Cheapest€12.83
- Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad KT479606:163h 22m09:38Terminal Meru RayaPerhentian Bas Kota Sarang Semut
Door to door 4h 6mCO2 5.9 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Ipoh to Alor Star bus
Buses from Ipoh to Alor Star start at €15.58 and take 4h 6m at their fastest.
The Buses from Ipoh to Alor Star starts at €15.58 and takes 4h 6m door to door, run by 1 operator over 217 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 4h 6mDoor to door
- 3h 22mMoving
- €15.58From
- 5.9 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad | €12.83 | 3h 38m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
That is the travelling done. What happens after you walk out into Alor Star is not something we sell.
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When to book Ipoh to Alor Star
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €12.2890 days
- €11.7360 days
- €12.8345 days
- €15.5830 days
- €13.3821 days
- €15.5814 days
- €18.337 days
- €32.633 days
- €23.281 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.73.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 178 percent. The dearest point is €32.63, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 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.
- €17.78Sun
- €18.33Mon
- €15.58Tue
- €16.13Wed
- €17.23Thu
- €19.98Fri
- €19.98Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Ipoh
Coach
- Terminal Meru Raya
- Sri Maju Bus Station
Alor Setar
Coach
- Perhentian Bas Kota Sarang Semut
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
- 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 217 km against 189 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 Sungai Petani, Kota Kuala Muda, Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Ipoh at 06:16 and the last at 06:16, across 1 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
The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 2h 19m | 1h 35m | 44m | €32.79 | 7.2 kg | 5 |
| Coach | 4h 6m | 3h 22m | 44m | €15.58 | 5.9 kg | 1 |
Questions about Ipoh to Alor Star
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 Ipoh to Alor Star take?
The Coach from Ipoh to Alor Star takes 4h 6m door to door, of which 3h 22m is spent moving. The route runs 217 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 Ipoh to Alor Star cost?
The Coach from Ipoh to Alor Star starts at €15.58 for one passenger, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare is €12.83. 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 Ipoh to Alor Star?
1 operators run the Coach from Ipoh to Alor Star: Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad. Between them they file around 1 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 Ipoh to Alor Star use?
The Coach from Ipoh to Alor Star leaves from Terminal Meru Raya and arrives at Perhentian Bas Kota Sarang Semut. 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 Ipoh to Alor Star?
Travelling from Ipoh to Alor Star by Train costs €32.79 and takes 2h 19m door to door, against 4h 6m 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 Ipoh to Alor Star?
Fares for the Coach from Ipoh to Alor Star bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.73. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 178 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Ipoh to Alor Star produce?
The Coach from Ipoh to Alor Star produces about 5.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 217 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 Ipoh to Alor Star?
Operators on the Coach from Ipoh to Alor Star publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 6m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
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.
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.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Ipoh to Alor Star on 8 September 2026: 217 km of route against 189 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €15.58, and 4h 6m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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