Cheapest€15.03
- Viação União Santa Cruz VU531706:184h 16m10:34Estação Rodoviária de São LeopoldoRodoviária de Santa Maria
Door to door 5hCO2 8.0 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
São Leopoldo to Santa Maria bus
Buses from São Leopoldo to Santa Maria start at €15.03 and take 5h at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price São Leopoldo to Santa Maria on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Buses from São Leopoldo to Santa Maria starts at €15.03 and takes 5h door to door, run by 1 operator over 296 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 5hDoor to door
- 4h 16mMoving
- €18.88 to €41.43From
- 06:18 to 07:30First and last departure
- 5Per day
- 8.0 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.
€18.88 to €41.43 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.
Buying this trip
Bookaway lists departures for São Leopoldo to Santa Maria 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
- about €41.43Fri18
- about €31.53Sat19
- about €32.08Sun20
- about €24.93Mon21
- about €26.03Tue22
- about €24.38Wed23
- about €30.98Thu24
- about €22.73Fri25
- about €27.13Sat26
- about €24.38Sun27
- about €19.98Mon28
- about €21.08Tue29
- about €18.88Wed30
- about €28.23Thu1
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.
The cheapest and the fastest on October 5, 2026
Lowest CO2€19.43
- Viação União Santa Cruz VU304807:302h 12m09:42Estação Rodoviária de São LeopoldoEstação Rodoviária de Santa Cruz do Sul
- Viação União Santa Cruz VU139310:592h 11m13:10Estação Rodoviária de Santa Cruz do SulRodoviária de Santa Maria
Changes at Santa Cruz do Sul, with 77 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 6h 24mCO2 8.0 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Bus operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viação União Santa Cruz | €15.03 | 4h 39m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi |
The bus gets you into Santa Maria. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Santa Maria for the night the bus gets in
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When to book São Leopoldo to Santa Maria
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €16.6890 days
- €13.9360 days
- €16.6645 days
- €17.7830 days
- €20.5321 days
- €28.2314 days
- €30.987 days
- €32.083 days
- €41.431 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €13.93.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 197 percent. The most expensive point is €41.43, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €24.38Sun
- €19.98Mon
- €21.08Tue
- €18.88Wed
- €28.23Thu
- €22.73Fri
- €27.13Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
São Leopoldo
Bus
- Estação Rodoviária de São Leopoldo
Santa Maria
Bus
- Rodoviária de Santa Maria
- Posto de Camobi
What the journey looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 296 km against 257 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 Bento Gonçalves, Santa Cruz do Sul, Venâncio Aires, Farroupilha. The gap between arriving and leaving is 63 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves São Leopoldo at 06:18 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about São Leopoldo to Santa Maria
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 Leopoldo to Santa Maria take?
The Coach from São Leopoldo to Santa Maria takes 5h door to door, of which 4h 16m is spent moving. The route runs 296 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 Leopoldo to Santa Maria cost?
The Coach from São Leopoldo to Santa Maria starts at €15.03 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €19.43. 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 Leopoldo to Santa Maria?
1 operators run the Coach from São Leopoldo to Santa Maria: 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.
Which terminal does the Coach from São Leopoldo to Santa Maria use?
The Coach from São Leopoldo to Santa Maria leaves from Estação Rodoviária de São Leopoldo and arrives at Rodoviária de Santa Maria. 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 Leopoldo to Santa Maria?
Fares for the Coach from São Leopoldo to Santa Maria bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €13.93. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 197 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from São Leopoldo to Santa Maria produce?
The Coach from São Leopoldo to Santa Maria produces about 8.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 296 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 Leopoldo to Santa Maria?
Operators on the Coach from São Leopoldo to Santa Maria publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 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.
Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.
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 Leopoldo to Santa Maria on September 17, 2026: 296 km of route against 257 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €15.03, and 5h door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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