Picos to Tauá bus

Buses from Picos to Tauá start at €13.93 and take 3h 30m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Picos to Tauá starts at €13.93 and takes 3h 30m door to door, run by 3 operators over 203 km, with around 10 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 9, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 3h 30mDoor to door
  • 2h 46mMoving
  • €13.93From
  • 5.5 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€12.28
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG193216:452h 47m19:32Terminal Rodoviário de PicosTerminal Rodoviário Vereador Luis Cavalcante Mota

Door to door 3h 31mCO2 5.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€13.38
  1. Manoel Barbosa Lima MB909911:452h 46m14:31Terminal Rodoviário de PicosTerminal Rodoviário Vereador Luis Cavalcante Mota

Door to door 3h 30mCO2 5.5 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.
OperatorFrom
Empresa Gontijo de Transportes€12.28
Manoel Barbosa Lima€12.28
Viação€12.83

The trip ends at Terminal Rodoviário Vereador Luis Cavalcante Mota. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Tauá for the night the bus gets in

Sort by distance from Terminal Rodoviário Vereador Luis Cavalcante Mota and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Picos to Tauá

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

  1. €11.7390 days
  2. €10.6360 days
  3. €11.7345 days
  4. €11.7330 days
  5. €12.2821 days
  6. €15.0314 days
  7. €16.137 days
  8. €22.183 days
  9. €28.781 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.63.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 171 percent. The most expensive point is €28.78, 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. €15.03Sun
  2. €13.93Mon
  3. €14.48Tue
  4. €15.03Wed
  5. €16.68Thu
  6. €15.58Fri
  7. €16.68Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Picos

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Picos
  • Terminal Rodoviário Senador Helvídio Nunes

Tauá

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário Vereador Luis Cavalcante Mota
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
90% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 10% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 203 km against 176 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 Afrânio. The gap between arriving and leaving is 59 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. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Picos at 06:12 and the last at 17:21, across 10 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Picos to Tauá

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 Picos to Tauá take?

The Coach from Picos to Tauá takes 3h 30m door to door, of which 2h 46m is spent moving. The route runs 203 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 Picos to Tauá cost?

The Coach from Picos to Tauá starts at €13.93 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €13.66. 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 Picos to Tauá?

3 operators run the Coach from Picos to Tauá: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes, Manoel Barbosa Lima, Viação. 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 Picos to Tauá use?

The Coach from Picos to Tauá leaves from Terminal Rodoviário de Picos and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário Vereador Luis Cavalcante Mota. 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 Picos to Tauá?

Fares for the Coach from Picos to Tauá bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.63. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 171 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Picos to Tauá produce?

The Coach from Picos to Tauá produces about 5.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 203 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 Picos to Tauá?

Operators on the Coach from Picos to Tauá publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 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 Picos to Tauá on September 9, 2026: 203 km of route against 176 km in a straight line, 10 services a day, 3 operators, a cheapest fare of €13.93, and 3h 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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