Bus timetables

One of the great things about being in Weston-super-Mare is that it's the gateway to so many other interesting places in North Somerset. Many of these towns are accessible by bus.

Bus passes are accepted on the buses with the exception of Welsh bus passes.

Here's the bus timetable for journeys to Sand Bay up until September 3. Here's the bus timetable for journeys to Sand Bay after September 3.

Here's the timetable for the X1 service to Bristol up to September 3. Here's the bus timetable for the X1 service to Bristol via Congresbury and Cleeve and Backwell after September 3.

Here's how you can travel to Clevedon and Portishead by using the X5 bus up until September 3. From September 3, you will be able to catch this X5 Service from Weston to Portishead via Clevedon and Yatton. This is useful for Yatton station and replaces the old X5 which used to go up the M5 Motorway.

If you want to go to Burnham to see the country's shortest pier you will want the number 20 bus which goes via Brean and the Brean Splash centre. Often during the summer this will operate as an open-topped bus service. From September 3 this is the new Number 20 bus service to Burnham via Weston Hospital, Lympsham, and Berrow.

To get to the Helicopter Museum you will want the 51 route which will you drop you just a five-minute walk away. That route is disappearing after September 3 and it is now the 125 for the Helicopter Museum, Locking, Sandford, Churchill and Academy and Wrington from September 3. 

Here is the number 7 service taking in Worle, Milton, Weston, Loxton Road and Haywood Village as of September 3 it has been extended to include Locking Parklands. It also goes close to the Helicopter Museum. Here is the new Number 7 Worle, Milton, Weston, Loxton Road and Haywood Village service to Locking Parklands route from September 3.

If you are heading for foreign shores after September 3 you will want the A3 Weston to Bristol Airport route taking in Worle, Worle station, Congesbury and Cleeve. 

If you want to go to Noah's Ark Zoo Farm or Tyntesfield House you will need to catch two buses. You will need the X5 to Clevedon where you will change onto the X6 service to Bristol 

There is no longer a direct bus service from Weston-super-Mare to Wells.

If you are buzzing around town. The number 3 from Worle to Searle Crescent is being replaced from September 3 by the Number 6 Weston to Worle service and the X1 Weston to Bristol via Marine Parade, Worle, Congresbury and Backwell route.

Other routes which may be of interest are the X8 and X9 Nailsea to Bristol services from September 3.

For people living or staying in Clevedon there's the X6 and X7 service from Clevedon to Bristol.

There is also the new on-demand WESTlink bus service which has been operating from April 2023. To find out more about this WESTlink service click here.

The bright green buses are available to book by an app, website or phone and will be part of the largest on-demand bus scheme in the UK, reconnecting communities and offering many people who are currently without a local service the opportunity to get back on the bus. As part of the trial period, the buses will cost £2 per adult, £1 per child, and concessionary bus passes are accepted. These prices will then be charged at standard commercial service costs, in line with Government guidelines from July. The service will run Monday to Saturday 7am – 7pm. There will not be a service on Sundays and Bank Holidays. Areas currently covered include some of Weston, Nailsea, Clevedon, Portishead, Bristol Airport and Chew Valley.

For more information on bus services in the area click here and to find out how you can get free bus travel in the region for the month of your birthday click here.