Ribeirão Preto to Cristalina bus

Buses from Ribeirão Preto to Cristalina start at €24.93 and take 8h 9m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Ribeirão Preto to Cristalina starts at €24.93 and takes 8h 9m door to door, run by 2 operators over 564 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 17, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 9mDoor to door
  • 7h 25mMoving
  • €32.63 to €66.18From
  • 06:31 to 14:27First and last departure
  • 8Per day
  • 15.2 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 5, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€32.63 to €66.18 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.

Viacao Catarina Transportes de Passageiros runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Bookaway lists departures for Ribeirão Preto to Cristalina 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 €60.68Fri18
  2. about €66.18Sat19
  3. about €46.93Sun20
  4. about €41.43Mon21
  5. about €37.58Tue22
  6. about €39.78Wed23
  7. about €39.78Thu24
  8. about €37.03Fri25
  9. about €37.03Sat26
  10. about €37.03Sun27
  11. about €34.83Mon28
  12. about €34.28Tue29
  13. about €33.73Wed30
  14. about €32.63Thu1

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 5, 2026

Cheapest€24.93
  1. Viacao Catarina Transportes de Passageiros VC837806:408h 12m14:52RodoviáriaEtação Rodoviaria de Cristalina

Door to door 8h 56mCO2 15.2 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€29.88
  1. Viacao Catarina Transportes de Passageiros VC286214:277h 25m21:52RodoviáriaEtação Rodoviaria de Cristalina

Door to door 8h 9mCO2 15.2 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
Rapido Federal Viacao€27.688h 8m
Viacao Catarina Transportes de Passageiros€24.938h 7m

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

A hotel room

A room in Cristalina for the night the bus gets in

Sort by distance from Etação Rodoviaria de Cristalina 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 Cristalina

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

  1. €27.1390 days
  2. €21.6360 days
  3. €24.9345 days
  4. €28.7830 days
  5. €33.1821 days
  6. €32.6314 days
  7. €39.787 days
  8. €46.933 days
  9. €60.681 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.63.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 181 percent. The most expensive point is €60.68, 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. €37.03Sun
  2. €34.83Mon
  3. €34.28Tue
  4. €33.73Wed
  5. €33.18Thu
  6. €37.03Fri
  7. €37.03Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Ribeirão Preto

Bus
  • Rodoviária
  • Mini Rodoviária

Cristalina

Bus
  • Etação Rodoviaria de Cristalina
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 564 km against 491 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 Uberlândia, Araguari, Uberaba, Monte Carmelo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 55 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 06:31 and the last at 14:27, across 8 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Ribeirão Preto to Cristalina

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 Cristalina take?

The Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Cristalina takes 8h 9m door to door, of which 7h 25m is spent moving. The route runs 564 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 Cristalina cost?

The Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Cristalina starts at €24.93 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €28.78. 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 Cristalina?

2 operators run the Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Cristalina: Rapido Federal Viacao, Viacao Catarina Transportes de Passageiros. Between them they file around 8 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 Cristalina use?

The Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Cristalina leaves from Rodoviária and arrives at Etação Rodoviaria de Cristalina. 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 Cristalina?

Fares for the Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Cristalina bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.63. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 181 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Cristalina produces about 15.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 564 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 Cristalina?

Operators on the Coach from Ribeirão Preto to Cristalina publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 9m 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 Cristalina on September 17, 2026: 564 km of route against 491 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €24.93, and 8h 9m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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