Esplanada to Recife bus

Buses from Esplanada to Recife start at €29.88 and take 9h 3m at their fastest.

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Scenic view of Recife's waterfront architecture showcasing historic and modern buildings under a partly cloudy sky.

The Buses from Esplanada to Recife starts at €29.88 and takes 9h 3m door to door, run by 2 operators over 615 km, with around 10 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 9, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 9h 3mDoor to door
  • 8h 19mMoving
  • €29.88From
  • 16.6 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€27.68
  1. Transportadora Turistica Suzano TT994706:308h 53m15:23Terminal Rodoviário de EsplanadaIstmo do Recife

Door to door 9h 37mCO2 16.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€31.53
  1. JS Turismo JS514712:088h 19m20:27Terminal Rodoviário de EsplanadaIstmo do Recife

Door to door 9h 3mCO2 16.6 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
JS Turismo€29.338h 47m
Transportadora Turistica Suzano€27.688h 45m

Recife sits on the water, which usually settles which side of town you want to wake up on. Rooms are not ours to sell.

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Rooms within reach of Recife Central Station

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Booking window

When to book Esplanada to Recife

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. €24.9360 days
  3. €29.8845 days
  4. €27.1330 days
  5. €29.3321 days
  6. €29.8814 days
  7. €37.037 days
  8. €56.833 days
  9. €70.581 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €24.93.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 183 percent. The most expensive point is €70.58, 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. €41.98Sun
  2. €33.18Mon
  3. €32.63Tue
  4. €29.88Wed
  5. €45.83Thu
  6. €40.88Fri
  7. €44.18Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Esplanada

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Esplanada

Recife

Bus
  • Istmo do Recife
  • TI Recife
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 615 km against 535 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 Teotônio Vilela, Estância, Penedo, Umbaúba. The gap between arriving and leaving is 62 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 Esplanada at 06:30 and the last at 16:49, across 10 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Esplanada to Recife

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 Esplanada to Recife take?

The Coach from Esplanada to Recife takes 9h 3m door to door, of which 8h 19m is spent moving. The route runs 615 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 Esplanada to Recife cost?

The Coach from Esplanada to Recife starts at €29.88 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €36.21. 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 Esplanada to Recife?

2 operators run the Coach from Esplanada to Recife: JS Turismo, Transportadora Turistica Suzano. 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 Esplanada to Recife use?

The Coach from Esplanada to Recife leaves from Terminal Rodoviário de Esplanada and arrives at Istmo do Recife. 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 Esplanada to Recife?

Fares for the Coach from Esplanada to Recife bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €24.93. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 183 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Esplanada to Recife produce?

The Coach from Esplanada to Recife produces about 16.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 615 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 Esplanada to Recife?

Operators on the Coach from Esplanada to Recife publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 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 Esplanada to Recife on September 9, 2026: 615 km of route against 535 km in a straight line, 10 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €29.88, and 9h 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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