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Trieste to Nice

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Trieste to Nice. From €25.48, fastest 8h 1m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Trieste to Nice runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:43 and the last around 14:01. One passenger pays €25.48, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 8h 1m over 558 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 24 September 2026Priced for 13 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €25.48, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for 13 October 2026

€25.48

  • 222%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Trieste

Typical first and last departure on this corridor.

  • 06:43First departure
  • 14:01Last departure
  • 5Services per day
  • 40%Run direct

Departure times on this route

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Buying this journey

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Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €66.18Fri25
  2. about €73.33Sat26
  3. about €53.53Sun27
  4. about €38.13Mon28
  5. about €38.68Tue29
  6. about €39.23Wed30
  7. about €37.58Thu1
  8. about €35.38Fri2
  9. about €38.13Sat3
  10. about €36.48Sun4
  11. about €28.78Mon5
  12. about €27.68Tue6
  13. about €32.08Wed7
  14. about €34.83Thu8
  15. about €29.33Fri9
  16. about €29.88Sat10
  17. about €27.68Sun11
  18. about €29.33Mon12
  19. about €25.48Tue13
  20. about €28.23Wed14
  21. about €41.98Thu15

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

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

A hotel room

A room in Nice for the night the coach gets in

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

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Booking window

When to book Trieste to Nice

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

  1. €28.7890 days
  2. €20.5360 days
  3. €23.8345 days
  4. €26.5830 days
  5. €41.9821 days
  6. €34.8314 days
  7. €37.587 days
  8. €53.533 days
  9. €66.181 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €20.53.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 222 percent. The dearest point is €66.18, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€66.18€20.53137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Trieste to Nice 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

558 km

558 km as the crow flies, 0% further by the route services take. The bearing runs west.

Who lives at each end

204,338342,669

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
40% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 60% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 558 km against 558 km in a straight line, a detour of 0 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Parma, Genoa, Modena. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 NCE into Nice is set by whoever drives it.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Nice

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

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Who runs this route

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

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Nice Ville

Most of the points near Nice Ville open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about Trieste to Nice

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 Trieste to Nice?

The fastest journey from Trieste to Nice takes 8h 1m door to door, of which 7h 17m is spent moving, on the coach. Most services take around 8h 40m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Trieste to Nice?

The cheapest fare from Trieste to Nice is €25.48, as of 24 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €36.48. 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 Trieste to Nice?

The cheapest way from Trieste to Nice is by coach, at €25.48 for one passenger on 13 October 2026. That journey takes 8h 1m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Trieste to Nice?

Fares from Trieste to Nice bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €20.53. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 222 percent, measured on 24 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Trieste to Nice?

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Trieste to Nice, at €27.68. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 24 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Trieste to Nice?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Trieste to Nice, at €21.08 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 Trieste to Nice?

1 operators sell services from Trieste to Nice across 1 mode: FlixBus. 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 Trieste to Nice?

40 percent of the services we sell from Trieste to Nice are direct. The rest connect at Parma, Genoa, Modena, with about 46 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 Trieste to Nice use?

Services from Trieste to Nice by coach leave from Trieste Autostazione and arrive at Nice Saint Augustin. Allow about 44m 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 Trieste to Nice?

1 of the 1 operators we sell from Trieste to Nice allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. 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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Trieste to Nice on 24 September 2026: 558 km of route against 558 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €25.48, and 8h 1m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Being on the water gives Nice a set of days out that do not start at a station.

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Day trips out of Nice and across France

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

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The two ends, compared

Trieste reaches 130 places in 15 countries on services we hold, over distances from 21 to 1,328 km. Nice reaches 208 places in 47 countries, from 22 to 10,437 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Trieste

  • 130Places you can leave for
  • 15Countries
  • 7Operators

Arriving in Nice

Leaving Nice

  • 208Places you can leave for
  • 47Countries
  • 84Operators

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