--- title: "Cardiff to Lyme Regis – 2 ways by car, taxi | Mixroutes" description: "Cardiff to Lyme Regis is 86 km. Fastest: undefined in 0 min. Cheapest: undefined from –. Real timetables, prices labelled live, quoted or estimated." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-lyme-regis" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-lyme-regis.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- # How to get from Cardiff to Lyme Regis [Plan it for your day](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Lyme+Regis) [Lyme Regis to Cardiff](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/lyme-regis-to-cardiff) **Fastest:** –\ \ **Cheapest:** –\ \ **Distance:** 86 km\ as the crow flies\ **Departures today:** 0\ 2 ways, Tue 3 Nov\ ## 2 ways to travel 86 km apart. Times are the timetables for Tue 3 Nov, planned from 08:00; every price says whether it is live, the operator's fare or our estimate. We add nothing to any fare. best£260 cheaper than a cab and about as quick. - [**Drive** best 2h 23m£15–20 Estimated 164 km · fuel only](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Lyme+Regis) - [**Taxi** 2h 23m£230–330 Estimated one-way cab](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Lyme+Regis) Data: [Roads © OpenStreetMap contributors, routed by OSRM](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) · [Places from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · [All credits and licences](https://www.mixroutes.com/credits) ## Before you go Borders, permits, official travel advice and disaster alerts for the places on this route, as their sources publish them. Entry rules are shown for a passport from United Kingdom; the planner lets you pick yours. - **Exercise increased caution in United Kingdom** [US](https://travel.state.gov/content/tsg_aem/us/en/home/international-travel/travel-advisories/destination.gbr.html) Travel advice: US State Department. ## Departures today Timetable data via Transitous and the operators' own GTFS feeds. Live delays arrive when an operator publishes a real-time feed. ## Questions people ask How long does it take to get from Cardiff to Lyme Regis? The fastest way is by car: about 2h 23m door to door. The straight-line distance is 86 km. What is the cheapest way from Cardiff to Lyme Regis? Drive is the cheapest, from £15. That figure is an estimate from the operator's fare bands, not a live quote. How far is Lyme Regis from Cardiff by road? About 164 km, roughly 2h 23m of driving in normal traffic. Fuel alone costs around £15–20; tolls and parking are extra. ## In Lyme Regis Coastal town in Dorset, England Lyme Regis is a seaside town in west Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 km) west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the English Channel at the Dorset–Devon border. It has noted fossils in cliffs and beaches on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site and heritage coast. The harbour wall, known as The Cobb, appears in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, the John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and the 1981 film of that name, partly shot in the town. [The Lyme Regis guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/lyme-regis) Worth your time - The Town Mill A fully working watermill, restored and re-opened in 2001; tours available. - Lyme Regis Museum Bridge Street, DT7 3QA, info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk. - Dinosaurland Fossil Museum Coombe Street, DT7 3PY, steve@dinosaurland.co.uk. - Marine Theatre Church St, DT7 3QA, info@marinetheatre.com. From Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA) [Hotels in Lyme Regis Compare prices on Hotels70](https://www.hotels70.com) ## More routes - [Kochi to Bengaluru](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-bengaluru) - [Kochi to Chennai](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-chennai) - [Kochi to Thiruvananthapuram](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-thiruvananthapuram) - [Kochi to Munnar](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-munnar) - [Kochi to Alappuzha](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-alappuzha) - [Kochi to Kozhikode](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-kozhikode) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-lyme-regis, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt