Essen to Gdansk bus

Buses from Essen to Gdansk start at £61.88.

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The Buses from Essen to Gdansk starts at £61.88, run by 2 operators over 1,074 km. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 7 October 2026Priced for 27 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 16h 24mDoor to door
  • 13h 57mMoving
  • £80.26 to £177.33From
  • 36.1 kgCO2

£80.26 to £177.33 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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The price is the one 12Go sets, with every fee shown before you pay.

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about £173.55Thu8
  2. about £177.33Fri9
  3. about £134.92Sat10
  4. about £118.43Sun11
  5. about £105.23Mon12
  6. about £95.34Tue13
  7. about £90.15Wed14
  8. about £115.60Thu15
  9. about £104.76Fri16
  10. about £103.35Sat17
  11. about £105.23Sun18
  12. about £94.86Mon19
  13. about £80.26Tue20
  14. about £82.14Wed21

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

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.
OperatorTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
FlixBus72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
České Dráhy140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • FlixBus
  • České Dráhy

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

A hotel room

A room in Gdansk for the night the coach gets in

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

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Booking window

When to book Essen to Gdansk

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

  1. £47.7490 days
  2. £65.1860 days
  3. £68.0145 days
  4. £57.6430 days
  5. £67.6621 days
  6. £78.9814 days
  7. £90.157 days
  8. £115.263 days
  9. £168.511 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £47.74.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 253 percent. The dearest point is £168.51, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 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. £105.23Sun
  2. £91.71Mon
  3. £80.26Tue
  4. £78.98Wed
  5. £108.20Thu
  6. £94.54Fri
  7. £103.35Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Essen

Coach
  • Essen Freiheit
  • Essen Hbf

Gdańsk

Coach
  • Gdansk Dworzec Autobusowy
  • Gdansk bus station
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,074 km against 843 km in a straight line, a detour of 23 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Frankfurt am Main, Köln, Wrocław. The gap between arriving and leaving is 76 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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.
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 endsFromCO2
Train5h 33m2h 19m3h 14m£70.02187.7 kg
Coach16h 24m13h 57m2h 27m£61.8836.1 kg

Questions about Essen to Gdansk

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 Essen to Gdansk take?

The Coach from Essen to Gdansk covers 1,074 km. Each operator's own departure and arrival times for the date you pick are in the search at the top of this page, beside the total price.

How much does the Coach from Essen to Gdansk cost?

The Coach from Essen to Gdansk starts at £61.88 for one passenger, as of 7 October 2026. A typical fare is £61.88. 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 Essen to Gdansk?

2 operators run the Coach from Essen to Gdansk: FlixBus, České Dráhy. The operator table on this page sets out fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Coach from Essen to Gdansk use?

The Coach from Essen to Gdansk leaves from Essen Freiheit and arrives at Gdansk Glowny. 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 Essen to Gdansk?

The Coach is the cheapest way from Essen to Gdansk, at £61.88, against 1 other modes that also run the corridor. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.

When should I book the Coach from Essen to Gdansk?

Fares for the Coach from Essen to Gdansk bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £47.74. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 253 percent, measured on 7 October 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Essen to Gdansk produce?

The Coach from Essen to Gdansk produces about 36.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1074 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 Essen to Gdansk?

Operators on the Coach from Essen to Gdansk publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets. 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

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