Recife to Ibotirama bus

Buses from Recife to Ibotirama start at €59.58 and take 17h 16m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Recife to Ibotirama starts at €59.58 and takes 17h 16m door to door, run by 2 operators over 1,175 km, with around 9 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

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

  • 17h 16mDoor to door
  • 16h 32mMoving
  • €59.58From
  • 31.7 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€49.13
  1. Expresso São Luiz ES233516:5216h 37m09:29Istmo do RecifeRodoviária de Ibotirama

Door to door 17h 21mCO2 31.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€58.48
  1. Kandango Transportes e Turismo KT424417:2016h 32m09:52Istmo do RecifeRodoviária de Ibotirama

Door to door 17h 16mCO2 31.7 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
Expresso São Luiz€49.1315h 58m
Kandango Transportes e Turismo€53.5315h 57m

Ibotirama 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 Rodoviária de Ibotirama

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 Recife to Ibotirama

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

  1. €54.6390 days
  2. €43.6360 days
  3. €52.9845 days
  4. €53.5330 days
  5. €63.4321 days
  6. €81.0314 days
  7. €100.287 days
  8. €123.383 days
  9. €147.581 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €43.63.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 238 percent. The most expensive point is €147.58, 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. €68.38Sun
  2. €59.58Mon
  3. €61.23Tue
  4. €65.08Wed
  5. €81.03Thu
  6. €72.23Fri
  7. €81.03Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Recife

Bus
  • Istmo do Recife
  • TI Recife

Ibotirama

Bus
  • Rodoviária de Ibotirama
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 1,175 km against 1,022 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 Caruaru, Ribeira do Pombal, Delmiro Gouveia, Arapiraca. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Recife at 06:14 and the last at 17:20, across 9 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Recife to Ibotirama

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 Recife to Ibotirama take?

The Coach from Recife to Ibotirama takes 17h 16m door to door, of which 16h 32m is spent moving. The route runs 1,175 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 Recife to Ibotirama cost?

The Coach from Recife to Ibotirama starts at €59.58 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €58.48. 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 Recife to Ibotirama?

2 operators run the Coach from Recife to Ibotirama: Expresso São Luiz, Kandango Transportes e Turismo. Between them they file around 9 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 Recife to Ibotirama use?

The Coach from Recife to Ibotirama leaves from Istmo do Recife and arrives at Rodoviária de Ibotirama. 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 Recife to Ibotirama?

Fares for the Coach from Recife to Ibotirama bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €43.63. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 238 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Recife to Ibotirama produce?

The Coach from Recife to Ibotirama produces about 31.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1175 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 Recife to Ibotirama?

Operators on the Coach from Recife to Ibotirama publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 17h 16m 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 Recife to Ibotirama on September 10, 2026: 1175 km of route against 1022 km in a straight line, 9 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €59.58, and 17h 16m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Plenty of what is worth seeing sits outside Ibotirama and elsewhere in Brazil. None of it is ours to sell.

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What to book in Ibotirama before you go

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

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