Santa Maria to Joinville bus

Buses from Santa Maria to Joinville start at €38.13 and take 10h 17m at their fastest.

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Colorful footbridge over city street in Joinville, Brazil, surrounded by lush greenery and modern buildings.

The Buses from Santa Maria to Joinville starts at €38.13 and takes 10h 17m door to door, run by 3 operators over 707 km, with around 13 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 12, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 10h 17mDoor to door
  • 9h 33mMoving
  • €38.13From
  • 19.1 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€31.53
  1. Auto Viacao Venancio Aires AV201617:0210h 4m03:06Rodoviária de Santa MariaTerminal Tupy

Door to door 10h 48mCO2 19.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€38.13
  1. Viação União Santa Cruz VU681806:289h 33m16:01Rodoviária de Santa MariaTerminal Tupy

Door to door 10h 17mCO2 19.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFrom
Auto Viação Catarinense€32.08
Auto Viacao Venancio Aires€31.53
Viação União Santa Cruz€31.53

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Booking window

When to book Santa Maria to Joinville

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

  1. €37.0390 days
  2. €26.0360 days
  3. €24.9345 days
  4. €26.5830 days
  5. €38.6821 days
  6. €47.4814 days
  7. €60.137 days
  8. €57.933 days
  9. €74.981 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €24.93.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 201 percent. The most expensive point is €74.98, 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. €45.83Sun
  2. €38.13Mon
  3. €38.68Tue
  4. €39.23Wed
  5. €48.58Thu
  6. €48.58Fri
  7. €47.48Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Santa Maria

Bus
  • Rodoviária de Santa Maria
  • Posto de Camobi

Joinville

Bus
  • Terminal Tupy
  • Rodoviária de Joinville Harold Nielson
The journey

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
69% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 31% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 707 km against 615 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 Venâncio Aires, Santa Cruz do Sul, Bento Gonçalves, Farroupilha. The gap between arriving and leaving is 62 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 Santa Maria at 06:28 and the last at 17:02, across 13 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Santa Maria to Joinville

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 Santa Maria to Joinville take?

The Coach from Santa Maria to Joinville takes 10h 17m door to door, of which 9h 33m is spent moving. The route runs 707 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 Santa Maria to Joinville cost?

The Coach from Santa Maria to Joinville starts at €38.13 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €41.43. 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 Santa Maria to Joinville?

3 operators run the Coach from Santa Maria to Joinville: Auto Viação Catarinense, Auto Viacao Venancio Aires, Viação União Santa Cruz. Between them they file around 13 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 Santa Maria to Joinville use?

The Coach from Santa Maria to Joinville leaves from Rodoviária de Santa Maria and arrives at Terminal Tupy. 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 Santa Maria to Joinville?

Fares for the Coach from Santa Maria to Joinville bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €24.93. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 201 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Santa Maria to Joinville produce?

The Coach from Santa Maria to Joinville produces about 19.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 707 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 Santa Maria to Joinville?

Operators on the Coach from Santa Maria to Joinville publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 10h 17m 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 Santa Maria to Joinville on September 12, 2026: 707 km of route against 615 km in a straight line, 13 services a day, 3 operators, a cheapest fare of €38.13, and 10h 17m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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