Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas bus

Buses from Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas start at €15.03 and take 3h 52m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas starts at €15.03 and takes 3h 52m door to door, run by 2 operators over 224 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 13, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 3h 52mDoor to door
  • 3h 8mMoving
  • €15.03 to €23.83From
  • 06:05 to 14:47First and last departure
  • 6Per day
  • 6.0 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on September 28, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€15.03 to €23.83 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €23.83Mon14
  2. about €20.53Tue15
  3. about €20.53Wed16
  4. about €21.63Thu17
  5. about €22.73Fri18
  6. about €19.98Sat19
  7. about €21.08Sun20
  8. about €15.03Mon21
  9. about €15.03Tue22
  10. about €15.03Wed23
  11. about €21.63Thu24
  12. about €17.23Fri25
  13. about €18.33Sat26
  14. about €16.68Sun27

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

Cheapest€13.38
  1. Viacao Cometa S A VC730006:193h 8m09:27RodoviáriaEStação Rodoviária de Alfenas

Door to door 3h 52mCO2 6.0 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFastest
Viacao Cometa S A3h 43m
Viação Santa Cruz3h 45m

The bus gets you into Alfenas. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Alfenas for the night the bus gets in

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Booking window

When to book Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas

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

  1. €15.0390 days
  2. €14.4860 days
  3. €11.1845 days
  4. €11.1830 days
  5. €13.3821 days
  6. €16.6814 days
  7. €21.087 days
  8. €20.533 days
  9. €23.831 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €11.18.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 113 percent. The most expensive point is €23.83, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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. €16.68Sun
  2. €15.03Mon
  3. €15.03Tue
  4. €15.03Wed
  5. €21.63Thu
  6. €17.23Fri
  7. €18.33Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Ribeirão Preto

Bus
  • Rodoviária
  • Mini Rodoviária

Alfenas

Bus
  • EStação Rodoviária de Alfenas
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
57% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 43% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 224 km against 195 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 São Paulo, Campinas, Resende. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 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 Ribeirão Preto at 06:05 and the last at 14:47, across 6 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas

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 Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas take?

The Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas takes 3h 52m door to door, of which 3h 8m is spent moving. The route runs 224 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 Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas cost?

The Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas starts at €15.03 for one passenger, as of September 13, 2026. A typical fare is €15.58. 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 Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas?

2 operators run the Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas: Viacao Cometa S A, Viação Santa Cruz. Between them they file around 6 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 Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas use?

The Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas leaves from Rodoviária and arrives at EStação Rodoviária de Alfenas. 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 Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas?

Fares for the Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €11.18. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 113 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas produce?

The Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas produces about 6.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 224 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 Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas?

Operators on the Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 52m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Ribeirão Preto to Alfenas on September 13, 2026: 224 km of route against 195 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €15.03, and 3h 52m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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