Salvador to Caruaru bus

Buses from Salvador to Caruaru start at €35.93 and take 9h 34m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Salvador to Caruaru starts at €35.93 and takes 9h 34m door to door, run by 6 operators over 678 km, with around 42 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked September 14, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 9h 34mDoor to door
  • 8h 50mMoving
  • €35.93 to €70.03From
  • 06:03 to 20:25First and last departure
  • 42Per day
  • 18.3 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.

€35.93 to €70.03 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 €59.58Tue15
  2. about €55.18Wed16
  3. about €70.03Thu17
  4. about €52.43Fri18
  5. about €54.08Sat19
  6. about €51.33Sun20
  7. about €43.63Mon21
  8. about €35.93Tue22
  9. about €37.58Wed23
  10. about €46.93Thu24
  11. about €43.08Fri25
  12. about €44.18Sat26
  13. about €41.43Sun27
  14. about €35.93Mon28

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€28.23
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG322308:389h 50m18:28Estação PitubaTerminal Rodoviário De Caruaru

Door to door 10h 34mCO2 18.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€33.18
  1. JS Turismo JS768706:488h 50m15:38Estação PitubaTerminal Rodoviário De Caruaru

Door to door 9h 34mCO2 18.3 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
Empresa Gontijo de Transportes€28.239h 34m
Expresso Guanabara€28.789h 34m
Expresso São Luiz€30.439h 33m
JS Turismo€29.889h 33m
Kandango Transportes e Turismo€29.889h 33m
Transportadora Turistica Suzano€29.339h 33m

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

A hotel room

A room in Caruaru for the night the bus gets in

Sort by distance from Terminal Rodoviário De Caruaru and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Salvador to Caruaru

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

  1. €33.7390 days
  2. €27.6860 days
  3. €32.0845 days
  4. €25.4830 days
  5. €28.2321 days
  6. €35.9314 days
  7. €43.637 days
  8. €70.033 days
  9. €59.581 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €25.48.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 175 percent. The most expensive point is €70.03, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €41.43Sun
  2. €35.93Mon
  3. €35.93Tue
  4. €37.58Wed
  5. €46.93Thu
  6. €43.08Fri
  7. €44.18Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Salvador

Bus
  • Estação Pituba
  • Terminal Retiro

Caruaru

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário De Caruaru
  • Terminal Leste
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

How far it really runs
The route covers 678 km against 590 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Salvador at 06:03 and the last at 20:25, across 42 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Salvador to Caruaru

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 Salvador to Caruaru take?

The Coach from Salvador to Caruaru takes 9h 34m door to door, of which 8h 50m is spent moving. The route runs 678 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 Salvador to Caruaru cost?

The Coach from Salvador to Caruaru starts at €35.93 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €34.01. 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 Salvador to Caruaru?

6 operators run the Coach from Salvador to Caruaru: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes, Expresso Guanabara, Expresso São Luiz, JS Turismo, Kandango Transportes e Turismo. Between them they file around 42 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 Salvador to Caruaru use?

The Coach from Salvador to Caruaru leaves from Estação Pituba and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário De Caruaru. 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 Salvador to Caruaru?

Fares for the Coach from Salvador to Caruaru bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €25.48. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 175 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Salvador to Caruaru produce?

The Coach from Salvador to Caruaru produces about 18.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 678 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 Salvador to Caruaru?

Operators on the Coach from Salvador to Caruaru publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 6 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 34m 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 Salvador to Caruaru on September 14, 2026: 678 km of route against 590 km in a straight line, 42 services a day, 6 operators a cheapest fare of €35.93, and 9h 34m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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