Buses from Chennai to Ootacamund start at €35.93 and take 7h 56m at their fastest.
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The Buses from Chennai to Ootacamund starts at €35.93 and takes 7h 56m door to door, run by 2 operators over 508 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
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.
€35.93 to €111.28 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.
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What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
South Western Railway SW649114:201h 6m15:26Erode Junction railway stationKetti railway stationChanges at Erode, with 102 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 8h 40mCO2 17.5 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
| Operator | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apsrtc | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
| South Western Railway | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power sockets, Wi-Fi |
The coach gets you into Ootacamund. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 6h 24m | 4h | 2h 24m | €71.84 | 17.5 kg | 1 |
| Coach | 7h 56m | 6h 21m | 1h 35m | €35.93 | 17.3 kg | 2 |
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.
The Coach from Chennai to Ootacamund takes 7h 56m door to door, of which 6h 21m is spent moving. The route runs 508 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.
The Coach from Chennai to Ootacamund starts at €35.93 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €37.58. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
2 operators run the Coach from Chennai to Ootacamund: Apsrtc, South Western Railway. 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.
The Coach from Chennai to Ootacamund leaves from Bus Stop and arrives at Ketti railway station. 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.
Travelling from Chennai to Ootacamund by Train costs €71.84 and takes 6h 24m door to door, against 7h 56m 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.
Fares for the Coach from Chennai to Ootacamund bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €34.83. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 219 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Coach from Chennai to Ootacamund produces about 17.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 508 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.
Operators on the Coach from Chennai to Ootacamund publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 56m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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.
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The coach is the simple part. What you do once you are in Ootacamund is somebody else's catalogue.
Day trips that leave Ootacamund in the morning and cover a good part of India by evening.
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7h 56m
6h 21m
€35.93 to €111.28
07:30 to 07:30
2
17.3 kg
Coach