Petrópolis to Alegre bus

Buses from Petrópolis to Alegre start at €19.98 and take 5h 12m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Petrópolis to Alegre starts at €19.98 and takes 5h 12m door to door, run by 1 operator over 296 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 9, 2026Priced for September 30, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 12mDoor to door
  • 4h 28mMoving
  • €19.98From
  • 8.0 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 30, 2026

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

Cheapest€17.78
  1. Viacao Aguia Branca S A VA369707:302h 10m09:40Rodoviária de XerémLeopoldina bus station
  2. Transportadora Turistica Suzano TT970411:242h 32m13:56Leopoldina bus stationTerminal Rodoviário Prefeito Antônio Lemos Barbosa

Changes at Leopoldina, with 104 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 10mCO2 8.2 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€18.88
  1. Expresso União EU626306:404h 28m11:08Rodoviária de XerémTerminal Rodoviário Prefeito Antônio Lemos Barbosa

Door to door 5h 12mCO2 8.0 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Expresso União€18.884h 41m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi

Alegre is small enough to walk across, so almost anywhere downtown works. We still do not sell the room.

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Terminal Rodoviário Prefeito Antônio Lemos Barbosa

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Booking window

When to book Petrópolis to Alegre

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

  1. €18.3290 days
  2. €14.4860 days
  3. €17.7845 days
  4. €18.3330 days
  5. €17.7821 days
  6. €19.9814 days
  7. €24.937 days
  8. €37.033 days
  9. €50.231 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €14.48.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 247 percent. The most expensive point is €50.23, 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. €24.38Sun
  2. €20.53Mon
  3. €21.08Tue
  4. €19.98Wed
  5. €26.58Thu
  6. €22.73Fri
  7. €24.93Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Petrópolis

Bus
  • Rodoviária de Xerém
  • Ponto Final (RAIZ DA SERRA)

Alegre

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário Prefeito Antônio Lemos Barbosa
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
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 296 km against 258 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 Rio de Janeiro, Muriaé, Volta Redonda, Leopoldina. 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 Petrópolis at 06:40 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 Petrópolis to Alegre

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 Petrópolis to Alegre take?

The Coach from Petrópolis to Alegre takes 5h 12m door to door, of which 4h 28m is spent moving. The route runs 296 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 Petrópolis to Alegre cost?

The Coach from Petrópolis to Alegre starts at €19.98 for one passenger, checked on September 30, 2026. A typical fare is €19.42. 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 Petrópolis to Alegre?

1 operators run the Coach from Petrópolis to Alegre: Expresso União. 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 Petrópolis to Alegre use?

The Coach from Petrópolis to Alegre leaves from Rodoviária de Xerém and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário Prefeito Antônio Lemos Barbosa. 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 Petrópolis to Alegre?

Fares for the Coach from Petrópolis to Alegre bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €14.48. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 247 percent, measured on September 30, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Petrópolis to Alegre produce?

The Coach from Petrópolis to Alegre produces about 8.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 296 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 Petrópolis to Alegre?

Operators on the Coach from Petrópolis to Alegre publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 12m 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 Petrópolis to Alegre on September 9, 2026: 296 km of route against 258 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €19.98, and 5h 12m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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