Cheapest€11.18
- FlixBus FB803506:312h 32m09:03Автогара ЮгBus Station „Stara Zagora“
Door to door 3h 16mCO2 4.9 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Rousse to Stara Zagora bus
Buses from Rousse to Stara Zagora start at €12.28 and take 3h 16m at their fastest.
The Buses from Rousse to Stara Zagora starts at €12.28 and takes 3h 16m door to door, run by 2 operators over 183 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 3h 16mDoor to door
- 2h 32mMoving
- €12.28From
- 4.9 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 30, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest |
|---|---|---|
 FlixBus | €11.18 | 3h 12m |
| JSP Skopje | €12.28 | 3h 13m |
That is the traveling done. What happens after you walk out into Stara Zagora is not something we sell.
Rooms within reach of Stara Zagora train station
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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When to book Rousse to Stara Zagora
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €12.8390 days
- €10.0760 days
- €10.0745 days
- €11.1830 days
- €14.4821 days
- €15.0314 days
- €15.587 days
- €14.483 days
- €20.531 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.07.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 104 percent. The most expensive point is €20.53, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €13.93Sun
- €12.83Mon
- €12.28Tue
- €15.03Wed
- €15.03Thu
- €15.03Fri
- €15.03Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Ruse
Bus
- Автогара Юг
- Автогара Изток
Stara Zagora
Bus
- Bus Station „Stara Zagora“
- Автогара Ягода
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
- 33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 183 km against 160 km in a straight line, a detour of 14 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas, Varna. The gap between arriving and leaving is 59 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 Rousse at 06:03 and the last at 07:30, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Rousse to Stara Zagora
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 Rousse to Stara Zagora take?
The Coach from Rousse to Stara Zagora takes 3h 16m door to door, of which 2h 32m is spent moving. The route runs 183 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 Rousse to Stara Zagora cost?
The Coach from Rousse to Stara Zagora starts at €12.28 for one passenger, checked on September 30, 2026. A typical fare is €24.65. 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 Rousse to Stara Zagora?
2 operators run the Coach from Rousse to Stara Zagora: FlixBus, JSP Skopje. 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 Rousse to Stara Zagora use?
The Coach from Rousse to Stara Zagora leaves from Автогара Юг and arrives at Bus Station „Stara Zagora“. 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.
When should I book the Coach from Rousse to Stara Zagora?
Fares for the Coach from Rousse to Stara Zagora bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.07. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 104 percent, measured on September 30, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Rousse to Stara Zagora produce?
The Coach from Rousse to Stara Zagora produces about 4.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 183 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 Rousse to Stara Zagora?
Operators on the Coach from Rousse to Stara Zagora publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 16m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.
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 Rousse to Stara Zagora on September 11, 2026: 183 km of route against 160 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €12.28, and 3h 16m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Related journeys
Plenty of what is worth seeing sits outside Stara Zagora and elsewhere in Bulgaria. None of it is ours to sell.
What to book in Stara Zagora before you go
Day trips that leave Stara Zagora in the morning and cover a good part of Bulgaria by evening.
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