Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul bus

Buses from Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul start at €10.07 and take 2h 57m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul starts at €10.07 and takes 2h 57m door to door, run by 1 operator over 156 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 2h 57mDoor to door
  • 2h 13mMoving
  • €11.73 to €19.43From
  • 06:18 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 5.3 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.

€11.73 to €19.43 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

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Viação União Santa Cruz runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul 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 €19.43Mon21
  2. about €18.33Tue22
  3. about €18.88Wed23
  4. about €18.33Thu24
  5. about €16.13Fri25
  6. about €18.88Sat26
  7. about €17.78Sun27
  8. about €13.93Mon28
  9. about €12.83Tue29
  10. about €11.73Wed30
  11. about €17.23Thu1
  12. about €12.83Fri2
  13. about €13.38Sat3
  14. about €11.73Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 5 October 2026

Cheapest€10.07
  1. Viação União Santa Cruz VU678606:182h 13m08:31Estação Rodoviária de Caxias do SulEstação Rodoviária de Santa Cruz do Sul

Door to door 2h 57mCO2 5.3 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Viação União Santa Cruz€10.072h 53m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi

The coach gets you into Santa Cruz do Sul. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Santa Cruz do Sul for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from Antiga Estação Férrea de Santa Cruz do Sul and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul

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

  1. €13.3890 days
  2. €10.0860 days
  3. €10.0745 days
  4. €10.0730 days
  5. €10.6321 days
  6. €11.7314 days
  7. €17.787 days
  8. €18.883 days
  9. €19.431 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €10.07.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 93 percent. The dearest point is €19.43, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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. €11.73Sun
  2. €13.93Mon
  3. €12.83Tue
  4. €11.73Wed
  5. €17.23Thu
  6. €12.83Fri
  7. €13.38Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Caxias do Sul

Coach
  • Estação Rodoviária de Caxias do Sul
  • Terminal Rodoviário da UCS

Santa Cruz do Sul

Coach
  • Estação Rodoviária de Santa Cruz do Sul
  • Rodoviária de Passo do Sobrado
The journey

What the journey looks like

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 156 km against 135 km in a straight line, a detour of 16 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Estância Velha, São Leopoldo, Montenegro, Novo Hamburgo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 54 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. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Caxias do Sul at 06:18 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 Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul

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 Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul take?

The Coach from Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul takes 2h 57m door to door, of which 2h 13m is spent moving. The route runs 156 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 Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul cost?

The Coach from Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul starts at €10.07 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €17.22. 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 Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul?

1 operators run the Coach from Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul: Viação União Santa Cruz. 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 Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul use?

The Coach from Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul leaves from Estação Rodoviária de Caxias do Sul and arrives at Estação Rodoviária de Santa Cruz do Sul. 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 Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul?

Fares for the Coach from Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €10.07. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 93 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul produce?

The Coach from Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul produces about 5.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 156 km, which works out at roughly 34 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 Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul?

Operators on the Coach from Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 2h 57m 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.

Derived from service area The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Caxias do Sul to Santa Cruz do Sul on 20 September 2026: 156 km of route against 135 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €10.07, and 2h 57m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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