Brasília to Altos bus

Buses from Brasília to Altos start at €77.73 and take 21h 1m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Brasília to Altos starts at €77.73 and takes 21h 1m door to door, run by 2 operators over 1,536 km, with around 10 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

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

  • 21h 1mDoor to door
  • 20h 17mMoving
  • €77.73From
  • 41.5 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€64.53
  1. Expresso Guanabara EG572106:1122h 1m04:12Antiga Rodoferroviária de BrasíliaTerminal Rodoviário Prefeito César Leal

Door to door 22h 45mCO2 41.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€77.18
  1. Expresso Guanabara EG775417:0220h 17m13:19Antiga Rodoferroviária de BrasíliaTerminal Rodoviário Prefeito César Leal

Door to door 21h 1mCO2 41.5 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.
OperatorFromFastest
Expresso Guanabara€64.5320h 37m
Real Sul Transportes e Turismo€67.2820h 36m

The trip ends at Terminal Rodoviário Prefeito César Leal. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Altos for the night the bus gets in

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Booking window

When to book Brasília to Altos

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

  1. €81.5890 days
  2. €50.7860 days
  3. €53.5345 days
  4. €54.6330 days
  5. €79.9321 days
  6. €83.2314 days
  7. €100.287 days
  8. €95.333 days
  9. €135.481 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €50.78.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 167 percent. The most expensive point is €135.48, 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. €88.73Sun
  2. €77.73Mon
  3. €84.88Tue
  4. €83.78Wed
  5. €101.38Thu
  6. €95.88Fri
  7. €83.23Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Brasília

Bus
  • Antiga Rodoferroviária de Brasília
  • Terminal da Asa Sul

Altos

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário Prefeito César Leal
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
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 1,536 km against 1,335 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 Presidente Dutra, Formosa, Formosa do Rio Preto, Timon. The gap between arriving and leaving is 50 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Brasília at 06:11 and the last at 17:04, across 10 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Brasília to Altos

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 Brasília to Altos take?

The Coach from Brasília to Altos takes 21h 1m door to door, of which 20h 17m is spent moving. The route runs 1,536 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 Brasília to Altos cost?

The Coach from Brasília to Altos starts at €77.73 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €76.63. 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 Brasília to Altos?

2 operators run the Coach from Brasília to Altos: Expresso Guanabara, Real Sul 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 Brasília to Altos use?

The Coach from Brasília to Altos leaves from Antiga Rodoferroviária de Brasília and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário Prefeito César Leal. 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 Brasília to Altos?

Fares for the Coach from Brasília to Altos bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €50.78. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 167 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Brasília to Altos produce?

The Coach from Brasília to Altos produces about 41.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1536 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 Brasília to Altos?

Operators on the Coach from Brasília to Altos publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 21h 1m 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.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Brasília to Altos on September 12, 2026: 1536 km of route against 1335 km in a straight line, 10 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €77.73, and 21h 1m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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