Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Albacete to Bilbao. From €57.38, fastest 4h 31m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Albacete to Bilbao costs €57.38 at the cheapest and takes 4h 31m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 555 km. Cheapest is by train, fastest is by train.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on September 28, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 5h 7m | 4h 23m | 44m | €71.29 | 18.3 kg | 4 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Hortaleza, with 74 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 8h 13mCO2 18.9 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 5h 7mCO2 18.3 kgChanges 0Refundable
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Albacete to Bilbao | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 | WedSep 23 | ThuSep 24 | FriSep 25 | SatSep 26 | SunSep 27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | €103.03 | €109.63 | €112.93 | €121.73 | €127.78 | €122.83 | €82.13 | €76.08 | €73.33 | €68.93 | €104.68 | €78.83 | €101.93 | €66.18 |
| Train | €109.79 | €122.99 | €116.94 | €125.19 | €124.09 | €140.59 | €98.24 | €88.34 | €71.29 | €80.64 | €105.94 | €98.79 | €101.54 | €79.54 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-28 · €57.38
Arriving in September changes what you want from a room in Bilbao. It is not a thing we sell, so here is who does.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
The fare from BIO into Bilbao is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Renfe Feve | €65.79 | 4h 31m | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power outlets, Wi-Fi |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €49.00 | 85% |
| Taxes | €4.90 | 9% |
| Supplier fees | €1.49 | 3% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 3% |
| Total you pay | €57.38 | 100% |
We cannot promise Bilbao Abando still has a baggage check, because plenty of stations closed theirs.
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The fastest journey from Albacete to Bilbao takes 4h 31m door to door, of which 4h 23m is spent moving, on the train. Most services take around 4h 45m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Albacete to Bilbao is €57.38, checked on September 13, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €98.24. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Albacete to Bilbao is by train, at €71.29 for one passenger on September 28, 2026. That journey takes 5h 7m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
Fares from Albacete to Bilbao bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €45.83. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 146 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Sunday is the cheapest day to depart from Albacete to Bilbao, at €66.73. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 13, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Albacete to Bilbao, at €45.83 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
1 operators sell services from Albacete to Bilbao across 1 mode: Renfe Feve. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
20 percent of the services we sell from Albacete to Bilbao are direct. The rest connect at Gasteiz / Vitoria, Hortaleza, Alcalá de Henares, Burgos, with about 62 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Albacete to Bilbao by train leave from Albacete train station and arrive at Bilbao Abando. Allow about 44m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Albacete to Bilbao allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
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.
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