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Bus tickets to Cardiff

50 origins, priced from the same engine that serves the search page.

50 places connect to Cardiff by Buses, across 1 country, run by 1 operator. The cheapest arrival costs €10.07. Origins run from 41 km away to 497 km, with a median of 214 km.

Checked September 28, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

Fares

Arriving in Cardiff

Priced from the same engine that answers the search box, on the next three weeks of departures.

Cheapest fare and fastest journey into Cardiff, over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Bristol to Cardiff bus€10.071h 28m41 km
Swansea to Cardiff bus€10.071h 39m55 km
Reading to Cardiff bus€10.082h 56m153 km
Birmingham to Cardiff bus€10.083h 8m142 km
Coventry to Cardiff bus€10.633h 30m154 km
Southampton to Cardiff bus€11.182h 55m139 km
Brent to Cardiff bus€12.283h 36m199 km
Leicester to Cardiff bus€12.283h 59m190 km
London to Cardiff bus€12.833h 57m211 km
Derby to Cardiff bus€12.833h 51m198 km
Birkenhead to Cardiff bus€13.384h 6m213 km
Liverpool to Cardiff bus€13.934h 25m215 km
Nottingham to Cardiff bus€13.934h 10m214 km
Islington to Cardiff bus€13.934h 26m213 km
Manchester to Cardiff bus€14.484h 47m231 km
Sheffield to Cardiff bus€15.034h 47m241 km
Brighton to Cardiff bus€15.034h 38m224 km
Preston to Cardiff bus€15.585h 11m256 km
Leeds to Cardiff bus€16.685h 36m280 km
Bradford to Cardiff bus€16.685h 10m275 km
Southend-on-Sea to Cardiff bus€17.234h 33m270 km
Hull to Cardiff bus€19.435h 55m317 km
Newcastle upon Tyne to Cardiff bus€19.986h 15m402 km
Edinburgh to Cardiff bus€23.287h 23m497 km
Glasgow to Cardiff bus€23.837h 16m493 km
  • 50Places you can arrive from
  • 50Places you can leave for
  • 1Countries
  • 1Operators

The trip ends at Cardiff Central. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Cardiff for the night the bus gets in

Sort by distance from Cardiff Central and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Every origin we sell by Buses, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km1836%Bristol, 41 km
200 to 600 km3264%London, 211 km
Origins

Which countries you can arrive from

Countries with at least one route into Cardiff that we sell.

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
United Kingdom50100%
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
FlixBusNoneNone72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi
  • FlixBus
Terminals

Stations, airports and ports in Cardiff

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

Cardiff

Bus
  • Cardiff Sophia Gardens
  • Cardiff Bus Interchange
Leaving

Leaving Cardiff

Where can I travel to Cardiff by Buses from?

50 places connect to Cardiff by Buses on our network, across 1 countries. The nearest is 41 km away in a straight line and the furthest 497 km. Every one of them is a route we actually sell rather than a connection somebody could construct.

How much does the Buses to Cardiff cost?

The cheapest Buses fare into Cardiff is €10.07 for one passenger, across 50 origins over the next three weeks. The median origin is 214 km away in a straight line, which is the distance that fare should be read against.

How long does the Buses to Cardiff take?

The fastest Buses journey into Cardiff is 1h 28m door to door. The median origin sits 214 km away in a straight line, so most journeys on this list take considerably longer than the fastest one quoted here.

Which operators run the Buses to Cardiff?

1 operators run Buses services into Cardiff on our network: FlixBus. Each has its own fares and its own conditions, and every one of them is a real carrier from the published operator catalog rather than a name we generated.

Which terminal does the Buses to Cardiff use?

Buses services into Cardiff use 2 named terminals, among them Cardiff Sophia Gardens, Cardiff Bus Interchange. The terminal a given service uses is shown on the route page for that journey and again on the ticket, because a city with several is a city where the wrong one costs an hour.

Where these numbers come from

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 Catchment, Fares, Door to door

Other ways to reach Cardiff

Check-in is at three and you will be in Cardiff well before then. Lockers are not something we run.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Cardiff Central

Most of the points near Cardiff Central open before the first train and close after the last one.

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