Medianeira to Rio Grande bus

Buses from Medianeira to Rio Grande start at €38.13 and take 12h 26m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Medianeira to Rio Grande starts at €38.13 and takes 12h 26m door to door, run by 1 operator over 890 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 18, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 12h 26mDoor to door
  • 11h 42mMoving
  • €46.93 to €87.63From
  • 06:07 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 24.0 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.

€46.93 to €87.63 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.

Viação União Santa Cruz runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Bookaway lists departures for Medianeira to Rio Grande 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 €87.08Sat19
  2. about €87.08Sun20
  3. about €67.83Mon21
  4. about €72.23Tue22
  5. about €75.53Wed23
  6. about €87.63Thu24
  7. about €61.23Fri25
  8. about €74.43Sat26
  9. about €67.83Sun27
  10. about €60.13Mon28
  11. about €56.83Tue29
  12. about €49.13Wed30
  13. about €74.98Thu1
  14. about €46.93Fri2

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€38.13
  1. Unesul de Transportes UT800707:304h 24m11:54Rodoviária MedianeiraTerminal de Transporte Urbano
  2. Viação União Santa Cruz VU643913:169h 36m22:52Terminal de Transporte UrbanoRodoviária de Rio Grande

Changes at Chapecó, with 82 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 16h 6mCO2 24.8 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€41.43
  1. Viação União Santa Cruz VU221906:0711h 42m17:49Rodoviária MedianeiraRodoviária de Rio Grande

Door to door 12h 26mCO2 24.0 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
Viação União Santa Cruz€38.6812h 26m72 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 Medianeira to Rio Grande

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

  1. €48.5890 days
  2. €34.2860 days
  3. €30.9845 days
  4. €39.7830 days
  5. €45.2821 days
  6. €46.9314 days
  7. €61.237 days
  8. €67.833 days
  9. €87.081 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €30.98.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 181 percent. The most expensive point is €87.08, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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. €67.83Sun
  2. €60.13Mon
  3. €56.83Tue
  4. €49.13Wed
  5. €74.98Thu
  6. €46.93Fri
  7. €74.43Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Medianeira

Bus
  • Rodoviária Medianeira

Rio Grande

Bus
  • Rodoviária de Rio Grande
  • Ônibus Municipal
The journey

What the journey 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 890 km against 774 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 Foz do Iguaçu, Chapecó, Florianópolis, Sombrio. The gap between arriving and leaving is 57 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 Medianeira at 06:07 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 Medianeira 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 Medianeira to Rio Grande take?

The Coach from Medianeira to Rio Grande takes 12h 26m door to door, of which 11h 42m is spent moving. The route runs 890 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 Medianeira to Rio Grande cost?

The Coach from Medianeira to Rio Grande starts at €38.13 for one passenger, as of September 18, 2026. A typical fare is €42.52. 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 Medianeira to Rio Grande?

1 operators run the Coach from Medianeira to Rio Grande: Viação União Santa Cruz. 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 Medianeira to Rio Grande use?

The Coach from Medianeira to Rio Grande leaves from Rodoviária Medianeira 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 Medianeira to Rio Grande?

Fares for the Coach from Medianeira to Rio Grande bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €30.98. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 181 percent, measured on September 18, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Medianeira to Rio Grande produces about 24.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 890 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 Medianeira to Rio Grande?

Operators on the Coach from Medianeira 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 12h 26m 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 Medianeira to Rio Grande on September 18, 2026: 890 km of route against 774 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €38.13, and 12h 26m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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