Montes Claros to Franca bus

Buses from Montes Claros to Franca start at €30.43 and take 9h 11m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Montes Claros to Franca starts at €30.43 and takes 9h 11m door to door, run by 2 operators over 648 km, with around 11 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

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

  • 9h 11mDoor to door
  • 8h 27mMoving
  • €30.43 to €60.68From
  • 06:08 to 18:47First and last departure
  • 11Per day
  • 17.5 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.

€30.43 to €60.68 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 €52.98Tue15
  2. about €54.08Wed16
  3. about €55.73Thu17
  4. about €52.98Fri18
  5. about €60.68Sat19
  6. about €50.23Sun20
  7. about €34.28Mon21
  8. about €35.38Tue22
  9. about €36.48Wed23
  10. about €45.28Thu24
  11. about €42.53Fri25
  12. about €44.73Sat26
  13. about €39.78Sun27
  14. about €30.43Mon28

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€27.13
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG215610:219h19:21Terminal Rodoviário Hildeberto Alves de FreitasRodoviária de Franca

Door to door 9h 44mCO2 17.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€33.18
  1. Gte Locadora Turistica GL660206:428h 27m15:09Terminal Rodoviário Hildeberto Alves de FreitasRodoviária de Franca

Door to door 9h 11mCO2 17.5 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.
OperatorFrom
Empresa Gontijo de Transportes€27.13
Gte Locadora Turistica€29.33

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

A hotel room

A room in Franca for the night the bus gets in

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Booking window

When to book Montes Claros to Franca

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

  1. €32.0890 days
  2. €27.1360 days
  3. €32.0845 days
  4. €24.9330 days
  5. €27.1321 days
  6. €30.4314 days
  7. €34.287 days
  8. €55.733 days
  9. €52.981 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €24.93.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 124 percent. The most expensive point is €55.73, 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. €39.78Sun
  2. €30.43Mon
  3. €35.38Tue
  4. €36.48Wed
  5. €45.28Thu
  6. €42.53Fri
  7. €44.73Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Montes Claros

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário Hildeberto Alves de Freitas

Franca

Bus
  • Rodoviária de Franca
  • Parada Chico Julio
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
67% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 33% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 648 km against 564 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 Monte Azul, Cristalina, Brasília, Belo Horizonte. The gap between arriving and leaving is 58 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 Montes Claros at 06:08 and the last at 18:47, across 11 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Montes Claros to Franca

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 Montes Claros to Franca take?

The Coach from Montes Claros to Franca takes 9h 11m door to door, of which 8h 27m is spent moving. The route runs 648 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 Montes Claros to Franca cost?

The Coach from Montes Claros to Franca starts at €30.43 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €37.03. 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 Montes Claros to Franca?

2 operators run the Coach from Montes Claros to Franca: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes, Gte Locadora Turistica. Between them they file around 11 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 Montes Claros to Franca use?

The Coach from Montes Claros to Franca leaves from Terminal Rodoviário Hildeberto Alves de Freitas and arrives at Rodoviária de Franca. 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 Montes Claros to Franca?

Fares for the Coach from Montes Claros to Franca bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €24.93. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 124 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Montes Claros to Franca produce?

The Coach from Montes Claros to Franca produces about 17.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 648 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 Montes Claros to Franca?

Operators on the Coach from Montes Claros to Franca publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 11m 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 Montes Claros to Franca on September 14, 2026: 648 km of route against 564 km in a straight line, 11 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €30.43, and 9h 11m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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