Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Trieste to Palermo. From €41.98, fastest 13h 18m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Trieste to Palermo costs €41.98 at the cheapest and takes 13h 18m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 964 km. Cheapest is by Coach, fastest is by Coach.
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 29, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | 13h 35m | 12h 51m | 44m | €50.78 | 26.0 kg | 3 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Naples, with 57 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 14h 49mCO2 25.1 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Changes at Perugia, with 55 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 6h 41mCO2 153.7 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
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.
| Operator | Service | Departs | Arrives | Takes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TRENITALIA1 changes | IC 594 | 11:27 | 10:51 | 23h 24m |
| TRENITALIA2 changes | RV 3442 | 12:16 | 07:13 | 18h 57m |
| FlixBus-eu4 changes | FlixBus 907 | 14:38 | 07:35 | 16h 57m |
| FlixBus-eu5 changes | FlixBus 907 | 14:38 | 07:15 | 16h 37m |
| TRENITALIA2 changes | RV 3564 | 15:16 | 10:51 | 19h 35m |
| TRENITALIA3 changes | RV 3564 | 15:16 | 09:50 | 18h 34m |
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 Trieste to Palermo | ThuSep 10 | FriSep 11 | SatSep 12 | SunSep 13 | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 | WedSep 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | €115.13 | €103.58 | €92.58 | €70.03 | €62.33 | €59.58 | €79.93 | €71.68 | €65.08 | €67.83 | €57.38 | €50.78 | €65.08 | €62.33 |
| Train | €239.59 | €227.49 | €191.74 | €179.64 | €158.19 | €154.89 | €166.99 | €153.79 | €137.29 | €139.49 | €130.69 | €124.09 | €106.49 | €124.09 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-29 · €41.98
The trip ends at Palermo Centrale. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
The search opens on Palermo with your nights already filled in, so it is one step to a real price.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.
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.
PMO is not in Palermo, and the drive in from it is the part of the trip nobody plans. We sell the flight and stop at the terminal door.
A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 BlaBlaCar | €46.38 | 13h 18m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €35.00 | 83% |
| Taxes | €3.50 | 8% |
| Supplier fees | €1.49 | 4% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 5% |
| Total you pay | €41.98 | 100% |
A day in Palermo hauling a suitcase is a shorter day than it needs to be. We do not store bags.
Priced by the bag and by the day, booked before you get there, and insured while it sits.
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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.
The fastest journey from Trieste to Palermo takes 13h 18m door to door, of which 12h 51m is spent moving, on the Coach. Most services take around 14h 22m, 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 Trieste to Palermo is €41.98, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €65.08. 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 Trieste to Palermo is by Coach, at €50.78 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 13h 35m 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 Trieste to Palermo bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €37.03. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 211 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Trieste to Palermo, at €50.78. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 29, 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 Trieste to Palermo, at €38.68 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 Trieste to Palermo across 1 modes: BlaBlaCar. 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 Trieste to Palermo are direct. The rest connect at Rome, Naples, Perugia, Ancona, with about 45 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Trieste to Palermo by Coach leave from Trieste Autostazione and arrive at Palermo Autostazione. 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 Trieste to Palermo 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.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
The trip is the easy half to plan. The days in Palermo are the half people leave until last.
Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Palermo, with free cancellation on most of it.
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