Campina Grande to Recife bus

Buses from Campina Grande to Recife start at €10.63 and take 2h 49m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Campina Grande to Recife starts at €10.63 and takes 2h 49m door to door, run by 1 operator over 143 km, with around 7 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 2h 49mDoor to door
  • 2h 5mMoving
  • €10.63 to €18.33From
  • 06:17 to 17:23First and last departure
  • 7Per day
  • 3.9 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.

€10.63 to €18.33 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.

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €15.03Tue15
  2. about €18.33Wed16
  3. about €15.03Thu17
  4. about €13.93Fri18
  5. about €14.48Sat19
  6. about €16.68Sun20
  7. about €11.18Mon21
  8. about €10.63Tue22
  9. about €11.18Wed23
  10. about €12.83Thu24
  11. about €14.48Fri25
  12. about €13.93Sat26
  13. about €13.93Sun27
  14. about €10.63Mon28

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€10.07
  1. Empresa Auto Viação Progresso EA520017:232h 6m19:29Rodoviária Velha de Campina GrandeIstmo do Recife

Door to door 2h 50mCO2 3.9 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€10.08
  1. Empresa Auto Viação Progresso EA723306:172h 5m08:22Rodoviária Velha de Campina GrandeIstmo do Recife

Door to door 2h 49mCO2 3.9 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Empresa Auto Viação Progresso€10.072h 40m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Recife for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Campina Grande to Recife

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

  1. €10.0890 days
  2. €10.6360 days
  3. €11.1845 days
  4. €10.0730 days
  5. €10.0721 days
  6. €10.6314 days
  7. €11.187 days
  8. €15.033 days
  9. €15.031 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €10.07.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 49 percent. The dearest point is €15.03, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €13.93Sun
  2. €10.63Mon
  3. €10.63Tue
  4. €11.18Wed
  5. €12.83Thu
  6. €13.93Fri
  7. €13.93Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Campina Grande

Coach
  • Rodoviária Velha de Campina Grande
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Campina Grande

Recife

Coach
  • Istmo do Recife
  • TI Recife
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

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 143 km against 143 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 Currais Novos, União dos Palmares, Caruaru, Maceió. The gap between arriving and leaving is 50 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Campina Grande at 06:17 and the last at 17:23, across 7 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
Coach2h 49m2h 5m44m€10.633.9 kg7
Flight3h 47m37m3h 10m€31.4136.4 kg2

Questions about Campina Grande 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 Campina Grande to Recife take?

The Coach from Campina Grande to Recife takes 2h 49m door to door, of which 2h 5m is spent moving. The route runs 143 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 Campina Grande to Recife cost?

The Coach from Campina Grande to Recife starts at €10.63 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €25.48. 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 Campina Grande to Recife?

1 operators run the Coach from Campina Grande to Recife: Empresa Auto Viação Progresso. 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 Campina Grande to Recife use?

The Coach from Campina Grande to Recife leaves from Rodoviária Velha de Campina Grande 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 Campina Grande to Recife?

The Coach is both the cheapest and the fastest way from Campina Grande to Recife, at €10.63 and 2h 49m door to door, against 1 other modes that also run the corridor. On this route there is no trade to make between the money and the hours.

When should I book the Coach from Campina Grande to Recife?

Fares for the Coach from Campina Grande to Recife bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €10.07. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 49 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Campina Grande to Recife produce?

The Coach from Campina Grande to Recife produces about 3.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 143 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 Campina Grande to Recife?

Operators on the Coach from Campina Grande 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 2h 49m 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 Campina Grande to Recife on 14 September 2026: 143 km of route against 143 km in a straight line, 7 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €10.63, and 2h 49m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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