Buses in France

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

Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile, Paris, France.

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.

Priced for 25 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

The network

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.

  1. 10:1012:522h 42m

    FlixBus N1138FlixBus-eu2 changes

    Marseille (Saint-Charles) → Gare de Nice-Ville

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  2. 10:1012:472h 37m

    FRTrenitalia1 change

    Marseille-St-Charles → Montpellier Saint-Roch

    Trenitalia timetable
  3. 10:1211:251h 13m

    TGV INOUI 7026SNCF VOYAGEURS1 change

    Lille Europe → Saint-Michel Notre-Dame

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  4. 10:1212:252h 13m

    TER 876408ZOU ! TER2 changes

    Montpellier Saint-Roch → Marseille Saint-Charles

    ZOU ! TER timetable
  5. 10:1813:042h 46m

    TGV INOUI 6805SNCF VOYAGEURSDirect

    Marseille Saint-Charles → Nice-Ville

  6. 10:1912:472h 28m

    TGV INOUI 6850SNCF VOYAGEURS2 changes

    Marseille Saint-Charles → Montpellier Saint-Roch

    ZOU ! TER timetable
  7. 10:2212:191h 57m

    TGV INOUI 7516SNCF VOYAGEURS1 change

    Lille Europe → Saint-Michel Notre-Dame

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  8. 10:2413:032h 39m

    TER 17476ZOU ! IntermétropoleDirect

    Gare de Nice-Ville → Marseille-Saint-Charles

    ZOU ! Intermétropole timetable
  9. 10:2412:161h 52m

    TER 17476ZOU ! IntermétropoleDirect

    Gare de Nice-Ville → Toulon

    ZOU ! Intermétropole timetable
  10. 10:4412:381h 54m

    TER 17475ZOU ! IntermétropoleDirect

    Toulon → Gare de Nice-Ville

    ZOU ! Intermétropole timetable
  11. 10:5912:361h 37m

    IC 4655SNCF VOYAGEURSDirect

    Montpellier Saint-Roch → Marseille Saint-Charles

  12. 11:1213:041h 52m

    TGV INOUI 6805SNCF VOYAGEURSDirect

    Toulon → Nice-Ville

Routes

The busiest Buses routes in France

The routes we sell in France, busiest first, priced over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Nantes to Rennes bus£8.632h 7m100 km
Rennes to Nantes bus£8.632h 8m100 km
Cergy-Pontoise to Marne La Vallée bus£8.631h 32m47 km
Marne La Vallée to Cergy-Pontoise bus£8.631h 32m47 km
Nice to Toulon bus£8.632h 29m126 km
Toulon to Nice bus£8.632h 27m126 km
Angers to Nantes bus£8.632h 2m81 km
Nantes to Angers bus£8.632h 2m81 km
Marne La Vallée to Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines bus£8.631h 31m46 km
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to Marne La Vallée bus£8.631h 31m46 km
Marseille to Montpellier bus£8.632h 28m126 km
Montpellier to Marseille bus£8.632h 28m126 km
Grenoble to Lyon bus£8.632h 13m93 km
Lyon to Grenoble bus£8.632h 13m93 km
Marseille to Toulon bus£8.631h 29m48 km
Toulon to Marseille bus£8.631h 44m48 km
Marseille to Nice bus£8.643h 4m159 km
Nice to Marseille bus£8.642h 53m159 km
Le Havre to Paris bus£9.573h 4m178 km
Paris to Le Havre bus£9.573h 8m178 km
Montpellier to Toulon bus£9.573h 6m174 km
Toulon to Montpellier bus£9.573h 5m174 km
Montpellier to Toulouse bus£10.053h 24m196 km
Toulouse to Montpellier bus£10.053h 22m196 km
Lille to Paris bus£10.523h 28m204 km
Paris to Lille bus£10.523h 28m204 km
Lille to Marne La Vallée bus£11.473h 51m202 km
Marne La Vallée to Lille bus£11.473h 50m202 km
Lille to Paris 15 Vaugirard bus£11.943h 55m207 km
Paris 15 Vaugirard to Lille bus£11.943h 54m207 km
Montpellier to Nice bus£12.884h 25m273 km
Nice to Montpellier bus£12.884h 25m273 km

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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Being on the water gives Paris a set of days out that do not start at a station.

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Day trips out of Paris and across France

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

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km88818%Cannes, 26 km
200 to 600 km2,59254%Avignon, 200 km
600 to 1,500 km1,30427%Marseille, 601 km
Over 1,500 km361%Marseille, 1528 km
Across the border

Where France connects to

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
Italy51625%
Spain36818%
Germany33616%
Switzerland1809%
Belgium1166%
Austria1005%
Netherlands965%
Portugal683%
United Kingdom603%
Poland482%
Hungary442%
Czechia281%
Croatia281%
Slovenia281%
Luxembourg201%
Slovakia121%
Albania80%
Bulgaria80%
Romania80%
Andorra40%
Carriers

Bus operators

  • FlixBus
  • BlaBlaCar
  • Région Bretagne
  • Région Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur
  • Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence
  • Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Bus destinations

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.

Defined in full at Catchment, Fares, Distances

Other ways to travel here

The wider region

The coach gets you into Paris. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Paris for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from Paris Gare de Lyon and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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