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Bordeaux to Bologna

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Bordeaux to Bologna. From £72.85, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

One passenger pays £75.94, every fee included. Services cover 971 km and are run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 6 October 2026Priced for 20 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at £75.94, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for 20 October 2026

£75.94

  • 159%Moves across the booking window

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about £143.67Wed7
  2. about £187.15Thu8
  3. about £136.00Fri9
  4. about £147.72Sat10
  5. about £137.61Sun11
  6. about £116.68Mon12
  7. about £91.62Tue13
  8. about £104.24Wed14
  9. about £126.49Thu15
  10. about £120.92Fri16
  11. about £116.68Sat17
  12. about £109.30Sun18
  13. about £79.99Mon19
  14. about £72.85Tue20
  15. about £72.90Wed21
  16. about £97.35Thu22
  17. about £90.29Fri23
  18. about £95.66Sat24
  19. about £90.09Sun25
  20. about £76.95Mon26
  21. about £81.50Tue27

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

The flight gets you into Bologna. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Bologna for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Bologna Centrale and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Bordeaux to Bologna

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

  1. £55.4290 days
  2. £92.1160 days
  3. £64.8545 days
  4. £84.1730 days
  5. £81.5021 days
  6. £72.8514 days
  7. £91.627 days
  8. £136.003 days
  9. £143.671 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £55.42.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 159 percent. The dearest point is £143.67, 1 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.
£143.67£55.42137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 90 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Bordeaux to Bologna and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.

The shape of it

971 km

943 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs east.

Who lives at each end

265,328 → 394,843

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

The route

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The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
25% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 75% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 971 km against 943 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Lyon, Milan, Nice. The gap between arriving and leaving is 62 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. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.

The fare from BLQ into Bologna is set by whoever drives it.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Bologna

Settled in advance, so the ride into Bologna costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

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Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Bologna Centrale

Most of the points near Bologna Centrale open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about Bordeaux to Bologna

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 it take to get from Bordeaux to Bologna?

Bordeaux to Bologna covers 971 km. Each operator's own departure and arrival times for the date you pick are in the search at the top of this page, beside the total price.

How much does it cost to travel from Bordeaux to Bologna?

The cheapest fare from Bordeaux to Bologna is £72.85, as of 6 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £107.29. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Bordeaux to Bologna?

The cheapest way from Bordeaux to Bologna is by flight, at £75.94 for one passenger on 20 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.

When should I book Bordeaux to Bologna?

Fares from Bordeaux to Bologna bottom out around 90 days before departure, at £55.42. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 159 percent, measured on 6 October 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Bordeaux to Bologna?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Bordeaux to Bologna, at £79.99. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 6 October 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Bordeaux to Bologna?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Bordeaux to Bologna, at £63.31 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs services from Bordeaux to Bologna?

1 operators sell services from Bordeaux to Bologna across 1 mode: Ryanair. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from Bordeaux to Bologna?

25 percent of the services we sell from Bordeaux to Bologna are direct. The rest connect at Lyon, Milan, Nice, with about 62 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Bordeaux to Bologna use?

Services from Bordeaux to Bologna by flight leave from Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport BOD and arrive at Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport BLQ. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Bordeaux to Bologna?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Bordeaux to Bologna allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs £4.28. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

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 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.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances

The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Bologna is somebody else's catalogue.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Bologna and across Italy

Day trips that leave Bologna in the morning and cover a good part of Italy by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Bordeaux reaches 56 places in 12 countries on services we hold, over distances from 131 to 6,586 km. Bologna reaches 81 places in 20 countries, from 37 to 8,166 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Bordeaux

  • 56Places you can leave for
  • 12Countries
  • 29Operators

Arriving in Bologna

Leaving Bologna

  • 81Places you can leave for
  • 20Countries
  • 39Operators

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