Ribeirão Preto to Caldas Novas bus

Buses from Ribeirão Preto to Caldas Novas start at €19.43 and take 6h 37m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Ribeirão Preto to Caldas Novas starts at €19.43 and takes 6h 37m door to door, run by 3 operators over 450 km, with around 19 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 18, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6h 37mDoor to door
  • 5h 53mMoving
  • €24.38 to €45.28From
  • 06:00 to 19:40First and last departure
  • 19Per day
  • 12.2 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 6, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€24.38 to €45.28 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.

Emtram Empresa de Transportes Macaubense runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Bookaway lists departures for Ribeirão Preto to Caldas Novas on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €45.28Sat19
  2. about €41.98Sun20
  3. about €30.43Mon21
  4. about €30.43Tue22
  5. about €31.53Wed23
  6. about €39.78Thu24
  7. about €30.43Fri25
  8. about €30.43Sat26
  9. about €28.78Sun27
  10. about €24.93Mon28
  11. about €24.93Tue29
  12. about €26.03Wed30
  13. about €29.88Thu1
  14. about €24.38Fri2

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 October 6, 2026

Cheapest€19.43
  1. Emtram Empresa de Transportes Macaubense EE192219:316h 3m01:34RodoviáriaTerminal Rodoviária de Caldas Novas

Door to door 6h 47mCO2 12.2 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€19.98
  1. Real Expresso RE767519:265h 53m01:19RodoviáriaTerminal Rodoviária de Caldas Novas

Door to door 6h 37mCO2 12.2 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.
OperatorFromFastest
Emtram Empresa de Transportes Macaubense€19.436h 38m
Real Expresso€19.986h 37m
Rotas de Viacao do Triangulo€21.636h 38m

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

A hotel room

A room in Caldas Novas for the night the bus gets in

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

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Booking window

When to book Ribeirão Preto to Caldas Novas

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

  1. €26.0390 days
  2. €16.6860 days
  3. €17.2345 days
  4. €19.9830 days
  5. €23.8321 days
  6. €24.3814 days
  7. €30.437 days
  8. €30.433 days
  9. €45.281 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €16.68.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 171 percent. The most expensive point is €45.28, 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. €28.78Sun
  2. €24.93Mon
  3. €24.93Tue
  4. €26.03Wed
  5. €29.88Thu
  6. €24.38Fri
  7. €30.43Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Ribeirão Preto

Bus
  • Rodoviária
  • Mini Rodoviária

Caldas Novas

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviária de Caldas Novas
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
79% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 21% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 450 km against 391 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 Uberaba, Conceição das Alagoas, Araguari, Uberlândia. The gap between arriving and leaving is 78 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 12 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 06:00 and the last at 19:40, across 19 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Ribeirão Preto to Caldas Novas

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 Caldas Novas take?

The Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Caldas Novas takes 6h 37m door to door, of which 5h 53m is spent moving. The route runs 450 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 Caldas Novas cost?

The Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Caldas Novas starts at €19.43 for one passenger, as of September 18, 2026. A typical fare is €23.28. 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 Caldas Novas?

3 operators run the Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Caldas Novas: Emtram Empresa de Transportes Macaubense, Real Expresso, Rotas de Viacao do Triangulo. Between them they file around 19 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 Caldas Novas use?

The Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Caldas Novas leaves from Rodoviária and arrives at Terminal Rodoviária de Caldas Novas. 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 Caldas Novas?

Fares for the Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Caldas Novas bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €16.68. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 171 percent, measured on September 18, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Caldas Novas produces about 12.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 450 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 Caldas Novas?

Operators on the Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Caldas Novas publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 37m 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 Caldas Novas on September 18, 2026: 450 km of route against 391 km in a straight line, 19 services a day, 3 operators a cheapest fare of €19.43, and 6h 37m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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