Budapest to Trieste bus

Buses from Budapest to Trieste start at €23.28 and take 7h 23m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Budapest to Trieste starts at €23.28 and takes 7h 23m door to door, run by 1 operator over 452 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 24 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 23mDoor to door
  • 6h 39mMoving
  • €23.28 to €60.13From
  • 06:50 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 4Per day
  • 15.4 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 6 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€23.28 to €60.13 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.

Departure times on this route

12Go lists the departures it sells between Budapest and Trieste.

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FlixBus runs this service and does not sell it here. Trainline takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Trainline lists departures for Budapest to Trieste on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €55.18Fri25
  2. about €60.13Sat26
  3. about €44.18Sun27
  4. about €33.18Mon28
  5. about €33.18Tue29
  6. about €32.08Wed30
  7. about €32.63Thu1
  8. about €34.82Fri2
  9. about €31.53Sat3
  10. about €30.43Sun4
  11. about €23.83Mon5
  12. about €23.28Tue6
  13. about €26.58Wed7
  14. about €30.98Thu8

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 6 October 2026

Cheapest€23.28
  1. FlixBus FB237206:506h 39m13:29Budapest NepligetTrieste Autostazione

Door to door 7h 23mCO2 15.4 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€23.286h 41m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • FlixBus

The coach gets you into Trieste. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Trieste for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from Trieste Centrale and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Budapest to Trieste

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

  1. €23.8390 days
  2. €17.2360 days
  3. €19.9845 days
  4. €24.9330 days
  5. €30.9821 days
  6. €30.9814 days
  7. €32.637 days
  8. €44.183 days
  9. €55.181 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €17.23.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 220 percent. The dearest point is €55.18, 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.
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. €30.43Sun
  2. €24.38Mon
  3. €24.93Tue
  4. €27.13Wed
  5. €30.98Thu
  6. €34.82Fri
  7. €31.53Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Budapest

Coach
  • Budapest Nepliget
  • Budapest, Kelenföld vasútállomás

Trieste

Coach
  • Trieste Autostazione
  • Trieste
The journey

What the journey looks like

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 452 km against 452 km in a straight line, a detour of 0 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Maribor, Ljubljana, Székesfehérvár, Zagreb. The gap between arriving and leaving is 52 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 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 Budapest at 06:50 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Budapest to Trieste

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 Budapest to Trieste take?

The Coach from Budapest to Trieste takes 7h 23m door to door, of which 6h 39m is spent moving. The route runs 452 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 Budapest to Trieste cost?

The Coach from Budapest to Trieste starts at €23.28 for one passenger, as of 24 September 2026. A typical fare is €29.06. 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 Budapest to Trieste?

1 operators run the Coach from Budapest to Trieste: FlixBus. Between them they file around 4 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 Budapest to Trieste use?

The Coach from Budapest to Trieste leaves from Budapest Nepliget and arrives at Trieste Autostazione. 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 Budapest to Trieste?

Fares for the Coach from Budapest to Trieste bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €17.23. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 220 percent, measured on 24 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Budapest to Trieste produce?

The Coach from Budapest to Trieste produces about 15.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 452 km, which works out at roughly 34 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 Budapest to Trieste?

Operators on the Coach from Budapest to Trieste publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 23m 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.

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.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Budapest to Trieste on 24 September 2026: 452 km of route against 452 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €23.28, and 7h 23m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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