Santos to Itajaí bus

Buses from Santos to Itajaí start at €26.58 and take 6h 49m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Santos to Itajaí starts at €26.58 and takes 6h 49m door to door, run by 2 operators over 463 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6h 49mDoor to door
  • 6h 5mMoving
  • €26.58From
  • 12.5 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€22.18
  1. Auto Viação Catarinense AV438814:116h 50m21:01Estação Rodoviária de SantosRodoviária Internacional de Itajaí

Door to door 7h 34mCO2 12.5 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€27.68
  1. Auto Viação Catarinense AV787106:536h 5m12:58Estação Rodoviária de SantosRodoviária Internacional de Itajaí

Door to door 6h 49mCO2 12.5 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.
OperatorFastest
Auto Viação Catarinense6h 48m
Empresa de Onibus Nossa Senhora da Penha6h 49m

Itajaí sits on the water, which usually settles which side of town you want to wake up on. Rooms are not ours to sell.

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Rodoviária Internacional de Itajaí

Sort by distance from Rodoviária Internacional de Itajaí and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Santos to Itajaí

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

  1. €26.5890 days
  2. €17.2360 days
  3. €22.7345 days
  4. €22.7330 days
  5. €30.9821 days
  6. €33.1814 days
  7. €43.087 days
  8. €43.633 days
  9. €51.881 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €17.23.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 201 percent. The most expensive point is €51.88, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 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. €31.53Sun
  2. €29.33Mon
  3. €26.58Tue
  4. €26.58Wed
  5. €33.18Thu
  6. €33.18Fri
  7. €33.18Sat
Terminals

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

Itajaí

Bus
  • Rodoviária Internacional de Itajaí
  • Terminal Cordeiros
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
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 463 km against 403 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 Curitiba, Castro, Jaguariaíva, Paranaguá. 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 Itajaí

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 Itajaí take?

The Coach from Santos to Itajaí takes 6h 49m door to door, of which 6h 5m is spent moving. The route runs 463 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 Itajaí cost?

The Coach from Santos to Itajaí starts at €26.58 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €28.23. 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 Itajaí?

2 operators run the Coach from Santos to Itajaí: 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 Itajaí use?

The Coach from Santos to Itajaí leaves from Estação Rodoviária de Santos and arrives at Rodoviária Internacional de Itajaí. 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 Itajaí?

Fares for the Coach from Santos to Itajaí bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €17.23. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 201 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Santos to Itajaí produce?

The Coach from Santos to Itajaí produces about 12.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 463 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 Itajaí?

Operators on the Coach from Santos to Itajaí publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 6h 49m 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 Itajaí on September 10, 2026: 463 km of route against 403 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €26.58, and 6h 49m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

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Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Itajaí, with free cancellation on most of it.

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