Coimbatore Bus Routes — TNSTC City & Mofussil Services (2026)

Part of the Coimbatore Transport hub.

Quick answer. Coimbatore’s public bus network is operated by TNSTC (Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation), Coimbatore Region, with additional long-distance services from SETC and private operators. City movement inside Coimbatore is on town buses; travel to nearby districts is on mofussil buses from three main terminals — Gandhipuram, Ukkadam and Singanallur. The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation publishes an official town-bus route-number directory with the from/to endpoints of each route; a complete stop-by-stop timetable is not published for every service. This page uses the CCMC directory as the source of route endpoints and adds stop-level information only where it has been separately verified.

Most-searched Coimbatore bus journeys: what the official list shows

These are the route numbers and journeys people search for most often. For each one, the table gives what the Corporation’s directory lists. It publishes only start and end points; it does not publish the stops in between, timings or the last bus.

Source: Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation, Bus Services · checked 28 Sep 2026. Place names are as the directory spells them (it has “lrugur” and “Onidpudur”). Search any number or place in the finder above.

The three main bus stands

Coimbatore’s mofussil (inter-town) network runs from three stands. Each has a different geographic bias — pick the one aligned with where you are going.

The destinations above are general guidance, not an official list. We have not found a TNSTC page that says which stand serves which destination (checked 28 Sep 2026). Services move between stands, so confirm the departure stand when you book on tnstc.in or at the enquiry counter.

Two more useful surfaces at Gandhipuram:

• Government (SETC) bus stand — long-distance and inter-state services.
• Town Bus Stand — the main city-bus terminal for TNSTC town routes such as Route 111 (Gandhipuram loop via Saravanampatti).

Town bus vs mofussil bus — pick the right one

• Town bus (city bus). For movement inside Coimbatore — Gandhipuram to Peelamedu, RS Puram to Ukkadam, Airport to Gandhipuram, and similar. Numbered routes (like 111, 4, 24), frequent through the day, low fares. Boarding is at any stop along the route, not just terminals.
• Mofussil bus. For travel outside Coimbatore to a nearby town or district. Boarding is at one of the three main stands above; fares are distance-based; some services are reserved/booked in advance.
• SETC / long-distance. For Chennai, Bengaluru, Trivandrum-class distances. Book on tnstc.in or at the counter.
• Private operators. Also present, particularly for overnight Bengaluru and Chennai services — booking is via aggregators (redBus and similar) rather than TNSTC.

Verified route pages on this site

Only routes that have their own dedicated, verified page appear here. Adding more requires either an official TNSTC route document or on-the-ground verification of the stop list — we do not add routes from unofficial lists.

If you use another route regularly and would like it added — with landmarks, direction, and a way for other Coimbatore residents to verify — please tell us. We will only publish routes that can be independently verified.

Airport, railway and landmark connections

Common cross-city journeys that don’t fit a single route number:

• Coimbatore Airport (CJB) → Coimbatore Junction railway station. About 11 km by road. No bus on the published lists runs directly between the two. See our airport-to-railway journey guide for taxi, cab, auto and bus options.
• City → Airport. The Airports Authority of India lists a TNSTC Airport to Gandhipuram bus (AAI transport page). In the CCMC directory, route 16 (Town Hall to Airport) is the only route ending at the airport.
• Railway Junction → City. Autos and town buses from the Junction connect to Ukkadam, Gandhipuram and Ram Nagar.

For rail journeys onward — Vande Bharat Express, summer specials between Mangaluru and Coimbatore, and the wider transport hub — see Coimbatore Transport.

How to find current timings for a Coimbatore town bus

The CCMC route-number directory publishes each town route’s from/to endpoints, but neither CCMC nor TNSTC currently publishes a comprehensive stop-by-stop city-bus timetable in a single official document. In practice the most reliable ways to confirm the next bus on your route:

1. Ask at the counter. Both Gandhipuram and Ukkadam counters can confirm frequency and next departure for their routes.
2. Ask on the ground. Regular commuters at the stop typically know the current frequency — the pattern rarely changes between mornings, mid-day and evenings.
3. tnstc.in. Publishes updates for TNSTC services and depots. Useful for long-distance / mofussil bookings and formal notices.
4. IRCTC or aggregator apps. Useful for the private overnight services (not TNSTC town buses).

We do not publish stop-level town-bus timings copied from unofficial lists. They go out of date, and there is no official timetable to check them against.

Live bus tracking in Coimbatore: what exists

We found no official live-tracking service for Coimbatore town buses. This is what the official and third-party services say about themselves, as checked on 28 Sep 2026:

• TNSTC’s official app and tnstc.in are for booking long-distance and SETC tickets. The “Know Your Bus” option on tnstc.in looks up a booked journey by PNR, mobile number or email; it does not show where a bus is.
• Chalo (a private app, not TNSTC) lists Coimbatore under “Live bus tracking” on its iOS App Store page. Its Google Play page does not list Coimbatore. Check the app itself before relying on it.
• Google Maps announced bus travel times from live traffic data for Coimbatore in a 2019 Google India blog post. That is an estimate from traffic, not the bus’s GPS position, and we have not checked how well it works today.

Fares

Town-bus fares in Coimbatore are set by TNSTC and revised periodically by government notification. Fares are distance-based, and mofussil fares depend on the destination. We do not publish specific fare figures on this page unless a current official fare source supports them; the current fare is best confirmed with the conductor on the day.

Report a route correction

Route details in Coimbatore change from time to time — terminals move, spellings drift, new variants appear. If you use a Coimbatore town-bus route regularly and spot something wrong on this page or in the CCMC directory above (a mis-numbered route, a stop that no longer exists, a terminal that has moved, a route the CCMC table is missing), please tell us with the route number, what you saw and the date you observed it. We verify before publishing.

Related Coimbatore transport guides

• Coimbatore Transport hub — the parent hub covering buses, trains, airport, autos, taxis and metro plans.
• Coimbatore Airport to Railway Station journey guide — bus, auto and taxi options for the airport link.
• Vande Bharat Express — long-distance rail alternative for Coimbatore–Chennai and Coimbatore–Bengaluru corridors.

Sources & verification

• Route-number directory (route numbers and from/to endpoints): Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation — Bus Services. We normalize the CCMC directory with a human review pass (place-name spelling, duplicate route numbers, occasional OCR-style errors in the source); raw source values are preserved.
• Operator: TNSTC (Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation), Coimbatore Region — with SETC for long-distance and private operators for select overnight services.
• Bus-stand destinations (Gandhipuram / Ukkadam / Singanallur): no official TNSTC list found as of 28 Sep 2026; the table is general guidance.
• Rail links: Southern Railway.
• Airport link: Airports Authority of India — Coimbatore International Airport (CJB) and its transport page.
• Tracking: TNSTC app listings and tnstc.in, Chalo’s App Store and Google Play listings, and the Google India blog (2019), all checked 28 Sep 2026.
• Last verified: CCMC directory re-checked 28 September 2026 for the routes in the most-searched table; the full finder data was checked 30 August 2026.
• Route numbers, terminals and fares change from time to time. If a fact on this page looks out of date, please tell us and we will re-check the source before updating.