Santa Maria to Mafra bus

Buses from Santa Maria to Mafra start at €40.33 and take 9h 41m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Santa Maria to Mafra starts at €40.33 and takes 9h 41m door to door, run by 1 operator over 643 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 12, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 9h 41mDoor to door
  • 8h 57mMoving
  • €40.33From
  • 17.4 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

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

Cheapest€32.08
  1. Viação União Santa Cruz VU477607:303h 39m11:09Rodoviária de Santa MariaEstação Rodoviária de Bento Gonçalves
  2. Empresa de Onibus Nossa Senhora da Penha EO837012:175h 56m18:13Estação Rodoviária de Bento GonçalvesTerminal Rodoviário de Mafra

Changes at Bento Gonçalves, with 68 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 11h 27mCO2 18.9 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Fastest€33.18
  1. Planalto Transportes PT766906:358h 57m15:32Rodoviária de Santa MariaTerminal Rodoviário de Mafra

Door to door 9h 41mCO2 17.4 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Planalto Transportes€33.189h 8m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi

The trip ends at Terminal Rodoviário de Mafra. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Mafra for the night the bus gets in

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Booking window

When to book Santa Maria to Mafra

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

  1. €35.9390 days
  2. €30.4360 days
  3. €27.6845 days
  4. €29.3330 days
  5. €38.6821 days
  6. €49.1314 days
  7. €73.337 days
  8. €66.183 days
  9. €69.481 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €27.68.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 165 percent. The most expensive point is €73.33, 7 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. €42.53Sun
  2. €40.33Mon
  3. €43.08Tue
  4. €40.33Wed
  5. €49.68Thu
  6. €53.53Fri
  7. €49.13Sat
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

Mafra

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Mafra
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
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 643 km against 559 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 Bento Gonçalves, Farroupilha, Venâncio Aires, Santa Cruz do Sul. The gap between arriving and leaving is 68 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 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 06:35 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Santa Maria to Mafra

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 Mafra take?

The Coach from Santa Maria to Mafra takes 9h 41m door to door, of which 8h 57m is spent moving. The route runs 643 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 Mafra cost?

The Coach from Santa Maria to Mafra starts at €40.33 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €33.17. 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 Mafra?

1 operators run the Coach from Santa Maria to Mafra: Planalto Transportes. Between them they file around 5 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 Mafra use?

The Coach from Santa Maria to Mafra leaves from Rodoviária de Santa Maria and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Mafra. 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 Mafra?

Fares for the Coach from Santa Maria to Mafra bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €27.68. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 165 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 Mafra produce?

The Coach from Santa Maria to Mafra produces about 17.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 643 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 Mafra?

Operators on the Coach from Santa Maria to Mafra publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 41m 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 Mafra on September 12, 2026: 643 km of route against 559 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €40.33, and 9h 41m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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