Brasília to Paulo Afonso bus

Buses from Brasília to Paulo Afonso start at €61.78 and take 22h 38m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Brasília to Paulo Afonso starts at €61.78 and takes 22h 38m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,460 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 16 September 2026Priced for 7 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 22h 38mDoor to door
  • 21h 54mMoving
  • €76.63 to €195.98From
  • 06:04 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 39.4 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 7 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€76.63 to €195.98 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.

Real Expresso runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Brasília to Paulo Afonso on your date, and you pay on their side.

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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 €195.98Thu17
  2. about €161.88Fri18
  3. about €149.23Sat19
  4. about €121.18Sun20
  5. about €108.53Mon21
  6. about €90.93Tue22
  7. about €106.33Wed23
  8. about €118.43Thu24
  9. about €102.48Fri25
  10. about €98.63Sat26
  11. about €86.52Sun27
  12. about €79.38Mon28
  13. about €76.63Tue29
  14. about €77.73Wed30

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 7 October 2026

Cheapest€61.78
  1. Real Expresso RE574606:0421h 54m03:58Antiga Rodoferroviária de BrasíliaTerminal Rodoviário de Paulo Afonso

Door to door 22h 38mCO2 39.4 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€83.22
  1. Expresso São Luiz ES766007:301h 12m08:42Antiga Rodoferroviária de BrasíliaBus Station
  2. Real Expresso RE417009:3718h 34m04:11Bus StationTerminal Rodoviário de Paulo Afonso

Changes at Formosa, with 55 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 21h 25mCO2 39.5 kgChanges 1Changeable 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Real Expresso€61.7819h 41m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Paulo Afonso for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from Terminal Rodoviário de Paulo Afonso and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Brasília to Paulo Afonso

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

  1. €63.4390 days
  2. €57.9360 days
  3. €66.7345 days
  4. €76.6330 days
  5. €61.7821 days
  6. €77.7314 days
  7. €106.337 days
  8. €149.233 days
  9. €195.981 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €57.93.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 238 percent. The dearest point is €195.98, 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.
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. €86.53Sun
  2. €79.38Mon
  3. €76.63Tue
  4. €77.73Wed
  5. €118.43Thu
  6. €102.48Fri
  7. €98.63Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Brasília

Coach
  • Antiga Rodoferroviária de Brasília
  • Terminal da Asa Sul

Paulo Afonso

Coach
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Paulo Afonso
  • Terminal Urbano de Paulo Afonso - BTN
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,460 km against 1,270 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 Posse, Santa Maria da Boa Vista, Formosa, Petrolina. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Brasília at 06:04 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Brasília to Paulo Afonso

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 Brasília to Paulo Afonso take?

The Coach from Brasília to Paulo Afonso takes 22h 38m door to door, of which 21h 54m is spent moving. The route runs 1,460 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 Brasília to Paulo Afonso cost?

The Coach from Brasília to Paulo Afonso starts at €61.78 for one passenger, as of 16 September 2026. A typical fare is €77.73. 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 Brasília to Paulo Afonso?

1 operators run the Coach from Brasília to Paulo Afonso: Real Expresso. Between them they file around 5 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 Brasília to Paulo Afonso use?

The Coach from Brasília to Paulo Afonso leaves from Antiga Rodoferroviária de Brasília and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Paulo Afonso. 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 Brasília to Paulo Afonso?

Fares for the Coach from Brasília to Paulo Afonso bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €57.93. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 238 percent, measured on 16 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Brasília to Paulo Afonso produce?

The Coach from Brasília to Paulo Afonso produces about 39.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1460 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 Brasília to Paulo Afonso?

Operators on the Coach from Brasília to Paulo Afonso publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 22h 38m 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 Brasília to Paulo Afonso on 16 September 2026: 1460 km of route against 1270 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €61.78, and 22h 38m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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