Cagliari to Palermo bus

Buses from Cagliari to Palermo start at €22.73 and take 5h 59m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Cagliari to Palermo starts at €22.73 and takes 5h 59m door to door, run by 1 operator over 389 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 11 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 59mDoor to door
  • 5h 15mMoving
  • €22.73From
  • 10.5 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€19.43
  1. BlaBlaCar BB676806:145h 42m11:56Cagliari Piazza MatteottiPalermo Autostazione

Door to door 6h 26mCO2 10.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

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
BlaBlaCar€19.435h 50m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • BlaBlaCar

That is the travelling done. What happens after you walk out into Palermo is not something we sell.

A hotel room

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Booking window

When to book Cagliari to Palermo

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

  1. €25.4890 days
  2. €16.6860 days
  3. €15.5845 days
  4. €19.9830 days
  5. €21.0821 days
  6. €28.7814 days
  7. €37.037 days
  8. €32.083 days
  9. €47.481 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €15.58.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 205 percent. The dearest point is €47.48, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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. €24.93Sun
  2. €24.38Mon
  3. €22.73Tue
  4. €27.13Wed
  5. €29.33Thu
  6. €28.78Fri
  7. €32.08Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Cagliari

Coach
  • Cagliari Piazza Matteotti
  • Autostazione ARST

Palermo

Coach
  • Palermo Autostazione
  • Autostazione di Palermo - Piazza Cairoli
The journey

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
67% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 33% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 389 km against 389 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Trapani, Marsala, Porto Empedocle, Mazara del Vallo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 69 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Cagliari at 06:14 and the last at 17:21, across 3 departures. 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

The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.

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
Flight4h 9m59m3h 10m€49.7098.4 kg2
Coach5h 59m5h 15m44m€22.7310.5 kg3
Ferry13h 21m11h 51m1h 30m€28.3944.7 kg7

Questions about Cagliari to Palermo

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 Cagliari to Palermo take?

The Coach from Cagliari to Palermo takes 5h 59m door to door, of which 5h 15m is spent moving. The route runs 389 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 Cagliari to Palermo cost?

The Coach from Cagliari to Palermo starts at €22.73 for one passenger, checked on 29 September 2026. A typical fare is €23.28. 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 Cagliari to Palermo?

1 operators run the Coach from Cagliari to Palermo: BlaBlaCar. Between them they file around 3 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 Cagliari to Palermo use?

The Coach from Cagliari to Palermo leaves from Cagliari Piazza Matteotti and arrives at Palermo 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.

Is the Coach the best way from Cagliari to Palermo?

Travelling from Cagliari to Palermo by Flight costs €49.70 and takes 4h 9m door to door, against 5h 59m 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 Cagliari to Palermo?

Fares for the Coach from Cagliari to Palermo bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €15.58. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 205 percent, measured on 29 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Cagliari to Palermo produce?

The Coach from Cagliari to Palermo produces about 10.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 389 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 Cagliari to Palermo?

Operators on the Coach from Cagliari to Palermo publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 59m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

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.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Cagliari to Palermo on 11 September 2026: 389 km of route against 389 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €22.73, and 5h 59m 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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Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Palermo, with free cancellation on most of it.

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