Buses in France
4,820 routes and 20 operators Fares below are the cheapest we currently sell on each.

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Fares and seats move by the day. Pick the two ends and a date, and a journey in France is priced by the same engine that filled the table below.
We sell 4,820 Buses routes in France, serving 233 places through 20 operators. 2,092 of those routes cross a border. The cheapest fare is £8.63 and the median route runs 395 km.
Buses in France, in numbers
- £8.63 to £12.88Fare range
- 10:10 to 11:12First and last departure
- 4,820Routes we sell
- 233Places served
- 20Operators
- 2,728Domestic routes
- 2,092Cross border routes
- 395 kmMedian route
- 1,768 kmLongest route
£8.63 to £12.88 for one passenger across the 32 routes priced below, all of them on 25 October 2026. A single figure hides which end of that a journey sits at. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.
What the operators filed inside France on 12 October 2026, taken from the busiest routes we sell there. Real times, and a fare only where an operator published one.
Departures on 12 October 2026
Real departures, filed by the operators themselves. Times only, no fares.
10:1012:522h 42m
FlixBus N1138FlixBus-eu2 changes
Marseille (Saint-Charles) → Gare de Nice-Ville
Book with FlixBus-eu10:1012:472h 37m
FRTrenitalia1 change
Marseille-St-Charles → Montpellier Saint-Roch
Trenitalia timetable10:1211:251h 13m
TGV INOUI 7026SNCF VOYAGEURS1 change
Lille Europe → Saint-Michel Notre-Dame
Book with RER10:1212:252h 13m
TER 876408ZOU ! TER2 changes
Montpellier Saint-Roch → Marseille Saint-Charles
ZOU ! TER timetable10:1813:042h 46m
TGV INOUI 6805SNCF VOYAGEURSDirect
Marseille Saint-Charles → Nice-Ville
10:1912:472h 28m
TGV INOUI 6850SNCF VOYAGEURS2 changes
Marseille Saint-Charles → Montpellier Saint-Roch
ZOU ! TER timetable10:2212:191h 57m
TGV INOUI 7516SNCF VOYAGEURS1 change
Lille Europe → Saint-Michel Notre-Dame
Book with RER10:2413:032h 39m
TER 17476ZOU ! IntermétropoleDirect
Gare de Nice-Ville → Marseille-Saint-Charles
ZOU ! Intermétropole timetable10:2412:161h 52m
TER 17476ZOU ! IntermétropoleDirect
Gare de Nice-Ville → Toulon
ZOU ! Intermétropole timetable10:4412:381h 54m
TER 17475ZOU ! IntermétropoleDirect
Toulon → Gare de Nice-Ville
ZOU ! Intermétropole timetable10:5912:361h 37m
IC 4655SNCF VOYAGEURSDirect
Montpellier Saint-Roch → Marseille Saint-Charles
11:1213:041h 52m
TGV INOUI 6805SNCF VOYAGEURSDirect
Toulon → Nice-Ville
The busiest Buses routes in France
12Go fares in France
These are 12Go's own figures: the routes they sell most, and the lowest fare each is showing today.
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How far people travel to get here
| Distance | Routes | Share | Nearest of them |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 200 km | 888 | 18% | Cannes, 26 km |
| 200 to 600 km | 2,592 | 54% | Avignon, 200 km |
| 600 to 1,500 km | 1,304 | 27% | Marseille, 601 km |
| Over 1,500 km | 36 | 1% | Marseille, 1528 km |
Where France connects to
| Country | Routes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 516 | 25% |
| Spain | 368 | 18% |
| Germany | 336 | 16% |
| Switzerland | 180 | 9% |
| Belgium | 116 | 6% |
| Austria | 100 | 5% |
| Netherlands | 96 | 5% |
| Portugal | 68 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 60 | 3% |
| Poland | 48 | 2% |
| Hungary | 44 | 2% |
| Czechia | 28 | 1% |
| Croatia | 28 | 1% |
| Slovenia | 28 | 1% |
| Luxembourg | 20 | 1% |
| Slovakia | 12 | 1% |
| Albania | 8 | 0% |
| Bulgaria | 8 | 0% |
| Romania | 8 | 0% |
| Andorra | 4 | 0% |
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Common questions about Buses in France
What Buses routes are there in France?
We sell 4,820 Buses routes in France, serving 233 places run by 20 operators Every one of those routes has an operator that actually serves it, so the count is the network we can sell rather than every pair of places on a map.
How much do Buses tickets in France cost?
The cheapest Buses fare in France is £8.63 for one passenger, across the 4,820 routes we sell there. The median route runs 395 km in a straight line, which is the distance that fare should be read against before comparing it to anywhere else.
Can I travel out of France by Buses?
2,092 of the Buses routes we sell touching France cross a border and 2,728 stay inside it, reaching 24 other countries including Italy, Spain, Germany. Cross border routes are usually the ones where the fare and the journey time differ most between operators.
Which operators run Buses services in France?
20 operators run Buses services on routes we sell in France: Aléop, BlaBlaCar, Ecov, FlixBus, IDFM. Each is a real carrier from the published operator catalogue, and each has its own fares and conditions. The operator table on this page compares them on speed, flexibility and what is on board.
What is the longest Buses route in France?
The longest Buses route we sell touching France runs from Paris to Suceava, 1,768 km in a straight line. The median route in the country is 395 km, so this one is a considerable outlier and the fares on it behave differently from the rest.
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.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
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