Picos to Crateús bus

Buses from Picos to Crateús start at €17.78 and take 4h 29m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Picos to Crateús starts at €17.78 and takes 4h 29m door to door, run by 1 operator over 263 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 9 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 29mDoor to door
  • 3h 45mMoving
  • €17.78From
  • 7.1 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

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

Cheapest€16.13
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG151814:473h 45m18:32Terminal Rodoviário de PicosTerminal Jardel Cavalcante Ribeiro

Door to door 4h 29mCO2 7.1 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
Empresa Gontijo de Transportes€16.134h 13m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • Empresa Gontijo de Transportes

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

A hotel room

Where to sleep in Crateús

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Booking window

When to book Picos to Crateús

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

  1. €16.1390 days
  2. €12.8360 days
  3. €14.4845 days
  4. €13.9330 days
  5. €17.2321 days
  6. €19.4314 days
  7. €21.637 days
  8. €28.783 days
  9. €37.031 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €12.83.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 189 percent. The dearest point is €37.03, 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. €23.28Sun
  2. €18.33Mon
  3. €17.78Tue
  4. €19.43Wed
  5. €24.38Thu
  6. €20.53Fri
  7. €23.28Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Picos

Coach
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Picos
  • Terminal Rodoviário Senador Helvídio Nunes

Crateús

Coach
  • Terminal Jardel Cavalcante Ribeiro
  • Terminal Rodoviário
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
67% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 33% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 263 km against 229 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 Afrânio. The gap between arriving and leaving is 79 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 Picos at 06:34 and the last at 14:47, across 3 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Picos to Crateús

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 Picos to Crateús take?

The Coach from Picos to Crateús takes 4h 29m door to door, of which 3h 45m is spent moving. The route runs 263 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 Picos to Crateús cost?

The Coach from Picos to Crateús starts at €17.78 for one passenger, checked on 29 September 2026. A typical fare is €17.23. 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 Picos to Crateús?

1 operators run the Coach from Picos to Crateús: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes. Between them they file around 3 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 Picos to Crateús use?

The Coach from Picos to Crateús leaves from Terminal Rodoviário de Picos and arrives at Terminal Jardel Cavalcante Ribeiro. 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 Picos to Crateús?

Fares for the Coach from Picos to Crateús bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €12.83. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 189 percent, measured on 29 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Picos to Crateús produce?

The Coach from Picos to Crateús produces about 7.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 263 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 Picos to Crateús?

Operators on the Coach from Picos to Crateús publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 29m 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 Picos to Crateús on 9 September 2026: 263 km of route against 229 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €17.78, and 4h 29m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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