Buses in Botswana

12 routes and 0 operators Fares below are the cheapest we currently sell on each.

We sell 12 Buses routes in Botswana, serving 4 places through 0 operators. 12 of those routes cross a border. The cheapest fare is None and the median route runs 259 km.

Priced for October 13, 2026One passenger, all fees included

The network

Buses in Botswana, in numbers

  • 12Routes we sell
  • 4Places served
  • 0Operators
  • 0Domestic routes
  • 12Cross border routes
  • 259 kmMedian route
  • 275 kmLongest route
Routes

The busiest Buses routes in Botswana

The routes we sell in Botswana, busiest first, priced over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Gaborone to Johannesburg busNoneNone275 km
Johannesburg to Gaborone busNoneNone275 km
Gaborone to Pretoria busNoneNone259 km
Pretoria to Gaborone busNoneNone259 km
Gaborone to Rustenburg busNoneNone175 km
Rustenburg to Gaborone busNoneNone175 km

12Go fares in Botswana

These are 12Go's own figures: the routes they sell most, and the lowest fare each is showing today.

See Gaborone to Johannesburg on 12Go

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The bus is the simple part. What you do once you are in Gaborone is somebody else's catalog.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Gaborone and across Botswana

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

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km433%Gaborone, 175 km
200 to 600 km867%Gaborone, 259 km
Across the border

Where Botswana connects to

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
South Africa12100%

Bus destinations

Common questions about Buses in Botswana

What Buses routes are there in Botswana?

We sell 12 Buses routes in Botswana, serving 4 places run by 0 operators Every one of those routes has an operator that actually serves it, so the count is the network we can sell rather than every pair of places on a map.

Can I travel out of Botswana by Buses?

12 of the Buses routes we sell touching Botswana cross a border and 0 stay inside it, reaching 1 other countries including South Africa. Cross border routes are usually the ones where the fare and the journey time differ most between operators.

What is the longest Buses route in Botswana?

The longest Buses route we sell touching Botswana runs from Gaborone to Johannesburg, 275 km in a straight line. The median route in the country is 259 km, so this one is a considerable outlier and the fares on it behave differently from the rest.

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.

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 labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Catchment, Fares, Distances

Other ways to travel here

The wider region

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

A hotel room

A room in Gaborone for the night the bus gets in

Sort by distance from Gaborone Bus Rank and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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