Várzea Grande to Rio Claro bus

Buses from Várzea Grande to Rio Claro start at €53.53 and take 18h 49m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Várzea Grande to Rio Claro starts at €53.53 and takes 18h 49m door to door, run by 2 operators over 1,349 km, with around 10 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 17 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 18h 49mDoor to door
  • 18h 5mMoving
  • €68.93 to €139.88From
  • 06:29 to 16:56First and last departure
  • 10Per day
  • 36.4 kgCO2

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.

€68.93 to €139.88 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.

Lopes e Oliveira Transportes e Turismo runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Várzea Grande to Rio Claro on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €125.03Fri18
  2. about €139.88Sat19
  3. about €96.98Sun20
  4. about €92.58Mon21
  5. about €82.68Tue22
  6. about €93.13Wed23
  7. about €92.03Thu24
  8. about €87.63Fri25
  9. about €84.88Sat26
  10. about €78.28Sun27
  11. about €68.93Mon28
  12. about €75.53Tue29
  13. about €72.78Wed30
  14. about €73.33Thu1

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 6 October 2026

Cheapest€53.53
  1. Lopes e Oliveira Transportes e Turismo LO190812:1519h 18m08:33André Maggi TerminalRio Claro bus station

Door to door 20h 2mCO2 36.4 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€67.83
  1. Expresso Itamarati EI766711:3618h 5m06:41André Maggi TerminalRio Claro bus station

Door to door 18h 49mCO2 36.4 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.
OperatorFromFastest
Expresso Itamarati€54.0818h 12m
Lopes e Oliveira Transportes e Turismo€53.5318h 15m

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

A hotel room

A room in Rio Claro for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from Estação Ferroviária de Rio Claro and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Várzea Grande to Rio Claro

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

  1. €59.5890 days
  2. €45.8360 days
  3. €55.1845 days
  4. €66.1830 days
  5. €78.8321 days
  6. €73.3314 days
  7. €92.037 days
  8. €96.983 days
  9. €125.031 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €45.83.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 173 percent. The dearest point is €125.03, 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. €78.28Sun
  2. €68.93Mon
  3. €75.53Tue
  4. €72.78Wed
  5. €78.83Thu
  6. €87.63Fri
  7. €84.88Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Várzea Grande

Coach
  • André Maggi Terminal

Rio Claro

Coach
  • Rio Claro bus station
  • Estação rodoviária
The journey

What the journey looks like

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 1,349 km against 1,173 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 Aparecida do Taboado, Cassilândia, Chapadão do Sul, Costa Rica. 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. 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 Várzea Grande at 06:29 and the last at 16:56, across 10 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Várzea Grande to Rio Claro

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 Várzea Grande to Rio Claro take?

The Coach from Várzea Grande to Rio Claro takes 18h 49m door to door, of which 18h 5m is spent moving. The route runs 1,349 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 Várzea Grande to Rio Claro cost?

The Coach from Várzea Grande to Rio Claro starts at €53.53 for one passenger, as of 17 September 2026. A typical fare is €69.48. 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 Várzea Grande to Rio Claro?

2 operators run the Coach from Várzea Grande to Rio Claro: Expresso Itamarati, Lopes e Oliveira Transportes e Turismo. 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 Várzea Grande to Rio Claro use?

The Coach from Várzea Grande to Rio Claro leaves from André Maggi Terminal and arrives at Rio Claro bus station. 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 Várzea Grande to Rio Claro?

Fares for the Coach from Várzea Grande to Rio Claro bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €45.83. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 173 percent, measured on 17 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Várzea Grande to Rio Claro produce?

The Coach from Várzea Grande to Rio Claro produces about 36.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1349 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 Várzea Grande to Rio Claro?

Operators on the Coach from Várzea Grande to Rio Claro publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 18h 49m 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 Várzea Grande to Rio Claro on 17 September 2026: 1349 km of route against 1173 km in a straight line, 10 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €53.53, and 18h 49m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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