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Santa Maria to Porto Alegre

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre. From €32.08, fastest 3h 54m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Santa Maria to Porto Alegre runs about 1 times a day, with the first departure around 06:13 and the last around 06:13. One passenger pays €33.18, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 3h 54m over 259 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 19 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €33.18, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for 6 October 2026

€33.18

  • 170%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Santa Maria

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:13First departure
  • 06:13Last departure
  • 1Services per day
  • 100%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €73.30Sun20
  2. about €57.37Mon21
  3. about €48.52Tue22
  4. about €48.03Wed23
  5. about €53.24Thu24
  6. about €45.57Fri25
  7. about €47.34Sat26
  8. about €50.23Sun27
  9. about €37.31Mon28
  10. about €37.90Tue29
  11. about €44.39Wed30
  12. about €47.93Thu1
  13. about €42.62Fri2
  14. about €41.43Sat3
  15. about €36.13Sun4
  16. about €33.18Mon5
  17. about €32.08Tue6
  18. about €33.73Wed7
  19. about €40.33Thu8
  20. about €37.03Fri9
  21. about €37.90Sat10

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.

The flight gets you into Porto Alegre. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Porto Alegre for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Bus Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Santa Maria to Porto Alegre

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

  1. €40.2690 days
  2. €27.1360 days
  3. €28.7845 days
  4. €30.4330 days
  5. €37.9021 days
  6. €41.4314 days
  7. €47.347 days
  8. €48.523 days
  9. €73.301 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €27.13.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 170 percent. The dearest point is €73.30, 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.
€73.30€27.13137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Santa Maria to Porto Alegre and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.

The shape of it

259 km

251 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs east.

Who lives at each end

271,7351,488,252

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

0/2

2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.

The route

Santa MariaSanta MariaPorto AlegrePorto Alegre
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 259 km against 251 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Araranguá, Lages, Chapecó, Sombrio. The gap between arriving and leaving is 55 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.

Porto Alegre is large, and the road in from POA can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Porto Alegre

Settled in advance, so the ride into Porto Alegre costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Bus Station

Most of the points near Bus Station open before the first train and shut after the last one.

Partner links. We do not run these networks. We earn a commission on a booking, and the price is the same as going direct.

Questions about Santa Maria to Porto Alegre

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 it take to get from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre?

The fastest journey from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre takes 3h 54m door to door, of which 45m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 3h 56m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre?

The cheapest fare from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre is €32.08, as of 19 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €44.39. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre?

The cheapest way from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre is by flight, at €33.18 for one passenger on 6 October 2026. That journey takes 3h 55m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Santa Maria to Porto Alegre?

Fares from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €27.13. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 170 percent, measured on 19 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Santa Maria to Porto Alegre?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre, at €37.31. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 19 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Santa Maria to Porto Alegre?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre, at €28.78 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs services from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre?

No operator record names Santa Maria to Porto Alegre directly. Azul publish service areas covering both ends and may serve it, so we list them as possible operators rather than confirmed ones.

Is there a direct service from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre?

20 percent of the services we sell from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre are direct. The rest connect at Araranguá, Lages, Chapecó, Sombrio, with about 55 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre use?

Services from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre by flight leave from Santa Maria RIA and arrive at Porto Alegre POA. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Santa Maria to Porto Alegre allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

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.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

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, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Santa Maria to Porto Alegre on 19 September 2026: 259 km of route against 251 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €32.08, and 3h 54m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Being on the water gives Porto Alegre a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Porto Alegre and across Brazil

Day trips that leave Porto Alegre in the morning and cover a good part of Brazil by evening.

Partner links. We do not sell tours or tickets. We earn a commission on a booking, and it never changes the price.

The two ends, compared

Santa Maria reaches 67 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 133 to 2,243 km. Porto Alegre reaches 166 places in 8 countries, from 187 to 8,801 km.

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  • 8Countries
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