Le Havre to Lyon bus

Buses from Le Havre to Lyon start at €30.98 and take 8h 34m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Le Havre to Lyon starts at €30.98 and takes 8h 34m door to door, run by 2 operators over 547 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 34mDoor to door
  • 7h 50mMoving
  • €30.98From
  • 14.8 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

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

Cheapest€29.33
  1. BlaBlaCar BB931506:028h 17m14:19Le HavreLyon Perrache

Door to door 9h 1mCO2 14.8 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.
OperatorFrom
BlaBlaCar€29.33
TER Pays de la Loire€29.88

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

A hotel room

Looking for somewhere to stay in Lyon?

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 Le Havre to Lyon

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

  1. €30.4390 days
  2. €20.5360 days
  3. €28.7845 days
  4. €25.4830 days
  5. €33.1821 days
  6. €53.5314 days
  7. €63.987 days
  8. €60.683 days
  9. €83.231 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €20.53.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 305 percent. The most expensive point is €83.23, 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. €41.98Sun
  2. €30.98Mon
  3. €32.08Tue
  4. €34.83Wed
  5. €53.53Thu
  6. €35.93Fri
  7. €37.58Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Le Havre

Bus
  • Le Havre
  • Trouville-Deauville

Lyon

Bus
  • Lyon Perrache
  • Gare routière internationale Lyon Gerland
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
56% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 44% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 547 km against 547 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 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris 15 Vaugirard, Paris 16 Passy, Paris 13e Arrondissement. The gap between arriving and leaving is 48 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Le Havre at 06:02 and the last at 06:41, across 2 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 20m1h 10m3h 10m€67.40138.7 kg1
Train4h 39m3h 55m44m€75.6918.1 kg6
Coach8h 34m7h 50m44m€30.9814.8 kg2

Questions about Le Havre to Lyon

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 Le Havre to Lyon take?

The Coach from Le Havre to Lyon takes 8h 34m door to door, of which 7h 50m is spent moving. The route runs 547 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 Le Havre to Lyon cost?

The Coach from Le Havre to Lyon starts at €30.98 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €29.61. 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 Le Havre to Lyon?

2 operators run the Coach from Le Havre to Lyon: BlaBlaCar, TER Pays de la Loire. Between them they file around 2 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 Le Havre to Lyon use?

The Coach from Le Havre to Lyon leaves from Le Havre and arrives at Lyon Perrache. 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 Le Havre to Lyon?

Traveling from Le Havre to Lyon by Flight costs €67.40 and takes 4h 20m door to door, against 8h 34m 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 Le Havre to Lyon?

Fares for the Coach from Le Havre to Lyon bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €20.53. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 305 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Le Havre to Lyon produce?

The Coach from Le Havre to Lyon produces about 14.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 547 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 Le Havre to Lyon?

Operators on the Coach from Le Havre to Lyon publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 34m 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 Le Havre to Lyon on September 10, 2026: 547 km of route against 547 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €30.98, and 8h 34m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

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A guided tour group

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Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Lyon, with free cancellation on most of it.

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