Nice to Lucca bus

Buses from Nice to Lucca start at €27.12 and take 5h 44m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Nice to Lucca starts at €27.12 and takes 5h 44m door to door, run by 2 operators over 315 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 24 September 2026Priced for 13 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 44mDoor to door
  • 3h 17mMoving
  • €27.67 to €62.88From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 12.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 13 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€27.67 to €62.88 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

12Go lists the departures it sells between Nice and Lucca.

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Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €62.88Fri25
  2. about €61.23Sat26
  3. about €49.68Sun27
  4. about €40.33Mon28
  5. about €44.18Tue29
  6. about €45.28Wed30
  7. about €44.18Thu1
  8. about €37.58Fri2
  9. about €38.13Sat3
  10. about €34.83Sun4
  11. about €27.67Mon5
  12. about €32.63Tue6
  13. about €33.17Wed7
  14. about €38.68Thu8

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 13 October 2026

Cheapest€27.12
  1. FlixBus FB382107:304h 34m12:04Nice Saint AugustinFirenze Villa Costanza
  2. Trenitalia T214613:2134m13:55Firenze Santa Maria NovellaLucca railway station

Changes at Florence, with 77 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 7h 9mCO2 13.2 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.
OperatorTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
FlixBus72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
Trenitalia140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • FlixBus
  • Trenitalia

The coach gets you into Lucca. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Lucca for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Nice to Lucca

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

  1. €29.8790 days
  2. €24.3760 days
  3. €28.7745 days
  4. €32.6330 days
  5. €35.9321 days
  6. €38.6814 days
  7. €44.187 days
  8. €49.683 days
  9. €62.881 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €24.37.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 158 percent. The dearest point is €62.88, 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. €34.83Sun
  2. €30.42Mon
  3. €32.63Tue
  4. €33.17Wed
  5. €38.68Thu
  6. €37.58Fri
  7. €38.13Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Nice

Coach
  • Nice Saint Augustin
  • Nice - Gare Routière Vauban

Lucca

Coach
  • Autolinee Toscane Terminal Bus Lucca
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 315 km against 260 km in a straight line, a detour of 43 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Prato, Florence, Genoa. The gap between arriving and leaving is 81 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 12 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 Nice at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Nice to Lucca

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 Nice to Lucca take?

The Coach from Nice to Lucca takes 5h 44m door to door, of which 3h 17m is spent moving. The route runs 315 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 Nice to Lucca cost?

The Coach from Nice to Lucca starts at €27.12 for one passenger, as of 24 September 2026. A typical fare is €28.77. 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 Nice to Lucca?

2 operators run the Coach from Nice to Lucca: FlixBus, Trenitalia. Between them they file around 3 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 Nice to Lucca use?

The Coach from Nice to Lucca leaves from Nice Saint Augustin and arrives at Lucca railway 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 Nice to Lucca?

Fares for the Coach from Nice to Lucca bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €24.37. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 158 percent, measured on 24 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Nice to Lucca produce?

The Coach from Nice to Lucca produces about 12.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 315 km, which works out at roughly 40 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 Nice to Lucca?

Operators on the Coach from Nice to Lucca publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 44m 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.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Nice to Lucca on 24 September 2026: 315 km of route against 260 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €27.12, and 5h 44m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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