Palmitos to Catalão bus

Buses from Palmitos to Catalão start at €69.48 and take 17h 30m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Palmitos to Catalão starts at €69.48 and takes 17h 30m door to door, run by 2 operators over 1,294 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 17h 30mDoor to door
  • 16h 46mMoving
  • €69.48From
  • 34.9 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

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

Cheapest€60.68
  1. Cantelle Viagens e Turismo CV439606:0417h 32m23:36Rodoviária de São CarlosRodoviária Catalão

Door to door 18h 16mCO2 34.9 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€70.58
  1. Planalto Transportes PT582306:3516h 46m23:21Rodoviária de São CarlosRodoviária Catalão

Door to door 17h 30mCO2 34.9 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
Cantelle Viagens e Turismo€60.6817h 29m
Planalto Transportes€63.4317h 30m

The trip ends at Rodoviária Catalão. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Catalão for the night the bus gets in

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 Palmitos to Catalão

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

  1. €57.3890 days
  2. €44.7360 days
  3. €54.0845 days
  4. €59.0330 days
  5. €71.1321 days
  6. €94.7814 days
  7. €134.387 days
  8. €120.083 days
  9. €138.781 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €44.73.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 210 percent. The most expensive point is €138.78, 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. €83.78Sun
  2. €69.48Mon
  3. €69.48Tue
  4. €70.58Wed
  5. €94.78Thu
  6. €97.53Fri
  7. €87.08Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Palmitos

Bus
  • Rodoviária de São Carlos
  • Estação Rodoviária de Iraí

Catalão

Bus
  • Rodoviária Catalão
  • 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 1,294 km against 1,125 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 Araguari, Uberlândia, São José do Rio Preto, Pato Branco. The gap between arriving and leaving is 76 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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 Palmitos at 06:04 and the last at 07:30, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Palmitos to Catalão

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 Palmitos to Catalão take?

The Coach from Palmitos to Catalão takes 17h 30m door to door, of which 16h 46m is spent moving. The route runs 1,294 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 Palmitos to Catalão cost?

The Coach from Palmitos to Catalão starts at €69.48 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €63.15. 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 Palmitos to Catalão?

2 operators run the Coach from Palmitos to Catalão: Cantelle Viagens e Turismo, Planalto Transportes. 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.

Which terminal does the Coach from Palmitos to Catalão use?

The Coach from Palmitos to Catalão leaves from Rodoviária de São Carlos and arrives at Rodoviária Catalão. 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 Palmitos to Catalão?

Fares for the Coach from Palmitos to Catalão bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €44.73. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 210 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Palmitos to Catalão produce?

The Coach from Palmitos to Catalão produces about 34.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1294 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 Palmitos to Catalão?

Operators on the Coach from Palmitos to Catalão publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 17h 30m 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.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Palmitos to Catalão on September 10, 2026: 1294 km of route against 1125 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €69.48, and 17h 30m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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