Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus bus

Buses from Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus start at €40.33 and take 10h 57m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus starts at €40.33 and takes 10h 57m door to door, run by 1 operator over 771 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 12, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 10h 57mDoor to door
  • 10h 13mMoving
  • €40.33From
  • 20.8 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

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

Cheapest€34.28
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG360717:1610h 13m03:29Estação Hospital Belo Horizonte - MOVE MetropolitanoTerminal Rodoviário de Ilhéus

Door to door 10h 57mCO2 20.8 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€34.2810h 46m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi
  • Empresa Gontijo de Transportes

The trip ends at Terminal Rodoviário de Ilhéus. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

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Booking window

When to book Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus

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

  1. €39.2390 days
  2. €27.6860 days
  3. €37.0345 days
  4. €37.0330 days
  5. €39.2321 days
  6. €52.9814 days
  7. €82.137 days
  8. €66.183 days
  9. €81.581 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €27.68.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 197 percent. The most expensive point is €82.13, 7 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. €48.03Sun
  2. €40.33Mon
  3. €43.08Tue
  4. €43.63Wed
  5. €54.63Thu
  6. €57.38Fri
  7. €52.98Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Belo Horizonte

Bus
  • Estação Hospital Belo Horizonte - MOVE Metropolitano
  • Atalaia

Ilhéus

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Ilhéus
  • Rota
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
56% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 44% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 771 km against 771 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Linhares, Governador Valadares, Ibatiba, Montes Claros. The gap between arriving and leaving is 57 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 Belo Horizonte at 06:10 and the last at 17:16, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Buses against the other ways to make this journey

The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Flight4h 38m1h 28m3h 10m€79.20195.6 kg4
Coach10h 57m10h 13m44m€40.3320.8 kg5

Questions about Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus take?

The Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus takes 10h 57m door to door, of which 10h 13m is spent moving. The route runs 771 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 Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus cost?

The Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus starts at €40.33 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €41.43. 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 Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus?

1 operators run the Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes. Between them they file around 5 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 Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus use?

The Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus leaves from Estação Hospital Belo Horizonte - MOVE Metropolitano and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Ilhéus. 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.

Is the Coach the best way from Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus?

Traveling from Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus by Flight costs €79.20 and takes 4h 38m door to door, against 10h 57m by Coach. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.

When should I book the Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus?

Fares for the Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €27.68. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 197 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus produce?

The Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus produces about 20.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 771 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus?

Operators on the Coach from Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 10h 57m 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 modeled number pass for a filed one.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Belo Horizonte to Ilhéus on September 12, 2026: 771 km of route against 771 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €40.33, and 10h 57m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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