Cheapest€20.53
- Expresso União EU133706:054h 41m10:46Terminal Rodoviário Tenente João LibardiRodoviária de Xerém
Door to door 5h 25mCO2 9.2 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Castelo to Petrópolis bus
Buses from Castelo to Petrópolis start at €27.13 and take 5h 25m at their fastest.
The Buses from Castelo to Petrópolis starts at €27.13 and takes 5h 25m door to door, run by 1 operator over 340 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 5h 25mDoor to door
- 4h 41mMoving
- €27.13From
- 9.2 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 1 October 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expresso União | €20.53 | 5h 15m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
The coach gets you into Petrópolis. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Petrópolis for the night the coach gets in
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When to book Castelo to Petrópolis
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €22.1890 days
- €14.4860 days
- €16.1345 days
- €16.6830 days
- €24.9321 days
- €30.9814 days
- €37.037 days
- €29.333 days
- €53.531 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €14.48.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 270 percent. The dearest point is €53.53, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €30.43Sun
- €27.13Mon
- €27.13Tue
- €28.23Wed
- €28.23Thu
- €28.78Fri
- €30.98Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Castelo
Coach
- Terminal Rodoviário Tenente João Libardi
Petrópolis
Coach
- Rodoviária de Xerém
- Ponto Final (RAIZ DA SERRA)
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
- 33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 340 km against 295 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 Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro. The gap between arriving and leaving is 75 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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 Castelo at 06:05 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Castelo to Petrópolis
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 Castelo to Petrópolis take?
The Coach from Castelo to Petrópolis takes 5h 25m door to door, of which 4h 41m is spent moving. The route runs 340 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 Castelo to Petrópolis cost?
The Coach from Castelo to Petrópolis starts at €27.13 for one passenger, checked on 12 September 2026. A typical fare is €28.77. 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 Castelo to Petrópolis?
1 operators run the Coach from Castelo to Petrópolis: Expresso União. Between them they file around 3 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 Castelo to Petrópolis use?
The Coach from Castelo to Petrópolis leaves from Terminal Rodoviário Tenente João Libardi and arrives at Rodoviária de Xerém. 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 Castelo to Petrópolis?
Fares for the Coach from Castelo to Petrópolis bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €14.48. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 270 percent, measured on 12 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Castelo to Petrópolis produce?
The Coach from Castelo to Petrópolis produces about 9.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 340 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 Castelo to Petrópolis?
Operators on the Coach from Castelo to Petrópolis publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 25m 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.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Castelo to Petrópolis on 12 September 2026: 340 km of route against 295 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €27.13, and 5h 25m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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