Buses from Salem to Kanchipuram start at €22.17 and take 6h 1m at their fastest.
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Salem to Kanchipuram on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Buses from Salem to Kanchipuram starts at €22.17 and takes 6h 1m door to door, run by 2 operators over 275 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 6 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€22.17 to €59.58 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.
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What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
Indian Railway IR614112:0839m12:47Vellore Town railway stationKanchipuram railway stationChanges at Vellore, with 100 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 6h 1mCO2 9.3 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
| Operator | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apsrtc | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
| Indian Railway | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power sockets, Wi-Fi |
The coach gets you into Kanchipuram. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 4h 56m | 2h 54m | 2h 2m | €52.04 | 11.9 kg | 2 |
| Coach | 6h 1m | 3h 37m | 2h 24m | €22.17 | 9.3 kg | 1 |
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.
The Coach from Salem to Kanchipuram takes 6h 1m door to door, of which 3h 37m is spent moving. The route runs 275 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.
The Coach from Salem to Kanchipuram starts at €22.17 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €22.17. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
2 operators run the Coach from Salem to Kanchipuram: Apsrtc, Indian Railway. Between them they file around 1 departure a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
The Coach from Salem to Kanchipuram leaves from SALEM TOWN BUS STAND and arrives at Kanchipuram 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.
Travelling from Salem to Kanchipuram by Train costs €52.04 and takes 4h 56m door to door, against 6h 1m 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.
Fares for the Coach from Salem to Kanchipuram bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €21.63. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 175 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Coach from Salem to Kanchipuram produces about 9.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 275 km, which works out at roughly 34 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Operators on the Coach from Salem to Kanchipuram publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 1m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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.
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The coach is the simple part. What you do once you are in Kanchipuram is somebody else's catalogue.
Day trips that leave Kanchipuram in the morning and cover a good part of India by evening.
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6h 1m
3h 37m
€22.17 to €59.58
07:30 to 07:30
1
9.3 kg
Coach