Espinosa to Franca bus

Buses from Espinosa to Franca start at €52.43 and take 13h 3m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Espinosa to Franca starts at €52.43 and takes 13h 3m door to door, run by 2 operators over 909 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

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

  • 13h 3mDoor to door
  • 12h 19mMoving
  • €52.43From
  • 24.5 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€40.88
  1. Gte Locadora Turistica GL142906:3912h 48m19:27Espinosa bus stationRodoviária de Franca

Door to door 13h 32mCO2 24.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€55.18
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG778806:1012h 19m18:29Espinosa bus stationRodoviária de Franca

Door to door 13h 3mCO2 24.5 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
Empresa Gontijo de Transportes€50.2312h 32m
Gte Locadora Turistica€40.8812h 36m

The bus gets you into Franca. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

Where to stay in Franca

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Booking window

When to book Espinosa to Franca

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

  1. €60.1390 days
  2. €35.9360 days
  3. €33.1845 days
  4. €32.6330 days
  5. €46.3821 days
  6. €76.6314 days
  7. €77.737 days
  8. €90.933 days
  9. €123.381 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €32.63.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 278 percent. The most expensive point is €123.38, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €71.68Sun
  2. €57.93Mon
  3. €57.38Tue
  4. €54.63Wed
  5. €71.67Thu
  6. €66.73Fri
  7. €76.63Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Franca

Bus
  • Rodoviária de Franca
  • Parada Chico Julio
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
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 909 km against 790 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 Riacho de Santana, Caetité, Pindaí, Guanambi. 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. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Espinosa at 06:10 and the last at 07:30, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Espinosa to Franca

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 Espinosa to Franca take?

The Coach from Espinosa to Franca takes 13h 3m door to door, of which 12h 19m is spent moving. The route runs 909 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 Espinosa to Franca cost?

The Coach from Espinosa to Franca starts at €52.43 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €54.90. 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 Espinosa to Franca?

2 operators run the Coach from Espinosa to Franca: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes, Gte Locadora Turistica. Between them they file around 6 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 Espinosa to Franca use?

The Coach from Espinosa to Franca leaves from Espinosa bus station and arrives at Rodoviária de Franca. 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 Espinosa to Franca?

Fares for the Coach from Espinosa to Franca bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €32.63. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 278 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Espinosa to Franca produce?

The Coach from Espinosa to Franca produces about 24.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 909 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 Espinosa to Franca?

Operators on the Coach from Espinosa to Franca publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 13h 3m 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 Espinosa to Franca on September 12, 2026: 909 km of route against 790 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €52.43, and 13h 3m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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