Cheapest€23.28
- Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG257414:218h 6m22:27Estação Hospital Belo Horizonte - MOVE MetropolitanoSOU São Carlos
Door to door 8h 50mCO2 14.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Belo Horizonte to São Carlos bus
Buses from Belo Horizonte to São Carlos start at €23.28 and take 7h 50m at their fastest.
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Fares and seats move by the day. Price Belo Horizonte to São Carlos on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Buses from Belo Horizonte to São Carlos starts at €23.28 and takes 7h 50m door to door, run by 4 operators over 543 km, with around 11 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 7h 50mDoor to door
- 7h 6mMoving
- €29.33 to €63.43From
- 06:08 to 14:53First and last departure
- 11Per day
- 14.7 kgCO2
First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 5, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€29.33 to €63.43 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.
Empresa Gontijo de Transportes runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.
Buying this trip
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €63.43Fri18
- about €60.13Sat19
- about €50.23Sun20
- about €37.03Mon21
- about €38.13Tue22
- about €37.58Wed23
- about €46.93Thu24
- about €35.38Fri25
- about €37.03Sat26
- about €34.83Sun27
- about €32.63Mon28
- about €29.33Tue29
- about €37.03Wed30
- about €35.38Thu1
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 cheapest and the fastest on October 5, 2026
Fastest€25.48
- Viação Pássaro Verde VP659314:347h 6m21:40Estação Hospital Belo Horizonte - MOVE MetropolitanoSOU São Carlos
Door to door 7h 50mCO2 14.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Bus operators
| Operator | From | Fastest |
|---|---|---|
 Empresa Gontijo de Transportes | €23.28 | 7h 50m |
| Viacao Motta | €24.93 | 7h 51m |
| Viação Pássaro Verde | €24.38 | 7h 49m |
| VTR Transporte Rodoviário de Passageiros | €24.93 | 7h 49m |
The bus gets you into São Carlos. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in São Carlos for the night the bus gets in
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When to book Belo Horizonte to São Carlos
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €26.0390 days
- €19.4360 days
- €22.7345 days
- €25.4830 days
- €30.4321 days
- €35.3814 days
- €46.937 days
- €50.233 days
- €63.431 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €19.43.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 226 percent. The most expensive point is €63.43, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €34.83Sun
- €32.63Mon
- €29.33Tue
- €37.03Wed
- €35.38Thu
- €35.38Fri
- €37.03Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Belo Horizonte
Bus
- Estação Hospital Belo Horizonte - MOVE Metropolitano
- Atalaia
São Carlos
Bus
- SOU São Carlos
- Estação Norte
What the journey looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 67% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 33% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 543 km against 472 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 Barra Mansa, Resende, Juiz de Fora, Uberaba. The gap between arriving and leaving is 72 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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 06:08 and the last at 14:53, across 11 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Belo Horizonte to São Carlos
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 São Carlos take?
The Coach from Belo Horizonte to São Carlos takes 7h 50m door to door, of which 7h 6m is spent moving. The route runs 543 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 São Carlos cost?
The Coach from Belo Horizonte to São Carlos starts at €23.28 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €29.88. 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 São Carlos?
4 operators run the Coach from Belo Horizonte to São Carlos: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes, Viacao Motta, Viação Pássaro Verde, VTR Transporte Rodoviário de Passageiros. Between them they file around 11 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 São Carlos use?
The Coach from Belo Horizonte to São Carlos leaves from Estação Hospital Belo Horizonte - MOVE Metropolitano and arrives at SOU São Carlos. 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 Belo Horizonte to São Carlos?
Fares for the Coach from Belo Horizonte to São Carlos bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €19.43. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 226 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Belo Horizonte to São Carlos produce?
The Coach from Belo Horizonte to São Carlos produces about 14.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 543 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 São Carlos?
Operators on the Coach from Belo Horizonte to São Carlos publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 4 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 50m 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 Belo Horizonte to São Carlos on September 17, 2026: 543 km of route against 472 km in a straight line, 11 services a day, 4 operators a cheapest fare of €23.28, and 7h 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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