Lyon to Essaouira

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Lyon to Essaouira. From €162.59, fastest 6h 12m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Lyon to Essaouira runs about 3 times a day, with the first departure around 06:41 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €172.42 and €181.86, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 6h 12m over 2,083 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

€172.42 to €181.86

  • 128%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Lyon

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.

  • 06:41First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 3Services per day
  • 33%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €305.76Tue15
  2. about €335.26Wed16
  3. about €362.40Thu17
  4. about €338.59Fri18
  5. about €341.34Sat19
  6. about €318.79Sun20
  7. about €219.24Mon21
  8. about €221.39Tue22
  9. about €250.30Wed23
  10. about €302.29Thu24
  11. about €282.49Fri25
  12. about €291.84Sat26
  13. about €238.50Sun27
  14. about €173.04Mon28
  15. about €171.39Tue29
  16. about €215.49Wed30
  17. about €239.09Thu1
  18. about €193.66Fri2
  19. about €211.36Sat3
  20. about €185.99Sun4
  21. about €162.59Mon5

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 Essaouira. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Essaouira for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Lima Bus 1-6 and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Lyon to Essaouira

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

  1. €218.1490 days
  2. €161.8060 days
  3. €213.1945 days
  4. €159.2930 days
  5. €162.5921 days
  6. €173.0414 days
  7. €219.247 days
  8. €362.403 days
  9. €305.761 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €159.29.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 128 percent. The most expensive point is €362.40, 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.
€362.40€159.291371421304560

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

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Lyon to Essaouira and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

1 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.

The shape of it

2,083 km

2,023 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south-west.

Who lives at each end

520,77485,137

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

LyonLyonEssaouiraEssaouira
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
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 2,083 km against 2,023 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 Madrid, Sevilla, Bordeaux, Barcelona. The gap between arriving and leaving is 55 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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.

The fare from ESU into Essaouira is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Essaouira

Settled in advance, so the ride into Essaouira costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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Who runs this route

Essaouira 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 Lima Bus 1-6

Most of the points near Lima Bus 1-6 open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Questions about Lyon to Essaouira

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 Lyon to Essaouira?

The fastest journey from Lyon to Essaouira takes 6h 12m door to door, of which 3h 23m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 6h 27m, 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 Lyon to Essaouira?

The cheapest fare from Lyon to Essaouira is €162.59, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €239.09. 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 Lyon to Essaouira?

The cheapest way from Lyon to Essaouira is by flight, at €181.86 for one passenger on October 5, 2026. That journey takes 6h 33m 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 Lyon to Essaouira?

Fares from Lyon to Essaouira bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €159.29. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 128 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 Lyon to Essaouira?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Lyon to Essaouira, at €173.04. 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 Lyon to Essaouira?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Lyon to Essaouira, at €140.56 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 Lyon to Essaouira?

1 operators sell services from Lyon to Essaouira across 1 mode: easyJet Europe. 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 Lyon to Essaouira?

20 percent of the services we sell from Lyon to Essaouira are direct. The rest connect at Madrid, Sevilla, Bordeaux, Barcelona, with about 55 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 Lyon to Essaouira use?

Services from Lyon to Essaouira by flight leave from Lyon LYS and arrive at Essaouira ESU. 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 Lyon to Essaouira?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Lyon to Essaouira 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 Lyon to Essaouira on September 14, 2026: 2083 km of route against 2023 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €162.59, and 6h 12m 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 Essaouira is somebody else's catalog.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Essaouira and across Morocco

Day trips that leave Essaouira in the morning and cover a good part of Morocco by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Lyon reaches 208 places in 45 countries on services we hold, over distances from 50 to 9,001 km. Essaouira reaches 10 places in 5 countries, from 740 to 2,595 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Lyon

  • 208Places you can leave for
  • 45Countries
  • 74Operators

Arriving in Essaouira

Leaving Essaouira

  • 10Places you can leave for
  • 5Countries
  • 8Operators

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