Cheapest€11.73
- Orléans Express OE960906:082h 29m08:37Station CégepGare routière
Door to door 3h 13mCO2 4.8 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Saguenay to Québec bus
Buses from Saguenay to Québec start at €13.38 and take 3h 13m at their fastest.
The Buses from Saguenay to Québec starts at €13.38 and takes 3h 13m door to door, run by 1 operator over 179 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 3h 13mDoor to door
- 2h 29mMoving
- €13.38From
- 4.8 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 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 | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Orléans Express | €11.73 | 3h 10m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi |
The trip ends at Gare du Palais. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
A room in Québec for the night the bus gets in
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When to book Saguenay to Québec
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €16.1390 days
- €10.6360 days
- €10.6345 days
- €10.6330 days
- €15.5821 days
- €15.5814 days
- €22.737 days
- €22.183 days
- €22.731 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.63.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 114 percent. The most expensive point is €22.73, 7 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.
- €17.78Sun
- €13.38Mon
- €13.93Tue
- €14.48Wed
- €18.88Thu
- €15.58Fri
- €15.58Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Saguenay
Bus
- Station Cégep
- Station du Royaume
Québec
Bus
- Gare routière
- Place d'Youville
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
- 50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 179 km against 179 km in a straight line, a detour of 2 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Trois-Rivières, Sherbrooke. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Saguenay at 06:08 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Buses against the other ways to make this journey
The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | 3h 13m | 2h 29m | 44m | €13.38 | 4.8 kg | 3 |
| Flight | 3h 49m | 39m | 3h 10m | €31.41 | 45.3 kg | 1 |
Questions about Saguenay to Québec
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 Saguenay to Québec take?
The Coach from Saguenay to Québec takes 3h 13m door to door, of which 2h 29m is spent moving. The route runs 179 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 Saguenay to Québec cost?
The Coach from Saguenay to Québec starts at €13.38 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €30.98. 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 Saguenay to Québec?
1 operators run the Coach from Saguenay to Québec: Orléans Express. Between them they file around 3 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 Saguenay to Québec use?
The Coach from Saguenay to Québec leaves from Station Cégep and arrives at Gare routière. 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 Saguenay to Québec?
The Coach is both the cheapest and the fastest way from Saguenay to Québec, at €13.38 and 3h 13m 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 Saguenay to Québec?
Fares for the Coach from Saguenay to Québec bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.63. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 114 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Saguenay to Québec produce?
The Coach from Saguenay to Québec produces about 4.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 179 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 Saguenay to Québec?
Operators on the Coach from Saguenay to Québec publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 13m 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 Saguenay to Québec on September 11, 2026: 179 km of route against 179 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €13.38, and 3h 13m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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