Recife to Olímpia bus

Buses from Recife to Olímpia start at €123.38 and take 32h 19m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Recife to Olímpia starts at €123.38 and takes 32h 19m door to door, run by 1 operator over 2,374 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

  • 32h 19mDoor to door
  • 31h 35mMoving
  • €123.38From
  • 64.1 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€118.98
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG173407:3032h 26m15:56Istmo do RecifeRodoviária de Uberaba
  2. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG473416:472h 32m19:19Rodoviária de UberabaTerminal Rodoviário de Olímpia

Changes at Uberaba, with 51 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 36h 33mCO2 64.1 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€149.78
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG275106:3831h 35m14:13Istmo do RecifeTerminal Rodoviário de Olímpia

Door to door 32h 19mCO2 64.1 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
Empresa Gontijo de Transportes€125.5831h 37m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi
  • Empresa Gontijo de Transportes

The trip ends at Terminal Rodoviário de Olímpia. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Olímpia for the night the bus gets in

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Booking window

When to book Recife to Olímpia

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

  1. €121.7390 days
  2. €89.2860 days
  3. €104.6845 days
  4. €100.2830 days
  5. €118.9821 days
  6. €147.0314 days
  7. €168.487 days
  8. €239.433 days
  9. €349.981 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €89.28.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 292 percent. The most expensive point is €349.98, 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. €141.53Sun
  2. €148.68Mon
  3. €125.58Tue
  4. €147.03Wed
  5. €166.28Thu
  6. €158.03Fri
  7. €164.08Sat
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

Olímpia

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Olímpia
  • Terminal Rodoviário
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 2,374 km against 2,064 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 Feira de Santana, Araxá, Uberaba, Jequié. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 5 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 06:38 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 Olímpia

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 Olímpia take?

The Coach from Recife to Olímpia takes 32h 19m door to door, of which 31h 35m is spent moving. The route runs 2,374 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 Olímpia cost?

The Coach from Recife to Olímpia starts at €123.38 for one passenger, checked on September 30, 2026. A typical fare is €137.13. 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 Olímpia?

1 operators run the Coach from Recife to Olímpia: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes. 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 Olímpia use?

The Coach from Recife to Olímpia leaves from Istmo do Recife and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Olímpia. 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 Olímpia?

Fares for the Coach from Recife to Olímpia bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €89.28. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 292 percent, measured on September 30, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Recife to Olímpia produces about 64.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2374 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 Olímpia?

Operators on the Coach from Recife to Olímpia publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 32h 19m 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 Olímpia on September 9, 2026: 2374 km of route against 2064 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €123.38, and 32h 19m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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