Rio de Janeiro to Rio Claro bus

Buses from Rio de Janeiro to Rio Claro start at €28.23 and take 8h 10m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Rio de Janeiro to Rio Claro starts at €28.23 and takes 8h 10m door to door, run by 2 operators over 521 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 13 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 10mDoor to door
  • 7h 26mMoving
  • €28.23 to €52.43From
  • 06:13 to 14:54First and last departure
  • 8Per day
  • 14.1 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 29 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€28.23 to €52.43 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 €52.43Mon14
  2. about €41.43Tue15
  3. about €51.88Wed16
  4. about €49.13Thu17
  5. about €46.38Fri18
  6. about €45.83Sat19
  7. about €39.78Sun20
  8. about €31.53Mon21
  9. about €28.23Tue22
  10. about €30.98Wed23
  11. about €46.38Thu24
  12. about €38.13Fri25
  13. about €37.03Sat26
  14. about €34.83Sun27

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 29 September 2026

Cheapest€24.38
  1. Expresso Adamantina EA653914:267h 49m22:15CajuRio Claro bus station

Door to door 8h 33mCO2 14.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€25.48
  1. Primar Navegacoes e Turismo PN647706:407h 26m14:06CajuRio Claro bus station

Door to door 8h 10mCO2 14.1 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.
OperatorFrom
Expresso Adamantina€24.38
Primar Navegacoes e Turismo€24.93

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

A hotel room

A room in Rio Claro for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from Estação Ferroviária de Rio Claro and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Rio de Janeiro to Rio Claro

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

  1. €34.8390 days
  2. €24.3860 days
  3. €21.6345 days
  4. €20.5330 days
  5. €28.2321 days
  6. €34.8314 days
  7. €39.787 days
  8. €51.883 days
  9. €52.431 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €20.53.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 155 percent. The dearest point is €52.43, 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. €34.83Sun
  2. €31.53Mon
  3. €28.23Tue
  4. €30.98Wed
  5. €46.38Thu
  6. €38.13Fri
  7. €37.03Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Rio de Janeiro

Coach
  • Caju
  • INTO

Rio Claro

Coach
  • Rio Claro bus station
  • Estação rodoviária
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

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 521 km against 453 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 Volta Redonda, Barra Mansa, Guaíra, Uberaba. 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 06:13 and the last at 14:54, 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 Rio Claro

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 Rio Claro take?

The Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Rio Claro takes 8h 10m door to door, of which 7h 26m is spent moving. The route runs 521 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 Rio Claro cost?

The Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Rio Claro starts at €28.23 for one passenger, as of 13 September 2026. A typical fare is €29.33. 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 Rio de Janeiro to Rio Claro?

2 operators run the Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Rio Claro: Expresso Adamantina, Primar Navegacoes e Turismo. 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 Rio Claro use?

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

Fares for the Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Rio Claro bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €20.53. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 155 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 Rio Claro produce?

The Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Rio Claro produces about 14.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 521 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 Rio Claro?

Operators on the Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Rio Claro publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 10m 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 Rio Claro on 13 September 2026: 521 km of route against 453 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €28.23, and 8h 10m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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