Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife bus

Buses from Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife start at €57.93 and take 21h 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 Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife starts at €57.93 and takes 21h door to door, run by 2 operators over 1,466 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

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

  • 21hDoor to door
  • 20h 16mMoving
  • €81.03 to €157.48From
  • 06:15 to 14:46First and last departure
  • 8Per day
  • 39.6 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.

€81.03 to €157.48 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.

Kandango Transportes e Turismo runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this trip

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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 €157.48Fri18
  2. about €139.88Sat19
  3. about €133.28Sun20
  4. about €96.43Mon21
  5. about €91.48Tue22
  6. about €104.68Wed23
  7. about €123.93Thu24
  8. about €89.28Fri25
  9. about €95.33Sat26
  10. about €90.93Sun27
  11. about €83.78Mon28
  12. about €81.03Tue29
  13. about €82.13Wed30
  14. about €93.13Thu1

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€57.93
  1. Kandango Transportes e Turismo KT927006:3321h 20m03:53AgrosulIstmo do Recife

Door to door 22h 4mCO2 39.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€95.33
  1. Expresso Guanabara EG118907:3011h 15m18:45AgrosulRodoviária de Petrolina
  2. Azul A502619:331h 21m20:54Petrolina PNZRecife REC

Changes at Petrolina, with 48 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 15h 21mCO2 181.3 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

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.
OperatorFrom
Expresso São Luiz€59.58
Kandango Transportes e Turismo€57.93

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

A hotel room

A room in Recife for the night the bus gets in

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Booking window

When to book Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife

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

  1. €66.1890 days
  2. €51.3360 days
  3. €62.8845 days
  4. €61.2330 days
  5. €78.2821 days
  6. €93.1314 days
  7. €123.937 days
  8. €133.283 days
  9. €157.481 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €51.33.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 207 percent. The most expensive point is €157.48, 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. €90.93Sun
  2. €83.78Mon
  3. €81.03Tue
  4. €82.13Wed
  5. €93.13Thu
  6. €89.28Fri
  7. €95.33Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Luis Eduardo Magalhães

Bus
  • Agrosul
  • RenaTurismo

Recife

Bus
  • Istmo do Recife
  • TI Recife
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,466 km against 1,275 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 Petrolina, Caruaru, Arapiraca, Delmiro Gouveia. The gap between arriving and leaving is 48 minutes, of which about 14 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 Luis Eduardo Magalhães at 06:15 and the last at 14:46, across 8 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Luis Eduardo Magalhães 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 Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife take?

The Coach from Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife takes 21h door to door, of which 20h 16m is spent moving. The route runs 1,466 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 Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife cost?

The Coach from Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife starts at €57.93 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €68.66. 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 Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife?

2 operators run the Coach from Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife: Expresso São Luiz, Kandango Transportes e Turismo. Between them they file around 8 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 Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife use?

The Coach from Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife leaves from Agrosul 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 Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife?

Fares for the Coach from Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €51.33. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 207 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife produce?

The Coach from Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife produces about 39.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1466 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 Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife?

Operators on the Coach from Luis Eduardo Magalhães 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 21h 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 Luis Eduardo Magalhães to Recife on September 17, 2026: 1466 km of route against 1275 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €57.93, and 21h door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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