Marseille to Rome bus

Buses from Marseille to Rome start at €33.73 and take 8h 36m at their fastest.

MarseilleMarseilleRomeRome
Roma / Rome - Lazio - Italia / Italy

The Buses from Marseille to Rome starts at €33.73 and takes 8h 36m door to door, run by 1 operator over 604 km, with around 11 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 36mDoor to door
  • 7h 52mMoving
  • €33.73From
  • 16.3 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€27.68
  1. BlaBlaCar BB777007:559h16:55Marseille Saint CharlesRoma Tiburtina

Door to door 9h 44mCO2 16.3 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€27.688h 36m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi
  • BlaBlaCar

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

A hotel room

A room in Rome for the night the bus gets in

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 Marseille to Rome

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

  1. €27.6890 days
  2. €21.6360 days
  3. €26.0345 days
  4. €28.7830 days
  5. €35.3821 days
  6. €35.3814 days
  7. €44.187 days
  8. €49.683 days
  9. €57.931 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.63.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 168 percent. The most expensive point is €57.93, 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. €38.68Sun
  2. €34.28Mon
  3. €33.73Tue
  4. €37.58Wed
  5. €35.38Thu
  6. €39.23Fri
  7. €39.78Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Marseille

Bus
  • Marseille Saint Charles
  • Gare Routière Marseille-Saint-Charles

Rome

Bus
  • Roma Tiburtina
  • Lenin
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.

How far it really runs
The route covers 604 km against 604 km in a straight line, a detour of 2 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Marseille at 06:14 and the last at 20:50, across 11 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 22m1h 12m3h 10m€66.22153.0 kg40
Train4h 51m4h 7m44m€78.4419.9 kg11
Coach8h 36m7h 52m44m€33.7316.3 kg11

Questions about Marseille to Rome

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 Marseille to Rome take?

The Coach from Marseille to Rome takes 8h 36m door to door, of which 7h 52m is spent moving. The route runs 604 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 Marseille to Rome cost?

The Coach from Marseille to Rome starts at €33.73 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €32.63. 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 Marseille to Rome?

1 operators run the Coach from Marseille to Rome: BlaBlaCar. Between them they file around 11 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 Marseille to Rome use?

The Coach from Marseille to Rome leaves from Marseille Saint Charles and arrives at Roma Tiburtina. 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 Marseille to Rome?

Traveling from Marseille to Rome by Flight costs €66.22 and takes 4h 22m door to door, against 8h 36m 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 Marseille to Rome?

Fares for the Coach from Marseille to Rome bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.63. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 168 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Marseille to Rome produce?

The Coach from Marseille to Rome produces about 16.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 604 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 Marseille to Rome?

Operators on the Coach from Marseille to Rome publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 36m 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 Marseille to Rome on September 10, 2026: 604 km of route against 604 km in a straight line, 11 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €33.73, and 8h 36m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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