Cheapest€34.83
- Expresso Guanabara EG435706:0513h 3m19:08Terminal Rodoviário de Santa InêsTerminal Rodoviário de Fortaleza Engenheiro João Tomé
Door to door 13h 47mCO2 23.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Santa Inês to Fortaleza bus
Buses from Santa Inês to Fortaleza start at €34.83 and take 12h 6m at their fastest.
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Fares and seats move by the day. Price Santa Inês to Fortaleza on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Buses from Santa Inês to Fortaleza starts at €34.83 and takes 12h 6m door to door, run by 4 operators over 872 km, with around 20 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 12h 6mDoor to door
- 11h 22mMoving
- €45.28 to €85.43From
- 06:05 to 18:48First and last departure
- 20Per day
- 23.5 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.
€45.28 to €85.43 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.
Expresso Guanabara runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.
Buying this journey
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €83.78Fri18
- about €85.43Sat19
- about €65.08Sun20
- about €56.28Mon21
- about €55.18Tue22
- about €58.48Wed23
- about €59.03Thu24
- about €55.73Fri25
- about €56.83Sat26
- about €52.43Sun27
- about €45.28Mon28
- about €45.28Tue29
- about €47.48Wed30
- about €47.48Thu1
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.
The cheapest and the fastest on 6 October 2026
Fastest€40.33
- Expresso Satélite Norte ES337910:2211h 22m21:44Terminal Rodoviário de Santa InêsTerminal Rodoviário de Fortaleza Engenheiro João Tomé
Door to door 12h 6mCO2 23.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Lowest CO2€41.98
- Comércio e Transportes Boa Esperança CT641207:306h 20m13:50Terminal Rodoviário de Santa InêsTerminal Rodoviário de Parnaíba
- Expresso Guanabara EG143114:355h 2m19:37Terminal Rodoviário de ParnaíbaTerminal Rodoviário de Fortaleza Engenheiro João Tomé
Changes at Parnaíba, with 45 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 12h 51mCO2 22.7 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Bus operators
| Operator | From | Fastest |
|---|---|---|
| Expresso Guanabara | €34.83 | 12h 4m |
| Expresso Satélite Norte | €38.13 | 12h 4m |
| Real Maia Transportes Terrestres | €34.83 | 12h 4m |
| Transportadora Turistica Suzano | €35.38 | 12h 6m |
The coach gets you into Fortaleza. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Fortaleza for the night the coach gets in
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When to book Santa Inês to Fortaleza
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €40.3390 days
- €29.3360 days
- €34.2845 days
- €38.6830 days
- €46.3821 days
- €47.4814 days
- €59.037 days
- €65.083 days
- €83.781 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €29.33.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 186 percent. The dearest point is €83.78, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €52.43Sun
- €45.28Mon
- €45.28Tue
- €47.48Wed
- €47.48Thu
- €55.73Fri
- €56.83Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Santa Inês
Coach
- Terminal Rodoviário de Santa Inês
Fortaleza
Coach
- Terminal Rodoviário de Fortaleza Engenheiro João Tomé
- Terminal Lagoa
What the journey looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 80% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 20% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 872 km against 759 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 Parnaíba, Buriti dos Lopes, Piripiri, Piracuruca. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 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 Santa Inês at 06:05 and the last at 18:48, across 20 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Santa Inês to Fortaleza
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 Inês to Fortaleza take?
The Coach from Santa Inês to Fortaleza takes 12h 6m door to door, of which 11h 22m is spent moving. The route runs 872 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 Inês to Fortaleza cost?
The Coach from Santa Inês to Fortaleza starts at €34.83 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €42.81. 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 Inês to Fortaleza?
4 operators run the Coach from Santa Inês to Fortaleza: Expresso Guanabara, Expresso Satélite Norte, Real Maia Transportes Terrestres, Transportadora Turistica Suzano. Between them they file around 20 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 Inês to Fortaleza use?
The Coach from Santa Inês to Fortaleza leaves from Terminal Rodoviário de Santa Inês and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Fortaleza Engenheiro João Tomé. 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 Inês to Fortaleza?
Fares for the Coach from Santa Inês to Fortaleza bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €29.33. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 186 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Santa Inês to Fortaleza produce?
The Coach from Santa Inês to Fortaleza produces about 23.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 872 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 Inês to Fortaleza?
Operators on the Coach from Santa Inês to Fortaleza publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 4 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 12h 6m 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 Inês to Fortaleza on 17 September 2026: 872 km of route against 759 km in a straight line, 20 services a day, 4 operators a cheapest fare of €34.83, and 12h 6m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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