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Sofia to Niš bus

Buses from Sofia to Niš start at €11.73 and take 2h 54m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Sofia to Niš starts at €11.73 and takes 2h 54m door to door, run by 2 operators over 155 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 7, 2026Priced for September 22, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 2h 54mDoor to door
  • 2h 10mMoving
  • €11.73From
  • 4.2 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 22, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€10.07
  1. Florentia Bus Sofia OOD FB772706:162h 10m08:26Sofia Central Bus StationAutobuska stanica Nis

Door to door 2h 54mCO2 4.2 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.
OperatorFrom
FlixBus€10.08
Florentia Bus Sofia OOD€10.07

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Booking window

When to book Sofia to Niš

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

  1. €11.1890 days
  2. €10.0760 days
  3. €10.0845 days
  4. €10.0730 days
  5. €10.0821 days
  6. €12.2814 days
  7. €13.387 days
  8. €19.983 days
  9. €21.631 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 115 percent. The most expensive point is €21.63, 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. €13.93Sun
  2. €12.28Mon
  3. €12.28Tue
  4. €11.73Wed
  5. €14.48Thu
  6. €15.58Fri
  7. €13.93Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Sofia

Bus
  • Sofia Central Bus Station
  • спирка Ехо

Niš

Bus
  • Autobuska stanica Nis
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.

Direct or connecting
40% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 60% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 155 km against 135 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Craiova, Plovdiv, Kragujevac. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 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 Sofia at 06:16 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Sofia to Niš

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 Sofia to Niš take?

The Coach from Sofia to Niš takes 2h 54m door to door, of which 2h 10m is spent moving. The route runs 155 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 Sofia to Niš cost?

The Coach from Sofia to Niš starts at €11.73 for one passenger, checked on September 22, 2026. A typical fare is €26.03. 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 Sofia to Niš?

2 operators run the Coach from Sofia to Niš: FlixBus, Florentia Bus Sofia OOD. Between them they file around 5 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 Sofia to Niš use?

The Coach from Sofia to Niš leaves from Sofia Central Bus Station and arrives at Autobuska stanica Nis. 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 Sofia to Niš?

Fares for the Coach from Sofia to Niš bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.07. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 115 percent, measured on September 22, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Sofia to Niš produce?

The Coach from Sofia to Niš produces about 4.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 155 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 Sofia to Niš?

Operators on the Coach from Sofia to Niš publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 2h 54m 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 Sofia to Niš on September 7, 2026: 155 km of route against 135 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €11.73, and 2h 54m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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