Recife to Propriá bus

Buses from Recife to Propriá start at €21.08 and take 5h 37m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Recife to Propriá starts at €21.08 and takes 5h 37m door to door, run by 3 operators over 370 km, with around 16 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 9 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 37mDoor to door
  • 4h 53mMoving
  • €21.08From
  • 10.0 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€18.88
  1. Expresso São Luiz ES779010:165h 2m15:18Istmo do RecifePropriá bus station

Door to door 5h 46mCO2 10.0 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€22.18
  1. Empresa Auto Viação Progresso EA466518:424h 53m23:35Istmo do RecifePropriá bus station

Door to door 5h 37mCO2 10.0 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.
OperatorFromFastest
Empresa Auto Viação Progresso€19.435h 36m
Expresso São Luiz€18.885h 38m
JS Turismo€18.885h 36m

That is the travelling done. What happens after you walk out into Propriá is not something we sell.

A hotel room

Where to sleep in Propriá

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Booking window

When to book Recife to Propriá

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

  1. €17.2390 days
  2. €17.7860 days
  3. €18.8845 days
  4. €17.7830 days
  5. €18.8821 days
  6. €23.2814 days
  7. €28.787 days
  8. €37.583 days
  9. €45.281 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €17.23.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 163 percent. The dearest point is €45.28, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 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. €26.03Sun
  2. €21.08Mon
  3. €21.08Tue
  4. €23.28Wed
  5. €27.13Thu
  6. €24.93Fri
  7. €26.03Sat
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
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
75% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 25% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 370 km against 322 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 São Miguel dos Campos, Teotônio Vilela, Arapiraca, União dos Palmares. The gap between arriving and leaving is 75 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 06:29 and the last at 18:42, across 16 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Recife to Propriá

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 Propriá take?

The Coach from Recife to Propriá takes 5h 37m door to door, of which 4h 53m is spent moving. The route runs 370 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 Propriá cost?

The Coach from Recife to Propriá starts at €21.08 for one passenger, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare is €22.46. 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 Propriá?

3 operators run the Coach from Recife to Propriá: Empresa Auto Viação Progresso, Expresso São Luiz, JS Turismo. Between them they file around 16 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 Propriá use?

The Coach from Recife to Propriá leaves from Istmo do Recife and arrives at Propriá bus station. 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 Propriá?

Fares for the Coach from Recife to Propriá bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €17.23. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 163 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Recife to Propriá produces about 10.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 370 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 Propriá?

Operators on the Coach from Recife to Propriá publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 37m 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 Propriá on 9 September 2026: 370 km of route against 322 km in a straight line, 16 services a day, 3 operators, a cheapest fare of €21.08, and 5h 37m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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