Cheapest€15.03
- Rochester Institute of Technology RI259006:404h 16m10:56Winston Salem Bus TerminalThe Comet Central
Door to door 5hCO2 7.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Winston-Salem to Columbia bus
Buses from Winston-Salem to Columbia start at €15.03 and take 5h at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Winston-Salem to Columbia on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Buses from Winston-Salem to Columbia starts at €15.03 and takes 5h door to door, run by 1 operator over 281 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 5hDoor to door
- 4h 16mMoving
- €15.03 to €41.98From
- 06:40 to 06:40First and last departure
- 1Per day
- 7.6 kgCO2
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 29 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€15.03 to €41.98 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
- about €32.08Wed16
- about €41.98Thu17
- about €32.63Fri18
- about €34.28Sat19
- about €28.78Sun20
- about €20.53Mon21
- about €18.88Tue22
- about €22.18Wed23
- about €26.58Thu24
- about €19.98Fri25
- about €22.18Sat26
- about €26.03Sun27
- about €22.18Mon28
- about €15.03Tue29
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.
The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026
Bus operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Rochester Institute of Technology | €15.03 | 4h 27m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
The coach gets you into Columbia. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Columbia for the night the coach gets in
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When to book Winston-Salem to Columbia
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €15.0390 days
- €17.7860 days
- €16.1345 days
- €17.2330 days
- €17.2321 days
- €15.0314 days
- €18.887 days
- €32.633 days
- €32.081 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €15.03.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 117 percent. The dearest point is €32.63, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €26.03Sun
- €20.53Mon
- €17.23Tue
- €22.18Wed
- €26.58Thu
- €21.63Fri
- €22.18Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Winston-Salem
Coach
- Winston Salem Bus Terminal
Columbia
Coach
- The Comet Central
What the journey actually looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 281 km against 244 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 Charlotte, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Durham. The gap between arriving and leaving is 65 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Winston-Salem at 06:40 and the last at 06:40, across 1 departure The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Buses against the other ways to make this journey
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 2h 48m | 2h 4m | 44m | €32.79 | 9.3 kg | 5 |
| Coach | 5h | 4h 16m | 44m | €15.03 | 7.6 kg | 1 |
Questions about Winston-Salem to Columbia
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 Winston-Salem to Columbia take?
The Coach from Winston-Salem to Columbia takes 5h door to door, of which 4h 16m is spent moving. The route runs 281 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 Winston-Salem to Columbia cost?
The Coach from Winston-Salem to Columbia starts at €15.03 for one passenger, as of 15 September 2026. A typical fare is €15.03. 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 Winston-Salem to Columbia?
1 operators run the Coach from Winston-Salem to Columbia: Rochester Institute of Technology. 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.
Which terminal does the Coach from Winston-Salem to Columbia use?
The Coach from Winston-Salem to Columbia leaves from Winston Salem Bus Terminal and arrives at The Comet Central. 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 Winston-Salem to Columbia?
Travelling from Winston-Salem to Columbia by Train costs €32.79 and takes 2h 48m door to door, against 5h 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 Winston-Salem to Columbia?
Fares for the Coach from Winston-Salem to Columbia bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €15.03. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 117 percent, measured on 15 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Winston-Salem to Columbia produce?
The Coach from Winston-Salem to Columbia produces about 7.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 281 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 Winston-Salem to Columbia?
Operators on the Coach from Winston-Salem to Columbia publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 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 Winston-Salem to Columbia on 15 September 2026: 281 km of route against 244 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €15.03, and 5h door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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