Lille to Nantes bus

Buses from Lille to Nantes start at €27.68 and take 7h 25m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Lille to Nantes starts at €27.68 and takes 7h 25m door to door, run by 3 operators over 507 km, with around 27 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 12 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 25mDoor to door
  • 6h 41mMoving
  • €27.68From
  • 13.7 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€23.83
  1. BlaBlaCar BB763108:156h 48m15:03Lille Saint MauriceNantes Gare Routiere

Door to door 7h 32mCO2 13.7 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.
OperatorFromFastest
BlaBlaCar€23.837h 21m
Région Bretagne€24.387h 23m
TER Pays de la Loire€24.937h 22m

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

A hotel room

Where to sleep in Nantes

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Booking window

When to book Lille to Nantes

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

  1. €27.1390 days
  2. €18.8860 days
  3. €19.4345 days
  4. €19.9830 days
  5. €28.2321 days
  6. €34.2814 days
  7. €41.437 days
  8. €39.783 days
  9. €54.631 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €18.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 189 percent. The dearest point is €54.63, 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. €31.53Sun
  2. €27.68Mon
  3. €28.23Tue
  4. €28.78Wed
  5. €35.38Thu
  6. €33.18Fri
  7. €34.28Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Lille

Coach
  • Lille Saint Maurice
  • Genech Institut

Nantes

Coach
  • Nantes Gare Routiere
  • Gare Routière de Nantes
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 507 km against 507 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 Lille at 06:03 and the last at 21:06, across 27 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
Train4h 12m3h 28m44m€64.6916.7 kg9
Flight4h 15m1h 5m3h 10m€56.19128.7 kg30
Coach7h 25m6h 41m44m€27.6813.7 kg27

Questions about Lille to Nantes

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 Lille to Nantes take?

The Coach from Lille to Nantes takes 7h 25m door to door, of which 6h 41m is spent moving. The route runs 507 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 Lille to Nantes cost?

The Coach from Lille to Nantes starts at €27.68 for one passenger, checked on 12 September 2026. A typical fare is €29.33. 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 Lille to Nantes?

3 operators run the Coach from Lille to Nantes: BlaBlaCar, Région Bretagne, TER Pays de la Loire. Between them they file around 27 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 Lille to Nantes use?

The Coach from Lille to Nantes leaves from Lille Saint Maurice and arrives at Nantes Gare Routiere. 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 Lille to Nantes?

Travelling from Lille to Nantes by Train costs €64.69 and takes 4h 12m door to door, against 7h 25m 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 Lille to Nantes?

Fares for the Coach from Lille to Nantes bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €18.88. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 189 percent, measured on 12 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Lille to Nantes produce?

The Coach from Lille to Nantes produces about 13.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 507 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 Lille to Nantes?

Operators on the Coach from Lille to Nantes publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 25m 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 Lille to Nantes on 12 September 2026: 507 km of route against 507 km in a straight line, 27 services a day, 3 operators, a cheapest fare of €27.68, and 7h 25m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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