Cardiff Bus routes and timetables
Cardiff Bus is a bus network serving Cardiff, Penarth and the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, with 61 bus routes in the current timetable. On weekdays the first bus leaves at 04:51 and the last at 23:32, and 5 routes run every 15 minutes or better. Open a route for the whole day in both directions, with the next bus highlighted.
Your saved Cardiff Bus stops
Timetable change on 22 October 2026. These pages show the current timetable.
Frequent routes
A bus every 15 minutes or better on weekday daytimes.
All other routes
Cardiff Bus route map
Stations, interchanges and hubs
Busiest stops
Cardiff Bus questions
How many routes does Cardiff Bus have?
Cardiff Bus has 61 bus routes in the current timetable, serving Cardiff, Penarth and the Vale of Glamorgan. 5 of them run every 15 minutes or better on weekday daytimes: Route 9, Route 17, Route 18, Route 27, Route 61.
What time do Cardiff Bus buses start and stop?
On a weekday the earliest route starts at 04:51 and the last bus leaves at 23:32. Each route page lists its own first and last bus for every day.
Does Cardiff Bus run on Sundays?
38 of the 61 routes run on Sundays. The others do not; their pages say which days they run.
Is there a Cardiff Bus route map?
Yes. Open the map on this page to see every route, and open a route to see its stops on the map.
Where do the Cardiff Bus times come from?
From the open timetable data published by Cardiff Bus, refreshed 4 October 2026. These are scheduled times, not live arrivals.
Source: Cardiff Bus open data (GTFS schedule for Cardiff Bus), used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Refreshed 4 October 2026. Disruptions and service alerts are published by the operator. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Changes made: times reformatted into timetables and departure lists.