Rio de Janeiro to Corinto bus

Buses from Rio de Janeiro to Corinto start at €33.18 and take 8h 36m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Rio de Janeiro to Corinto starts at €33.18 and takes 8h 36m door to door, run by 2 operators over 598 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

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

  • 8h 36mDoor to door
  • 7h 52mMoving
  • €33.18From
  • 16.1 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€27.68
  1. Transnorte T812014:158h 6m22:21CajuCorinto bus station

Door to door 8h 50mCO2 16.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€35.93
  1. Expresso União EU312006:247h 52m14:16CajuCorinto bus station

Door to door 8h 36mCO2 16.1 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
Expresso União€33.188h 33m
Transnorte€27.688h 32m

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

A hotel room

A room in Corinto for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Rio de Janeiro to Corinto

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

  1. €31.5390 days
  2. €22.7360 days
  3. €25.4845 days
  4. €26.5830 days
  5. €36.4821 days
  6. €45.8314 days
  7. €51.337 days
  8. €47.483 days
  9. €71.131 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.73.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 213 percent. The dearest point is €71.13, 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. €44.73Sun
  2. €33.18Mon
  3. €39.22Tue
  4. €34.83Wed
  5. €46.92Thu
  6. €40.33Fri
  7. €45.83Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Rio de Janeiro

Coach
  • Caju
  • INTO
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
50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 598 km against 520 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 Paulo, Petrópolis, Atibaia, Guarulhos. The gap between arriving and leaving is 63 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 Rio de Janeiro at 06:02 and the last at 14:37, across 8 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Rio de Janeiro to Corinto

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 Rio de Janeiro to Corinto take?

The Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Corinto takes 8h 36m door to door, of which 7h 52m is spent moving. The route runs 598 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 Rio de Janeiro to Corinto cost?

The Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Corinto starts at €33.18 for one passenger, checked on 12 September 2026. A typical fare is €38.40. 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 Rio de Janeiro to Corinto?

2 operators run the Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Corinto: Expresso União, Transnorte. Between them they file around 8 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 Rio de Janeiro to Corinto use?

The Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Corinto leaves from Caju and arrives at Corinto 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 Rio de Janeiro to Corinto?

Fares for the Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Corinto bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.73. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 213 percent, measured on 12 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Corinto produce?

The Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Corinto produces about 16.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 598 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 Rio de Janeiro to Corinto?

Operators on the Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Corinto publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 36m 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 Rio de Janeiro to Corinto on 12 September 2026: 598 km of route against 520 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €33.18, and 8h 36m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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