Prague to Cologne bus

Buses from Prague to Cologne start at €29.33 and take 8h 7m at their fastest.

PraguePragueKölnKöln

The Buses from Prague to Cologne starts at €29.33 and takes 8h 7m door to door, run by 1 operator over 536 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 9 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 7mDoor to door
  • 7h 23mMoving
  • €29.33From
  • 14.5 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026

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

Cheapest€24.93
  1. FlixBus FB667617:037h 23m00:26Praha FlorencKoln Breslauer Platz

Door to door 8h 7mCO2 14.5 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
FlixBus€24.937h 44m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • FlixBus

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

A hotel room

Where to sleep in Cologne

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Booking window

When to book Prague to Cologne

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

  1. €24.3890 days
  2. €22.7360 days
  3. €24.9345 days
  4. €26.0330 days
  5. €27.6821 days
  6. €36.4814 days
  7. €44.737 days
  8. €67.833 days
  9. €73.331 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.73.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 223 percent. The dearest point is €73.33, 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. €34.28Sun
  2. €29.33Mon
  3. €29.33Tue
  4. €36.48Wed
  5. €38.68Thu
  6. €44.73Fri
  7. €36.48Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Prague

Coach
  • Praha Florenc
  • Nádraží Modřany

Köln

Coach
  • Koln Breslauer Platz
  • Wahn S-Bahn
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.

Direct or connecting
56% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 44% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 536 km against 536 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Chemnitz, Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Mainz. The gap between arriving and leaving is 51 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 Prague at 06:50 and the last at 17:03, across 5 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
Flight4h 18m1h 8m3h 10m€60.91135.8 kg2
Coach8h 7m7h 23m44m€29.3314.5 kg5

Questions about Prague to Cologne

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 Prague to Cologne take?

The Coach from Prague to Cologne takes 8h 7m door to door, of which 7h 23m is spent moving. The route runs 536 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 Prague to Cologne cost?

The Coach from Prague to Cologne starts at €29.33 for one passenger, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare is €34.83. 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 Prague to Cologne?

1 operators run the Coach from Prague to Cologne: FlixBus. 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 Prague to Cologne use?

The Coach from Prague to Cologne leaves from Praha Florenc and arrives at Koln Breslauer Platz. 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 Prague to Cologne?

Travelling from Prague to Cologne by Flight costs €60.91 and takes 4h 18m door to door, against 8h 7m 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 Prague to Cologne?

Fares for the Coach from Prague to Cologne bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.73. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 223 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Prague to Cologne produces about 14.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 536 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 Prague to Cologne?

Operators on the Coach from Prague to Cologne publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 7m 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 Prague to Cologne on 9 September 2026: 536 km of route against 536 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €29.33, and 8h 7m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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