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Makati City to Tacloban City

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Makati City to Tacloban City. From €29.33, fastest 9h 15m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Makati City to Tacloban City runs about 4 times a day, with the first departure around 06:37 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €29.33, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 9h 15m over 651 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked September 17, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €29.33, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for October 5, 2026

€29.33

  • 138%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Makati City

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.

  • 06:37First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 4Services per day
  • 25%Run direct

Philtranco Service Enterprises runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Bookaway lists departures for Makati City to Tacloban City 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 €64.53Fri18
  2. about €63.98Sat19
  3. about €67.28Sun20
  4. about €43.63Mon21
  5. about €46.38Tue22
  6. about €52.43Wed23
  7. about €47.48Thu24
  8. about €48.57Fri25
  9. about €45.83Sat26
  10. about €50.22Sun27
  11. about €41.98Mon28
  12. about €37.03Tue29
  13. about €40.88Wed30
  14. about €35.38Thu1
  15. about €41.42Fri2
  16. about €36.48Sat3
  17. about €39.78Sun4
  18. about €29.33Mon5
  19. about €33.73Tue6
  20. about €30.98Wed7
  21. about €36.48Thu8

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 bus gets you into Tacloban City. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Tacloban City for the night the bus gets in

Sort by distance from Tacloban New Bus Terminal and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Makati City to Tacloban City

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

  1. €35.3890 days
  2. €31.5360 days
  3. €28.2345 days
  4. €37.0330 days
  5. €36.4821 days
  6. €35.3814 days
  7. €47.487 days
  8. €67.283 days
  9. €64.531 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €28.23.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 138 percent. The most expensive point is €67.28, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€67.28€28.23137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 45 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Makati City to Tacloban City 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

651 km

566 km as the crow flies, 15% further by the route services take. The bearing runs south-east.

Who lives at each end

510,383259,353

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

How we know

0/2

2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.

The route

Makati CityMakati CityTaclobanTacloban
The journey

What the journey 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 651 km against 566 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Calamba, San Pablo, Batangas, Lucena. The gap between arriving and leaving is 48 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 TAC into Tacloban City 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 Tacloban City

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

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Who runs this route

The bus gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Tacloban New Bus Terminal

Most of the points near Tacloban New Bus Terminal open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Questions about Makati City to Tacloban City

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 Makati City to Tacloban City?

The fastest journey from Makati City to Tacloban City takes 9h 15m door to door, of which 8h 45m is spent moving, on the coach. Most services take around 9h 50m, 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 Makati City to Tacloban City?

The cheapest fare from Makati City to Tacloban City is €29.33, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €43.63. 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 Makati City to Tacloban City?

The cheapest way from Makati City to Tacloban City is by coach, at €29.33 for one passenger on October 5, 2026. That journey takes 9h 29m 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 Makati City to Tacloban City?

Fares from Makati City to Tacloban City bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €28.23. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 138 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Makati City to Tacloban City?

Thursday is the cheapest day to depart from Makati City to Tacloban City, at €36.48. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 17, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Makati City to Tacloban City?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Makati City to Tacloban City, at €27.13 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 Makati City to Tacloban City?

No operator record names Makati City to Tacloban City directly. Philtranco Service Enterprises publish service areas covering both ends and may serve it, so we list them as possible operators rather than confirmed ones.

Is there a direct service from Makati City to Tacloban City?

20 percent of the services we sell from Makati City to Tacloban City are direct. The rest connect at Calamba, San Pablo, Batangas, Lucena, with about 48 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 Makati City to Tacloban City use?

Services from Makati City to Tacloban City by coach leave from Buendia and arrive at Tacloban New Bus Terminal. 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.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Makati City to Tacloban City?

1 of the 1 operators we sell from Makati City to Tacloban City 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.

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.

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 Makati City to Tacloban City on September 17, 2026: 651 km of route against 566 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €29.33, and 9h 15m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Being on the water gives Tacloban City a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Tacloban City and across Philippines

Day trips that leave Tacloban City in the morning and cover a good part of Philippines by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Makati City reaches 31 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 40 to 970 km. Tacloban City reaches 21 places in 1 countries, from 51 to 574 km.

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Leaving Makati City

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  • 35Operators

Arriving in Tacloban City

Leaving Tacloban City

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  • 1Countries
  • 7Operators

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