Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem bus

Buses from Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem start at €73.88 and take 17h 35m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem starts at €73.88 and takes 17h 35m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,187 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 12 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 17h 35mDoor to door
  • 16h 51mMoving
  • €73.88From
  • 32.0 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€64.53
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG836206:3416h 51m23:25Terminal Rodoviário de Riachão do JacuípeTerminal Petrolândia

Door to door 17h 35mCO2 32.0 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Empresa Gontijo de Transportes€64.5316h 10m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • Empresa Gontijo de Transportes

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Booking window

When to book Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem

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

  1. €77.7390 days
  2. €50.2360 days
  3. €46.9345 days
  4. €41.4330 days
  5. €66.1821 days
  6. €99.1814 days
  7. €134.937 days
  8. €117.883 days
  9. €159.681 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €41.43.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 285 percent. The dearest point is €159.68, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €93.13Sun
  2. €82.13Mon
  3. €73.88Tue
  4. €76.63Wed
  5. €106.33Thu
  6. €94.78Fri
  7. €99.18Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Riachão do Jacuípe

Coach
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Riachão do Jacuípe

Contagem

Coach
  • Terminal Petrolândia
  • Ponto de controle Santa Edwiges
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 1,187 km against 1,032 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 Petrolina, Luziânia, Duque de Caxias, Cristalina. The gap between arriving and leaving is 59 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 Riachão do Jacuípe at 06:34 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 Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem

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 Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem take?

The Coach from Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem takes 17h 35m door to door, of which 16h 51m is spent moving. The route runs 1,187 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 Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem cost?

The Coach from Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem starts at €73.88 for one passenger, checked on 12 September 2026. A typical fare is €95.33. 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 Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem?

1 operators run the Coach from Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem: 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 Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem use?

The Coach from Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem leaves from Terminal Rodoviário de Riachão do Jacuípe and arrives at Terminal Petrolândia. 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 Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem?

Fares for the Coach from Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €41.43. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 285 percent, measured on 12 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem produce?

The Coach from Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem produces about 32.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1187 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 Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem?

Operators on the Coach from Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 17h 35m 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 Riachão do Jacuípe to Contagem on 12 September 2026: 1187 km of route against 1032 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €73.88, and 17h 35m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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