São Carlos to Cuiabá bus

Buses from São Carlos to Cuiabá start at €65.08 and take 17h 47m at their fastest.

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The Buses from São Carlos to Cuiabá starts at €65.08 and takes 17h 47m door to door, run by 3 operators over 1,288 km, with around 13 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 17h 47mDoor to door
  • 17h 3mMoving
  • €65.08From
  • 34.8 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€54.63
  1. Rotas de Viacao do Triangulo RV450006:1717h 17m23:34SOU São CarlosIpiranga

Door to door 18h 1mCO2 34.8 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€100.28
  1. Planalto Transportes PT114407:303h 14m10:44SOU São CarlosEstação Rodoviária
  2. Azul A321111:401h 43m13:23São José do Rio Preto SJPCuiabá CGB

Changes at São José do Rio Preto, with 56 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 7h 50mCO2 238.5 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

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.
OperatorFromFastest
Empresa de Transportes Andorinha€56.8317h 26m
Expresso Itamarati€56.2817h 24m
Rotas de Viacao do Triangulo€54.6317h 25m

That is the traveling done. What happens after you walk out into Cuiabá is not something we sell.

A hotel room

Where to stay in Cuiabá

Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book São Carlos to Cuiabá

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

  1. €74.4390 days
  2. €42.5360 days
  3. €46.3845 days
  4. €52.9830 days
  5. €70.0321 days
  6. €68.3814 days
  7. €78.837 days
  8. €83.783 days
  9. €121.731 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €42.53.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 186 percent. The most expensive point is €121.73, 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. €78.28Sun
  2. €65.08Mon
  3. €65.63Tue
  4. €69.48Wed
  5. €84.88Thu
  6. €70.03Fri
  7. €83.23Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

São Carlos

Bus
  • SOU São Carlos
  • Estação Norte

Cuiabá

Bus
  • Ipiranga
  • Alencastro
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 1,288 km against 1,120 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 São José do Rio Preto, Chapadão do Sul, Cassilândia, Rondonópolis. The gap between arriving and leaving is 56 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 São Carlos at 06:17 and the last at 17:26, across 13 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about São Carlos to Cuiabá

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 São Carlos to Cuiabá take?

The Coach from São Carlos to Cuiabá takes 17h 47m door to door, of which 17h 3m is spent moving. The route runs 1,288 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 São Carlos to Cuiabá cost?

The Coach from São Carlos to Cuiabá starts at €65.08 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €71.68. 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 São Carlos to Cuiabá?

3 operators run the Coach from São Carlos to Cuiabá: Empresa de Transportes Andorinha, Expresso Itamarati, Rotas de Viacao do Triangulo. 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 São Carlos to Cuiabá use?

The Coach from São Carlos to Cuiabá leaves from SOU São Carlos and arrives at Ipiranga. 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 São Carlos to Cuiabá?

Fares for the Coach from São Carlos to Cuiabá bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €42.53. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 186 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from São Carlos to Cuiabá produce?

The Coach from São Carlos to Cuiabá produces about 34.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1288 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 São Carlos to Cuiabá?

Operators on the Coach from São Carlos to Cuiabá publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 17h 47m 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 São Carlos to Cuiabá on September 11, 2026: 1288 km of route against 1120 km in a straight line, 13 services a day, 3 operators, a cheapest fare of €65.08, and 17h 47m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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