Cologne to Rome bus

Buses from Cologne to Rome start at €57.38 and take 14h 54m at their fastest.

KölnKölnRomeRome
Roma / Rome - Lazio - Italia / Italy

The Buses from Cologne to Rome starts at €57.38 and takes 14h 54m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,091 km, with around 9 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 9 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 14h 54mDoor to door
  • 14h 10mMoving
  • €57.38From
  • 29.5 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€47.48
  1. BlaBlaCar BB272206:1414h 10m20:24Koln Breslauer PlatzRoma Tiburtina

Door to door 14h 54mCO2 29.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

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
BlaBlaCar€47.4814h 53m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • BlaBlaCar

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

A hotel room

A room in Rome for the night the coach gets in

Hotels and flats near the centre, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Cologne to Rome

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

  1. €49.1390 days
  2. €43.0860 days
  3. €55.1845 days
  4. €47.4830 days
  5. €50.7821 days
  6. €59.0314 days
  7. €77.737 days
  8. €109.633 days
  9. €128.881 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €43.08.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 199 percent. The dearest point is €128.88, 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.
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. €71.68Sun
  2. €57.38Mon
  3. €60.13Tue
  4. €59.03Wed
  5. €73.33Thu
  6. €67.28Fri
  7. €68.93Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Köln

Coach
  • Koln Breslauer Platz
  • Wahn S-Bahn

Rome

Coach
  • Roma Tiburtina
  • Lenin
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

How far it really runs
The route covers 1,091 km against 1,091 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Cologne at 06:14 and the last at 20:33, across 9 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Buses against the other ways to make this journey

The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.

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 endsFromCO2Per day
Flight5h1h 50m3h 10m€110.47276.5 kg12
Train8h 18m7h 34m44m€140.0436.0 kg9
Coach14h 54m14h 10m44m€57.3829.5 kg9

Questions about Cologne to Rome

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 Cologne to Rome take?

The Coach from Cologne to Rome takes 14h 54m door to door, of which 14h 10m is spent moving. The route runs 1,091 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 Cologne to Rome cost?

The Coach from Cologne to Rome starts at €57.38 for one passenger, checked on 29 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 Cologne to Rome?

1 operators run the Coach from Cologne to Rome: BlaBlaCar. Between them they file around 9 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 Cologne to Rome use?

The Coach from Cologne to Rome leaves from Koln Breslauer Platz and arrives at Roma Tiburtina. 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 Cologne to Rome?

Travelling from Cologne to Rome by Flight costs €110.47 and takes 5h door to door, against 14h 54m 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 Cologne to Rome?

Fares for the Coach from Cologne to Rome bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €43.08. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 199 percent, measured on 29 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Cologne to Rome produce?

The Coach from Cologne to Rome produces about 29.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1091 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 Cologne to Rome?

Operators on the Coach from Cologne to Rome publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 14h 54m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

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 Cologne to Rome on 9 September 2026: 1091 km of route against 1091 km in a straight line, 9 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €57.38, and 14h 54m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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