Caratinga to Ilhéus bus

Buses from Caratinga to Ilhéus start at €40.33 and take 11h 49m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Caratinga to Ilhéus starts at €40.33 and takes 11h 49m door to door, run by 1 operator over 742 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 9 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 11h 49mDoor to door
  • 11h 5mMoving
  • €40.33From
  • 20.0 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€37.58
  1. Viacao Riodoce VR956106:4211h 5m17:47Terminal Rodoviário Carlos Alberto de MatosTerminal Rodoviário de Ilhéus

Door to door 11h 49mCO2 20.0 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

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
Viacao Riodoce€37.5810h 26m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi

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Booking window

When to book Caratinga to Ilhéus

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

  1. €34.2890 days
  2. €39.2260 days
  3. €39.2345 days
  4. €36.4830 days
  5. €39.7821 days
  6. €45.8314 days
  7. €67.287 days
  8. €104.683 days
  9. €92.031 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €34.28.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 205 percent. The dearest point is €104.68, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 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. €54.63Sun
  2. €49.13Mon
  3. €43.08Tue
  4. €45.83Wed
  5. €62.33Thu
  6. €66.73Fri
  7. €48.58Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Caratinga

Coach
  • Terminal Rodoviário Carlos Alberto de Matos

Ilhéus

Coach
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Ilhéus
  • Rota
The journey

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
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 742 km against 645 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 Ibatiba, Vitória, Guarapari, Salvador. 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 Caratinga at 06:42 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 Caratinga to Ilhéus

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 Caratinga to Ilhéus take?

The Coach from Caratinga to Ilhéus takes 11h 49m door to door, of which 11h 5m is spent moving. The route runs 742 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 Caratinga to Ilhéus cost?

The Coach from Caratinga to Ilhéus starts at €40.33 for one passenger, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare is €59.03. 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 Caratinga to Ilhéus?

1 operators run the Coach from Caratinga to Ilhéus: Viacao Riodoce. 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 Caratinga to Ilhéus use?

The Coach from Caratinga to Ilhéus leaves from Terminal Rodoviário Carlos Alberto de Matos and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Ilhéus. 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 Caratinga to Ilhéus?

Fares for the Coach from Caratinga to Ilhéus bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €34.28. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 205 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Caratinga to Ilhéus produce?

The Coach from Caratinga to Ilhéus produces about 20.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 742 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 Caratinga to Ilhéus?

Operators on the Coach from Caratinga to Ilhéus publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 11h 49m 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.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Caratinga to Ilhéus on 9 September 2026: 742 km of route against 645 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €40.33, and 11h 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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