São José to Dourados bus

Buses from São José to Dourados start at €48.03 and take 15h 1m at their fastest.

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The Buses from São José to Dourados starts at €48.03 and takes 15h 1m door to door, run by 1 operator over 994 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 15h 1mDoor to door
  • 14h 17mMoving
  • €48.03 to €104.13From
  • 06:10 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 26.8 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.

€48.03 to €104.13 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 €85.98Tue15
  2. about €95.33Wed16
  3. about €104.13Thu17
  4. about €77.18Fri18
  5. about €83.78Sat19
  6. about €78.83Sun20
  7. about €59.58Mon21
  8. about €59.58Tue22
  9. about €62.33Wed23
  10. about €72.78Thu24
  11. about €68.38Fri25
  12. about €67.28Sat26
  13. about €67.28Sun27
  14. about €48.03Mon28

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€46.93
  1. Unesul de Transportes UT896406:1014h 17m20:27Rodoviária Antônio CarlosEucatur

Door to door 15h 1mCO2 26.8 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
Unesul de Transportes€46.9313h 37m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Dourados for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from Eucatur and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book São José to Dourados

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

  1. €58.4890 days
  2. €50.2360 days
  3. €47.4845 days
  4. €42.5330 days
  5. €49.6821 days
  6. €48.0314 days
  7. €59.587 days
  8. €104.133 days
  9. €85.981 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €42.53.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 145 percent. The dearest point is €104.13, 3 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. €67.28Sun
  2. €49.68Mon
  3. €59.58Tue
  4. €62.33Wed
  5. €72.78Thu
  6. €68.38Fri
  7. €67.28Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

São José

Coach
  • Rodoviária Antônio Carlos

Dourados

Coach
  • Eucatur
  • Terminal
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 994 km against 865 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 Toledo, Marechal Cândido Rondon, Cascavel, Maringá. The gap between arriving and leaving is 54 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 São José at 06:10 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 São José to Dourados

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 São José to Dourados take?

The Coach from São José to Dourados takes 15h 1m door to door, of which 14h 17m is spent moving. The route runs 994 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 São José to Dourados cost?

The Coach from São José to Dourados starts at €48.03 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €54.63. 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 São José to Dourados?

1 operators run the Coach from São José to Dourados: Unesul de 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 São José to Dourados use?

The Coach from São José to Dourados leaves from Rodoviária Antônio Carlos and arrives at Eucatur. 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 São José to Dourados?

Fares for the Coach from São José to Dourados bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €42.53. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 145 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from São José to Dourados produce?

The Coach from São José to Dourados produces about 26.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 994 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 São José to Dourados?

Operators on the Coach from São José to Dourados publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 15h 1m 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 São José to Dourados on 14 September 2026: 994 km of route against 865 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €48.03, and 15h 1m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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