Recife to Belém bus

Buses from Recife to Belém start at €78.83 and take 23h 2m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Recife to Belém starts at €78.83 and takes 23h 2m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,678 km, with around 7 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 9 September 2026Priced for 30 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 23h 2mDoor to door
  • 22h 18mMoving
  • €78.83From
  • 45.3 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 30 September 2026

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

Cheapest€73.88
  1. Expresso Guanabara EG486506:2423h 25m05:49Istmo do RecifeTerminal Rodoviário de Belém

Door to door 24h 9mCO2 45.3 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
Expresso Guanabara€73.8822h 25m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi

Belém is big enough that where you sleep decides what the days look like. We sell the seat, not the room.

A hotel room

A room in Belém for the night the coach gets in

Filter by neighbourhood and by price per night, and the map tells you what is a walk and what is a taxi.

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Booking window

When to book Recife to Belém

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

  1. €74.4390 days
  2. €62.8860 days
  3. €71.1345 days
  4. €68.9330 days
  5. €73.8821 days
  6. €78.8314 days
  7. €96.987 days
  8. €137.683 days
  9. €189.931 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €62.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 202 percent. The dearest point is €189.93, 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. €121.73Sun
  2. €85.98Mon
  3. €104.13Tue
  4. €78.83Wed
  5. €119.53Thu
  6. €124.48Fri
  7. €132.73Sat
Terminals

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

Belém

Coach
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Belém
  • Terminal da Ufra
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
56% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 44% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,678 km against 1,678 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Santa Luzia do Paruá, Miranda do Norte, Sousa, Zé Doca. The gap between arriving and leaving is 52 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 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 06:24 and the last at 17:33, across 7 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Buses against the other ways to make this journey

The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Flight5h 46m2h 36m3h 10m€170.65425.1 kg2
Coach23h 2m22h 18m44m€78.8345.3 kg7

Questions about Recife to Belém

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 Belém take?

The Coach from Recife to Belém takes 23h 2m door to door, of which 22h 18m is spent moving. The route runs 1,678 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 Belém cost?

The Coach from Recife to Belém starts at €78.83 for one passenger, checked on 30 September 2026. A typical fare is €88.18. 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 Belém?

1 operators run the Coach from Recife to Belém: Expresso Guanabara. Between them they file around 7 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 Belém use?

The Coach from Recife to Belém leaves from Istmo do Recife and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Belém. 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.

Is the Coach the best way from Recife to Belém?

Travelling from Recife to Belém by Flight costs €170.65 and takes 5h 46m door to door, against 23h 2m by Coach. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.

When should I book the Coach from Recife to Belém?

Fares for the Coach from Recife to Belém bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €62.88. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 202 percent, measured on 30 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Recife to Belém produce?

The Coach from Recife to Belém produces about 45.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1678 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 Belém?

Operators on the Coach from Recife to Belém publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 23h 2m 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 Belém on 9 September 2026: 1678 km of route against 1678 km in a straight line, 7 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €78.83, and 23h 2m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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