Buses from Macaé to São José dos Campos start at €28.78 and take 7h 29m at their fastest.
The Buses from Macaé to São José dos Campos starts at €28.78 and takes 7h 29m door to door, run by 1 operator over 494 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Rio de Janeiro, with 50 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 7h 59mCO2 11.7 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 7h 29mCO2 13.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expresso União | €28.23 | 7h 12m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi |
The trip ends at São José dos Campos railway station. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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The Coach from Macaé to São José dos Campos takes 7h 29m door to door, of which 6h 45m is spent moving. The route runs 494 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.
The Coach from Macaé to São José dos Campos starts at €28.78 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €29.88. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Coach from Macaé to São José dos Campos: Expresso União. Between them they file around 6 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.
The Coach from Macaé to São José dos Campos leaves from Macaé Bus Station and arrives at Eco. 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.
Fares for the Coach from Macaé to São José dos Campos bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €19.43. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 184 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Coach from Macaé to São José dos Campos produces about 13.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 494 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.
Operators on the Coach from Macaé to São José dos Campos publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 29m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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.
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Plenty of what is worth seeing sits outside São José dos Campos and elsewhere in Brazil. None of it is ours to sell.
The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.
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