Bus tickets to Essen
100 origins, priced from the same engine that serves the search page.
100 places connect to Essen by Buses, across 12 countries, run by 6 operators. The cheapest arrival costs €10.07. Origins run from 47 km away to 1,478 km, with a median of 331 km.
Arriving in Essen
Priced from the same engine that answers the search box, on the next three weeks of departures.
| Route | From | Fastest | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cologne to Essen bus | €10.07 | 1h 42m | 58 km |
| Bonn to Essen bus | €10.07 | 2h 2m | 81 km |
| Bielefeld to Essen bus | €10.07 | 2h 40m | 123 km |
| Münster to Essen bus | €10.07 | 1h 53m | 70 km |
| Aachen to Essen bus | €10.07 | 2h 20m | 100 km |
| Mönchengladbach to Essen bus | €10.07 | 1h 34m | 50 km |
| Wiesbaden to Essen bus | €12.28 | 3h 28m | 175 km |
| Frankfurt am Main to Essen bus | €12.83 | 3h 39m | 190 km |
| Bremen to Essen bus | €13.38 | 4h 3m | 218 km |
| Amsterdam to Essen bus | €13.38 | 3h 31m | 178 km |
| Hanover to Essen bus | €13.93 | 3h 59m | 212 km |
| Brussels to Essen bus | €14.48 | 3h 49m | 198 km |
| Mannheim to Essen bus | €15.58 | 4h 25m | 242 km |
| Brunswick to Essen bus | €16.13 | 4h 39m | 258 km |
| Karlsruhe to Essen bus | €16.68 | 5h 9m | 290 km |
| Stuttgart to Essen bus | €19.43 | 5h 47m | 335 km |
| Hamburg to Essen bus | €19.98 | 5h 28m | 308 km |
| Hamburg-Mitte to Essen bus | €20.53 | 5h 34m | 309 km |
| Nuremberg to Essen bus | €21.63 | 6h 13m | 364 km |
| Leipzig to Essen bus | €21.63 | 6h 20m | 372 km |
| Berlin to Essen bus | €24.38 | 7h 36m | 454 km |
| Augsburg to Essen bus | €25.48 | 7h 36m | 442 km |
| Chemnitz to Essen bus | €25.48 | 7h 6m | 418 km |
| Munich to Essen bus | €27.13 | 8h 13m | 493 km |
| Dresden to Essen bus | €27.13 | 7h 51m | 470 km |
| Paris to Essen bus | €27.68 | 7h 23m | 440 km |
| Milan to Essen bus | €35.93 | 10h 44m | 685 km |
| Turin to Essen bus | €37.58 | 11h 55m | 712 km |
| Genoa to Essen bus | €41.43 | 13h 19m | 797 km |
| Marseille to Essen bus | €63.98 | 14h 30m | 916 km |
| Rome to Essen bus | €78.83 | 19h 42m | 1,142 km |
| Barcelona to Essen bus | €81.58 | 18h 41m | 1,179 km |
- 100Places you can arrive from
- 100Places you can leave for
- 12Countries
- 6Operators
That is the travelling done. What happens after you walk out into Essen is not something we sell.
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How far people travel to get here
Every origin we sell by Buses, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.
| Distance | Routes | Share | Nearest of them |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 200 km | 30 | 30% | Leverkusen, 47 km |
| 200 to 600 km | 42 | 42% | Hannover, 212 km |
| 600 to 1,500 km | 28 | 28% | Milan, 685 km |
Which countries you can arrive from
Countries with at least one route into Essen that we sell.
| Country | Routes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 60 | 60% |
| Italy | 10 | 10% |
| Spain | 8 | 8% |
| France | 4 | 4% |
| Netherlands | 4 | 4% |
| Austria | 2 | 2% |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | 2 | 2% |
| Belgium | 2 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 2% |
| Czechia | 2 | 2% |
| Croatia | 2 | 2% |
| Poland | 2 | 2% |
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
Stations, airports and ports in Essen
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Essen
- Essen Freiheit
- Essen Hbf
Leaving Essen
Where can I travel to Essen by Buses from?
100 places connect to Essen by Buses on our network, across 12 countries. The nearest is 47 km away in a straight line and the furthest 1,478 km. Every one of them is a route we actually sell rather than a connection somebody could construct.
How much does the Buses to Essen cost?
The cheapest Buses fare into Essen is €10.07 for one passenger, across 100 origins over the next three weeks. The median origin is 331 km away in a straight line, which is the distance that fare should be read against.
How long does the Buses to Essen take?
The fastest Buses journey into Essen is 1h 34m door to door. The median origin sits 331 km away in a straight line, so most journeys on this list take considerably longer than the fastest one quoted here.
Which operators run the Buses to Essen?
6 operators run Buses services into Essen on our network: BlaBlaCar, bodo Verkehrsverbund, FlixBus, NVBW, Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr. Each has its own fares and its own conditions, and every one of them is a real carrier from the published operator catalogue rather than a name we generated.
Which terminal does the Buses to Essen use?
Buses services into Essen use 2 named terminals, among them Essen Freiheit, Essen Hbf. The terminal a given service uses is shown on the route page for that journey and again on the ticket, because a city with several is a city where the wrong one costs an hour.
Where these numbers come from
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 Catchment, Fares, Door to door
Other ways to reach Essen
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