Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa bus

Buses from Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa start at €126.13 and take 46h 20m at their fastest.

Santa Cruz do SulSanta Cruz do SulSousaSousa

The Buses from Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa starts at €126.13 and takes 46h 20m door to door, run by 2 operators over 3,397 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 18 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 46h 20mDoor to door
  • 45h 36mMoving
  • €165.73 to €400.58From
  • 06:05 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 6Per day
  • 91.7 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 6 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€165.73 to €400.58 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.

Expresso Guanabara runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €400.58Sat19
  2. about €315.33Sun20
  3. about €208.63Mon21
  4. about €208.63Tue22
  5. about €221.28Wed23
  6. about €273.53Thu24
  7. about €208.08Fri25
  8. about €211.38Sat26
  9. about €210.28Sun27
  10. about €165.73Mon28
  11. about €166.28Tue29
  12. about €181.68Wed30
  13. about €205.33Thu1
  14. about €183.88Fri2

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 6 October 2026

Cheapest€126.13
  1. Expresso Guanabara EG409306:0548h 54m06:59Estação Rodoviária de Santa Cruz do SulTerminal Rodoviário de Sousa

Door to door 49h 38mCO2 91.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€180.58
  1. JS Turismo JS384606:3545h 36m04:11Estação Rodoviária de Santa Cruz do SulTerminal Rodoviário de Sousa

Door to door 46h 20mCO2 91.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Lowest CO2€142.63
  1. Expresso Guanabara EG589007:3038h 8m21:38Estação Rodoviária de Santa Cruz do SulSenhor do Bonfim bus station
  2. Expresso Guanabara EG606623:117h 38m06:49Senhor do Bonfim bus stationTerminal Rodoviário de Sousa

Changes at Senhor do Bonfim, with 93 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 48h 3mCO2 91.7 kgChanges 1Changeable 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.
OperatorFromFastest
Expresso Guanabara€126.1344h 34m
JS Turismo€153.0844h 38m

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

A hotel room

A room in Sousa for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa

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

  1. €195.9890 days
  2. €101.3860 days
  3. €116.2345 days
  4. €141.5330 days
  5. €185.5321 days
  6. €183.8814 days
  7. €208.087 days
  8. €208.633 days
  9. €400.581 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €101.38.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 295 percent. The dearest point is €400.58, 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. €210.28Sun
  2. €165.73Mon
  3. €166.28Tue
  4. €181.68Wed
  5. €205.33Thu
  6. €185.53Fri
  7. €211.38Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Santa Cruz do Sul

Coach
  • Estação Rodoviária de Santa Cruz do Sul
  • Rodoviária de Passo do Sobrado

Sousa

Coach
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Sousa
  • Terminal Municipal de Transporte Coletivo
The journey

What the journey looks like

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 3,397 km against 2,954 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 Cabrobó, Jacobina, Senhor do Bonfim, Morro do Chapéu. The gap between arriving and leaving is 58 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. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Santa Cruz do Sul at 06:05 and the last at 07:30, across 6 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa

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 Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa take?

The Coach from Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa takes 46h 20m door to door, of which 45h 36m is spent moving. The route runs 3,397 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 Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa cost?

The Coach from Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa starts at €126.13 for one passenger, as of 18 September 2026. A typical fare is €143.18. 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 Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa?

2 operators run the Coach from Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa: Expresso Guanabara, JS Turismo. Between them they file around 6 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 Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa use?

The Coach from Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa leaves from Estação Rodoviária de Santa Cruz do Sul and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Sousa. 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 Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa?

Fares for the Coach from Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €101.38. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 295 percent, measured on 18 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa produce?

The Coach from Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa produces about 91.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 3397 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 Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa?

Operators on the Coach from Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 46h 20m 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 Santa Cruz do Sul to Sousa on 18 September 2026: 3397 km of route against 2954 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €126.13, and 46h 20m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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