Janaúba to Franca bus

Buses from Janaúba to Franca start at €42.53 and take 11h 7m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Janaúba to Franca starts at €42.53 and takes 11h 7m door to door, run by 2 operators over 783 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.

Checked 15 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 11h 7mDoor to door
  • 10h 23mMoving
  • €42.53 to €104.13From
  • 06:37 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 6Per day
  • 21.1 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 6 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€42.53 to €104.13 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 €81.58Wed16
  2. about €104.13Thu17
  3. about €99.73Fri18
  4. about €67.28Sat19
  5. about €77.18Sun20
  6. about €62.33Mon21
  7. about €61.78Tue22
  8. about €45.83Wed23
  9. about €71.13Thu24
  10. about €57.93Fri25
  11. about €66.73Sat26
  12. about €47.48Sun27
  13. about €42.53Mon28
  14. about €51.88Tue29

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 6 October 2026

Cheapest€32.63
  1. Gte Locadora Turistica GL458206:3710h 23m17:00Rodoviária JanaúbaRodoviária de Franca

Door to door 11h 7mCO2 21.1 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.
OperatorFromFastest
Empresa Gontijo de Transportes€37.0311h 10m
Gte Locadora Turistica€32.6310h 58m

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

A hotel room

A room in Franca for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Janaúba to Franca

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

  1. €45.2890 days
  2. €41.9860 days
  3. €38.6845 days
  4. €38.1330 days
  5. €32.6321 days
  6. €51.8814 days
  7. €61.787 days
  8. €99.733 days
  9. €81.581 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €32.63.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 206 percent. The dearest point is €99.73, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 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. €47.48Sun
  2. €42.53Mon
  3. €51.88Tue
  4. €47.48Wed
  5. €71.13Thu
  6. €57.93Fri
  7. €66.73Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Janaúba

Coach
  • Rodoviária Janaúba

Franca

Coach
  • Rodoviária de Franca
  • Parada Chico Julio
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 783 km against 681 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 Pindaí, Urandi, Caetité, Guanambi. The gap between arriving and leaving is 56 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. 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 Janaúba at 06:37 and the last at 07:30, across 6 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Janaúba to Franca

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 Janaúba to Franca take?

The Coach from Janaúba to Franca takes 11h 7m door to door, of which 10h 23m is spent moving. The route runs 783 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 Janaúba to Franca cost?

The Coach from Janaúba to Franca starts at €42.53 for one passenger, as of 15 September 2026. A typical fare is €48.31. 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 Janaúba to Franca?

2 operators run the Coach from Janaúba to Franca: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes, Gte Locadora Turistica. Between them they file around 6 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 Janaúba to Franca use?

The Coach from Janaúba to Franca leaves from Rodoviária Janaúba and arrives at Rodoviária de Franca. 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 Janaúba to Franca?

Fares for the Coach from Janaúba to Franca bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €32.63. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 206 percent, measured on 15 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Janaúba to Franca produce?

The Coach from Janaúba to Franca produces about 21.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 783 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 Janaúba to Franca?

Operators on the Coach from Janaúba to Franca publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 11h 7m 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 Janaúba to Franca on 15 September 2026: 783 km of route against 681 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €42.53, and 11h 7m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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