Cheapest€15.58
- Util - Uniao Transporte Interestadual de Luxo UU262506:324h 14m10:46Macaé Bus StationTerminal Rodoviário de Barbacena
Door to door 4h 58mCO2 7.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Macaé to Barbacena bus
Buses from Macaé to Barbacena start at €20.53 and take 4h 58m at their fastest.
The Buses from Macaé to Barbacena starts at €20.53 and takes 4h 58m door to door, run by 1 operator over 279 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.
- 4h 58mDoor to door
- 4h 14mMoving
- €20.53From
- 7.5 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Util - Uniao Transporte Interestadual de Luxo | €15.58 | 4h 26m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
The journey ends at Terminal Rodoviário de Barbacena. Everything past the barriers belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
A room in Barbacena for the night the coach gets in
Hotels and flats near the centre, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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When to book Macaé to Barbacena
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €17.7790 days
- €16.6860 days
- €18.3345 days
- €16.6830 days
- €15.5821 days
- €21.6214 days
- €22.737 days
- €35.933 days
- €40.881 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €15.58.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 162 percent. The dearest point is €40.88, 1 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €24.93Sun
- €21.63Mon
- €20.53Tue
- €21.62Wed
- €26.02Thu
- €23.83Fri
- €22.73Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Macaé
Coach
- Macaé Bus Station
- Rodoviária de Macaé
Barbacena
Coach
- Terminal Rodoviário de Barbacena
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
- 20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 279 km against 243 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 Itaboraí, Juiz de Fora, Petrópolis, Magé. 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 Macaé at 06:32 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Macaé to Barbacena
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 Macaé to Barbacena take?
The Coach from Macaé to Barbacena takes 4h 58m door to door, of which 4h 14m is spent moving. The route runs 279 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 Macaé to Barbacena cost?
The Coach from Macaé to Barbacena starts at €20.53 for one passenger, checked on 30 September 2026. A typical fare is €21.08. 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 Macaé to Barbacena?
1 operators run the Coach from Macaé to Barbacena: Util - Uniao Transporte Interestadual de Luxo. Between them they file around 5 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 Macaé to Barbacena use?
The Coach from Macaé to Barbacena leaves from Macaé Bus Station and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Barbacena. 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 Macaé to Barbacena?
Fares for the Coach from Macaé to Barbacena bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €15.58. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 162 percent, measured on 30 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Macaé to Barbacena produce?
The Coach from Macaé to Barbacena produces about 7.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 279 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 Macaé to Barbacena?
Operators on the Coach from Macaé to Barbacena publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 58m 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 Macaé to Barbacena on 9 September 2026: 279 km of route against 243 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €20.53, and 4h 58m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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