Bari to Rome bus

Buses from Bari to Rome start at €21.63 and take 5h 40m at their fastest.

BariBariRomeRome
Roma / Rome - Lazio - Italia / Italy

The Buses from Bari to Rome starts at €21.63 and takes 5h 40m door to door, run by 1 operator over 373 km, with around 7 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked September 8, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 40mDoor to door
  • 4h 56mMoving
  • €21.63From
  • 10.1 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€18.33
  1. BlaBlaCar BB926316:574h 56m21:53Bari Largo SorrentinoRoma Tiburtina

Door to door 5h 40mCO2 10.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
BlaBlaCar€18.335h 38m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi
  • BlaBlaCar

The bus gets you into Rome. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Rome for the night the bus gets in

Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Bari to Rome

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

  1. €17.7890 days
  2. €17.7860 days
  3. €18.3345 days
  4. €19.4330 days
  5. €18.3321 days
  6. €23.2814 days
  7. €27.137 days
  8. €37.033 days
  9. €37.031 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €17.78.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 108 percent. The most expensive point is €37.03, 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.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €26.03Sun
  2. €21.63Mon
  3. €23.28Tue
  4. €22.73Wed
  5. €28.78Thu
  6. €29.33Fri
  7. €26.03Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Bari

Bus
  • Bari Largo Sorrentino
  • Terminal Bus Bari

Rome

Bus
  • Roma Tiburtina
  • Lenin
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

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

Direct or connecting
78% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 22% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 373 km against 373 km in a straight line, a detour of 2 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Ancona, Taranto, Split, Naples. 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. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Bari at 06:14 and the last at 19:50, across 7 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Buses against the other ways to make this journey

The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Flight4h 4m54m3h 10m€43.8094.5 kg9
Coach5h 40m4h 56m44m€21.6310.1 kg7

Questions about Bari to Rome

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Bari to Rome take?

The Coach from Bari to Rome takes 5h 40m door to door, of which 4h 56m is spent moving. The route runs 373 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 Bari to Rome cost?

The Coach from Bari to Rome starts at €21.63 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €21.08. 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 Bari to Rome?

1 operators run the Coach from Bari to Rome: BlaBlaCar. Between them they file around 7 departures 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 Bari to Rome use?

The Coach from Bari to Rome leaves from Bari Largo Sorrentino and arrives at Roma Tiburtina. 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 Bari to Rome?

Traveling from Bari to Rome by Flight costs €43.80 and takes 4h 4m door to door, against 5h 40m 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 Bari to Rome?

Fares for the Coach from Bari to Rome bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €17.78. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 108 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Bari to Rome produce?

The Coach from Bari to Rome produces about 10.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 373 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Coach from Bari to Rome?

Operators on the Coach from Bari to Rome publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 40m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Bari to Rome on September 8, 2026: 373 km of route against 373 km in a straight line, 7 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €21.63, and 5h 40m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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