Penha to Mãe do Rio bus

Buses from Penha to Mãe do Rio start at €158.58 and take 42h 8m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Penha to Mãe do Rio starts at €158.58 and takes 42h 8m door to door, run by 1 operator over 3,164 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 10 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 42h 8mDoor to door
  • 41h 24mMoving
  • €158.58From
  • 85.4 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€137.68
  1. Catarinense Agencia de Viagens CA347607:3041h 56m01:26Penha bus stationTerminal Rodoviário de Açailândia
  2. Catarinense Agencia de Viagens CA366702:375h 37m08:14Terminal Rodoviário de AçailândiaMãe do Rio bus station

Changes at Açailândia, with 71 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 49h 28mCO2 85.5 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€169.03
  1. Catarinense Agencia de Viagens CA475806:5441h 24m00:18Penha bus stationMãe do Rio bus station

Door to door 42h 8mCO2 85.4 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Catarinense Agencia de Viagens€138.2341h 38m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

Where to sleep in Mãe do Rio

Hotels and flats near the centre, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Penha to Mãe do Rio

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

  1. €149.2390 days
  2. €97.5360 days
  3. €140.4345 days
  4. €129.9830 days
  5. €177.2821 days
  6. €265.8314 days
  7. €317.537 days
  8. €334.033 days
  9. €346.131 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €97.53.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 255 percent. The dearest point is €346.13, 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. €198.73Sun
  2. €158.58Mon
  3. €172.33Tue
  4. €164.08Wed
  5. €265.83Thu
  6. €187.73Fri
  7. €250.98Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

We do not hold named terminals for either end of this corridor yet.

The journey

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 3,164 km against 2,752 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 Imperatriz, Açailândia, Uberlândia, Itinga do Maranhão. The gap between arriving and leaving is 59 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 Penha at 06:54 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 Penha to Mãe do Rio

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 Penha to Mãe do Rio take?

The Coach from Penha to Mãe do Rio takes 42h 8m door to door, of which 41h 24m is spent moving. The route runs 3,164 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 Penha to Mãe do Rio cost?

The Coach from Penha to Mãe do Rio starts at €158.58 for one passenger, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare is €138.78. 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 Penha to Mãe do Rio?

1 operators run the Coach from Penha to Mãe do Rio: Catarinense Agencia de Viagens. 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 Penha to Mãe do Rio use?

The Coach from Penha to Mãe do Rio leaves from Penha bus station and arrives at Mãe do Rio bus station. 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 Penha to Mãe do Rio?

Fares for the Coach from Penha to Mãe do Rio bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €97.53. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 255 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Penha to Mãe do Rio produce?

The Coach from Penha to Mãe do Rio produces about 85.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 3164 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 Penha to Mãe do Rio?

Operators on the Coach from Penha to Mãe do Rio publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 42h 8m 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 Penha to Mãe do Rio on 10 September 2026: 3164 km of route against 2752 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €158.58, and 42h 8m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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