Seville to Carmona Bus: Stops, Fares and Day-Trip Times (2026)

Featured image: Puerta de Sevilla in Carmona, photographed in 2011. Daniel VILLAFRUELA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized and converted to WebP.

Seville to Carmona Bus: Which M-124 Service to Use

Take CASAL's M-124 for a no-change journey between Seville and Carmona. There is no direct passenger train to Carmona town. Start with the ordinary M-124 timetable, which includes weekday, Saturday and Sunday/holiday journeys in both directions. Its main Seville stop is San Bernardo, also described as Viapol. Carmona's useful central endpoint is Paseo del Estatuto.

Do not confuse a website's internal line number with the entire public service. The Directo listing, internal number 1243, is one weekday return variant, not the whole M-124 network. The Aerópolis variant has additional journeys. A separate Prado–Carmona–La Campana variant starts at Prado de San Sebastián. Reading only one of these pages can hide valid options on the others.

The practical choice is usually a morning departure that gives enough time for your preferred monument and a return with some margin. A faster bus late in the day is not necessarily a better day-trip option. Save the service name, stop and day code with each time; a screenshot containing only a departure number is easy to misread when you are ready to leave.

Where to Board in Seville and Arrive in Carmona

For the ordinary morning journeys in this guide, go to the street-level Viapol/San Bernardo bus stop, not a railway platform or the Plaza de Armas terminal. The shared name covers several transport modes: the Metro entrance in the photograph is an orientation landmark, not the M-124 boarding bay. Use the Consortium itinerary to identify the bus stop and check the Carmona destination with the driver. Our Seville public-transport guide explains the local connections.

Some M-124 departures instead originate at Prado de San Sebastián. The council's winter 2026–2027 La Campana timetable confirms these separate Prado departures. Do not move your morning plan to Prado simply because a search result calls this a bus-station route. The Seville bus-station guide helps distinguish Prado from Plaza de Armas.

In Carmona, remain aboard to Paseo del Estatuto if that is the endpoint in your chosen timetable. There is also a column labelled only Carmona before this stop; its earlier time is not the Paseo del Estatuto arrival. Before walking away, locate the Seville-bound return stop and photograph its sign. That small check is easier on arrival than at the end of the visit with a bus nearly due.

Allow extra time to find the Seville curb and keep your luggage modest. The route examples exclude the journey from your accommodation and the walk into Carmona's old town. If you are changing from another service, plan a buffer rather than treating its scheduled arrival as your M-124 departure time.

Weekday and Weekend Timetable Examples

The following are selected same-day pairings, not a complete timetable or a promise that every date operates identically. All outward examples depart San Bernardo/Viapol and finish at Paseo del Estatuto; return examples reverse those endpoints. Times are local. LV means Monday–Friday, SA Saturday and DF Sundays/public holidays; check the date-specific selection when a holiday falls on a weekday.

The ordinary journeys shown take 73 minutes outward and 71 minutes back. The weekday Directo return below takes 56 minutes. These are scheduled endpoint times, not traffic guarantees. Read the column headings rather than relying on translated labels such as departure/arrival or ida/vuelta.

A Saturday plan leaves a generous sightseeing interval; the Sunday example is shorter. For either, decide in advance what you would skip if the outward bus is delayed. Do not build a non-refundable onward connection around arriving back at the exact published minute.

Return Buses: Avoid the False Midday Gap

The Directo page has a gap between its 09:00 and 13:30 weekday departures, but that does not mean there are no buses from Carmona in between. The ordinary timetable includes 10:00, 11:00 and 12:00 returns. The useful lesson is to compare the variants, not to treat a blank period on one page as a network-wide suspension.

Likewise, 16:45 is not the last weekday return across M-124. The Aerópolis schedule includes a 21:00 departure from Paseo del Estatuto reaching San Bernardo at 22:12. This is an example showing that later travel exists, not a recommendation to rely on the last available bus. The full date-specific listings should determine your main and backup choices.

Save two suitable returns before leaving Seville, including which timetable each belongs to. Allow an editorial planning margin of about 15 minutes at the Carmona stop. If lunch runs late, check the actual next service before ordering another course; do not assume a regular interval. If a disruption removes your planned return, contact the operator and reassess before continuing farther from town.

Even a short bus journey can make a poor connection with an evening train or flight when the timings are tight. On a travel day, a shorter visit in Seville may be the more comfortable choice. This guide does not promise reserved seats, guaranteed connections or a replacement taxi at a fixed fare.

Fares: €3 Single or a Discounted Consorcio Card

For Seville zone A to Carmona town zone E, use the four-salto fare in the Consortium zone matrix. The official metropolitan-bus tariff lists €3.00 for a single and €1.38 with the Consorcio transport card during the 1 January–31 December 2026 discount period. The undiscounted card tariff is €2.30; do not project the temporary reduction into a later year.

Two adult singles therefore cost €6.00. With an existing card, two €1.38 deductions total €2.76. Neither figure includes travel to San Bernardo, food or monument entry. Do not substitute a TUSSAM tourist pass for the regional card just because both are sold for transport around Seville.

Buying a new card involves more cash upfront: current Spanish Consorcio conditions specify a €1.50 non-refundable administration charge and at least €5 of credit. That is €6.50 initially. After this round trip, €2.24 remains on the card; it is usable credit, not a promised cash refund. For a single outing with no further card use, paying two singles requires less initial cash.

Obtain or load the Consorcio card at an authorised sales point before travel and confirm that it is configured for the intended journey. For ticketing or payment-method questions, contact CASAL on +34 954 999 290. CASAL is the operator here; an ALSA checkout is not the source for buying this M-124 service. Keep small-denomination cash as a backup, without assuming every vehicle accepts a bank card. Our transport-card comparison separates the products.

A Realistic Half-Day or Longer Carmona Visit

The weekday pairing above gives about five hours in Carmona before boarding back; the Saturday pairing gives more than six. The Sunday pairing gives just under four. Those intervals include the walks to and from the stop, entry queues, breaks and lunch. They are not uninterrupted sightseeing time. Choose one main attraction first, then fit the old-town walk around it.

From Paseo del Estatuto, use San Pedro and Puerta de Sevilla as orientation landmarks on the approach to the historic centre, with Plaza de San Fernando as a natural place to pause. Use a current walking map for the actual streets and your access needs; the embedded map locates the arrival area, not a surveyed step-free route. This guide avoids presenting an unmeasured walking distance as a guaranteed ten-minute transfer.

For a history-focused visit, check the necropolis opening before deciding the order. In summer it is an early-closing attraction, so going there before a leisurely lunch makes more sense than leaving it as an afternoon extra. For a simple old-town day, you can keep the necropolis out of the plan and spend more time around the gate and central streets.

Treat the plan as flexible rather than a checklist. Leave time for shade, water and a seated break, particularly on a warm day. Comfortable shoes matter more than squeezing in another stop. Save the return stop offline and set an alarm early enough to walk back without rushing; the planning buffer belongs at the stop, not at the far end of the historic centre.

Puerta de Sevilla and the Roman Necropolis

The tourism office’s monument sheet, updated September 2026 lists Puerta de Sevilla's Alcázar at €2 for an adult, free on Mondays. Its listed hours are 10:00–18:00 Monday–Saturday and 10:00–15:00 Sunday, with last entry half an hour before closing. The tourist office is there too. Confirm holiday arrangements or short-notice changes with the office on +34 954 190 955.

The archaeological complex’s own visitor page gives the necropolis address as Avenida de Jorge Bonsor 9. Entry is free for EU citizens with identification; other visitors pay €1.50. Individual visits do not normally need a reservation. From 21 June–20 September it opens 09:00–15:00 Tuesday–Sunday; from 21 September the Tuesday–Saturday closing extends to 18:00. Sundays still close at 15:00. Ordinary Mondays are closed, with specified holiday exceptions.

The tourism sheet simplifies necropolis admission to free and gives an earlier entry cutoff than the site's own closing notes. Use the attraction's citizenship-based price and call +34 600 143 632 if arriving near closing. Our recommendation is to begin a summer visit before 14:00, not to treat a published closing time as guaranteed last admission. Stay on marked routes and ask staff which areas are open; a site photograph is not evidence that every chamber is accessible.

The optional video offers visual orientation to Carmona, not proof of today's bus schedule or ticket prices. The fortress and necropolis photographs are historical views with credited dates. They help identify the places but do not establish current scaffolding, access arrangements or the condition of every path.

Accessibility, Bags and Checks Before Leaving

The Consortium's M-124 variant listings checked for this guide mark the lines as not adapted for passengers with reduced mobility. Do not infer wheelchair access from an accessible Metro station nearby. Ask CASAL about the exact journey, boarding arrangement and any workable alternative before setting out. This is not a verified step-free journey from Seville accommodation through the Carmona sights.

The archaeological complex also restricts bulky belongings and pushchairs inside its visitor route, directing them to storage or designated areas. Families should ask how that works for their equipment rather than arriving with a large stroller and assuming it can go everywhere. Confirm monument access separately from bus access: solving one does not establish the other.

Before leaving, check the day's M-124 service and any alerts, your boarding stop, the return and backup time, the fare or card balance, and the opening of the one attraction you most want to see. Download the relevant pages if you will depend on mobile data. If any essential access or operating detail remains uncertain, resolve it with the operator or attraction before committing to the trip.

None of the timetables here is a seat reservation or a guarantee against disruption. Keep original ticket or card-validation evidence and follow instructions on the actual service. When travelling with another person, agree on the stop and return time together so one missed message does not split the group.

When Another Seville Day Trip Fits Better

Choose Carmona when a compact historic-town visit interests you more than a long-distance excursion. If you specifically want rail travel, compare the Seville day-trip overview and the Córdoba train guide or Cádiz train guide. Compare the actual station, journey and return for your date rather than assuming every destination has the same flexibility.

The Osuna train guide and Huelva train guide offer other routes to investigate. For a different bus excursion, see the Ronda bus guide or Sanlúcar de Barrameda bus guide. Their operators, ticket products and travel times need separate checks: Carmona's M-124 fare should not be applied to those routes.

Keep the decision focused on the day you have available. A destination can be attractive yet unsuitable for a late start, an early onward connection or a particular mobility need. Selecting fewer stops and a practical return is a better basis for this outing than choosing whichever town has the shortest advertised journey.