Knoxville to Raleigh bus

Buses from Knoxville to Raleigh start at €34.83 and take 8h 24m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Knoxville to Raleigh starts at €34.83 and takes 8h 24m door to door, run by 1 operator over 548 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 4 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 24mDoor to door
  • 7h 40mMoving
  • €34.83 to €71.68From
  • 06:42 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 14.8 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 4 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€34.83 to €71.68 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €64.53Tue15
  2. about €58.48Wed16
  3. about €71.68Thu17
  4. about €59.03Fri18
  5. about €48.58Sat19
  6. about €51.88Sun20
  7. about €52.43Mon21
  8. about €36.48Tue22
  9. about €39.78Wed23
  10. about €47.48Thu24
  11. about €48.03Fri25
  12. about €48.03Sat26
  13. about €41.43Sun27
  14. about €34.83Mon28

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 4 October 2026

Cheapest€28.23
  1. Rochester Institute of Technology RI493706:427h 40m14:22Knoxville Area Transit CenterGoRaleigh Station

Door to door 8h 24mCO2 14.8 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€53.53
  1. Rochester Institute of Technology RI660007:303h 53m11:23Knoxville Area Transit CenterCharlotte Transportation Center
  2. Amtrak A173512:271h 43m14:10CharlotteRaleigh Union Station

Changes at Charlotte, with 64 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 7h 24mCO2 14.7 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

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
Rochester Institute of Technology€28.237h 54m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • Rochester Institute of Technology

The coach gets you into Raleigh. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Raleigh for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Knoxville to Raleigh

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

  1. €27.6890 days
  2. €23.2860 days
  3. €35.3845 days
  4. €28.7830 days
  5. €29.3321 days
  6. €34.8314 days
  7. €52.437 days
  8. €71.683 days
  9. €64.531 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €23.28.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 208 percent. The dearest point is €71.68, 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.
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. €41.43Sun
  2. €34.83Mon
  3. €36.48Tue
  4. €39.78Wed
  5. €47.48Thu
  6. €48.03Fri
  7. €48.03Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Knoxville

Coach
  • Knoxville Area Transit Center

Raleigh

Coach
  • GoRaleigh Station
  • Raleigh Greyhound Station
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

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 548 km against 476 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 Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Greensboro, Fayetteville. The gap between arriving and leaving is 65 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 Knoxville at 06:42 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Knoxville to Raleigh

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 Knoxville to Raleigh take?

The Coach from Knoxville to Raleigh takes 8h 24m door to door, of which 7h 40m is spent moving. The route runs 548 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 Knoxville to Raleigh cost?

The Coach from Knoxville to Raleigh starts at €34.83 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €51.88. 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 Knoxville to Raleigh?

1 operators run the Coach from Knoxville to Raleigh: Rochester Institute of Technology. Between them they file around 5 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 Knoxville to Raleigh use?

The Coach from Knoxville to Raleigh leaves from Knoxville Area Transit Center and arrives at GoRaleigh 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.

When should I book the Coach from Knoxville to Raleigh?

Fares for the Coach from Knoxville to Raleigh bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €23.28. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 208 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Knoxville to Raleigh produce?

The Coach from Knoxville to Raleigh produces about 14.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 548 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 Knoxville to Raleigh?

Operators on the Coach from Knoxville to Raleigh publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 24m door to door. 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.

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.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Knoxville to Raleigh on 14 September 2026: 548 km of route against 476 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €34.83, and 8h 24m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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