Piumhi to São Carlos bus

Buses from Piumhi to São Carlos start at €16.68 and take 5h at their fastest.

PiumhiPiumhiSão CarlosSão Carlos

The Buses from Piumhi to São Carlos starts at €16.68 and takes 5h door to door, run by 1 operator over 304 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 17 September 2026Priced for 4 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5hDoor to door
  • 4h 16mMoving
  • €17.78 to €35.93From
  • 06:55 to 06:55First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 8.2 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 4 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€17.78 to €35.93 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.

VTR Transporte Rodoviário de Passageiros runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Piumhi to São Carlos on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €32.08Fri18
  2. about €35.93Sat19
  3. about €33.73Sun20
  4. about €29.88Mon21
  5. about €27.13Tue22
  6. about €27.68Wed23
  7. about €29.88Thu24
  8. about €26.03Fri25
  9. about €27.68Sat26
  10. about €24.93Sun27
  11. about €25.48Mon28
  12. about €17.78Tue29
  13. about €19.43Wed30
  14. about €25.48Thu1

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 4 October 2026

Cheapest€16.68
  1. VTR Transporte Rodoviário de Passageiros VT125406:554h 16m11:11Terminal Rodoviário Deputado Humberto de AlmeidaSOU São Carlos

Door to door 5hCO2 8.2 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
VTR Transporte Rodoviário de Passageiros€16.684h 45m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in São Carlos for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from São Carlos Railway Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Piumhi to São Carlos

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

  1. €18.8890 days
  2. €14.4860 days
  3. €15.5845 days
  4. €18.8830 days
  5. €18.3321 days
  6. €25.4814 days
  7. €29.887 days
  8. €33.733 days
  9. €32.081 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €14.48.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 133 percent. The dearest point is €33.73, 3 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. €24.93Sun
  2. €25.48Mon
  3. €17.78Tue
  4. €21.08Wed
  5. €25.48Thu
  6. €26.03Fri
  7. €27.68Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Piumhi

Coach
  • Terminal Rodoviário Deputado Humberto de Almeida

São Carlos

Coach
  • SOU São Carlos
  • Estação Norte
The journey

What the journey looks like

How far it really runs
The route covers 304 km against 264 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Piumhi at 06:55 and the last at 06:55, across 1 departure The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Piumhi to São Carlos

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 Piumhi to São Carlos take?

The Coach from Piumhi to São Carlos takes 5h door to door, of which 4h 16m is spent moving. The route runs 304 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 Piumhi to São Carlos cost?

The Coach from Piumhi to São Carlos starts at €16.68 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €16.68. 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 Piumhi to São Carlos?

1 operators run the Coach from Piumhi to São Carlos: VTR Transporte Rodoviário de Passageiros. Between them they file around 1 departure 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 Piumhi to São Carlos use?

The Coach from Piumhi to São Carlos leaves from Terminal Rodoviário Deputado Humberto de Almeida and arrives at SOU São Carlos. 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 Piumhi to São Carlos?

Fares for the Coach from Piumhi to São Carlos bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €14.48. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 133 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Piumhi to São Carlos produce?

The Coach from Piumhi to São Carlos produces about 8.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 304 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 Piumhi to São Carlos?

Operators on the Coach from Piumhi to São Carlos publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 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 Piumhi to São Carlos on 17 September 2026: 304 km of route against 264 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator 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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