Cologne to Valencia bus

Buses from Cologne to Valencia start at €71.13 and take 19h 2m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Cologne to Valencia starts at €71.13 and takes 19h 2m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,396 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 19h 2mDoor to door
  • 18h 18mMoving
  • €71.13From
  • 37.7 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€60.13
  1. BlaBlaCar BB875416:5718h 18m11:15Koln Breslauer PlatzValència Bus Station

Door to door 19h 2mCO2 37.7 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€60.1318h 47m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi
  • BlaBlaCar

That is the traveling done. What happens after you walk out into Valencia is not something we sell.

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Booking window

When to book Cologne to Valencia

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

  1. €75.5390 days
  2. €44.1860 days
  3. €52.9845 days
  4. €60.1330 days
  5. €71.1321 days
  6. €71.1314 days
  7. €100.287 days
  8. €90.933 days
  9. €159.131 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €44.18.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 260 percent. The most expensive point is €159.13, 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. €87.63Sun
  2. €72.23Mon
  3. €77.18Tue
  4. €75.53Wed
  5. €95.88Thu
  6. €71.13Fri
  7. €88.18Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Köln

Bus
  • Koln Breslauer Platz
  • Wahn S-Bahn

Valencia

Bus
  • València Bus Station
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 1,396 km against 1,396 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 Luxembourg, Lyon, Barcelona, Toulouse. The gap between arriving and leaving is 51 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 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 Cologne at 06:14 and the last at 19:50, across 6 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
Flight5h 24m2h 14m3h 10m€138.20353.7 kg10
Coach19h 2m18h 18m44m€71.1337.7 kg6

Questions about Cologne to Valencia

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 Cologne to Valencia take?

The Coach from Cologne to Valencia takes 19h 2m door to door, of which 18h 18m is spent moving. The route runs 1,396 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 Cologne to Valencia cost?

The Coach from Cologne to Valencia starts at €71.13 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €65.63. 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 Cologne to Valencia?

1 operators run the Coach from Cologne to Valencia: BlaBlaCar. Between them they file around 6 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 Cologne to Valencia use?

The Coach from Cologne to Valencia leaves from Koln Breslauer Platz and arrives at València Bus Station. 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 Cologne to Valencia?

Traveling from Cologne to Valencia by Flight costs €138.20 and takes 5h 24m door to door, against 19h 2m 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 Cologne to Valencia?

Fares for the Coach from Cologne to Valencia bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €44.18. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 260 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Cologne to Valencia produce?

The Coach from Cologne to Valencia produces about 37.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1396 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 Cologne to Valencia?

Operators on the Coach from Cologne to Valencia publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 19h 2m 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 Cologne to Valencia on September 11, 2026: 1396 km of route against 1396 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €71.13, and 19h 2m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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