Cheapest€10.07
- Cidade do Aço CA535406:2447m07:11Rodoviária de XerémTerminal Rodoviário de Nilópolis
Door to door 1h 31mCO2 1.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Petrópolis to Nilópolis bus
Buses from Petrópolis to Nilópolis start at €10.07 and take 1h 28m at their fastest.
The Buses from Petrópolis to Nilópolis starts at €10.07 and takes 1h 28m 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 28mDoor to door
- 44mMoving
- €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€10.07
- Cometa C137414:5044m15:34Rodoviária de XerémTerminal Rodoviário de Nilópolis
Door to door 1h 28mCO2 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 journey ends at Estação Nilópolis. Everything past the barriers belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
Where to sleep in Nilópolis
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 Petrópolis to Nilópolis
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.
Petrópolis
Coach
- Rodoviária de Xerém
- Ponto Final (RAIZ DA SERRA)
Nilópolis
Coach
- Terminal Rodoviário de Nilópolis
- Pina Rangel
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 Barra Mansa, Barra do Piraí, Juiz de Fora, Volta Redonda. The gap between arriving and leaving is 83 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 12 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 Petrópolis 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 Petrópolis to Nilópolis
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 Petrópolis to Nilópolis take?
The Coach from Petrópolis to Nilópolis takes 1h 28m door to door, of which 44m 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 Petrópolis to Nilópolis cost?
The Coach from Petrópolis to Nilópolis 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 Petrópolis to Nilópolis?
3 operators run the Coach from Petrópolis to Nilópolis: 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 Petrópolis to Nilópolis use?
The Coach from Petrópolis to Nilópolis leaves from Rodoviária de Xerém and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Nilópolis. 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 Petrópolis to Nilópolis?
Fares for the Coach from Petrópolis to Nilópolis 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 Petrópolis to Nilópolis produce?
The Coach from Petrópolis to Nilópolis 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 Petrópolis to Nilópolis?
Operators on the Coach from Petrópolis to Nilópolis publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 28m 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 Petrópolis to Nilópolis 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 28m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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The coach is the simple part. What you do once you are in Nilópolis is somebody else's catalogue.
Things to do in Nilópolis
Day trips that leave Nilópolis in the morning and cover a good part of Brazil by evening.
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