Buses across Central Europe

NaN routes and 36 operators across 7 countries Fares and travel times below come from the same engine that answers the search box.

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15,440 Buses routes run across Central Europe, reaching 214 places in 7 countries through 36 operators On the 16 busiest of them, priced on October 6, 2026, the cheapest fare is €10.07 and the fastest trip is 1h 42m door to door. A median route runs 276 km.

Checked October 6, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

The network

Buses in Central Europe, in numbers

What we actually sell, counted rather than claimed.

  • 15,440Routes we sell
  • 3,860Corridors
  • 214Places served
  • 7Countries
  • 36Operators
  • 6,924Domestic routes
  • 3,500Cross border routes
  • 5,016Routes out of the region
  • 276 kmMedian route
  • 1,484 kmLongest route
Door to door

How the modes compare across Central Europe

Every mode measured on the same 16 corridors in Central Europe, priced on October 6, 2026 for one passenger.

Median fare, median door-to-door time and median carbon per passenger, over the corridors of Central Europe where each mode runs.
ModeCorridors pricedFromDoor to doorCO2
Coach16€10.353h 3m4.6 kg
Train16€18.771h 59m5.6 kg
Flight2€38.494h 1m81.2 kg
Routes

The corridors that matter in Central Europe

Ranked by how much service actually runs, then priced. The country and city pages carry the rest.

The busiest routes we sell in Central Europe, priced on October 6, 2026 for one passenger with every fee included.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Karlsruhe to Stuttgart bus€10.071h 45m62 km
Győr to Budapest bus€10.072h 25m107 km
Frankfurt am Main to Cologne bus€10.072h 49m153 km
Bonn to Düsseldorf bus€10.071h 42m59 km
Leipzig to Dresden bus€10.072h 20m101 km
Mannheim to Frankfurt am Main bus€10.071h 53m71 km
Münster to Bielefeld bus€10.071h 47m63 km
Münster to Cologne bus€10.072h 40m124 km
Újbuda to Pécs bus€10.633h 19m167 km
Bielefeld to Cologne bus€10.633h 17m164 km
Essen to Frankfurt am Main bus€11.183h 38m190 km
Hanover to Düsseldorf bus€13.384h 23m240 km
Karlsruhe to Munich bus€13.934h 37m253 km
Duisburg to Stuttgart bus€17.785h 54m341 km
Leipzig to Munich bus€18.336h 10m361 km
Hanover to Munich bus€21.087h 7m489 km
Countries

Countries in Central Europe

Every country in Central Europe we sell in, most routes first.

Routes, places and carriers in each country of Central Europe.
CountryRoutesPlacesOperators
Germany6,46012919
Poland3,056871
Hungary2,9207412
Austria2,9121003
Czechia1,812934
Slovakia1,280968
Switzerland500382
Booking window

When to book in Central Europe

The same search run at seven lead times across 3 corridors in Central Europe.

  1. €10.073 days
  2. €10.077 days
  3. €10.0721 days
  4. €10.0745 days
  5. €10.0784 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 3 days ahead, at €10.07.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 0 percent. The most expensive point is €10.07, 3 days out.
Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Every origin we sell by Buses, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km5,16833%Bydgoszcz, 41 km
200 to 600 km8,62856%Bielefeld, 200 km
600 to 1,500 km1,64411%Padua, 600 km
Carriers

Bus operators

The carriers with the largest networks inside Central Europe.

Bus destinations

Other ways to travel across Central Europe

Common questions about Buses across Central Europe

How many Buses routes does Orlero sell across Central Europe?

15,440 of them, across 7 countries reaching 214 places through 36 operators

How much does travelling by Buses cost in Central Europe?

On the 16 busiest Buses corridors in Central Europe, priced on October 6, 2026, the lowest fare is €10.07 and the median is €10.35.

Is Buses the fastest way across Central Europe?

On the corridors we priced, coach takes a median of 3h 3m door to door, against 1h 59m by Train. Both figures include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the other end.

Which countries in Central Europe have Buses routes we sell?

Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Switzerland.

Who runs the Buses services in Central Europe?

FlixBus, BlaBlaCar, Fudeks, NVBW, bodo Verkehrsverbund, VPE, among 36 carriers we sell across Central Europe.

How far apart are the places we sell in Central Europe?

The median route runs 276 km in a straight line and the shortest is 41 km. The longest we sell is 1,484 km, from Madrid to Munich.

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.

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

Regions
A region is a set of countries, and a route counts for it when either end is inside it. Countries are grouped from their ISO code alone, so the map grows with the data and nothing here is drawn by hand.
The sample
Fares, travel times and carbon are measured on the 16 highest ranked corridors in this region, spread across it rather than taken from the top, so the figures describe the region and not its busiest country.
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