Budapest to Nuremberg bus

Buses from Budapest to Nuremberg start at €32.08 and take 8h 57m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Budapest to Nuremberg starts at €32.08 and takes 8h 57m door to door, run by 1 operator over 626 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 9, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 57mDoor to door
  • 8h 13mMoving
  • €32.08From
  • 16.9 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€28.78
  1. Flixbus CEE South FC735110:088h 55m19:03Budapest NepligetNurnberg ZOB

Door to door 9h 39mCO2 16.9 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
Flixbus CEE South€28.788h 54m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi

The trip ends at Nurnberg Hauptbahnhof. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Nuremberg for the night the bus gets in

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

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Booking window

When to book Budapest to Nuremberg

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

  1. €27.6890 days
  2. €25.4860 days
  3. €29.8845 days
  4. €33.1830 days
  5. €35.9321 days
  6. €32.0814 days
  7. €40.337 days
  8. €53.533 days
  9. €73.331 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €25.48.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 188 percent. The most expensive point is €73.33, 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.
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. €43.08Sun
  2. €34.28Mon
  3. €32.63Tue
  4. €35.93Wed
  5. €45.83Thu
  6. €41.43Fri
  7. €40.88Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Budapest

Bus
  • Budapest Nepliget
  • Budapest, Kelenföld vasútállomás

Nuremberg

Bus
  • Nurnberg ZOB
  • Central bus station Nuremberg
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 626 km against 626 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Donaustadt, Floridsdorf, Vienna, Favoriten. The gap between arriving and leaving is 60 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 Budapest at 06:21 and the last at 18:34, across 4 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 24m1h 14m3h 10m€64.45158.4 kg6
Train5h 14m4h 30m44m€61.3920.7 kg8
Coach8h 57m8h 13m44m€32.0816.9 kg4

Questions about Budapest to Nuremberg

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 Budapest to Nuremberg take?

The Coach from Budapest to Nuremberg takes 8h 57m door to door, of which 8h 13m is spent moving. The route runs 626 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 Budapest to Nuremberg cost?

The Coach from Budapest to Nuremberg starts at €32.08 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €38.13. 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 Budapest to Nuremberg?

1 operators run the Coach from Budapest to Nuremberg: Flixbus CEE South. Between them they file around 4 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 Budapest to Nuremberg use?

The Coach from Budapest to Nuremberg leaves from Budapest Nepliget and arrives at Nurnberg ZOB. 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 Budapest to Nuremberg?

Traveling from Budapest to Nuremberg by Flight costs €64.45 and takes 4h 24m door to door, against 8h 57m 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 Budapest to Nuremberg?

Fares for the Coach from Budapest to Nuremberg bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €25.48. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 188 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Budapest to Nuremberg produce?

The Coach from Budapest to Nuremberg produces about 16.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 626 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 Budapest to Nuremberg?

Operators on the Coach from Budapest to Nuremberg publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 57m 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 Budapest to Nuremberg on September 9, 2026: 626 km of route against 626 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €32.08, and 8h 57m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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