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Ipatinga to Recife bus

Buses from Ipatinga to Recife start at €94.78 and take 23h 57m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Ipatinga to Recife starts at €94.78 and takes 23h 57m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,741 km, with around 7 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked September 7, 2026Priced for September 22, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 23h 57mDoor to door
  • 23h 13mMoving
  • €94.78From
  • 47.0 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€77.18
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG495307:3022h 30m06:00Rodoviária de IpatingaTerminal Rodoviário de Maceió
  2. Empresa Auto Viação Progresso EA333207:212h 53m10:14Terminal Rodoviário de MaceióIstmo do Recife

Changes at Maceió, with 81 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 27h 28mCO2 46.2 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€112.93
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG808307:3013h 47m21:17Rodoviária de IpatingaEstação Pituba
  2. Azul A268422:101h 18m23:28Salvador SSARecife REC

Changes at Salvador, with 53 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 17h 55mCO2 197.1 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

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
Empresa Gontijo de Transportes€82.1323h 14m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi
  • Empresa Gontijo de Transportes

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

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Recife Central Station

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Booking window

When to book Ipatinga to Recife

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

  1. €110.1890 days
  2. €72.2360 days
  3. €79.9345 days
  4. €62.3330 days
  5. €83.7721 days
  6. €94.7814 days
  7. €107.987 days
  8. €194.883 days
  9. €155.831 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €62.33.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 213 percent. The most expensive point is €194.88, 3 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. €99.18Sun
  2. €94.78Mon
  3. €95.33Tue
  4. €97.53Wed
  5. €114.58Thu
  6. €110.18Fri
  7. €114.58Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Ipatinga

Bus
  • Rodoviária de Ipatinga

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
43% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 57% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,741 km against 1,514 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 Aracaju, Salvador, Governador Valadares, Maceió. The gap between arriving and leaving is 48 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Ipatinga at 06:16 and the last at 17:25, across 7 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Ipatinga 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 Ipatinga to Recife take?

The Coach from Ipatinga to Recife takes 23h 57m door to door, of which 23h 13m is spent moving. The route runs 1,741 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 Ipatinga to Recife cost?

The Coach from Ipatinga to Recife starts at €94.78 for one passenger, checked on September 22, 2026. A typical fare is €89.83. 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 Ipatinga to Recife?

1 operators run the Coach from Ipatinga to Recife: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes. Between them they file around 7 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 Ipatinga to Recife use?

The Coach from Ipatinga to Recife leaves from Rodoviária de Ipatinga 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 Ipatinga to Recife?

Fares for the Coach from Ipatinga to Recife bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €62.33. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 213 percent, measured on September 22, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Ipatinga to Recife produces about 47.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1741 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 Ipatinga to Recife?

Operators on the Coach from Ipatinga to Recife publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 23h 57m 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 Ipatinga to Recife on September 7, 2026: 1741 km of route against 1514 km in a straight line, 7 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €94.78, and 23h 57m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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