Santa Maria to Palmas bus

Buses from Santa Maria to Palmas start at €139.33 and take 34h 9m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Santa Maria to Palmas starts at €139.33 and takes 34h 9m door to door, run by 1 operator over 2,580 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

  • 34h 9mDoor to door
  • 33h 25mMoving
  • €139.33 to €263.63From
  • 06:35 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 69.7 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.

€139.33 to €263.63 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 costs by departure date, from our own model. Read it as a guide to which days are dearer, not as a quote.

Indicative fares

  1. about €233.38Mon14
  2. about €200.93Tue15
  3. about €243.28Wed16
  4. about €263.63Thu17
  5. about €204.78Fri18
  6. about €242.73Sat19
  7. about €198.18Sun20
  8. about €144.83Mon21
  9. about €147.58Tue22
  10. about €139.33Wed23
  11. about €178.93Thu24
  12. about €167.38Fri25
  13. about €175.63Sat26
  14. about €172.88Sun27

Modelled from what this route has cost, not from live availability. Nothing here is held for you, and the operator sets the price on the day.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026

Cheapest€122.83
  1. Planalto Transportes PT243706:3533h 25m16:00Rodoviária de Santa MariaBus Station of Palmas

Door to door 34h 9mCO2 69.7 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
Planalto Transportes€122.8334h 9m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Palmas for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Santa Maria to Palmas

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

  1. €141.5390 days
  2. €109.6360 days
  3. €101.9345 days
  4. €102.4830 days
  5. €127.2321 days
  6. €172.8814 days
  7. €198.187 days
  8. €243.283 days
  9. €233.381 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €101.93.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 139 percent. The dearest point is €243.28, 3 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. €172.88Sun
  2. €144.83Mon
  3. €147.58Tue
  4. €139.33Wed
  5. €178.93Thu
  6. €167.38Fri
  7. €175.63Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Santa Maria

Coach
  • Rodoviária de Santa Maria
  • Posto de Camobi

Palmas

Coach
  • Bus Station of Palmas
  • Estação Apinajé
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 2,580 km against 2,243 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 Porangatu, Maringá, Pato Branco, Presidente Prudente. 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 Maria at 06:35 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 Santa Maria to Palmas

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 Maria to Palmas take?

The Coach from Santa Maria to Palmas takes 34h 9m door to door, of which 33h 25m is spent moving. The route runs 2,580 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 Maria to Palmas cost?

The Coach from Santa Maria to Palmas starts at €139.33 for one passenger, checked on 13 September 2026. A typical fare is €128.88. 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 Maria to Palmas?

1 operators run the Coach from Santa Maria to Palmas: Planalto Transportes. 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 Santa Maria to Palmas use?

The Coach from Santa Maria to Palmas leaves from Rodoviária de Santa Maria and arrives at Bus Station of Palmas. 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 Maria to Palmas?

Fares for the Coach from Santa Maria to Palmas bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €101.93. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 139 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Santa Maria to Palmas produce?

The Coach from Santa Maria to Palmas produces about 69.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2580 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 Maria to Palmas?

Operators on the Coach from Santa Maria to Palmas publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 34h 9m 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 Maria to Palmas on 13 September 2026: 2580 km of route against 2243 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €139.33, and 34h 9m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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