Caratinga to Lorena bus

Buses from Caratinga to Lorena start at €26.03 and take 7h 34m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Caratinga to Lorena starts at €26.03 and takes 7h 34m door to door, run by 1 operator over 518 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 8, 2026Priced for September 22, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 34mDoor to door
  • 6h 50mMoving
  • €26.03From
  • 14.0 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 22, 2026

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

Cheapest€26.03
  1. JS Turismo JS199106:366h 50m13:26Terminal Rodoviário Carlos Alberto de MatosTerminal Rodoviário de Lorena - José Antônio Vieira

Door to door 7h 34mCO2 14.0 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
JS Turismo€26.037h 31m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi

The trip ends at Terminal Rodoviário de Lorena - José Antônio Vieira. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Lorena for the night the bus gets in

Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Caratinga to Lorena

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

  1. €28.2390 days
  2. €25.4860 days
  3. €25.4845 days
  4. €27.1330 days
  5. €29.3221 days
  6. €26.0314 days
  7. €32.087 days
  8. €44.183 days
  9. €48.581 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €25.48.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 91 percent. The most expensive point is €48.58, 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. €35.93Sun
  2. €31.53Mon
  3. €29.32Tue
  4. €34.28Wed
  5. €43.63Thu
  6. €39.23Fri
  7. €40.33Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Caratinga

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário Carlos Alberto de Matos

Lorena

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Lorena - José Antônio Vieira
  • Rodoviária Intermunicipal
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
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 518 km against 450 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 Volta Redonda, Barra Mansa, Resende, Nova Friburgo. 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.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Caratinga at 06:36 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Caratinga to Lorena

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 Caratinga to Lorena take?

The Coach from Caratinga to Lorena takes 7h 34m door to door, of which 6h 50m is spent moving. The route runs 518 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 Caratinga to Lorena cost?

The Coach from Caratinga to Lorena starts at €26.03 for one passenger, checked on September 22, 2026. A typical fare is €29.32. 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 Caratinga to Lorena?

1 operators run the Coach from Caratinga to Lorena: JS Turismo. 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 Caratinga to Lorena use?

The Coach from Caratinga to Lorena leaves from Terminal Rodoviário Carlos Alberto de Matos and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Lorena - José Antônio Vieira. 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 Caratinga to Lorena?

Fares for the Coach from Caratinga to Lorena bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €25.48. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 91 percent, measured on September 22, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Caratinga to Lorena produce?

The Coach from Caratinga to Lorena produces about 14.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 518 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 Caratinga to Lorena?

Operators on the Coach from Caratinga to Lorena publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 34m 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 Caratinga to Lorena on September 8, 2026: 518 km of route against 450 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €26.03, and 7h 34m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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