Cheapest€107.98
- Expresso Guanabara EG508306:2433h 51m16:15CajuTerminal Rodoviário de Sobral
Door to door 34h 35mCO2 67.0 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Rio de Janeiro to Sobral bus
Buses from Rio de Janeiro to Sobral start at €125.58 and take 32h 58m at their fastest.
The Buses from Rio de Janeiro to Sobral starts at €125.58 and takes 32h 58m door to door, run by 2 operators over 2,483 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 32h 58mDoor to door
- 32h 14mMoving
- €125.58From
- 67.0 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 30, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Fastest€132.18
- Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG389414:5132h 14m23:05CajuTerminal Rodoviário de Sobral
Door to door 32h 58mCO2 67.0 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest |
|---|---|---|
 Empresa Gontijo de Transportes | €124.48 | 32h 48m |
| Expresso Guanabara | €107.98 | 32h 56m |
The bus gets you into Sobral. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
Where to stay in Sobral
Sort by distance from Terminal Rodoviário de Sobral and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Rio de Janeiro to Sobral
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €143.1890 days
- €82.1360 days
- €82.6845 days
- €98.0830 days
- €134.3821 days
- €131.6314 days
- €155.837 days
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- €242.731 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €82.13.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 196 percent. The most expensive point is €242.73, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €151.43Sun
- €125.58Mon
- €132.73Tue
- €137.68Wed
- €163.53Thu
- €134.38Fri
- €171.23Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Rio de Janeiro
Bus
- Caju
- INTO
Sobral
Bus
- Terminal Rodoviário de Sobral
- Terminal de Transportes Complementar de Sobral
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
- 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 2,483 km against 2,159 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 Governador Valadares, Picos, Petrolina, Teófilo Otoni. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 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 Rio de Janeiro at 06:24 and the last at 14:51, across 8 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Rio de Janeiro to Sobral
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 Rio de Janeiro to Sobral take?
The Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Sobral takes 32h 58m door to door, of which 32h 14m is spent moving. The route runs 2,483 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 Rio de Janeiro to Sobral cost?
The Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Sobral starts at €125.58 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 Rio de Janeiro to Sobral?
2 operators run the Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Sobral: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes, Expresso Guanabara. 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 Rio de Janeiro to Sobral use?
The Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Sobral leaves from Caju and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Sobral. 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 Rio de Janeiro to Sobral?
Fares for the Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Sobral bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €82.13. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 196 percent, measured on September 30, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Sobral produce?
The Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Sobral produces about 67.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2483 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 Rio de Janeiro to Sobral?
Operators on the Coach from Rio de Janeiro to Sobral publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 32h 58m 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 Rio de Janeiro to Sobral on September 11, 2026: 2483 km of route against 2159 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €125.58, and 32h 58m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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The bus is the simple part. What you do once you are in Sobral is somebody else's catalog.
Things to do in Sobral
The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.
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