Buses across Britain and Ireland
NaN routes and 15 operators across 2 countries Fares and journey times below come from the same engine that answers the search box.
1,896 Buses routes run across Britain and Ireland, reaching 63 places in 2 countries through 15 operators On the 16 busiest of them, priced on 8 October 2026, the cheapest fare is €10.07 and the fastest journey is 1h 33m door to door. A median route runs 152 km.
Buses in Britain and Ireland, in numbers
What we actually sell, counted rather than claimed.
- 1,896Routes we sell
- 474Corridors
- 63Places served
- 2Countries
- 15Operators
- 1,812Domestic routes
- 0Cross border routes
- 84Routes out of the region
- 152 kmMedian route
- 1,451 kmLongest route
How the modes compare across Britain and Ireland
Every mode measured on the same 16 corridors in Britain and Ireland, priced on 8 October 2026 for one passenger.
The corridors that matter in Britain and Ireland
Ranked by how much service runs, then priced. The country and city pages carry the rest.
| Route | From | Fastest | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh to Glasgow bus | €10.07 | 1h 50m | 67 km |
| Southend-on-Sea to London bus | €10.07 | 1h 44m | 58 km |
| Reading to London bus | €10.07 | 1h 43m | 59 km |
| Southend-on-Sea to Brent bus | €10.07 | 2h 1m | 70 km |
| Leeds to Sheffield bus | €10.07 | 1h 33m | 46 km |
| Liverpool to Manchester bus | €10.07 | 1h 35m | 50 km |
| Leicester to Sheffield bus | €10.07 | 2h 6m | 86 km |
| Southampton to Bristol bus | €10.63 | 2h 18m | 103 km |
| Aberdeen to Edinburgh bus | €12.28 | 2h 55m | 149 km |
| Cardiff to Birmingham bus | €12.83 | 2h 56m | 142 km |
| Cork to Dublin bus | €15.58 | 4h 6m | 219 km |
| Leicester to Cardiff bus | €15.58 | 3h 44m | 190 km |
| Cardiff to London bus | €16.13 | 3h 43m | 211 km |
| Edinburgh to Birmingham bus | €23.28 | 6h 24m | 395 km |
| Newcastle upon Tyne to Cardiff bus | €23.83 | 6h 2m | 402 km |
| Birmingham to Paris bus | €29.33 | 7h 28m | 502 km |
Countries in Britain and Ireland
Every country in Britain and Ireland we sell in, most routes first.
| Country | Routes | Places | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1,888 | 60 | 10 |
| Ireland | 8 | 3 | 5 |
When to book in Britain and Ireland
The same search run at seven lead times across 3 corridors in Britain and Ireland.
- €10.633 days
- €10.077 days
- €10.0721 days
- €10.0745 days
- €10.0784 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Across the routes we sampled the typical fare is lowest around 7 days ahead, at €10.07.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 5 percent. At the dearest point the typical fare is €10.63, 3 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 | 1,144 | 60% | Archway, 41 km |
| 200 to 600 km | 680 | 36% | Nottingham, 202 km |
| 600 to 1,500 km | 72 | 4% | Brighton, 605 km |
Bus operators
The carriers with the largest networks inside Britain and Ireland.
Bus destinations
Other ways to travel across Britain and Ireland
Common questions about Buses across Britain and Ireland
How many Buses routes does Orlero sell across Britain and Ireland?
1,896 of them, across 2 countries reaching 63 places through 15 operators
How much does travelling by Buses cost in Britain and Ireland?
On the 16 busiest Buses corridors in Britain and Ireland, priced on 8 October 2026, the lowest fare is €10.07 and the median is €11.46.
Is Buses the fastest way across Britain and Ireland?
On the corridors we priced, coach takes a median of 2h 37m door to door, against 1h 51m by Train. Both figures include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the other end.
Which countries in Britain and Ireland have Buses routes we sell?
United Kingdom, Ireland.
Who runs the Buses services in Britain and Ireland?
FlixBus, Essex County Council, Oxford, Transdev Blazefield, East Yorkshire, Bus Éireann, among 15 carriers we sell across Britain and Ireland.
When should I book travel across Britain and Ireland?
Fares on the corridors we sampled bottom out about 7 days before departure. Booking then rather than 3 days ahead was 5 percent cheaper on this sample.
How far apart are the places we sell in Britain and Ireland?
The median route runs 152 km in a straight line and the shortest is 41 km. The longest we sell is 1,451 km, from Birmingham to Stockholm.
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.