Castro to Florianópolis bus

Buses from Castro to Florianópolis start at €22.73 and take 6h 1m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Castro to Florianópolis starts at €22.73 and takes 6h 1m door to door, run by 2 operators over 396 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 9 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6h 1mDoor to door
  • 5h 17mMoving
  • €22.73From
  • 10.7 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

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

Cheapest€18.88
  1. Nordeste Transportes NT678006:395h 49m12:28Estação Rodoviária de CastroTerminal Urbano Cidade de Florianópolis

Door to door 6h 33mCO2 10.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€25.48
  1. Empresa Princesa do Norte EP149314:215h 17m19:38Estação Rodoviária de CastroTerminal Urbano Cidade de Florianópolis

Door to door 6h 1mCO2 10.7 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.
OperatorFromFastest
Empresa Princesa do Norte€21.635h 56m
Nordeste Transportes€18.885h 57m

The journey ends at Terminal Urbano Cidade de Florianópolis. Everything past the barriers belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Florianópolis for the night the coach gets in

Hotels and flats near the centre, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Castro to Florianópolis

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

  1. €19.4390 days
  2. €17.2360 days
  3. €19.9845 days
  4. €22.7330 days
  5. €21.0821 days
  6. €24.9314 days
  7. €28.787 days
  8. €40.883 days
  9. €52.981 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €17.23.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 207 percent. The dearest point is €52.98, 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. €26.58Sun
  2. €22.73Mon
  3. €23.28Tue
  4. €24.93Wed
  5. €30.43Thu
  6. €29.88Fri
  7. €27.13Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Castro

Coach
  • Estação Rodoviária de Castro
  • Rodoviária em construção

Florianópolis

Coach
  • Terminal Urbano Cidade de Florianópolis
  • Terminal Rodoviário Rita Maria
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
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 396 km against 345 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 Itapeva, Itaí, Itararé, Taquarituba. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Castro at 06:08 and the last at 14:52, across 8 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Castro to Florianópolis

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 Castro to Florianópolis take?

The Coach from Castro to Florianópolis takes 6h 1m door to door, of which 5h 17m is spent moving. The route runs 396 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 Castro to Florianópolis cost?

The Coach from Castro to Florianópolis starts at €22.73 for one passenger, checked on 29 September 2026. A typical fare is €27.13. 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 Castro to Florianópolis?

2 operators run the Coach from Castro to Florianópolis: Empresa Princesa do Norte, Nordeste Transportes. 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 Castro to Florianópolis use?

The Coach from Castro to Florianópolis leaves from Estação Rodoviária de Castro and arrives at Terminal Urbano Cidade de Florianópolis. 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 Castro to Florianópolis?

Fares for the Coach from Castro to Florianópolis bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €17.23. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 207 percent, measured on 29 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Castro to Florianópolis produce?

The Coach from Castro to Florianópolis produces about 10.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 396 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 Castro to Florianópolis?

Operators on the Coach from Castro to Florianópolis publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 1m 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 Castro to Florianópolis on 9 September 2026: 396 km of route against 345 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €22.73, and 6h 1m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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