Billings to Missoula

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Billings to Missoula. From €42.03, fastest 4h 9m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Billings to Missoula runs about 3 times a day, with the first departure around 06:43 and the last around 14:30. One passenger pays between €42.03 and €50.88, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 4h 9m over 452 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

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

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares

€42.03 to €50.88

  • 207%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Billings

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:43First departure
  • 14:30Last departure
  • 3Services per day
  • 67%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €93.95Tue15
  2. about €80.38Wed16
  3. about €123.45Thu17
  4. about €74.48Fri18
  5. about €78.02Sat19
  6. about €75.66Sun20
  7. about €69.76Mon21
  8. about €56.19Tue22
  9. about €62.09Wed23
  10. about €78.02Thu24
  11. about €73.89Fri25
  12. about €76.25Sat26
  13. about €63.27Sun27
  14. about €50.88Mon28
  15. about €50.88Tue29
  16. about €48.52Wed30
  17. about €57.96Thu1
  18. about €54.42Fri2
  19. about €52.06Sat3
  20. about €55.60Sun4
  21. about €42.03Mon5

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.

The flight gets you into Missoula. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Missoula for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Missoula Northern Pacific Railroad Depot and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Billings to Missoula

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

  1. €47.9390 days
  2. €53.8360 days
  3. €47.9345 days
  4. €40.2630 days
  5. €42.0321 days
  6. €50.8814 days
  7. €69.767 days
  8. €123.453 days
  9. €93.951 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €40.26.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 207 percent. The most expensive point is €123.45, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€123.45€40.261371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Billings to Missoula and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.

The shape of it

452 km

439 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs west.

Who lives at each end

117,11671,022

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

Observed

Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.

The route

BillingsBillingsMissoulaMissoula
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
67% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 33% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 452 km against 439 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Great Falls. The gap between arriving and leaving is 83 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 12 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.

Who runs this route

Missoula is small enough to see in an afternoon, which is easier without the luggage. Storing it is not our business.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Missoula Northern Pacific Railroad Depot

Most of the points near Missoula Northern Pacific Railroad Depot open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Questions about Billings to Missoula

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 it take to get from Billings to Missoula?

The fastest journey from Billings to Missoula takes 4h 9m door to door, of which 59m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 4h 12m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Billings to Missoula?

The cheapest fare from Billings to Missoula is €42.03, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €70.06. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Billings to Missoula?

The cheapest way from Billings to Missoula is by flight, at €50.88 for one passenger on October 5, 2026. That journey takes 4h 9m 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.

When should I book Billings to Missoula?

Fares from Billings to Missoula bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €40.26. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 207 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Billings to Missoula?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Billings to Missoula, at €50.88. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 14, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Billings to Missoula?

December is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Billings to Missoula, at €44.39 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.

Who runs service from Billings to Missoula?

1 operators sell services from Billings to Missoula across 1 mode: Alpine Air Express. 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.

Is there a direct service from Billings to Missoula?

67 percent of the services we sell from Billings to Missoula are direct. The rest connect at Great Falls, with about 83 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Billings to Missoula use?

Services from Billings to Missoula by flight leave from Billings BIL and arrive at Missoula MSO. Allow about 3h 10m 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.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Billings to Missoula?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Billings to Missoula 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.

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 shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

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, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Billings to Missoula on September 14, 2026: 452 km of route against 439 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €42.03, and 4h 9m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Missoula is somebody else's catalog.

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Day trips out of Missoula and across United States

Day trips that leave Missoula in the morning and cover a good part of United States by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Billings reaches 16 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 197 to 1,724 km. Missoula reaches 11 places in 1 countries, from 215 to 2,156 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Billings

  • 16Places you can leave for
  • 1Countries
  • 7Operators

Arriving in Missoula

Leaving Missoula

  • 11Places you can leave for
  • 1Countries
  • 8Operators

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