Buses from Recife to São Gonçalo start at €105.78 and take 29h 38m at their fastest.
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Recife to São Gonçalo on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Buses from Recife to São Gonçalo starts at €105.78 and takes 29h 38m door to door, run by 1 operator over 2,139 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
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.
€105.78 to €200.93 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.
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
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.
Changes at Maceió, with 45 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 31h 11mCO2 56.9 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 29h 38mCO2 57.8 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JS Turismo | €105.78 | 29h 18m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
The coach gets you into São Gonçalo. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
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.
The Coach from Recife to São Gonçalo takes 29h 38m door to door, of which 28h 54m is spent moving. The route runs 2,139 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.
The Coach from Recife to São Gonçalo starts at €105.78 for one passenger, as of 13 September 2026. A typical fare is €110.17. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Coach from Recife to São Gonçalo: JS Turismo. 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.
The Coach from Recife to São Gonçalo leaves from Istmo do Recife and arrives at Alcântara. 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.
Fares for the Coach from Recife to São Gonçalo bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €74.98. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 168 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Coach from Recife to São Gonçalo produces about 57.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2139 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.
Operators on the Coach from Recife to São Gonçalo publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 29h 38m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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.
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Being on the water gives São Gonçalo a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips that leave São Gonçalo in the morning and cover a good part of Brazil by evening.
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