--- title: "Samarkand to Bukhara – 2 ways by car, taxi | Mixroutes" description: "Samarkand to Bukhara is 217 km. Fastest: undefined in 0 min. Cheapest: undefined from –. Real timetables, prices labelled live, quoted or estimated." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/samarkand-to-bukhara" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/samarkand-to-bukhara.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- # How to get from Samarkand to Bukhara [Plan it for your day](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Samarkand&to=Bukhara) [Bukhara to Samarkand](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bukhara-to-samarkand) **Fastest:** –\ \ **Cheapest:** –\ \ **Distance:** 217 km\ as the crow flies\ **Departures today:** 0\ 2 ways, Thu 29 Oct\ ## 2 ways to travel 217 km apart. Times are the timetables for Thu 29 Oct, 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$540 cheaper than a cab and about as quick. - [**Drive** best 4h 17m$24–33 Estimated 302 km · fuel only](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Samarkand&to=Bukhara) - [**Taxi** 4h 17m$485–660 Estimated one-way cab](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Samarkand&to=Bukhara) 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) ## 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 Samarkand to Bukhara? The fastest way is by car: about 4h 17m door to door. The straight-line distance is 217 km. What is the cheapest way from Samarkand to Bukhara? Drive is the cheapest, from $24. That figure is an estimate from the operator's fare bands, not a live quote. How far is Bukhara from Samarkand by road? About 302 km, roughly 4h 17m of driving in normal traffic. Fuel alone costs around $24–33; tolls and parking are extra. ## In Bukhara City in southeastern Uzbekistan Bukhara is the seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan by population, with 305,500 residents as of 2026. It is the capital of Bukhara Region. Since ancient times, Bukhara was one of the most prosperous cities in Transoxiana alongside neighbouring Samarkand owing to its location on Silk Road. Today its historic core is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [The Bukhara guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/bukhara) Worth your time - Synagogue There's been a substantial Jewish community in Bukhara since the 8th century. - Magok-i-Attari Mosque The oldest surviving mosque building in Central Asia, dating back to the 800s, reconstructed in the 1500s and now a carpet museum. - Khoja Gaukushan A complex similar to Lyab-i Hauz built in 1570, with a mosque, medressah and hauz. - Toqi Telpak Furushon This one was the bazaar of the cap-makers. From Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA) [Hotels in Bukhara 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/samarkand-to-bukhara, 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