Recife to Teresópolis bus

Buses from Recife to Teresópolis start at €106.33 and take 31h 3m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Recife to Teresópolis starts at €106.33 and takes 31h 3m door to door, run by 1 operator over 2,089 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 9 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 31h 3mDoor to door
  • 30h 19mMoving
  • €106.33From
  • 56.4 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

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

Cheapest€100.83
  1. Transportadora Turistica Suzano TT730807:3028h 5m11:35Istmo do RecifeTerminal Rodoviário de Campos dos Goytacazes
  2. Kaissara K682512:413h 1m15:42Terminal Rodoviário de Campos dos GoytacazesTeresópolis Bus Station

Changes at Campos dos Goytacazes, with 66 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 32h 56mCO2 57.7 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Lowest CO2€110.73
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG673306:3431h 36m14:10Istmo do RecifeTeresópolis Bus Station

Door to door 32h 20mCO2 56.4 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€106.3327h 51m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • Empresa Gontijo de Transportes

The journey ends at Teresópolis Bus Station. Everything past the barriers belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

Where to sleep in Teresópolis

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Booking window

When to book Recife to Teresópolis

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

  1. €104.6890 days
  2. €75.5360 days
  3. €92.5845 days
  4. €88.7330 days
  5. €107.9821 days
  6. €122.2814 days
  7. €142.087 days
  8. €204.783 days
  9. €270.231 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €75.53.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 258 percent. The dearest point is €270.23, 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. €148.68Sun
  2. €107.43Mon
  3. €111.28Tue
  4. €122.28Wed
  5. €155.28Thu
  6. €131.63Fri
  7. €148.68Sat
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

Teresópolis

Coach
  • Teresópolis Bus Station
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
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 2,089 km against 1,817 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 Campos dos Goytacazes, Nova Friburgo, Vitória, Leopoldina. 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 06:34 and the last at 14:47, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Recife to Teresópolis

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 Teresópolis take?

The Coach from Recife to Teresópolis takes 31h 3m door to door, of which 30h 19m is spent moving. The route runs 2,089 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 Teresópolis cost?

The Coach from Recife to Teresópolis starts at €106.33 for one passenger, checked on 29 September 2026. A typical fare is €110.73. 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 Teresópolis?

1 operators run the Coach from Recife to Teresópolis: 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 Teresópolis use?

The Coach from Recife to Teresópolis leaves from Istmo do Recife and arrives at Teresópolis 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 Teresópolis?

Fares for the Coach from Recife to Teresópolis bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €75.53. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 258 percent, measured on 29 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Recife to Teresópolis produces about 56.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2089 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 Teresópolis?

Operators on the Coach from Recife to Teresópolis publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 31h 3m 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 Teresópolis on 9 September 2026: 2089 km of route against 1817 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €106.33, and 31h 3m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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