Fundão to Rio de Janeiro bus

Buses from Fundão to Rio de Janeiro start at €28.78 and take 8h 23m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Fundão to Rio de Janeiro starts at €28.78 and takes 8h 23m door to door, run by 1 operator over 504 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 30 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 23mDoor to door
  • 7h 39mMoving
  • €28.78 to €53.53From
  • 06:31 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 13.6 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 30 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€28.78 to €53.53 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.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €48.58Tue15
  2. about €52.98Wed16
  3. about €53.53Thu17
  4. about €45.28Fri18
  5. about €41.43Sat19
  6. about €40.88Sun20
  7. about €31.53Mon21
  8. about €28.78Tue22
  9. about €30.98Wed23
  10. about €39.23Thu24
  11. about €39.78Fri25
  12. about €37.03Sat26
  13. about €31.53Sun27
  14. about €29.33Mon28

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 30 September 2026

Cheapest€27.13
  1. Viacao Aguia Branca S A VA757006:317h 39m14:10Fundão bus stationCaju

Door to door 8h 23mCO2 13.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Lowest CO2€29.88
  1. Viacao Aguia Branca S A VA293607:303h 48m11:18Fundão bus stationTerminal Rodoviário de Campos dos Goytacazes
  2. Kaissara K170712:513h 22m16:13Terminal Rodoviário de Campos dos GoytacazesCaju

Changes at Campos dos Goytacazes, with 93 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 9h 27mCO2 13.1 kgChanges 1Changeable 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
Viacao Aguia Branca S A€27.137h 20m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi

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 Fundão 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. €30.4390 days
  2. €22.7360 days
  3. €26.5845 days
  4. €21.0830 days
  5. €27.6821 days
  6. €29.3314 days
  7. €31.537 days
  8. €53.533 days
  9. €48.581 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €21.08.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 154 percent. The dearest point is €53.53, 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. €32.63Sun
  2. €29.33Mon
  3. €28.78Tue
  4. €30.98Wed
  5. €39.23Thu
  6. €39.78Fri
  7. €37.03Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Rio de Janeiro

Coach
  • Caju
  • INTO
The journey

What the journey actually 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 504 km against 438 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 Campos dos Goytacazes. The gap between arriving and leaving is 93 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 10 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 Fundão at 06:31 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Fundão 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 Fundão to Rio de Janeiro take?

The Coach from Fundão to Rio de Janeiro takes 8h 23m door to door, of which 7h 39m is spent moving. The route runs 504 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 Fundão to Rio de Janeiro cost?

The Coach from Fundão to Rio de Janeiro starts at €28.78 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €28.51. 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 Fundão to Rio de Janeiro?

1 operators run the Coach from Fundão to Rio de Janeiro: Viacao Aguia Branca S A. Between them they file around 2 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 Fundão to Rio de Janeiro use?

The Coach from Fundão to Rio de Janeiro leaves from Fundão bus station 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 Fundão to Rio de Janeiro?

Fares for the Coach from Fundão to Rio de Janeiro bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €21.08. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 154 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Fundão to Rio de Janeiro produces about 13.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 504 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 Fundão to Rio de Janeiro?

Operators on the Coach from Fundão to Rio de Janeiro publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 23m 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 Fundão to Rio de Janeiro on 14 September 2026: 504 km of route against 438 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €28.78, and 8h 23m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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