Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto bus

Buses from Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto start at €19.43 and take 6h 20m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto starts at €19.43 and takes 6h 20m door to door, run by 5 operators over 427 km, with around 20 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6h 20mDoor to door
  • 5h 36mMoving
  • €21.63 to €38.13From
  • 06:11 to 18:36First and last departure
  • 20Per day
  • 11.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 5 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€21.63 to €38.13 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Viacao Motta runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €34.83Mon21
  2. about €34.28Tue22
  3. about €30.98Wed23
  4. about €38.13Thu24
  5. about €35.38Fri25
  6. about €35.38Sat26
  7. about €27.13Sun27
  8. about €23.83Mon28
  9. about €23.28Tue29
  10. about €24.93Wed30
  11. about €28.78Thu1
  12. about €27.13Fri2
  13. about €27.13Sat3
  14. about €21.63Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 5 October 2026

Cheapest€19.43
  1. Viacao Motta VM589710:535h 38m16:31Estação Hospital Belo Horizonte - MOVE MetropolitanoRodoviária

Door to door 6h 22mCO2 11.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastest
Auge Transporte Rodoviario e Turismo€20.536h 20m
Rodoviario Sao Bento€21.086h 20m
Viacao Motta€19.436h 21m
Viação Pássaro Verde€19.436h 19m
VTR Transporte Rodoviário de Passageiros€20.536h 20m

The coach gets you into Ribeirão Preto. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Ribeirão Preto for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €24.3890 days
  2. €19.9860 days
  3. €16.6845 days
  4. €16.6830 days
  5. €21.6321 days
  6. €21.6314 days
  7. €27.137 days
  8. €30.983 days
  9. €34.831 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €16.68.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 109 percent. The dearest point is €34.83, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €21.63Sun
  2. €23.83Mon
  3. €23.28Tue
  4. €24.93Wed
  5. €28.78Thu
  6. €27.13Fri
  7. €27.13Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Belo Horizonte

Coach
  • Estação Hospital Belo Horizonte - MOVE Metropolitano
  • Atalaia

Ribeirão Preto

Coach
  • Rodoviária
  • Mini Rodoviária
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
96% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 4% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 427 km against 427 km in a straight line, a detour of 0 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Araxá. The gap between arriving and leaving is 66 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 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 Belo Horizonte at 06:11 and the last at 18:36, across 20 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Buses against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Flight4h 10m1h3h 10m€41.44108.2 kg4
Coach6h 20m5h 36m44m€19.4311.5 kg20

Questions about Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto

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 Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto take?

The Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto takes 6h 20m door to door, of which 5h 36m is spent moving. The route runs 427 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 Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto cost?

The Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto starts at €19.43 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €22.18. 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 Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto?

5 operators run the Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto: Auge Transporte Rodoviario e Turismo, Rodoviario Sao Bento, Viacao Motta, Viação Pássaro Verde, VTR Transporte Rodoviário de Passageiros. Between them they file around 20 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 Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto use?

The Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto leaves from Estação Hospital Belo Horizonte - MOVE Metropolitano and arrives at Rodoviária. 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 Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto?

Travelling from Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto by Flight costs €41.44 and takes 4h 10m door to door, against 6h 20m 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 Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto?

Fares for the Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €16.68. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 109 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto produce?

The Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto produces about 11.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 427 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 Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto?

Operators on the Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 5 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 20m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Belo Horizonte to Ribeirão Preto on 20 September 2026: 427 km of route against 427 km in a straight line, 20 services a day, 5 operators a cheapest fare of €19.43, and 6h 20m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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