Buses from São José to Santa Maria start at €27.13 and take 9h 28m at their fastest.
Fares and seats move by the day. Price São José to Santa Maria on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Buses from São José to Santa Maria starts at €27.13 and takes 9h 28m door to door, run by 1 operator over 639 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.
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.
€34.83 to €66.18 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.
Viação União Santa Cruz runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.
Bookaway lists departures for São José to Santa Maria on your date, and you pay on their side.
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What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
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.
Changes at Venâncio Aires, with 51 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 10h 51mCO2 17.7 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 9h 28mCO2 17.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viação União Santa Cruz | €28.78 | 9h 3m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
The coach gets you into Santa Maria. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
Sort by distance from Sítio Ferroviário de Santa Maria and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
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.
The Coach from São José to Santa Maria takes 9h 28m door to door, of which 8h 44m is spent moving. The route runs 639 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.
The Coach from São José to Santa Maria starts at €27.13 for one passenger, as of 18 September 2026. A typical fare is €28.23. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Coach from São José to Santa Maria: Viação União Santa Cruz. 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.
The Coach from São José to Santa Maria leaves from Rodoviária Antônio Carlos and arrives at Rodoviária de Santa Maria. 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.
Fares for the Coach from São José to Santa Maria bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €23.28. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 172 percent, measured on 18 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Coach from São José to Santa Maria produces about 17.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 639 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.
Operators on the Coach from São José to Santa Maria publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 28m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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
The coach is the simple part. What you do once you are in Santa Maria is somebody else's catalogue.
Day trips that leave Santa Maria in the morning and cover a good part of Brazil by evening.
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