Cheapest€36.48
- FlixBus FB175906:3110h 28m16:59Izmir OtogarBucuresti Autogara Filaret
Door to door 11h 12mCO2 21.0 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Izmir to Bucharest bus
Buses from Izmir to Bucharest start at €46.38 and take 11h 12m at their fastest.
The Buses from Izmir to Bucharest starts at €46.38 and takes 11h 12m door to door, run by 1 operator over 776 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 11h 12mDoor to door
- 10h 28mMoving
- €46.38From
- 21.0 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 30 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Fastest€62.33
- FlixBus FB778707:304h 55m12:25Izmir OtogarIstanbul Esenler Otogar
- Anima Wings AW314113:331h 1m14:34Istanbul ISTBucharest BBU
Changes at Istanbul, with 68 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 9h 1mCO2 121.8 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 FlixBus | €36.48 | 10h 52m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
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When to book Izmir to Bucharest
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €43.6390 days
- €31.5360 days
- €39.7845 days
- €34.2830 days
- €36.4821 days
- €53.5314 days
- €55.187 days
- €79.383 days
- €126.131 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €31.53.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 300 percent. The dearest point is €126.13, 1 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.
- €55.18Sun
- €48.03Mon
- €46.38Tue
- €53.53Wed
- €70.03Thu
- €67.83Fri
- €56.28Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
İzmir
Coach
- Izmir Otogar
- İzmir Coach Terminal
Bucharest
Coach
- Bucuresti Autogara Filaret
- Memento Bus
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
- 20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 776 km against 675 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 Sofia, Istanbul, Bursa, Thessaloníki. The gap between arriving and leaving is 52 minutes, of which about 5 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.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Izmir at 06:31 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Izmir to Bucharest
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 Izmir to Bucharest take?
The Coach from Izmir to Bucharest takes 11h 12m door to door, of which 10h 28m is spent moving. The route runs 776 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 Izmir to Bucharest cost?
The Coach from Izmir to Bucharest starts at €46.38 for one passenger, checked on 30 September 2026. A typical fare is €56.83. 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 Izmir to Bucharest?
1 operators run the Coach from Izmir to Bucharest: FlixBus. Between them they file around 4 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 Izmir to Bucharest use?
The Coach from Izmir to Bucharest leaves from Izmir Otogar and arrives at Bucuresti Autogara Filaret. 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 Izmir to Bucharest?
Fares for the Coach from Izmir to Bucharest bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €31.53. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 300 percent, measured on 30 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Izmir to Bucharest produce?
The Coach from Izmir to Bucharest produces about 21.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 776 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 Izmir to Bucharest?
Operators on the Coach from Izmir to Bucharest publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 11h 12m 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 Izmir to Bucharest on 9 September 2026: 776 km of route against 675 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €46.38, and 11h 12m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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