum to Zurich produce?

The Coach from Bochum to Zurich produces about 14.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 538 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 Bochum to Zurich?

Operators on the Coach from Bochum to Zurich publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 14m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

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.

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.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Bochum to Zurich on 13 September 2026: 538 km of route against 468 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €29.88, and 8h 14m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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