Formosa to Salvador bus

Buses from Formosa to Salvador start at €58.48 and take 15h 35m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Formosa to Salvador starts at €58.48 and takes 15h 35m door to door, run by 3 operators over 1,144 km, with around 16 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 15h 35mDoor to door
  • 14h 51mMoving
  • €58.48 to €115.68From
  • 06:14 to 18:27First and last departure
  • 16Per day
  • 30.9 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 29 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€58.48 to €115.68 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 €101.38Tue15
  2. about €101.93Wed16
  3. about €115.68Thu17
  4. about €87.63Fri18
  5. about €94.78Sat19
  6. about €82.68Sun20
  7. about €71.68Mon21
  8. about €63.98Tue22
  9. about €63.43Wed23
  10. about €77.73Thu24
  11. about €74.43Fri25
  12. about €74.43Sat26
  13. about €69.48Sun27
  14. about €58.48Mon28

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 29 September 2026

Cheapest€48.03
  1. Expresso São Luiz ES340214:1215h 44m05:56Bus StationEstação Pituba

Door to door 16h 28mCO2 30.9 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€104.12
  1. Expresso São Luiz ES961707:301h 9m08:39Bus StationAntiga Rodoferroviária de Brasília
  2. Itapemirim Transportes Aéreos IT971910:201h 48m12:08Brasília BSBSalvador SSA

Changes at Brasília, with 101 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 6h 35mCO2 271.5 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

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.
OperatorFrom
Expresso São Luiz€48.03
Kandango Transportes e Turismo€49.13
Rapido Federal Viacao€49.13

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

A hotel room

A room in Salvador for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Formosa to Salvador

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

  1. €55.7390 days
  2. €45.2860 days
  3. €51.3345 days
  4. €41.4330 days
  5. €49.1321 days
  6. €58.4814 days
  7. €71.687 days
  8. €115.683 days
  9. €101.381 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €41.43.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 179 percent. The dearest point is €115.68, 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. €69.48Sun
  2. €58.48Mon
  3. €63.98Tue
  4. €63.43Wed
  5. €77.73Thu
  6. €74.43Fri
  7. €74.43Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Formosa

Coach
  • Bus Station
  • Ponto Central

Salvador

Coach
  • Estação Pituba
  • Terminal Retiro
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
75% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 25% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,144 km against 995 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 Vitória da Conquista, Seabra, Barreiras, Brasília. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 14 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 Formosa at 06:14 and the last at 18:27, across 16 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Formosa to Salvador

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 Formosa to Salvador take?

The Coach from Formosa to Salvador takes 15h 35m door to door, of which 14h 51m is spent moving. The route runs 1,144 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 Formosa to Salvador cost?

The Coach from Formosa to Salvador starts at €58.48 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €62.61. 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 Formosa to Salvador?

3 operators run the Coach from Formosa to Salvador: Expresso São Luiz, Kandango Transportes e Turismo, Rapido Federal Viacao. Between them they file around 16 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 Formosa to Salvador use?

The Coach from Formosa to Salvador leaves from Bus Station and arrives at Estação Pituba. 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 Formosa to Salvador?

Fares for the Coach from Formosa to Salvador bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €41.43. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 179 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Formosa to Salvador produce?

The Coach from Formosa to Salvador produces about 30.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1144 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 Formosa to Salvador?

Operators on the Coach from Formosa to Salvador publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 15h 35m 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 Formosa to Salvador on 14 September 2026: 1144 km of route against 995 km in a straight line, 16 services a day, 3 operators a cheapest fare of €58.48, and 15h 35m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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