Guaratuba to Rio Grande bus

Buses from Guaratuba to Rio Grande start at €47.48 and take 13h 40m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Guaratuba to Rio Grande starts at €47.48 and takes 13h 40m door to door, run by 1 operator over 880 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 14, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 13h 40mDoor to door
  • 12h 56mMoving
  • €47.48 to €97.53From
  • 06:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 23.8 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 5, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€47.48 to €97.53 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.

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €91.48Tue15
  2. about €87.08Wed16
  3. about €97.53Thu17
  4. about €73.32Fri18
  5. about €80.48Sat19
  6. about €81.58Sun20
  7. about €55.73Mon21
  8. about €47.48Tue22
  9. about €48.03Wed23
  10. about €62.87Thu24
  11. about €54.63Fri25
  12. about €59.57Sat26
  13. about €56.83Sun27
  14. about €50.78Mon28

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 5, 2026

Cheapest€38.68
  1. Empresa de Onibus Nossa Senhora da Penha EO883607:301h 50m09:20Guaratuba bus stationRodoviária Internacional de Itajaí
  2. Empresa de Onibus Nossa Senhora da Penha EO154710:129h 54m20:06Rodoviária Internacional de ItajaíRodoviária de Rio Grande

Changes at Itajaí, with 52 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 13h 20mCO2 24.0 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Lowest CO2€41.43
  1. Empresa de Onibus Nossa Senhora da Penha EO839006:3012h 56m19:26Guaratuba bus stationRodoviária de Rio Grande

Door to door 13h 40mCO2 23.8 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Empresa de Onibus Nossa Senhora da Penha€41.4312h 16m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi

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

A hotel room

A room in Rio Grande for the night the bus gets in

Sort by distance from Rodoviária de Rio Grande and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Guaratuba to Rio Grande

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

  1. €48.0390 days
  2. €38.6860 days
  3. €44.7345 days
  4. €40.8730 days
  5. €38.6821 days
  6. €50.7814 days
  7. €55.737 days
  8. €97.533 days
  9. €91.481 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €38.68.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 152 percent. The most expensive point is €97.53, 3 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. €56.83Sun
  2. €50.78Mon
  3. €47.48Tue
  4. €48.58Wed
  5. €62.87Thu
  6. €54.63Fri
  7. €59.57Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Rio Grande

Bus
  • Rodoviária de Rio Grande
  • Ônibus Municipal
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

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 880 km against 765 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 Itajaí, Joinville, Itapema, Sombrio. The gap between arriving and leaving is 52 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 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 Guaratuba at 06:30 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 Guaratuba to Rio Grande

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 Guaratuba to Rio Grande take?

The Coach from Guaratuba to Rio Grande takes 13h 40m door to door, of which 12h 56m is spent moving. The route runs 880 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 Guaratuba to Rio Grande cost?

The Coach from Guaratuba to Rio Grande starts at €47.48 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €40.87. 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 Guaratuba to Rio Grande?

1 operators run the Coach from Guaratuba to Rio Grande: Empresa de Onibus Nossa Senhora da Penha. 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 Guaratuba to Rio Grande use?

The Coach from Guaratuba to Rio Grande leaves from Guaratuba bus station and arrives at Rodoviária de Rio Grande. 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 Guaratuba to Rio Grande?

Fares for the Coach from Guaratuba to Rio Grande bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €38.68. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 152 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Guaratuba to Rio Grande produce?

The Coach from Guaratuba to Rio Grande produces about 23.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 880 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 Guaratuba to Rio Grande?

Operators on the Coach from Guaratuba to Rio Grande publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 13h 40m 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 Guaratuba to Rio Grande on September 14, 2026: 880 km of route against 765 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €47.48, and 13h 40m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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