Cheapest€19.43
- Expresso Guanabara EG233517:146h 11m23:25Terminal Rodoviário de SousaTerminal Rodoviário de Picos
Door to door 6h 55mCO2 11.2 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Sousa to Picos bus
Buses from Sousa to Picos start at €23.83 and take 6h 21m at their fastest.
The Buses from Sousa to Picos starts at €23.83 and takes 6h 21m door to door, run by 2 operators over 413 km, with around 10 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 6h 21mDoor to door
- 5h 37mMoving
- €23.83From
- 11.2 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Fastest€26.03
- Expresso Guanabara EG441911:415h 37m17:18Terminal Rodoviário de SousaTerminal Rodoviário de Picos
Door to door 6h 21mCO2 11.2 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest |
|---|---|---|
| Cruzeiro do Norte Transportes | €19.98 | 6h 13m |
| Expresso Guanabara | €19.43 | 6h 9m |
That is the travelling done. What happens after you walk out into Picos is not something we sell.
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When to book Sousa to Picos
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €18.8890 days
- €18.3360 days
- €19.9845 days
- €19.4330 days
- €22.1821 days
- €27.1314 days
- €30.987 days
- €44.183 days
- €51.881 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €18.33.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 183 percent. The dearest point is €51.88, 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.
- €30.43Sun
- €23.83Mon
- €26.03Tue
- €27.13Wed
- €33.18Thu
- €27.68Fri
- €28.23Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Sousa
Coach
- Terminal Rodoviário de Sousa
- Terminal Municipal de Transporte Coletivo
Picos
Coach
- Terminal Rodoviário de Picos
- Terminal Rodoviário Senador Helvídio Nunes
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 60% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 40% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 413 km against 359 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 Araripe, Crato, Juazeiro do Norte, Campos Sales. 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. 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 Sousa at 06:08 and the last at 17:26, across 10 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Sousa to Picos
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 Sousa to Picos take?
The Coach from Sousa to Picos takes 6h 21m door to door, of which 5h 37m is spent moving. The route runs 413 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 Sousa to Picos cost?
The Coach from Sousa to Picos starts at €23.83 for one passenger, checked on 29 September 2026. A typical fare is €22.18. 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 Sousa to Picos?
2 operators run the Coach from Sousa to Picos: Cruzeiro do Norte Transportes, Expresso Guanabara. Between them they file around 10 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 Sousa to Picos use?
The Coach from Sousa to Picos leaves from Terminal Rodoviário de Sousa and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Picos. 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 Sousa to Picos?
Fares for the Coach from Sousa to Picos bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €18.33. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 183 percent, measured on 29 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Sousa to Picos produce?
The Coach from Sousa to Picos produces about 11.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 413 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 Sousa to Picos?
Operators on the Coach from Sousa to Picos publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 21m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Sousa to Picos on 9 September 2026: 413 km of route against 359 km in a straight line, 10 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €23.83, and 6h 21m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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