Buses from Lyon to Bern start at €23.27 and take 4h 23m at their fastest.
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Lyon to Bern on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Buses from Lyon to Bern starts at €23.27 and takes 4h 23m door to door, run by 3 operators over 242 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 13, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€26.02 to €51.33 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.
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What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
FlixBus FB225007:301h 38m09:08Lyon PerracheGeneve Place Dorciere
SBB SB574810:031h 6m11:09Geneve CornavinBern HauptbahnhofChanges at Geneva, with 55 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 4h 23mCO2 8.1 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
| Operator | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|
| FlixBus | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi |
| SBB | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power outlets, Wi-Fi |
| SNCF Voyageurs | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power outlets, Wi-Fi |
The bus gets you into Bern. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | 4h 23m | 2h 44m | 1h 39m | €23.27 | 12.5 kg | 2 |
| Train | 5h 19m | 3h 24m | 1h 55m | €54.79 | 14.2 kg | 1 |
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.
The Coach from Lyon to Bern takes 4h 23m door to door, of which 2h 44m is spent moving. The route runs 242 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.
The Coach from Lyon to Bern starts at €23.27 for one passenger, as of September 24, 2026. A typical fare is €33.18. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
3 operators run the Coach from Lyon to Bern: FlixBus, SBB, SNCF Voyageurs. 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.
The Coach from Lyon to Bern leaves from Lyon Perrache and arrives at Bern Hauptbahnhof. 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.
The Coach is both the cheapest and the fastest way from Lyon to Bern, at €23.27 and 4h 23m 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.
Fares for the Coach from Lyon to Bern bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €19.97. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 157 percent, measured on September 24, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Coach from Lyon to Bern produces about 12.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 242 km, which works out at roughly 52 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
Operators on the Coach from Lyon to Bern publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 23m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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 names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
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.
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The bus is the simple part. What you do once you are in Bern is somebody else's catalog.
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4h 23m
2h 44m
€26.02 to €51.33
07:30 to 07:30
2
12.5 kg
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