Paulo Afonso to Caruaru bus

Buses from Paulo Afonso to Caruaru start at €16.68 and take 5h at their fastest.

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The Buses from Paulo Afonso to Caruaru starts at €16.68 and takes 5h door to door, run by 2 operators over 317 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 15 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5hDoor to door
  • 4h 16mMoving
  • €16.68 to €35.38From
  • 06:08 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 6Per day
  • 8.6 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 29 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€16.68 to €35.38 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 €32.08Wed16
  2. about €35.38Thu17
  3. about €28.78Fri18
  4. about €28.78Sat19
  5. about €26.58Sun20
  6. about €25.48Mon21
  7. about €20.53Tue22
  8. about €19.98Wed23
  9. about €27.68Thu24
  10. about €28.23Fri25
  11. about €26.03Sat26
  12. about €23.83Sun27
  13. about €22.73Mon28
  14. about €16.68Tue29

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 29 September 2026

Cheapest€16.68
  1. Expresso Guanabara EG794406:084h 31m10:39Terminal Rodoviário de Paulo AfonsoTerminal Rodoviário De Caruaru

Door to door 5h 15mCO2 8.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€18.33
  1. Empresa Auto Viação Progresso EA950606:414h 16m10:57Terminal Rodoviário de Paulo AfonsoTerminal Rodoviário De Caruaru

Door to door 5hCO2 8.6 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 Auto Viação Progresso€17.235h
Expresso Guanabara€16.684h 55m

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

A hotel room

A room in Caruaru for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Paulo Afonso to Caruaru

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

  1. €18.8790 days
  2. €15.0360 days
  3. €17.2345 days
  4. €21.6230 days
  5. €19.4221 days
  6. €16.6814 days
  7. €20.537 days
  8. €28.783 days
  9. €32.081 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €15.03.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 113 percent. The dearest point is €32.08, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 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. €23.83Sun
  2. €22.73Mon
  3. €19.42Tue
  4. €20.52Wed
  5. €27.68Thu
  6. €28.23Fri
  7. €26.03Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Paulo Afonso

Coach
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Paulo Afonso
  • Terminal Urbano de Paulo Afonso - BTN

Caruaru

Coach
  • Terminal Rodoviário De Caruaru
  • Terminal Leste
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 317 km against 276 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 Canapi, Gravatá, Garanhuns, Propriá. The gap between arriving and leaving is 67 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 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 Paulo Afonso at 06:08 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 Paulo Afonso to Caruaru

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 Paulo Afonso to Caruaru take?

The Coach from Paulo Afonso to Caruaru takes 5h door to door, of which 4h 16m is spent moving. The route runs 317 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 Paulo Afonso to Caruaru cost?

The Coach from Paulo Afonso to Caruaru starts at €16.68 for one passenger, as of 15 September 2026. A typical fare is €20.80. 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 Paulo Afonso to Caruaru?

2 operators run the Coach from Paulo Afonso to Caruaru: Empresa Auto Viação Progresso, Expresso Guanabara. 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 Paulo Afonso to Caruaru use?

The Coach from Paulo Afonso to Caruaru leaves from Terminal Rodoviário de Paulo Afonso and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário De Caruaru. 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 Paulo Afonso to Caruaru?

Fares for the Coach from Paulo Afonso to Caruaru bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €15.03. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 113 percent, measured on 15 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Paulo Afonso to Caruaru produce?

The Coach from Paulo Afonso to Caruaru produces about 8.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 317 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 Paulo Afonso to Caruaru?

Operators on the Coach from Paulo Afonso to Caruaru publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 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 Paulo Afonso to Caruaru on 15 September 2026: 317 km of route against 276 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €16.68, and 5h door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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