Salzburg to Vienna bus

Buses from Salzburg to Vienna start at €15.58 and take 4h 13m at their fastest.

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Skyline of St. Charles's Church (Vienna), seen from the Freihaus of the Vienna University of Technology

The Buses from Salzburg to Vienna starts at €15.58 and takes 4h 13m door to door, run by 1 operator over 252 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 13 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 13mDoor to door
  • 3h 29mMoving
  • €15.58 to €27.68From
  • 06:50 to 17:03First and last departure
  • 6Per day
  • 6.8 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 28 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€15.58 to €27.68 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.

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €26.58Mon14
  2. about €22.18Tue15
  3. about €27.68Wed16
  4. about €24.38Thu17
  5. about €27.68Fri18
  6. about €22.73Sat19
  7. about €21.63Sun20
  8. about €15.58Mon21
  9. about €15.58Tue22
  10. about €18.88Wed23
  11. about €22.18Thu24
  12. about €19.43Fri25
  13. about €18.88Sat26
  14. about €19.98Sun27

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 28 September 2026

Cheapest€13.38
  1. FlixBus FB662417:033h 29m20:32Salzburg Sudtiroler PlatzWien Erdberg

Door to door 4h 13mCO2 6.8 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
FlixBus€13.384h 5m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • FlixBus

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

A hotel room

A room in Vienna for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Salzburg to Vienna

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

  1. €16.1390 days
  2. €14.4860 days
  3. €13.9345 days
  4. €11.7330 days
  5. €17.7821 days
  6. €19.9814 days
  7. €21.637 days
  8. €27.683 days
  9. €26.581 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €11.73.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 136 percent. The dearest point is €27.68, 3 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. €19.98Sun
  2. €15.58Mon
  3. €15.58Tue
  4. €18.88Wed
  5. €22.18Thu
  6. €19.43Fri
  7. €18.88Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Salzburg

Coach
  • Salzburg Sudtiroler Platz
  • Hauptbahnhof

Vienna

Coach
  • Wien Erdberg
  • Vienna International Busterminal
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
76% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 24% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 252 km against 252 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 Linz, Wiener Neustadt, České Budějovice, Passau. 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 Salzburg at 06:50 and the last at 17:03, across 6 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
Train2h 30m1h 46m44m€34.998.3 kg7
Flight3h 55m45m3h 10m€33.7763.7 kg4
Coach4h 13m3h 29m44m€15.586.8 kg6

Questions about Salzburg to Vienna

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 Salzburg to Vienna take?

The Coach from Salzburg to Vienna takes 4h 13m door to door, of which 3h 29m is spent moving. The route runs 252 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 Salzburg to Vienna cost?

The Coach from Salzburg to Vienna starts at €15.58 for one passenger, as of 13 September 2026. A typical fare is €22.45. 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 Salzburg to Vienna?

1 operators run the Coach from Salzburg to Vienna: FlixBus. Between them they file around 6 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 Salzburg to Vienna use?

The Coach from Salzburg to Vienna leaves from Salzburg Sudtiroler Platz and arrives at Wien Erdberg. 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 Salzburg to Vienna?

Travelling from Salzburg to Vienna by Train costs €34.99 and takes 2h 30m door to door, against 4h 13m 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 Salzburg to Vienna?

Fares for the Coach from Salzburg to Vienna bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €11.73. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 136 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Salzburg to Vienna produce?

The Coach from Salzburg to Vienna produces about 6.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 252 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 Salzburg to Vienna?

Operators on the Coach from Salzburg to Vienna publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 13m 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 shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

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 Salzburg to Vienna on 13 September 2026: 252 km of route against 252 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €15.58, and 4h 13m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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