Cheapest€52.43
- Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG758906:2313h 18m19:41Rodoviária de IpatingaRodoviaria de São Simão
Door to door 14h 2mCO2 26.2 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Ipatinga to São Simão bus
Buses from Ipatinga to São Simão start at €57.38 and take 14h 2m at their fastest.
The Buses from Ipatinga to São Simão starts at €57.38 and takes 14h 2m door to door, run by 1 operator over 969 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 14h 2mDoor to door
- 13h 18mMoving
- €57.38From
- 26.2 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 23 September 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Empresa Gontijo de Transportes | €52.43 | 13h 19m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
The coach gets you into São Simão. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
Where to sleep in São Simão
Sort by distance from Rodoviaria de São Simão and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Ipatinga to São Simão
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €45.2890 days
- €46.9360 days
- €45.2845 days
- €45.2830 days
- €53.5321 days
- €61.2314 days
- €79.387 days
- €110.733 days
- €120.631 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €45.28.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 166 percent. The dearest point is €120.63, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 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.
- €76.63Sun
- €62.88Mon
- €61.23Tue
- €57.38Wed
- €84.33Thu
- €76.63Fri
- €77.18Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Ipatinga
Coach
- Rodoviária de Ipatinga
São Simão
Coach
- Rodoviaria de São Simão
- Terminal Rodoviário Jair Ferrera
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 969 km against 842 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 Governador Valadares. The gap between arriving and leaving is 63 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 Ipatinga at 06:23 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 Ipatinga to São Simão
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 Ipatinga to São Simão take?
The Coach from Ipatinga to São Simão takes 14h 2m door to door, of which 13h 18m is spent moving. The route runs 969 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 Ipatinga to São Simão cost?
The Coach from Ipatinga to São Simão starts at €57.38 for one passenger, checked on 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €62.60. 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 Ipatinga to São Simão?
1 operators run the Coach from Ipatinga to São Simão: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes. 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 Ipatinga to São Simão use?
The Coach from Ipatinga to São Simão leaves from Rodoviária de Ipatinga and arrives at Rodoviaria de São Simão. 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 Ipatinga to São Simão?
Fares for the Coach from Ipatinga to São Simão bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €45.28. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 166 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Ipatinga to São Simão produce?
The Coach from Ipatinga to São Simão produces about 26.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 969 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 Ipatinga to São Simão?
Operators on the Coach from Ipatinga to São Simão publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 14h 2m 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 Ipatinga to São Simão on 8 September 2026: 969 km of route against 842 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €57.38, and 14h 2m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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The coach is the simple part. What you do once you are in São Simão is somebody else's catalogue.
Things to do in São Simão
Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of São Simão, with free cancellation on most of it.
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