Cheapest€26.58
- Expresso Guanabara EG759306:118h 38m14:49Bus StationIstmo do Recife
Door to door 9h 22mCO2 15.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Aracati to Recife bus
Buses from Aracati to Recife start at €31.53 and take 9h at their fastest.
The Buses from Aracati to Recife starts at €31.53 and takes 9h door to door, run by 2 operators over 578 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 9hDoor to door
- 8h 16mMoving
- €31.53From
- 15.6 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Fastest€32.63
- Expresso Guanabara EG411014:538h 16m23:09Bus StationIstmo do Recife
Door to door 9hCO2 15.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Lowest CO2€35.93
- Expresso Guanabara EG884207:306h 18m13:48Bus StationRodoviária Velha de Campina Grande
- Empresa Auto Viação Progresso EA679315:062h 10m17:16Rodoviária Velha de Campina GrandeIstmo do Recife
Changes at Campina Grande, with 78 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 10h 30mCO2 15.1 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest |
|---|---|---|
| Expresso Guanabara | €26.58 | 8h 20m |
| Kandango Transportes e Turismo | €29.33 | 8h 18m |
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Rooms within reach of Recife Central Station
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When to book Aracati to Recife
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €28.7890 days
- €22.7360 days
- €26.5845 days
- €28.7830 days
- €32.6321 days
- €40.3314 days
- €59.037 days
- €64.533 days
- €66.731 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.73.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 194 percent. The dearest point is €66.73, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €38.13Sun
- €33.18Mon
- €31.53Tue
- €33.73Wed
- €40.33Thu
- €41.43Fri
- €38.68Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Aracati
Coach
- Bus Station
- Terminal Rdodviário Assis Nogueira
Recife
Coach
- Istmo do Recife
- TI Recife
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 578 km against 503 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at João Pessoa, Campina Grande, Açu, Mossoró. The gap between arriving and leaving is 52 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Aracati at 06:11 and the last at 14:53, across 8 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Aracati to Recife
The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does the Coach from Aracati to Recife take?
The Coach from Aracati to Recife takes 9h door to door, of which 8h 16m is spent moving. The route runs 578 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Coach from Aracati to Recife cost?
The Coach from Aracati to Recife starts at €31.53 for one passenger, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare is €32.08. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Coach from Aracati to Recife?
2 operators run the Coach from Aracati to Recife: Expresso Guanabara, Kandango Transportes e Turismo. Between them they file around 8 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Coach from Aracati to Recife use?
The Coach from Aracati to Recife leaves from Bus Station and arrives at Istmo do Recife. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
When should I book the Coach from Aracati to Recife?
Fares for the Coach from Aracati to Recife bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.73. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 194 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Aracati to Recife produce?
The Coach from Aracati to Recife produces about 15.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 578 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
What is provided on board the Coach from Aracati to Recife?
Operators on the Coach from Aracati to Recife publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Aracati to Recife on 10 September 2026: 578 km of route against 503 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €31.53, and 9h door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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