Sterling Heights to Knoxville bus

Buses from Sterling Heights to Knoxville start at €51.88 and take 12h 44m at their fastest.

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Looking down Cumberland Avenue towards downtown Knoxville from the pedestrian overpass to the University of Tennessee.

The Buses from Sterling Heights to Knoxville starts at €51.88 and takes 12h 44m door to door, run by 1 operator over 851 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 14, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 12h 44mDoor to door
  • 12hMoving
  • €51.88 to €109.63From
  • 06:29 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 4Per day
  • 23.0 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 5, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€51.88 to €109.63 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €86.53Tue15
  2. about €88.73Wed16
  3. about €109.63Thu17
  4. about €81.58Fri18
  5. about €73.33Sat19
  6. about €73.33Sun20
  7. about €70.58Mon21
  8. about €52.98Tue22
  9. about €53.53Wed23
  10. about €71.68Thu24
  11. about €60.68Fri25
  12. about €71.13Sat26
  13. about €54.08Sun27
  14. about €51.88Mon28

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 5, 2026

Cheapest€40.88
  1. Rochester Institute of Technology RI984507:304h 27m11:57Sterling Heights bus stationCOTA Transit Terminal
  2. Rochester Institute of Technology RI594813:147h 57m21:11COTA Transit TerminalKnoxville Area Transit Center

Changes at Columbus, with 77 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 14h 25mCO2 23.1 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€43.63
  1. Rochester Institute of Technology RI561906:2912h18:29Sterling Heights bus stationKnoxville Area Transit Center

Door to door 12h 44mCO2 23.0 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

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
Rochester Institute of Technology€41.4311h 49m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi
  • Rochester Institute of Technology

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A room in Knoxville for the night the bus gets in

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Booking window

When to book Sterling Heights to Knoxville

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

  1. €41.4390 days
  2. €34.2860 days
  3. €46.9345 days
  4. €35.9330 days
  5. €40.8821 days
  6. €51.8814 days
  7. €70.587 days
  8. €109.633 days
  9. €86.531 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €34.28.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 220 percent. The most expensive point is €109.63, 3 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. €54.08Sun
  2. €51.88Mon
  3. €52.98Tue
  4. €53.53Wed
  5. €71.68Thu
  6. €60.68Fri
  7. €71.13Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Knoxville

Bus
  • Knoxville Area Transit Center
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 851 km against 740 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 Meads, Toledo, Columbus, Dayton. 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 Sterling Heights at 06:29 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Sterling Heights to Knoxville

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 Sterling Heights to Knoxville take?

The Coach from Sterling Heights to Knoxville takes 12h 44m door to door, of which 12h is spent moving. The route runs 851 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 Sterling Heights to Knoxville cost?

The Coach from Sterling Heights to Knoxville starts at €51.88 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €40.88. 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 Sterling Heights to Knoxville?

1 operators run the Coach from Sterling Heights to Knoxville: Rochester Institute of Technology. Between them they file around 4 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 Sterling Heights to Knoxville use?

The Coach from Sterling Heights to Knoxville leaves from Sterling Heights bus station and arrives at Knoxville Area Transit Center. 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 Sterling Heights to Knoxville?

Fares for the Coach from Sterling Heights to Knoxville bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €34.28. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 220 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Sterling Heights to Knoxville produce?

The Coach from Sterling Heights to Knoxville produces about 23.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 851 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 Sterling Heights to Knoxville?

Operators on the Coach from Sterling Heights to Knoxville publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 12h 44m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

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.

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.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Sterling Heights to Knoxville on September 14, 2026: 851 km of route against 740 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €51.88, and 12h 44m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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