Recife to Bom Despacho bus

Buses from Recife to Bom Despacho start at €107.98 and take 28h 14m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Recife to Bom Despacho starts at €107.98 and takes 28h 14m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,970 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 11 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 28h 14mDoor to door
  • 27h 30mMoving
  • €107.98From
  • 53.2 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026

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

Cheapest€93.68
  1. Empresa Auto Viação Progresso EA511207:305h 20m12:50Istmo do RecifeRodoviária de Aracaju
  2. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG309814:0121h 28m11:29Rodoviária de AracajuTerminal Rodoviário (Rodoviária)

Changes at Aracaju, with 71 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 28h 43mCO2 51.6 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€115.68
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG933706:1027h 30m09:40Istmo do RecifeTerminal Rodoviário (Rodoviária)

Door to door 28h 14mCO2 53.2 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€104.6826h 10m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • Empresa Gontijo de Transportes

Bom Despacho is small enough to walk across, so almost anywhere central works. We still do not sell the room.

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Terminal Rodoviário (Rodoviária)

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 Bom Despacho

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

  1. €114.0390 days
  2. €68.3860 days
  3. €71.6845 days
  4. €78.8330 days
  5. €103.0321 days
  6. €107.9814 days
  7. €126.687 days
  8. €123.933 days
  9. €184.981 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €68.38.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 171 percent. The dearest point is €184.98, 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. €128.88Sun
  2. €123.93Mon
  3. €109.63Tue
  4. €122.83Wed
  5. €132.73Thu
  6. €107.98Fri
  7. €127.78Sat
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

Bom Despacho

Coach
  • Terminal Rodoviário (Rodoviária)
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
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,970 km against 1,713 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 Jequié, Aracaju, Vitória da Conquista, Feira de Santana. The gap between arriving and leaving is 71 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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 06:10 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Recife to Bom Despacho

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 Bom Despacho take?

The Coach from Recife to Bom Despacho takes 28h 14m door to door, of which 27h 30m is spent moving. The route runs 1,970 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 Bom Despacho cost?

The Coach from Recife to Bom Despacho starts at €107.98 for one passenger, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare is €106.33. 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 Bom Despacho?

1 operators run the Coach from Recife to Bom Despacho: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes. Between them they file around 5 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 Bom Despacho use?

The Coach from Recife to Bom Despacho leaves from Istmo do Recife and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário (Rodoviária). 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 Bom Despacho?

Fares for the Coach from Recife to Bom Despacho bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €68.38. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 171 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Recife to Bom Despacho produce?

The Coach from Recife to Bom Despacho produces about 53.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1970 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 Bom Despacho?

Operators on the Coach from Recife to Bom Despacho publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 28h 14m 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 Bom Despacho on 11 September 2026: 1970 km of route against 1713 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €107.98, and 28h 14m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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