Cheapest€56.83
- Expresso São Luiz ES827916:5219h 43m12:35Istmo do RecifeTerminal bus Barreiras
Door to door 20h 27mCO2 37.2 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Recife to Barreiras bus
Buses from Recife to Barreiras start at €68.93 and take 18h 38m at their fastest.
The Buses from Recife to Barreiras starts at €68.93 and takes 18h 38m door to door, run by 3 operators over 1,376 km, with around 11 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
- 18h 38mDoor to door
- 17h 54mMoving
- €68.93From
- 37.2 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest |
|---|---|---|
| Expresso São Luiz | €56.83 | 18h 34m |
| Kandango Transportes e Turismo | €61.78 | 18h 33m |
| Transportadora Turistica Suzano | €57.38 | 18h 34m |
The coach gets you into Barreiras. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
Where to sleep in Barreiras
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When to book Recife to Barreiras
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €68.9390 days
- €48.0360 days
- €48.5845 days
- €46.3830 days
- €71.6821 days
- €85.4314 days
- €106.887 days
- €105.233 days
- €166.831 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €46.38.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 260 percent. The dearest point is €166.83, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €79.38Sun
- €68.93Mon
- €71.68Tue
- €76.08Wed
- €94.23Thu
- €83.78Fri
- €85.43Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Recife
Coach
- Istmo do Recife
- TI Recife
Barreiras
Coach
- Terminal bus Barreiras
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
- 69% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 31% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 1,376 km against 1,197 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 Delmiro Gouveia, Caruaru, Petrolina, Arapiraca. The gap between arriving and leaving is 66 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 Recife at 06:14 and the last at 17:20, across 11 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Recife to Barreiras
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 Recife to Barreiras take?
The Coach from Recife to Barreiras takes 18h 38m door to door, of which 17h 54m is spent moving. The route runs 1,376 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 Recife to Barreiras cost?
The Coach from Recife to Barreiras starts at €68.93 for one passenger, checked on 12 September 2026. A typical fare is €68.38. 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 Recife to Barreiras?
3 operators run the Coach from Recife to Barreiras: Expresso São Luiz, Kandango Transportes e Turismo, Transportadora Turistica Suzano. Between them they file around 11 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 Recife to Barreiras use?
The Coach from Recife to Barreiras leaves from Istmo do Recife and arrives at Terminal bus Barreiras. 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 Recife to Barreiras?
Fares for the Coach from Recife to Barreiras bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €46.38. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 260 percent, measured on 12 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Recife to Barreiras produce?
The Coach from Recife to Barreiras produces about 37.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1376 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 Recife to Barreiras?
Operators on the Coach from Recife to Barreiras publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 18h 38m 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 Recife to Barreiras on 12 September 2026: 1376 km of route against 1197 km in a straight line, 11 services a day, 3 operators, a cheapest fare of €68.93, and 18h 38m 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 Barreiras is somebody else's catalogue.
Things to do in Barreiras
The tickets worth having in advance, because the queue at the door is usually the whole morning.
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