Palmitos to Planalto bus

Buses from Palmitos to Planalto start at €105.23 and take 30h 8m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Palmitos to Planalto starts at €105.23 and takes 30h 8m door to door, run by 2 operators over 2,191 km, with around 10 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 30h 8mDoor to door
  • 29h 24mMoving
  • €105.23From
  • 59.2 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€94.23
  1. Unesul de Transportes UT101007:303h10:30Rodoviária de São CarlosRodoviária de Quedas do Iguaçu
  2. Unesul de Transportes UT840811:2826h 43m14:11Rodoviária de Quedas do IguaçuPlanalto bus station

Changes at Quedas do Iguaçu, with 58 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 31h 25mCO2 60.5 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€118.43
  1. Helios Coletivos e Cargas HC664711:3829h 24m17:02Rodoviária de São CarlosPlanalto bus station

Door to door 30h 8mCO2 59.2 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
Helios Coletivos e Cargas€95.3329h 9m
Unesul de Transportes€100.2829h 7m

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

A hotel room

A room in Planalto for the night the bus gets in

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Booking window

When to book Palmitos to Planalto

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

  1. €94.2390 days
  2. €70.0360 days
  3. €90.9345 days
  4. €93.1330 days
  5. €112.3821 days
  6. €135.4814 days
  7. €145.387 days
  8. €185.533 days
  9. €202.031 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €70.03.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 188 percent. The most expensive point is €202.03, 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. €131.63Sun
  2. €109.08Mon
  3. €105.23Tue
  4. €116.23Wed
  5. €135.48Thu
  6. €141.53Fri
  7. €145.38Sat
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
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
60% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 40% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 2,191 km against 1,905 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 Quedas do Iguaçu, São Paulo, São José do Rio Preto, Lajeado. 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 Palmitos at 06:10 and the last at 17:19, across 10 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Palmitos to Planalto

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 Planalto take?

The Coach from Palmitos to Planalto takes 30h 8m door to door, of which 29h 24m is spent moving. The route runs 2,191 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 Planalto cost?

The Coach from Palmitos to Planalto starts at €105.23 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €104.96. 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 Planalto?

2 operators run the Coach from Palmitos to Planalto: Helios Coletivos e Cargas, Unesul de Transportes. Between them they file around 10 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 Planalto use?

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

Fares for the Coach from Palmitos to Planalto bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €70.03. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 188 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Palmitos to Planalto produces about 59.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2191 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 Planalto?

Operators on the Coach from Palmitos to Planalto publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 30h 8m 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 Planalto on September 10, 2026: 2191 km of route against 1905 km in a straight line, 10 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €105.23, and 30h 8m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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