Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro bus

Buses from Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro start at €82.13 and take 28h 27m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro starts at €82.13 and takes 28h 27m door to door, run by 2 operators over 2,069 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 17 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 28h 27mDoor to door
  • 27h 43mMoving
  • €101.93 to €229.53From
  • 06:35 to 14:48First and last departure
  • 8Per day
  • 55.9 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 6 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€101.93 to €229.53 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.

Transportadora Turistica Suzano runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro 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 €229.53Fri18
  2. about €203.68Sat19
  3. about €203.68Sun20
  4. about €127.23Mon21
  5. about €128.33Tue22
  6. about €134.93Wed23
  7. about €170.13Thu24
  8. about €124.48Fri25
  9. about €132.73Sat26
  10. about €128.88Sun27
  11. about €101.93Mon28
  12. about €110.18Tue29
  13. about €111.83Wed30
  14. about €125.58Thu1

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 6 October 2026

Cheapest€82.13
  1. Transportadora Turistica Suzano TT137106:4629h 1m11:47Terminal Rodoviário De CaruaruCaju

Door to door 29h 45mCO2 55.9 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€111.28
  1. JS Turismo JS663014:4827h 43m18:31Terminal Rodoviário De CaruaruCaju

Door to door 28h 27mCO2 55.9 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.
OperatorFromFastest
JS Turismo€83.7827h 31m
Transportadora Turistica Suzano€82.1327h 30m

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

A hotel room

A room in Rio de Janeiro for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro

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

  1. €88.1890 days
  2. €65.0860 days
  3. €87.0845 days
  4. €87.0830 days
  5. €107.9821 days
  6. €125.5814 days
  7. €170.137 days
  8. €203.683 days
  9. €229.531 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €65.08.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 253 percent. The dearest point is €229.53, 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. €128.88Sun
  2. €101.93Mon
  3. €110.18Tue
  4. €111.83Wed
  5. €125.58Thu
  6. €124.48Fri
  7. €132.73Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Caruaru

Coach
  • Terminal Rodoviário De Caruaru
  • Terminal Leste

Rio de Janeiro

Coach
  • Caju
  • INTO
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 2,069 km against 1,799 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 Arapiraca, Além Paraíba, Propriá, Estância. 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 Caruaru at 06:35 and the last at 14:48, across 8 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro

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 Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro take?

The Coach from Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro takes 28h 27m door to door, of which 27h 43m is spent moving. The route runs 2,069 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 Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro cost?

The Coach from Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro starts at €82.13 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €85.43. 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 Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro?

2 operators run the Coach from Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro: JS Turismo, Transportadora Turistica Suzano. Between them they file around 8 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 Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro use?

The Coach from Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro leaves from Terminal Rodoviário De Caruaru and arrives at Caju. 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 Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro?

Fares for the Coach from Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €65.08. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 253 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro produce?

The Coach from Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro produces about 55.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2069 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 Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro?

Operators on the Coach from Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 28h 27m 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.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Caruaru to Rio de Janeiro on 17 September 2026: 2069 km of route against 1799 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €82.13, and 28h 27m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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