Itumbiara to São Carlos bus

Buses from Itumbiara to São Carlos start at €26.58 and take 7h 9m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Itumbiara to São Carlos starts at €26.58 and takes 7h 9m door to door, run by 4 operators over 487 km, with around 24 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 9mDoor to door
  • 6h 25mMoving
  • €26.58 to €50.78From
  • 06:08 to 19:33First and last departure
  • 24Per day
  • 13.1 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.

€26.58 to €50.78 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 €45.28Tue15
  2. about €41.43Wed16
  3. about €50.78Thu17
  4. about €40.33Fri18
  5. about €42.53Sat19
  6. about €37.03Sun20
  7. about €33.18Mon21
  8. about €26.58Tue22
  9. about €28.78Wed23
  10. about €34.83Thu24
  11. about €33.18Fri25
  12. about €33.18Sat26
  13. about €30.43Sun27
  14. about €27.13Mon28

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 5 October 2026

Cheapest€21.63
  1. Expresso Itamarati EI953509:576h 30m16:27Itumbiara bus stationSOU São Carlos

Door to door 7h 14mCO2 13.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€22.73
  1. Real Expresso RE964509:126h 25m15:37Itumbiara bus stationSOU São Carlos

Door to door 7h 9mCO2 13.1 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.
OperatorFastest
Expresso Itamarati7h 6m
Nordeste Transportes7h 6m
Planalto Transportes7h 6m
Real Expresso7h 7m

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

A hotel room

A room in São Carlos for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from São Carlos Railway Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Itumbiara to São Carlos

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

  1. €25.4890 days
  2. €21.6360 days
  3. €24.3845 days
  4. €20.5330 days
  5. €21.6321 days
  6. €27.1314 days
  7. €33.187 days
  8. €50.783 days
  9. €45.281 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €20.53.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 147 percent. The dearest point is €50.78, 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. €30.43Sun
  2. €27.13Mon
  3. €26.58Tue
  4. €28.78Wed
  5. €34.83Thu
  6. €33.18Fri
  7. €33.18Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

São Carlos

Coach
  • SOU São Carlos
  • Estação Norte
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
83% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 17% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 487 km against 423 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 Frutal, Prata, Ituiutaba, Uberaba. The gap between arriving and leaving is 72 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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 Itumbiara at 06:08 and the last at 19:33, across 24 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Itumbiara to São Carlos

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 Itumbiara to São Carlos take?

The Coach from Itumbiara to São Carlos takes 7h 9m door to door, of which 6h 25m is spent moving. The route runs 487 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 Itumbiara to São Carlos cost?

The Coach from Itumbiara to São Carlos starts at €26.58 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €25.76. 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 Itumbiara to São Carlos?

4 operators run the Coach from Itumbiara to São Carlos: Expresso Itamarati, Nordeste Transportes, Planalto Transportes, Real Expresso. Between them they file around 24 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 Itumbiara to São Carlos use?

The Coach from Itumbiara to São Carlos leaves from Itumbiara bus station and arrives at SOU São Carlos. 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 Itumbiara to São Carlos?

Fares for the Coach from Itumbiara to São Carlos bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €20.53. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 147 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Itumbiara to São Carlos produce?

The Coach from Itumbiara to São Carlos produces about 13.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 487 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 Itumbiara to São Carlos?

Operators on the Coach from Itumbiara to São Carlos publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 4 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 9m 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 Itumbiara to São Carlos on 14 September 2026: 487 km of route against 423 km in a straight line, 24 services a day, 4 operators a cheapest fare of €26.58, and 7h 9m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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