Teresópolis to Recife bus

Buses from Teresópolis to Recife start at €115.68 and take 28h 50m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Teresópolis to Recife starts at €115.68 and takes 28h 50m door to door, run by 1 operator over 2,089 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 9 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 28h 50mDoor to door
  • 28h 6mMoving
  • €115.68From
  • 56.4 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€99.73
  1. Kaissara K988907:302h 51m10:21Teresópolis Bus StationTerminal Rodoviário de Campos dos Goytacazes
  2. Transportadora Turistica Suzano TT781911:4326h 7m13:50Terminal Rodoviário de Campos dos GoytacazesIstmo do Recife

Changes at Campos dos Goytacazes, with 82 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 31h 4mCO2 57.7 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€160.78
  1. Kaissara K673807:305h 49m13:19Teresópolis Bus StationTerminal Itacibá
  2. Azul A666614:562h 26m17:22Vitória VIXRecife REC

Changes at Vitória, with 97 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 11h 49mCO2 387.3 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Lowest CO2€110.73
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG575106:3428h 6m10:40Teresópolis Bus StationIstmo do Recife

Door to door 28h 50mCO2 56.4 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

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
Empresa Gontijo de Transportes€106.3327h 44m72 km/hChangeablePower sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi
  • Empresa Gontijo de Transportes

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Rooms within reach of Recife Central Station

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Booking window

When to book Teresópolis to Recife

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

  1. €104.6890 days
  2. €75.5360 days
  3. €92.5845 days
  4. €88.7330 days
  5. €105.2321 days
  6. €121.7214 days
  7. €148.687 days
  8. €204.783 days
  9. €270.231 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €75.53.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 258 percent. The dearest point is €270.23, 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.
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. €131.08Sun
  2. €116.78Mon
  3. €115.68Tue
  4. €121.72Wed
  5. €164.63Thu
  6. €131.63Fri
  7. €160.78Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Teresópolis

Coach
  • Teresópolis Bus Station

Recife

Coach
  • Istmo do Recife
  • TI Recife
The journey

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
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 2,089 km against 1,817 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 Leopoldina, Campos dos Goytacazes, Nova Friburgo, Vitória. The gap between arriving and leaving is 56 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 Teresópolis at 06:34 and the last at 14:47, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Teresópolis to Recife

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 Teresópolis to Recife take?

The Coach from Teresópolis to Recife takes 28h 50m door to door, of which 28h 6m is spent moving. The route runs 2,089 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 Teresópolis to Recife cost?

The Coach from Teresópolis to Recife starts at €115.68 for one passenger, checked on 29 September 2026. A typical fare is €106.60. 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 Teresópolis to Recife?

1 operators run the Coach from Teresópolis to Recife: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes. Between them they file around 6 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 Teresópolis to Recife use?

The Coach from Teresópolis to Recife leaves from Teresópolis Bus Station and arrives at Istmo do Recife. 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 Teresópolis to Recife?

Fares for the Coach from Teresópolis to Recife bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €75.53. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 258 percent, measured on 29 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Teresópolis to Recife produce?

The Coach from Teresópolis to Recife produces about 56.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2089 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 Teresópolis to Recife?

Operators on the Coach from Teresópolis to Recife publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 28h 50m 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 Teresópolis to Recife on 9 September 2026: 2089 km of route against 1817 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €115.68, and 28h 50m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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