Cheapest€10.07
- Cidade do Aço CA472906:2448m07:12Terminal Rodoviário de NilópolisRodoviária de Xerém
Door to door 1h 32mCO2 1.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Nilópolis to Petrópolis bus
Buses from Nilópolis to Petrópolis start at €10.07 and take 1h 27m at their fastest.
The Buses from Nilópolis to Petrópolis starts at €10.07 and takes 1h 27m door to door, run by 3 operators over 48 km, with around 10 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 1h 27mDoor to door
- 43mMoving
- €10.07From
- 1.3 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 10 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Fastest€10.08
- Cidade do Aço CA124614:3743m15:20Terminal Rodoviário de NilópolisRodoviária de Xerém
Door to door 1h 27mCO2 1.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
The coach gets you into Petrópolis. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Petrópolis for the night the coach gets in
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When to book Nilópolis to Petrópolis
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €10.0790 days
- €10.0760 days
- €10.0745 days
- €10.0730 days
- €10.0721 days
- €10.0714 days
- €10.077 days
- €10.073 days
- €10.071 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €10.07.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 0 percent. The dearest point is €10.07, 90 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits outside the cheap window, which opens around 90 days before departure. There is no advantage to booking this minute.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €10.07Sun
- €10.07Mon
- €10.07Tue
- €10.07Wed
- €10.07Thu
- €10.07Fri
- €10.07Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Nilópolis
Coach
- Terminal Rodoviário de Nilópolis
- Pina Rangel
Petrópolis
Coach
- Rodoviária de Xerém
- Ponto Final (RAIZ DA SERRA)
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
- 60% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 40% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 48 km against 41 km in a straight line, a detour of 17 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Volta Redonda, Barra Mansa, Barra do Piraí, Juiz de Fora. The gap between arriving and leaving is 76 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. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Nilópolis at 06:09 and the last at 14:50, across 10 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Nilópolis to Petrópolis
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 Nilópolis to Petrópolis take?
The Coach from Nilópolis to Petrópolis takes 1h 27m door to door, of which 43m is spent moving. The route runs 48 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 Nilópolis to Petrópolis cost?
The Coach from Nilópolis to Petrópolis starts at €10.07 for one passenger, checked on 10 September 2026. A typical fare is €10.36. 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 Nilópolis to Petrópolis?
3 operators run the Coach from Nilópolis to Petrópolis: Cidade do Aço, Cometa, Útil. Between them they file around 10 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 Nilópolis to Petrópolis use?
The Coach from Nilópolis to Petrópolis leaves from Terminal Rodoviário de Nilópolis and arrives at Rodoviária de Xerém. 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 Nilópolis to Petrópolis?
Fares for the Coach from Nilópolis to Petrópolis bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €10.07. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 0 percent, measured on 10 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Nilópolis to Petrópolis produce?
The Coach from Nilópolis to Petrópolis produces about 1.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 48 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 Nilópolis to Petrópolis?
Operators on the Coach from Nilópolis to Petrópolis publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 27m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.
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 Nilópolis to Petrópolis on 9 September 2026: 48 km of route against 41 km in a straight line, 10 services a day, 3 operators, a cheapest fare of €10.07, and 1h 27m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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