Franca to Montes Claros bus

Buses from Franca to Montes Claros start at €26.58 and take 9h 14m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Franca to Montes Claros starts at €26.58 and takes 9h 14m door to door, run by 2 operators over 648 km, with around 12 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 17, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 9h 14mDoor to door
  • 8h 30mMoving
  • €35.38 to €73.88From
  • 06:37 to 18:22First and last departure
  • 12Per day
  • 17.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 6, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€35.38 to €73.88 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

Bookaway lists departures for Franca to Montes Claros on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €65.08Fri18
  2. about €73.88Sat19
  3. about €50.23Sun20
  4. about €41.98Mon21
  5. about €43.08Tue22
  6. about €44.73Wed23
  7. about €45.28Thu24
  8. about €42.53Fri25
  9. about €44.73Sat26
  10. about €39.78Sun27
  11. about €35.93Mon28
  12. about €35.93Tue29
  13. about €35.93Wed30
  14. 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.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 6, 2026

Cheapest€26.58
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG312814:219h 42m00:03Rodoviária de FrancaTerminal Rodoviário Hildeberto Alves de Freitas

Door to door 10h 26mCO2 17.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€34.83
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG661118:088h 30m02:38Rodoviária de FrancaTerminal Rodoviário Hildeberto Alves de Freitas

Door to door 9h 14mCO2 17.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFastest
Empresa Gontijo de Transportes9h 11m
Gte Locadora Turistica9h 10m

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

A hotel room

A room in Montes Claros for the night the bus gets in

Sort by distance from Terminal Rodoviário Hildeberto Alves de Freitas and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Franca to Montes Claros

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

  1. €29.8890 days
  2. €22.7360 days
  3. €26.0345 days
  4. €29.3330 days
  5. €34.8321 days
  6. €35.3814 days
  7. €45.287 days
  8. €50.233 days
  9. €65.081 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.73.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 186 percent. The most expensive point is €65.08, 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. €39.78Sun
  2. €35.93Mon
  3. €35.93Tue
  4. €35.93Wed
  5. €35.38Thu
  6. €42.53Fri
  7. €44.73Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Franca

Bus
  • Rodoviária de Franca
  • Parada Chico Julio

Montes Claros

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário Hildeberto Alves de Freitas
The journey

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 648 km against 564 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 Belo Horizonte, Cristalina, Monte Azul, Brasília. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Franca at 06:37 and the last at 18:22, across 12 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Franca to Montes Claros

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 Franca to Montes Claros take?

The Coach from Franca to Montes Claros takes 9h 14m door to door, of which 8h 30m is spent moving. The route runs 648 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 Franca to Montes Claros cost?

The Coach from Franca to Montes Claros starts at €26.58 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €33.46. 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 Franca to Montes Claros?

2 operators run the Coach from Franca to Montes Claros: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes, Gte Locadora Turistica. Between them they file around 12 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 Franca to Montes Claros use?

The Coach from Franca to Montes Claros leaves from Rodoviária de Franca and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário Hildeberto Alves de Freitas. 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 Franca to Montes Claros?

Fares for the Coach from Franca to Montes Claros bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.73. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 186 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Franca to Montes Claros produce?

The Coach from Franca to Montes Claros produces about 17.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 648 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 Franca to Montes Claros?

Operators on the Coach from Franca to Montes Claros publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 14m 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 Franca to Montes Claros on September 17, 2026: 648 km of route against 564 km in a straight line, 12 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €26.58, and 9h 14m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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