São José dos Campos to Frutal bus

Buses from São José dos Campos to Frutal start at €24.93 and take 8h 46m at their fastest.

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The Buses from São José dos Campos to Frutal starts at €24.93 and takes 8h 46m door to door, run by 2 operators over 543 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 17, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 46mDoor to door
  • 8h 2mMoving
  • €30.43 to €68.38From
  • 06:42 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 6Per day
  • 14.7 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 5, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€30.43 to €68.38 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.

Primar Navegacoes e Turismo runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Bookaway lists departures for São José dos Campos to Frutal on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €60.68Fri18
  2. about €63.98Sat19
  3. about €68.38Sun20
  4. about €49.68Mon21
  5. about €44.73Tue22
  6. about €39.78Wed23
  7. about €62.33Thu24
  8. about €37.58Fri25
  9. about €42.53Sat26
  10. about €36.48Sun27
  11. about €37.58Mon28
  12. about €30.43Tue29
  13. about €35.93Wed30
  14. about €37.03Thu1

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.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 5, 2026

Cheapest€24.93
  1. Primar Navegacoes e Turismo PN233806:438h 3m14:46EcoTerminal Rodoviário de Frutal

Door to door 8h 47mCO2 14.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€30.43
  1. Real Expresso RE444006:428h 2m14:44EcoTerminal Rodoviário de Frutal

Door to door 8h 46mCO2 14.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastest
Primar Navegacoes e Turismo€24.937h 51m
Real Expresso€29.337h 50m

The bus gets you into Frutal. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Frutal for the night the bus gets in

Sort by distance from Terminal Rodoviário de Frutal and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book São José dos Campos to Frutal

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

  1. €28.7890 days
  2. €22.7360 days
  3. €24.9345 days
  4. €29.8830 days
  5. €34.2821 days
  6. €37.0314 days
  7. €62.337 days
  8. €68.383 days
  9. €60.681 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.73.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 201 percent. The most expensive point is €68.38, 3 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. €36.48Sun
  2. €37.58Mon
  3. €30.43Tue
  4. €35.93Wed
  5. €37.03Thu
  6. €37.58Fri
  7. €42.53Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

São José dos Campos

Bus
  • Eco
  • Terminal Central

Frutal

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Frutal
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 543 km against 472 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 Itumbiara, Barra Mansa, São Paulo, Resende. The gap between arriving and leaving is 70 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 São José dos Campos at 06:42 and the last at 07:30, across 6 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about São José dos Campos to Frutal

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 José dos Campos to Frutal take?

The Coach from São José dos Campos to Frutal takes 8h 46m door to door, of which 8h 2m is spent moving. The route runs 543 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 José dos Campos to Frutal cost?

The Coach from São José dos Campos to Frutal starts at €24.93 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €34.83. 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 José dos Campos to Frutal?

2 operators run the Coach from São José dos Campos to Frutal: Primar Navegacoes e Turismo, Real Expresso. Between them they file around 6 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 José dos Campos to Frutal use?

The Coach from São José dos Campos to Frutal leaves from Eco and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Frutal. 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 José dos Campos to Frutal?

Fares for the Coach from São José dos Campos to Frutal bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €22.73. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 201 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from São José dos Campos to Frutal produce?

The Coach from São José dos Campos to Frutal produces about 14.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 543 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 José dos Campos to Frutal?

Operators on the Coach from São José dos Campos to Frutal publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 46m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for São José dos Campos to Frutal on September 17, 2026: 543 km of route against 472 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €24.93, and 8h 46m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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