Cheapest€73.88
- Expresso Guanabara EG966706:2425h 10m07:34Terminal Rodoviário de BelémIstmo do Recife
Door to door 25h 54mCO2 45.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Belém to Recife bus
Buses from Belém to Recife start at €78.83 and take 23h 17m at their fastest.
The Buses from Belém to Recife starts at €78.83 and takes 23h 17m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,678 km, with around 7 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 23h 17mDoor to door
- 22h 33mMoving
- €78.83From
- 45.3 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 30 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expresso Guanabara | €73.88 | 22h 31m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
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Rooms within reach of Recife Central Station
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When to book Belém to Recife
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €74.4390 days
- €62.8860 days
- €71.1345 days
- €68.9330 days
- €73.8821 days
- €78.8314 days
- €96.987 days
- €137.683 days
- €189.931 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €62.88.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 202 percent. The dearest point is €189.93, 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.
- €120.08Sun
- €85.98Mon
- €103.58Tue
- €78.83Wed
- €119.53Thu
- €124.48Fri
- €132.18Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Belém
Coach
- Terminal Rodoviário de Belém
- Terminal da Ufra
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
- 56% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 44% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 1,678 km against 1,678 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Miranda do Norte, Sousa, Santa Luzia do Paruá, Zé Doca. The gap between arriving and leaving is 56 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 Belém at 06:24 and the last at 17:33, across 7 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Buses against the other ways to make this journey
The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 5h 49m | 2h 39m | 3h 10m | €170.65 | 425.1 kg | 2 |
| Coach | 23h 17m | 22h 33m | 44m | €78.83 | 45.3 kg | 7 |
Questions about Belém 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 Belém to Recife take?
The Coach from Belém to Recife takes 23h 17m door to door, of which 22h 33m is spent moving. The route runs 1,678 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 Belém to Recife cost?
The Coach from Belém to Recife starts at €78.83 for one passenger, checked on 30 September 2026. A typical fare is €90.38. 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 Belém to Recife?
1 operators run the Coach from Belém to Recife: Expresso Guanabara. Between them they file around 7 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 Belém to Recife use?
The Coach from Belém to Recife leaves from Terminal Rodoviário de Belém 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.
Is the Coach the best way from Belém to Recife?
Travelling from Belém to Recife by Flight costs €170.65 and takes 5h 49m door to door, against 23h 17m by Coach. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
When should I book the Coach from Belém to Recife?
Fares for the Coach from Belém to Recife bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €62.88. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 202 percent, measured on 30 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Belém to Recife produce?
The Coach from Belém to Recife produces about 45.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1678 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 Belém to Recife?
Operators on the Coach from Belém to Recife publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 23h 17m 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 Belém to Recife on 9 September 2026: 1678 km of route against 1678 km in a straight line, 7 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €78.83, and 23h 17m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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