Buses across Africa
NaN routes and 5 operators across 4 countries Fares and journey times below come from the same engine that answers the search box.
1,480 Buses routes run across Africa, reaching 50 places in 4 countries through 5 operators On the 16 busiest of them, priced on 8 October 2026, the cheapest fare is €10.07 and the fastest journey is 1h 35m door to door. A median route runs 213 km.
Buses in Africa, in numbers
What we actually sell, counted rather than claimed.
- 1,480Routes we sell
- 370Corridors
- 50Places served
- 4Countries
- 5Operators
- 1,480Domestic routes
- 0Cross border routes
- 0Routes out of the region
- 213 kmMedian route
- 862 kmLongest route
How the modes compare across Africa
Every mode measured on the same 16 corridors in Africa, priced on 8 October 2026 for one passenger.
The corridors that matter in Africa
Ranked by how much service runs, then priced. The country and city pages carry the rest.
| Route | From | Fastest | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emalahleni to Boksburg bus | €10.07 | 2h 34m | 104 km |
| Temara to Kenitra bus | €10.07 | 1h 35m | 48 km |
| Centurion to Emalahleni bus | €10.07 | 2h 27m | 105 km |
| Mohammedia to Rabat bus | €10.07 | 1h 53m | 63 km |
| Salé Al Jadida to Mohammedia bus | €10.07 | 1h 59m | 69 km |
| Ivory Park to Middelburg bus | €11.18 | 3h 4m | 129 km |
| Middelburg to Johannesburg bus | €12.28 | 3h 12m | 150 km |
| Fes to Rabat bus | €13.38 | 3h 41m | 169 km |
| Khouribga to Meknes bus | €13.38 | 3h 31m | 169 km |
| Beni Mellal to Temara bus | €14.48 | 3h 52m | 184 km |
| Beni Mellal to Fes bus | €16.68 | 4h 36m | 227 km |
| Tangier to Casablanca bus | €18.33 | 4h 43m | 293 km |
| Tétouan to Casablanca bus | €21.63 | 4h 47m | 302 km |
| Agadir to Casablanca bus | €23.28 | 6h 1m | 399 km |
| Meknes to Marrakesh bus | €23.83 | 6h 23m | 340 km |
| Oujda to Rabat bus | €31.53 | 6h 44m | 458 km |
Countries in Africa
Every country in Africa we sell in, most routes first.
| Country | Routes | Places | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morocco | 1,240 | 27 | 1 |
| South Africa | 232 | 19 | 2 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Togo | 4 | 2 | 1 |
When to book in Africa
The same search run at seven lead times across 3 corridors in Africa.
- €23.833 days
- €29.887 days
- €18.3321 days
- €17.2345 days
- €19.4384 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Across the routes we sampled the typical fare is lowest around 45 days ahead, at €17.23.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 42 percent. At the dearest point the typical fare is €29.88, 7 days out.
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 | 688 | 46% | Atlantis, 40 km |
| 200 to 600 km | 724 | 49% | Oujda, 200 km |
| 600 to 1,500 km | 68 | 5% | Marrakesh, 613 km |
Bus operators
The carriers with the largest networks inside Africa.
Bus destinations
Other ways to travel across Africa
Common questions about Buses across Africa
How many Buses routes does Orlero sell across Africa?
1,480 of them, across 4 countries reaching 50 places through 5 operators
How much does travelling by Buses cost in Africa?
On the 16 busiest Buses corridors in Africa, priced on 8 October 2026, the lowest fare is €10.07 and the median is €13.38.
Is Buses the fastest way across Africa?
On the corridors we priced, coach takes a median of 3h 36m door to door, against 2h 9m by Train. Both figures include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the other end.
Which countries in Africa have Buses routes we sell?
Morocco, South Africa, Nigeria, Togo.
Who runs the Buses services in Africa?
Alsa, TransMagnific, MyCITi, Lagos State Waterways, Sotral, among 5 carriers we sell across Africa.
When should I book travel across Africa?
Fares on the corridors we sampled bottom out about 45 days before departure. Booking then rather than 7 days ahead was 42 percent cheaper on this sample.
How far apart are the places we sell in Africa?
The median route runs 213 km in a straight line and the shortest is 40 km. The longest we sell is 862 km, from Agadir to Oujda.
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.
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
- Regions
- A region is a set of countries, and a route counts for it when either end is inside it. Countries are grouped from their ISO code alone, so the map grows with the data and nothing here is drawn by hand.
- The sample
- Fares, journey times and carbon are measured on the 16 highest ranked corridors in this region, spread across it rather than taken from the top, so the figures describe the region and not its busiest country.