Trieste to Vienna bus

Buses from Trieste to Vienna start at €18.33 and take 5h 18m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Trieste to Vienna starts at €18.33 and takes 5h 18m door to door, run by 1 operator over 346 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 24, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 18mDoor to door
  • 4h 34mMoving
  • €18.33 to €46.93From
  • 06:50 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 4Per day
  • 11.8 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 6, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€18.33 to €46.93 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

12Go lists the departures it sells between Trieste and Vienna.

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FlixBus runs this service and does not sell it here. Trainline takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Trainline lists departures for Trieste to Vienna on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €43.08Fri25
  2. about €46.93Sat26
  3. about €34.83Sun27
  4. about €26.03Mon28
  5. about €26.58Tue29
  6. about €25.48Wed30
  7. about €25.48Thu1
  8. about €28.23Fri2
  9. about €24.93Sat3
  10. about €23.83Sun4
  11. about €19.43Mon5
  12. about €18.33Tue6
  13. about €21.08Wed7
  14. about €26.03Thu8

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 6, 2026

Cheapest€18.33
  1. FlixBus FB954606:504h 34m11:24Trieste AutostazioneWien Erdberg

Door to door 5h 18mCO2 11.8 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€47.48
  1. FlixBus FB989807:302h09:30Trieste AutostazioneKarl-Wagner-Platz
  2. České Dráhy D715810:151h 40m11:55Maria SaalWien Hauptbahnhof

Changes at Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, with 45 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 5h 9mCO2 12.3 kgChanges 1Changeable 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
FlixBus€18.335h 18m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi
  • FlixBus

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A hotel room

A room in Vienna for the night the bus gets in

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Booking window

When to book Trieste to Vienna

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

  1. €19.4390 days
  2. €13.9360 days
  3. €16.1345 days
  4. €19.9830 days
  5. €27.1321 days
  6. €26.0314 days
  7. €25.487 days
  8. €34.833 days
  9. €43.081 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €13.93.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 209 percent. The most expensive point is €43.08, 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. €23.83Sun
  2. €20.53Mon
  3. €19.98Tue
  4. €21.63Wed
  5. €26.03Thu
  6. €28.23Fri
  7. €24.93Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Trieste

Bus
  • Trieste Autostazione
  • Trieste

Vienna

Bus
  • Wien Erdberg
  • Vienna International Busterminal
The journey

What the journey 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 346 km against 346 km in a straight line, a detour of 0 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Graz, Villach, Ljubljana. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 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 Trieste at 06:50 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 Trieste to Vienna

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 Trieste to Vienna take?

The Coach from Trieste to Vienna takes 5h 18m door to door, of which 4h 34m is spent moving. The route runs 346 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 Trieste to Vienna cost?

The Coach from Trieste to Vienna starts at €18.33 for one passenger, as of September 24, 2026. A typical fare is €33.45. 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 Trieste to Vienna?

1 operators run the Coach from Trieste to Vienna: FlixBus. 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 Trieste to Vienna use?

The Coach from Trieste to Vienna leaves from Trieste Autostazione and arrives at Wien Erdberg. 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 Trieste to Vienna?

Fares for the Coach from Trieste to Vienna bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €13.93. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 209 percent, measured on September 24, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Trieste to Vienna produce?

The Coach from Trieste to Vienna produces about 11.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 346 km, which works out at roughly 34 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 Trieste to Vienna?

Operators on the Coach from Trieste to Vienna publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 18m 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.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Trieste to Vienna on September 24, 2026: 346 km of route against 346 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €18.33, and 5h 18m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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