Rio de Janeiro to Piritiba bus

Buses from Rio de Janeiro to Piritiba start at €77.73 and take 20h 31m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Rio de Janeiro to Piritiba starts at €77.73 and takes 20h 31m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,465 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 13 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 20h 31mDoor to door
  • 19h 47mMoving
  • €77.73 to €153.08From
  • 06:20 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 39.6 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 28 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€77.73 to €153.08 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.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €153.08Mon14
  2. about €138.78Tue15
  3. about €123.93Wed16
  4. about €123.93Thu17
  5. about €142.08Fri18
  6. about €119.53Sat19
  7. about €107.43Sun20
  8. about €77.73Mon21
  9. about €85.98Tue22
  10. about €99.18Wed23
  11. about €107.43Thu24
  12. about €102.48Fri25
  13. about €115.13Sat26
  14. about €99.18Sun27

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.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026

Cheapest€62.88
  1. Emtram Empresa de Transportes Macaubense EE845406:2019h 47m02:07CajuPiritiba bus station

Door to door 20h 31mCO2 39.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

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
Emtram Empresa de Transportes Macaubense€62.8819h 48m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi

The coach gets you into Piritiba. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Piritiba for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Rio de Janeiro to Piritiba

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

  1. €79.3890 days
  2. €76.6360 days
  3. €62.8845 days
  4. €63.4330 days
  5. €84.8821 days
  6. €99.1814 days
  7. €107.437 days
  8. €123.933 days
  9. €153.081 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €62.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 143 percent. The dearest point is €153.08, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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. €99.18Sun
  2. €77.73Mon
  3. €85.98Tue
  4. €99.18Wed
  5. €107.43Thu
  6. €102.48Fri
  7. €115.13Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Rio de Janeiro

Coach
  • Caju
  • INTO
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

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 1,465 km against 1,274 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 Caratinga, Teófilo Otoni, Governador Valadares, Leopoldina. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 06:20 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 Rio de Janeiro to Piritiba

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 Piritiba take?

The Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Piritiba takes 20h 31m door to door, of which 19h 47m is spent moving. The route runs 1,465 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 Piritiba cost?

The Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Piritiba starts at €77.73 for one passenger, as of 13 September 2026. A typical fare is €81.58. 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 Piritiba?

1 operators run the Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Piritiba: Emtram Empresa de Transportes Macaubense. 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 Rio de Janeiro to Piritiba use?

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

Fares for the Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Piritiba bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €62.88. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 143 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Piritiba produces about 39.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1465 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 Piritiba?

Operators on the Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Piritiba publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 20h 31m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

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.

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 Piritiba on 13 September 2026: 1465 km of route against 1274 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €77.73, and 20h 31m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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