Buses from Santa Maria to São José start at €27.68 and take 9h 5m at their fastest.
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Santa Maria to São José on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Buses from Santa Maria to São José starts at €27.68 and takes 9h 5m door to door, run by 1 operator over 639 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 6, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€36.48 to €86.53 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.
Viação União Santa Cruz runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.
Bookaway lists departures for Santa Maria to São José on your date, and you pay on their side.
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What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
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.
Changes at Venâncio Aires, with 81 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 11h 20mCO2 17.7 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 9h 5mCO2 17.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viação União Santa Cruz | €28.78 | 9h 5m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi |
The bus gets you into São José. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
Sort by distance from Rodoviária Antônio Carlos and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
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.
The Coach from Santa Maria to São José takes 9h 5m door to door, of which 8h 21m is spent moving. The route runs 639 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.
The Coach from Santa Maria to São José starts at €27.68 for one passenger, as of September 16, 2026. A typical fare is €28.77. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Coach from Santa Maria to São José: Viação União Santa Cruz. 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.
The Coach from Santa Maria to São José leaves from Rodoviária de Santa Maria and arrives at Rodoviária Antônio Carlos. 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.
Fares for the Coach from Santa Maria to São José bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €27.13. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 219 percent, measured on September 16, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Coach from Santa Maria to São José produces about 17.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 639 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.
Operators on the Coach from Santa Maria to São José publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 5m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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
The bus is the simple part. What you do once you are in São José is somebody else's catalog.
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