Buses from Sofia to Zagreb start at €44.18 and take 12h 8m at their fastest.
The Buses from Sofia to Zagreb starts at €44.18 and takes 12h 8m door to door, run by 1 operator over 782 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Niš, with 59 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 12h 46mCO2 21.1 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 12h 8mCO2 21.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 FlixBus | €37.58 | 10h 54m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
That is the travelling done. What happens after you walk out into Zagreb is not something we sell.
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The Coach from Sofia to Zagreb takes 12h 8m door to door, of which 11h 24m is spent moving. The route runs 782 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 Sofia to Zagreb starts at €44.18 for one passenger, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare is €37.58. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Coach from Sofia to Zagreb: 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.
The Coach from Sofia to Zagreb leaves from Sofia Central Bus Station and arrives at Zagreb Autobusni kolodvor. 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.
Fares for the Coach from Sofia to Zagreb bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €32.63. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 172 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Coach from Sofia to Zagreb produces about 21.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 782 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.
Operators on the Coach from Sofia to Zagreb publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 12h 8m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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.
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.
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The coach is the simple part. What you do once you are in Zagreb is somebody else's catalogue.
The tickets worth having in advance, because the queue at the door is usually the whole morning.
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