16,909 Reading Buses bus journeys followed to their destination across 71 days, 15 Aug 2026 to 24 Oct 2026. 84% arrived on time by the GB bus standard, and 13% arrived early.
That is about 238 journeys a day, 0.2% of all the bus journeys we followed on the same dates.
Its on-time share is 14 points above the 70% for every operator we followed on those dates. It ranks 3 of 71 operators with a page here.
Few of its buses run off time in either direction: 2% arrived late, and early running is well below the national 25%.
Averaged across every journey, its buses arrived 0.2 min early, against 0.1 min early for all operators on the same dates.
Its best day was Friday, 4 September 2026, 92% on time over 249 journeys, and its worst Monday, 24 August 2026, at 75% over 251.
Reading Buses in numbers
Days covered
71
15 Aug 2026 to 24 Oct 2026
Journeys followed
16,909
0.2% of 8,972,755 on the same dates
…on time
14,257
84.3% · all operators 69.8%
…early
2,251
13.3% · all operators 24.5%
…late
401
2.4% · all operators 5.7%
…of which more than 15 minutes late
33
0.2%
Average arrival
0.2 min early
all operators 0.1 min early
Rank by on-time share
3
of 71 operators with a page
These are the 16,909 Reading Buses journeys we followed to within 250 metres of their last
stop in the urban areas we sample, so they describe its running where we sample rather than on
every route it operates. On time, early and late add up to every journey; "more than 15 minutes
late" is part of late. How bus punctuality is measured and why so many buses arrive early.