Saint-Etienne to Le Havre bus

Buses from Saint-Etienne to Le Havre start at €27.13 and take 9h 48m at their fastest.

Saint-ÉtienneSaint-ÉtienneLe HavreLe Havre
Le Havre (Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France) - La ville sous la neige.

The Buses from Saint-Etienne to Le Havre starts at €27.13 and takes 9h 48m door to door, run by 2 operators over 637 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 16 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 9h 48mDoor to door
  • 9h 4mMoving
  • €37.58 to €98.63From
  • 06:10 to 06:29First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 17.2 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 5 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€37.58 to €98.63 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.

TER Pays de la Loire runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Saint-Etienne to Le Havre on your date, and you pay on their side.

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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 €98.63Thu17
  2. about €66.18Fri18
  3. about €67.83Sat19
  4. about €47.48Sun20
  5. about €42.53Mon21
  6. about €56.28Tue22
  7. about €51.88Wed23
  8. about €53.53Thu24
  9. about €45.28Fri25
  10. about €57.93Sat26
  11. about €44.18Sun27
  12. about €47.48Mon28
  13. about €39.78Tue29
  14. about €37.58Wed30

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 5 October 2026

Cheapest€27.13
  1. TER Pays de la Loire TE600406:299h 36m16:05St-Étienne Châteaucreux Gare RoutièreLe Havre

Door to door 10h 20mCO2 17.2 kgChanges 0Changeable 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.
OperatorFromFastest
BlaBlaCar€28.239h 11m
TER Pays de la Loire€27.139h 9m

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

A hotel room

A room in Le Havre for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Saint-Etienne to Le Havre

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

  1. €30.4390 days
  2. €29.3360 days
  3. €37.0345 days
  4. €28.2330 days
  5. €28.7821 days
  6. €37.5814 days
  7. €51.887 days
  8. €67.833 days
  9. €98.631 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €28.23.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 249 percent. The dearest point is €98.63, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €44.18Sun
  2. €42.53Mon
  3. €39.78Tue
  4. €37.58Wed
  5. €53.53Thu
  6. €45.28Fri
  7. €57.93Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Saint-Étienne

Coach
  • St-Étienne Châteaucreux Gare Routière

Le Havre

Coach
  • Le Havre
  • Trouville-Deauville
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
43% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 57% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 637 km against 554 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 Paris 13e Arrondissement, Paris 16 Passy, Clermont-Ferrand, Paris 15 Vaugirard. The gap between arriving and leaving is 48 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Saint-Etienne at 06:10 and the last at 06:29, across 2 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

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
Train5h 13m4h 29m44m€65.7921.0 kg5
Coach9h 48m9h 4m44m€27.1317.2 kg2

Questions about Saint-Etienne to Le Havre

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 Saint-Etienne to Le Havre take?

The Coach from Saint-Etienne to Le Havre takes 9h 48m door to door, of which 9h 4m is spent moving. The route runs 637 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 Saint-Etienne to Le Havre cost?

The Coach from Saint-Etienne to Le Havre starts at €27.13 for one passenger, as of 16 September 2026. A typical fare is €27.68. 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 Saint-Etienne to Le Havre?

2 operators run the Coach from Saint-Etienne to Le Havre: BlaBlaCar, TER Pays de la Loire. Between them they file around 2 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 Saint-Etienne to Le Havre use?

The Coach from Saint-Etienne to Le Havre leaves from St-Étienne Châteaucreux Gare Routière and arrives at Le Havre. 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 Saint-Etienne to Le Havre?

Travelling from Saint-Etienne to Le Havre by Train costs €65.79 and takes 5h 13m door to door, against 9h 48m 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 Saint-Etienne to Le Havre?

Fares for the Coach from Saint-Etienne to Le Havre bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €28.23. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 249 percent, measured on 16 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Saint-Etienne to Le Havre produce?

The Coach from Saint-Etienne to Le Havre produces about 17.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 637 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 Saint-Etienne to Le Havre?

Operators on the Coach from Saint-Etienne to Le Havre publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 48m 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 Saint-Etienne to Le Havre on 16 September 2026: 637 km of route against 554 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €27.13, and 9h 48m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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