Caratinga to São José dos Campos bus

Buses from Caratinga to São José dos Campos start at €33.73 and take 8h 53m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Caratinga to São José dos Campos starts at €33.73 and takes 8h 53m door to door, run by 4 operators over 622 km, with around 24 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

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

  • 8h 53mDoor to door
  • 8h 9mMoving
  • €33.73 to €65.63From
  • 06:15 to 20:11First and last departure
  • 24Per day
  • 16.8 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.

€33.73 to €65.63 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 €55.18Tue15
  2. about €51.88Wed16
  3. about €65.63Thu17
  4. about €50.23Fri18
  5. about €51.33Sat19
  6. about €46.93Sun20
  7. about €40.88Mon21
  8. about €33.73Tue22
  9. about €34.83Wed23
  10. about €43.63Thu24
  11. about €39.78Fri25
  12. about €40.88Sat26
  13. about €38.13Sun27
  14. about €33.73Mon28

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€26.58
  1. JS Turismo JS682217:258h 43m02:08Terminal Rodoviário Carlos Alberto de MatosEco

Door to door 9h 27mCO2 16.8 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€37.58
  1. Emtram Empresa de Transportes Macaubense EE171809:008h 9m17:09Terminal Rodoviário Carlos Alberto de MatosEco

Door to door 8h 53mCO2 16.8 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
Emtram Empresa de Transportes Macaubense€27.138h 51m
Expresso União€28.238h 53m
JS Turismo€26.588h 50m
Transportadora Turistica Suzano€29.888h 51m

The coach gets you into São José dos Campos. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in São José dos Campos for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from São José dos Campos railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Caratinga to São José dos Campos

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

  1. €32.0890 days
  2. €26.0360 days
  3. €29.3345 days
  4. €24.3830 days
  5. €26.5821 days
  6. €33.7314 days
  7. €40.887 days
  8. €65.633 days
  9. €55.181 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €24.38.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 169 percent. The dearest point is €65.63, 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. €38.13Sun
  2. €33.73Mon
  3. €33.73Tue
  4. €34.83Wed
  5. €43.63Thu
  6. €39.78Fri
  7. €40.88Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Caratinga

Coach
  • Terminal Rodoviário Carlos Alberto de Matos

São José dos Campos

Coach
  • Eco
  • Terminal Central
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

How far it really runs
The route covers 622 km against 541 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Caratinga at 06:15 and the last at 20:11, across 24 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Caratinga to São José dos Campos

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 São José dos Campos take?

The Coach from Caratinga to São José dos Campos takes 8h 53m door to door, of which 8h 9m is spent moving. The route runs 622 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 São José dos Campos cost?

The Coach from Caratinga to São José dos Campos starts at €33.73 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €33.73. 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 Caratinga to São José dos Campos?

4 operators run the Coach from Caratinga to São José dos Campos: Emtram Empresa de Transportes Macaubense, Expresso União, JS Turismo, Transportadora Turistica Suzano. Between them they file around 24 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 São José dos Campos use?

The Coach from Caratinga to São José dos Campos leaves from Terminal Rodoviário Carlos Alberto de Matos and arrives at Eco. 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 São José dos Campos?

Fares for the Coach from Caratinga to São José dos Campos bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €24.38. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 169 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Caratinga to São José dos Campos produce?

The Coach from Caratinga to São José dos Campos produces about 16.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 622 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 São José dos Campos?

Operators on the Coach from Caratinga to São José dos Campos publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 4 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 53m 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 Caratinga to São José dos Campos on 14 September 2026: 622 km of route against 541 km in a straight line, 24 services a day, 4 operators a cheapest fare of €33.73, and 8h 53m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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