Palmas to Rio Claro bus

Buses from Palmas to Rio Claro start at €83.23 and take 21h 4m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Palmas to Rio Claro starts at €83.23 and takes 21h 4m door to door, run by 2 operators over 1,568 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 21h 4mDoor to door
  • 20h 20mMoving
  • €83.23From
  • 42.3 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€68.38
  1. Conceito Transportes e Turismo CT176007:3011h 54m19:24Bus Station of PalmasRodoviária de Anapolis
  2. Nordeste Transportes NT869921:0110h 32m07:33Rodoviária de AnapolisRio Claro bus station

Changes at Anápolis, with 97 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 24h 47mCO2 42.8 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Lowest CO2€84.33
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG672406:3420h 33m03:07Bus Station of PalmasRio Claro bus station

Door to door 21h 17mCO2 42.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

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.
OperatorFromFastest
Empresa Gontijo de Transportes€84.3321h 5m
Planalto Transportes€76.0821h 2m

That is the traveling done. What happens after you walk out into Rio Claro is not something we sell.

A hotel room

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Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Palmas to Rio Claro

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

  1. €90.9390 days
  2. €59.5860 days
  3. €62.3345 days
  4. €61.2330 days
  5. €88.7321 days
  6. €102.4814 days
  7. €138.237 days
  8. €121.733 days
  9. €215.231 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €59.58.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 261 percent. The most expensive point is €215.23, 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. €120.63Sun
  2. €87.08Mon
  3. €83.23Tue
  4. €89.83Wed
  5. €125.03Thu
  6. €102.48Fri
  7. €106.33Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Palmas

Bus
  • Bus Station of Palmas
  • Estação Apinajé

Rio Claro

Bus
  • Rio Claro bus station
  • Estação rodoviária
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
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,568 km against 1,364 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 Uberaba, Brasília, Uberlândia, Anápolis. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Palmas at 06:34 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 Palmas to Rio Claro

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 Palmas to Rio Claro take?

The Coach from Palmas to Rio Claro takes 21h 4m door to door, of which 20h 20m is spent moving. The route runs 1,568 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 Palmas to Rio Claro cost?

The Coach from Palmas to Rio Claro starts at €83.23 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €79.93. 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 Palmas to Rio Claro?

2 operators run the Coach from Palmas to Rio Claro: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes, Planalto Transportes. 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 Palmas to Rio Claro use?

The Coach from Palmas to Rio Claro leaves from Bus Station of Palmas and arrives at Rio Claro bus station. 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 Palmas to Rio Claro?

Fares for the Coach from Palmas to Rio Claro bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €59.58. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 261 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Palmas to Rio Claro produce?

The Coach from Palmas to Rio Claro produces about 42.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1568 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 Palmas to Rio Claro?

Operators on the Coach from Palmas to Rio Claro publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 21h 4m 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.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Palmas to Rio Claro on September 11, 2026: 1568 km of route against 1364 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €83.23, and 21h 4m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

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Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Rio Claro, with free cancellation on most of it.

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