Data

Travel cost data, free to reuse

The dataset below is built from our own curated route list. It publishes the working (method, sourcing and limits) and comes as CSV and JSON. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Intercity bus fare index

934 intercity bus routes ranked by what the ride costs per 100 km, the only way a 55 km city hop and a 900 km overnight run compare.

The long rides win: on euro routes, an average of €5.64 per 100 km under 300 km against €4.00 above 500 km.

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Withdrawn datasets

We have withdrawn two earlier datasets, The Price of a Plate and the Flight fare index, with their CSV and JSON files. Both were built largely from third-party data that we do not have permission to republish as open data. If you cited them, please stop using those figures.

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How to cite

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WhatWhereVacay. (2026). Intercity Bus Fare Index 2026 [Data set]. https://whatwherevacay.com/data/bus-fares-2026