Livorno to Palermo bus

Buses from Livorno to Palermo start at €29.88 and take 10h 9m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Livorno to Palermo starts at €29.88 and takes 10h 9m door to door, run by 1 operator over 688 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 19, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 10h 9mDoor to door
  • 9h 25mMoving
  • €37.03 to €83.23From
  • 15:22 to 15:24First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 18.6 kgCO2

First and last are the departures the operators themselves filed for September 28, 2026, across 2 services on the day.

€37.03 to €83.23 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departures on September 28, 2026

Real departures, filed by the operators themselves. We hold no fare for these services, so there is no price here to mislead you.

  1. 15:2207:1315h 51m

    FB 8619TRENITALIA1 change

    LIVORNO CENTRALEPALERMO CENTRALE

    Calls at CAMPIGLIA MARITTIMA 15:56 · GROSSETO 16:22 · CIVITAVECCHIA 17:14 · LATINA 18:43 · FORMIA-GAETA 19:16 · NAPOLI CENTRALE 20:23 · SALERNO 21:13 · VILLA S.GIOVANNI 00:50

    TRENITALIA timetable
  2. 15:2407:1315h 49m

    IC 684TRENITALIA3 changes

    LIVORNO CENTRALEPALERMO CENTRALE

    Calls at Pontedera C.T. 16:09 · S.Romano 16:17 · S.Miniato F. 16:23 · Empoli 16:31 · Signa 16:46 · Firenze Rifredi 16:59 · ROMA TERMINI 18:50 · NAPOLI AFRAGOLA 19:56

    TRENITALIA timetable

BlaBlaCar runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Bookaway lists departures for Livorno to Palermo on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €83.23Sun20
  2. about €68.93Mon21
  3. about €49.68Tue22
  4. about €65.63Wed23
  5. about €59.03Thu24
  6. about €76.63Fri25
  7. about €62.33Sat26
  8. about €59.03Sun27
  9. about €50.23Mon28
  10. about €37.03Tue29
  11. about €40.33Wed30
  12. about €45.28Thu1
  13. about €46.93Fri2
  14. about €41.43Sat3

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 5, 2026

Cheapest€29.88
  1. BlaBlaCar BB524606:109h 25m15:35Livorno AutostazionePalermo Autostazione

Door to door 10h 9mCO2 18.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

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€29.889h 43m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi
  • BlaBlaCar

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

A hotel room

A room in Palermo for the night the bus gets in

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

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Booking window

When to book Livorno to Palermo

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

  1. €49.1390 days
  2. €30.9860 days
  3. €26.5845 days
  4. €29.3330 days
  5. €39.7821 days
  6. €41.4314 days
  7. €62.337 days
  8. €49.683 days
  9. €83.231 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €26.58.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 213 percent. The most expensive point is €83.23, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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. €58.09Sun
  2. €50.23Mon
  3. €37.03Tue
  4. €40.33Wed
  5. €45.28Thu
  6. €46.93Fri
  7. €41.43Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Livorno

Bus
  • Livorno Autostazione

Palermo

Bus
  • Palermo Autostazione
  • Autostazione di Palermo - Piazza Cairoli
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
43% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 57% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 688 km against 655 km in a straight line, a detour of 5 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Civitavecchia, Anzio, Piombino, Portoferraio. The gap between arriving and leaving is 74 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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 Livorno at 06:10 and the last at 06:10, across 1 departure 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

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
Coach10h 9m9h 25m44m€29.8818.6 kg1
Ferry21h 37m20h 7m1h 30m€39.3979.1 kg6

Questions about Livorno to Palermo

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 Livorno to Palermo take?

The Coach from Livorno to Palermo takes 10h 9m door to door, of which 9h 25m is spent moving. The route runs 688 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 Livorno to Palermo cost?

The Coach from Livorno to Palermo starts at €29.88 for one passenger, as of September 19, 2026. A typical fare is €29.88. 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 Livorno to Palermo?

1 operators run the Coach from Livorno to Palermo: BlaBlaCar. Between them they file around 1 departure 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 Livorno to Palermo use?

The Coach from Livorno to Palermo leaves from Livorno Autostazione and arrives at Palermo Autostazione. 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 Livorno to Palermo?

The Coach is both the cheapest and the fastest way from Livorno to Palermo, at €29.88 and 10h 9m door to door, against 1 other modes that also run the corridor. On this route there is no trade to make between the money and the hours.

When should I book the Coach from Livorno to Palermo?

Fares for the Coach from Livorno to Palermo bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €26.58. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 213 percent, measured on September 19, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Livorno to Palermo produce?

The Coach from Livorno to Palermo produces about 18.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 688 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 Livorno to Palermo?

Operators on the Coach from Livorno to Palermo publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 10h 9m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

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.

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

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Livorno to Palermo on September 19, 2026: 688 km of route against 655 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €29.88, and 10h 9m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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