Cheapest€21.08
- Samar S596406:216h 7m12:28Estación de Autobuses de CartagenaMadrid Estacion Sur
Door to door 6h 51mCO2 12.2 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Cartagena to Madrid bus
Buses from Cartagena to Madrid start at €23.83 and take 6h 51m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Cartagena to Madrid on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Buses from Cartagena to Madrid starts at €23.83 and takes 6h 51m door to door, run by 1 operator over 450 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.
- 6h 51mDoor to door
- 6h 7mMoving
- €23.83 to €51.33From
- 06:21 to 07:30First and last departure
- 2Per day
- 12.2 kgCO2
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 5 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€23.83 to €51.33 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 usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €51.33Tue15
- about €50.78Wed16
- about €44.18Thu17
- about €41.98Fri18
- about €44.73Sat19
- about €46.93Sun20
- about €24.93Mon21
- about €32.63Tue22
- about €33.18Wed23
- about €43.08Thu24
- about €33.18Fri25
- about €40.88Sat26
- about €30.43Sun27
- about €23.83Mon28
Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.
The cheapest and the fastest on 5 October 2026
Bus operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Samar | €21.08 | 6h 39m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
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A room in Madrid for the night the coach gets in
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When to book Cartagena to Madrid
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €26.5890 days
- €27.1360 days
- €26.0345 days
- €23.8330 days
- €21.0821 days
- €23.8314 days
- €24.937 days
- €44.183 days
- €51.331 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €21.08.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 144 percent. The dearest point is €51.33, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 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.
- €30.43Sun
- €23.83Mon
- €32.63Tue
- €33.18Wed
- €43.08Thu
- €33.18Fri
- €40.88Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Cartagena
Coach
- Estación de Autobuses de Cartagena
Madrid
Coach
- Madrid Estacion Sur
- Madrid South
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 450 km against 391 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 Alicante, Albacete, Elche, Murcia. The gap between arriving and leaving is 65 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 Cartagena at 06:21 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Buses against the other ways to make this journey
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 3h 50m | 3h 6m | 44m | €52.58 | 14.8 kg | 4 |
| Coach | 6h 51m | 6h 7m | 44m | €23.83 | 12.2 kg | 2 |
Questions about Cartagena to Madrid
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 Cartagena to Madrid take?
The Coach from Cartagena to Madrid takes 6h 51m door to door, of which 6h 7m is spent moving. The route runs 450 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 Cartagena to Madrid cost?
The Coach from Cartagena to Madrid starts at €23.83 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €30.16. 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 Cartagena to Madrid?
1 operators run the Coach from Cartagena to Madrid: Samar. Between them they file around 2 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 Cartagena to Madrid use?
The Coach from Cartagena to Madrid leaves from Estación de Autobuses de Cartagena and arrives at Madrid Estacion Sur. 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 Cartagena to Madrid?
Travelling from Cartagena to Madrid by Train costs €52.58 and takes 3h 50m door to door, against 6h 51m 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 Cartagena to Madrid?
Fares for the Coach from Cartagena to Madrid bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €21.08. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 144 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Cartagena to Madrid produce?
The Coach from Cartagena to Madrid produces about 12.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 450 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 Cartagena to Madrid?
Operators on the Coach from Cartagena to Madrid publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 51m 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 Cartagena to Madrid on 14 September 2026: 450 km of route against 391 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €23.83, and 6h 51m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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