Cheapest€39.78
- Expresso Guanabara EG419306:1113h 7m19:18Terminal de Zé DocaTerminal Rodoviário de Fortaleza Engenheiro João Tomé
Door to door 13h 51mCO2 24.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Zé Doca to Fortaleza bus
Buses from Zé Doca to Fortaleza start at €46.93 and take 12h 46m at their fastest.
The Buses from Zé Doca to Fortaleza starts at €46.93 and takes 12h 46m door to door, run by 2 operators over 910 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.
- 12h 46mDoor to door
- 12h 2mMoving
- €46.93From
- 24.6 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Fastest€57.38
- Real Maia Transportes Terrestres RM399914:2412h 2m02:26Terminal de Zé DocaTerminal Rodoviário de Fortaleza Engenheiro João Tomé
Door to door 12h 46mCO2 24.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Lowest CO2€40.33
- Comércio e Transportes Boa Esperança CT825807:306h 39m14:09Terminal de Zé DocaTerminal Rodoviário de Parnaíba
- Expresso Guanabara EG551715:265h 37m21:03Terminal Rodoviário de ParnaíbaTerminal Rodoviário de Fortaleza Engenheiro João Tomé
Changes at Parnaíba, with 77 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 14h 17mCO2 23.4 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
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When to book Zé Doca to Fortaleza
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €49.6890 days
- €33.1860 days
- €32.0845 days
- €32.0830 days
- €56.8321 days
- €68.9314 days
- €75.537 days
- €70.583 days
- €117.331 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €32.08.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 266 percent. The dearest point is €117.33, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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.
- €57.93Sun
- €50.78Mon
- €46.93Tue
- €50.78Wed
- €61.23Thu
- €58.48Fri
- €68.93Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Zé Doca
Coach
- Terminal de Zé Doca
Fortaleza
Coach
- Terminal Rodoviário de Fortaleza Engenheiro João Tomé
- Terminal Lagoa
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
- 50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 910 km against 791 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 Campo Maior, Parnaíba, Piripiri, Altos. The gap between arriving and leaving is 64 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 Zé Doca at 06:11 and the last at 14:53, across 8 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Zé Doca to Fortaleza
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 Zé Doca to Fortaleza take?
The Coach from Zé Doca to Fortaleza takes 12h 46m door to door, of which 12h 2m is spent moving. The route runs 910 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 Zé Doca to Fortaleza cost?
The Coach from Zé Doca to Fortaleza starts at €46.93 for one passenger, checked on 12 September 2026. A typical fare is €51.61. 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 Zé Doca to Fortaleza?
2 operators run the Coach from Zé Doca to Fortaleza: Expresso Guanabara, Real Maia Transportes Terrestres. Between them they file around 8 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 Zé Doca to Fortaleza use?
The Coach from Zé Doca to Fortaleza leaves from Terminal de Zé Doca and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Fortaleza Engenheiro João Tomé. 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 Zé Doca to Fortaleza?
Fares for the Coach from Zé Doca to Fortaleza bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €32.08. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 266 percent, measured on 12 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Zé Doca to Fortaleza produce?
The Coach from Zé Doca to Fortaleza produces about 24.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 910 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 Zé Doca to Fortaleza?
Operators on the Coach from Zé Doca to Fortaleza publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 12h 46m 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 Zé Doca to Fortaleza on 12 September 2026: 910 km of route against 791 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €46.93, and 12h 46m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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