Recife to Niterói bus

Buses from Recife to Niterói start at €106.33 and take 32h 24m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Recife to Niterói starts at €106.33 and takes 32h 24m door to door, run by 1 operator over 2,148 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

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

  • 32h 24mDoor to door
  • 31h 40mMoving
  • €106.33From
  • 58.0 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€105.78
  1. Empresa Auto Viação Progresso EA467207:302h 43m10:13Istmo do RecifeTerminal Rodoviário de Maceió
  2. JS Turismo JS168010:5926h 16m13:15Terminal Rodoviário de MaceióTerminal de Itaipuaçu

Changes at Maceió, with 46 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 30h 29mCO2 57.2 kgChanges 1Changeable 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
JS Turismo€106.3329h 1m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi

That is the traveling done. What happens after you walk out into Niterói is not something we sell.

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Terminal de Itaipuaçu

Sort by distance from Terminal de Itaipuaçu and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Recife to Niterói

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

  1. €102.4890 days
  2. €68.3860 days
  3. €83.7845 days
  4. €92.5830 days
  5. €120.0721 days
  6. €118.4314 days
  7. €149.227 days
  8. €161.883 days
  9. €206.431 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €68.38.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 202 percent. The most expensive point is €206.43, 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. €128.87Sun
  2. €120.08Mon
  3. €114.02Tue
  4. €123.93Wed
  5. €120.07Thu
  6. €148.68Fri
  7. €161.88Sat
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

Niterói

Bus
  • Terminal de Itaipuaçu
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 2,148 km against 1,868 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 Maceió, Além Paraíba, Teresópolis, Nova Friburgo. 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 Recife at 06:49 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 Recife to Niterói

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 Niterói take?

The Coach from Recife to Niterói takes 32h 24m door to door, of which 31h 40m is spent moving. The route runs 2,148 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 Niterói cost?

The Coach from Recife to Niterói starts at €106.33 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €123.38. 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 Niterói?

1 operators run the Coach from Recife to Niterói: JS Turismo. 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 Recife to Niterói use?

The Coach from Recife to Niterói leaves from Istmo do Recife and arrives at Terminal de Itaipuaçu. 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 Niterói?

Fares for the Coach from Recife to Niterói bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €68.38. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 202 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Recife to Niterói produces about 58.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2148 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 Niterói?

Operators on the Coach from Recife to Niterói publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 32h 24m 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 Niterói on September 10, 2026: 2148 km of route against 1868 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €106.33, and 32h 24m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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