Essen to Prague bus

Buses from Essen to Prague start at £19.94.

Fares

Check dates and fares

Fares and seats move by the day. Price Essen to Prague on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.

PolandFranceNetherlandsSlovakiaBelgiumBerlinBerlinParisParisCologneCologneRotterdamRotterdamWroclawWroclawFrankfurt am MainFrankfurt am MainLodzLodzStuttgartStuttgartDresdenDresdenBremenBremenPoznanPoznanAntwerpAntwerpNurembergNurembergHanoverHanoverLeipzigLeipzigThe HagueThe HagueEssenEssenPraguePragueMap data: Natural Earth, GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)Map data: Natural Earth, GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
The Golden Portal use to be the main entrance to the cathedral. Bohemian royals entered through this portal on coronation day. The colorful mosaic above the portal was created in the fourteenth century by Venetian artisans and depicts The Last Judgment. St. Vitus Cathedral, dominates the skyline wherever you are in city. The cathedral was commissioned by Charles IV, and construction began in 1344. it took almost six centuries to complete, with the final phase of construction in the period 1873-1929. It is the largest and most important church in Prague, St. Vitus Cathedral has also been the site of the coronation of Czech kings and queens. The Great South Tower of the Cathedral was founded in the late 14th century, then reconstructed in the 16th and again in the 18th centuries. The tower holds the biggest bell in the Czech Republic, called Žikmund, which dates from the 16th century.

The Buses from Essen to Prague starts at £19.94, run by 1 operator over 542 km. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 7 October 2026Priced for 26 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 37mDoor to door
  • 7h 53mMoving
  • £43.15From
  • 00:15 to 06:20First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 18.4 kgCO2

12Go issues the ticket, and you book it here on Orlero.

Buying this journey

Pick a departure for Essen to Prague and pay on tickets.orlero.com, our booking site.

Book Essen to Prague

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 £58.59Thu8
  2. about £42.56Fri9
  3. about £35.49Sat10
  4. about £42.09Sun11
  5. about £37.38Mon12
  6. about £35.97Tue13
  7. about £32.19Wed14
  8. about £41.15Thu15
  9. about £38.80Fri16
  10. about £39.73Sat17
  11. about £37.38Sun18
  12. about £28.43Mon19
  13. about £30.78Tue20
  14. about £22.30Wed21

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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
FlixBus£19.947h 48m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • FlixBus

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

A hotel room

A room in Prague for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from Praha hlavni nadrazi and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

Search Prague on Booking.comOr compare on Expedia

Partner links. We earn a commission when a booking completes, and it never changes what you pay.

Booking window

When to book Essen to Prague

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

  1. £22.7790 days
  2. £24.6560 days
  3. £20.4145 days
  4. £21.8330 days
  5. £28.9021 days
  6. £22.3014 days
  7. £32.197 days
  8. £35.493 days
  9. £58.591 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at £20.41.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 187 percent. The dearest point is £58.59, 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. £37.38Sun
  2. £28.43Mon
  3. £30.78Tue
  4. £28.90Wed
  5. £41.15Thu
  6. £38.80Fri
  7. £35.49Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Essen

Coach
  • Essen Freiheit
  • Essen Hbf

Prague

Coach
  • Praha Florenc
  • Nádraží Modřany
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
25% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 75% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 542 km against 542 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 Köln, Leipzig, Dresden. The gap between arriving and leaving is 51 minutes, of which about 14 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.

Questions about Essen to Prague

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 Prague take?

The Coach from Essen to Prague covers 542 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 Prague cost?

The Coach from Essen to Prague starts at £19.94 for one passenger, as of 7 October 2026. A typical fare is £19.94. 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 Prague?

One operator runs the Coach from Essen to Prague: FlixBus. 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 Prague use?

The Coach from Essen to Prague leaves from Essen Freiheit and arrives at Praha Florenc. 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 Essen to Prague?

Fares for the Coach from Essen to Prague bottom out around 45 days ahead, at £20.41. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 187 percent, measured on 7 October 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Essen to Prague produces about 18.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 542 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 Prague?

Operators on the Coach from Essen to Prague publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 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

Related journeys

Prague to Essen busCompare every mode from Essen to PragueAachen to Prague busAlicante to Prague busAmsterdam to Prague busAntwerp to Prague busBarcelona to Prague busBergamo to Prague busBerlin to Prague busBern to Prague busBologna to Prague busBratislava to Prague busBremen to Prague busBrno to Prague bus

Being on the water gives Prague a set of days out that do not start at a station.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Prague and across Czechia

Day trips that leave Prague in the morning and cover a good part of Czechia by evening.

See Prague on GetYourGuideOr browse Viator

Partner links. We earn a commission on a booking, and it never changes the price.

Plan with Ori

Ori, the trip planner

Ask it something like this