Bus 230 Nice-Sophia Antipolis

Bus info in real time

Route

Since 2017, there are two routes: "Nice Promenade" (regular route) and "Nice Nord" (just 5 buses from Nice in the morning and 5 buses from Sophia in the evening). Within a given route, all buses follow the same path and pass through all the stops (this was not the case until 2017).

Important remarks:

Route map

Note that Google Maps by itself (outside of the custom map linked above) does not have all the stops mapped, particularly in Sophia. The coverage is better on OpenStreetMaps.

Circulation & timetables

Timetable since October 2017 (PDF)

The 230 bus works all year round from Monday to Friday, except bank holidays.

During summer (part of August) and winter (end of December), there are fewer buses (horaires allégés):

Nice Promenade

Nice Nord

If you need to do Sophia-Nice route outside of those times/dates, you can get from Sophia to Antibes by Envibus (most of the lines, e.g. line 1 or 100), leave at Pole d'Echanges Antibes (next to gare SNCF) and take a train to Nice (recommended) or bus 200 (long, slow trips, often crowded, but cheap)to Nice.

Travel time and traffic

Unfortunately the amount of traffic between Nice and Antibes is massive. This leads often to traffic jams and/or accidents. The regular trip time between Nice/Cathedrale Vieille Ville and Gare Routiere Valbonne Sophia Antipolis is ~1h10min in normal days and peak hours, and it can easily reach ~1h30min or more in case of traffic on A8.

Tickets

Detailed info on tickets

Newsletter

You can (and should!) send an email in French to contactazur@keolis.com to ask to get subscribed to a newsletter from the operator of the line. They send emails in case of changes of timetable, perturbations due to special events, strikes etc.

Unofficial social media pages

You can follow the FB page / FB group to stay informed about traffic, perturbations, lost/found items etc.

The FB page is lead by one of the users. Note that the users' posts there are not displayed to the other users immediately on the wall, only once the admin shares the post. Go to `Community` tab to see all the most recent posts.

The FB group is community-driven. New posts are automatically shown on top of the wall to everybody.

Feel invited to post in both places any info that might be useful to the other users.

Lost & found items

Why this page was created

Getting info about the 230 line is not easy (particularly when you're new in the region and you don't speak French).

There are just too many entities involved, with a split responsibility, their names are always changing, their websites are not easy to navigate nor very "googleable", and the content is disappearing, or they do communication only by email.

FYI The entities involved are: Keolis/STCAR - operating the buses, Lignes d'Azur - tickets, Department des Alpes Maritimes (departement06, previously Conseil General/CG06) - timetables, Region Sud (previously Region PACA)...

The idea is to gather all the info that can be useful to both regular and new passengers and put it in one place

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