Cheapest€24.93
- Auto Viação Catarinense AV991814:117h 34m21:45Estação Rodoviária de SantosTerminal Urbano Cidade de Florianópolis
Door to door 8h 18mCO2 14.3 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Santos to Florianópolis bus
Buses from Santos to Florianópolis start at €29.88 and take 8h 2m at their fastest.
The Buses from Santos to Florianópolis starts at €29.88 and takes 8h 2m door to door, run by 2 operators over 530 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 8h 2mDoor to door
- 7h 18mMoving
- €29.88From
- 14.3 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Fastest€27.68
- Empresa de Onibus Nossa Senhora da Penha EO565714:417h 18m21:59Estação Rodoviária de SantosTerminal Urbano Cidade de Florianópolis
Door to door 8h 2mCO2 14.3 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 | Fastest |
|---|---|
| Auto Viação Catarinense | 7h 40m |
| Empresa de Onibus Nossa Senhora da Penha | 7h 39m |
The trip ends at Terminal Urbano Cidade de Florianópolis. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
A room in Florianópolis for the night the bus gets in
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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When to book Santos to Florianópolis
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €23.2890 days
- €23.2860 days
- €24.9345 days
- €24.3830 days
- €28.7821 days
- €30.4314 days
- €44.737 days
- €62.883 days
- €75.531 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €23.28.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 224 percent. The most expensive point is €75.53, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 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.
- €35.38Sun
- €33.18Mon
- €29.88Tue
- €30.43Wed
- €39.78Thu
- €37.58Fri
- €37.58Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Santos
Bus
- Estação Rodoviária de Santos
- Ferry Boat
Florianópolis
Bus
- Terminal Urbano Cidade de Florianópolis
- Terminal Rodoviário Rita Maria
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 530 km against 461 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 Ponta Grossa, Paranaguá, Castro, Curitiba. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Santos at 06:27 and the last at 14:41, across 8 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Santos to Florianópolis
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 Santos to Florianópolis take?
The Coach from Santos to Florianópolis takes 8h 2m door to door, of which 7h 18m is spent moving. The route runs 530 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 Santos to Florianópolis cost?
The Coach from Santos to Florianópolis starts at €29.88 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €30.98. 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 Santos to Florianópolis?
2 operators run the Coach from Santos to Florianópolis: Auto Viação Catarinense, Empresa de Onibus Nossa Senhora da Penha. 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 Santos to Florianópolis use?
The Coach from Santos to Florianópolis leaves from Estação Rodoviária de Santos and arrives at Terminal Urbano Cidade de Florianópolis. 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 Santos to Florianópolis?
Fares for the Coach from Santos to Florianópolis bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €23.28. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 224 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Santos to Florianópolis produce?
The Coach from Santos to Florianópolis produces about 14.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 530 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 Santos to Florianópolis?
Operators on the Coach from Santos to Florianópolis publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 2m 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 Santos to Florianópolis on September 9, 2026: 530 km of route against 461 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €29.88, and 8h 2m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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