Taubaté to Salvador bus

Buses from Taubaté to Salvador start at €78.28 and take 22h 39m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Taubaté to Salvador starts at €78.28 and takes 22h 39m door to door, run by 2 operators over 1,545 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked September 12, 2026Priced for September 30, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 22h 39mDoor to door
  • 21h 55mMoving
  • €78.28From
  • 41.7 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 30, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€71.13
  1. JS Turismo JS503406:0422h 49m04:53Rodoviária de PindamonhangabaEstação Pituba

Door to door 23h 33mCO2 41.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€98.63
  1. Empresa Gontijo de Transportes EG664106:3821h 55m04:33Rodoviária de PindamonhangabaEstação Pituba

Door to door 22h 39mCO2 41.7 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.
OperatorFromFastest
Empresa Gontijo de Transportes€82.6821h 1m
JS Turismo€71.1320h 42m

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Booking window

When to book Taubaté to Salvador

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

  1. €95.8890 days
  2. €56.2860 days
  3. €59.5845 days
  4. €52.9830 days
  5. €77.1821 days
  6. €100.2814 days
  7. €128.887 days
  8. €134.383 days
  9. €167.931 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €52.98.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 217 percent. The most expensive point is €167.93, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €97.53Sun
  2. €78.28Mon
  3. €78.28Tue
  4. €82.68Wed
  5. €103.58Thu
  6. €96.43Fri
  7. €100.28Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Taubaté

Bus
  • Rodoviária de Pindamonhangaba
  • Terminal Rodoviário Intermunicipal - Rodoviária Nova

Salvador

Bus
  • Estação Pituba
  • Terminal Retiro
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
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 1,545 km against 1,344 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 Padre Paraíso, Teófilo Otoni, Governador Valadares, Ipatinga. 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 Taubaté at 06:04 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 Taubaté to Salvador

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 Taubaté to Salvador take?

The Coach from Taubaté to Salvador takes 22h 39m door to door, of which 21h 55m is spent moving. The route runs 1,545 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 Taubaté to Salvador cost?

The Coach from Taubaté to Salvador starts at €78.28 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €88.73. 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 Taubaté to Salvador?

2 operators run the Coach from Taubaté to Salvador: Empresa Gontijo de Transportes, JS Turismo. 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 Taubaté to Salvador use?

The Coach from Taubaté to Salvador leaves from Rodoviária de Pindamonhangaba and arrives at Estação Pituba. 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 Taubaté to Salvador?

Fares for the Coach from Taubaté to Salvador bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €52.98. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 217 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Taubaté to Salvador produce?

The Coach from Taubaté to Salvador produces about 41.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1545 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 Taubaté to Salvador?

Operators on the Coach from Taubaté to Salvador publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 22h 39m 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.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Taubaté to Salvador on September 12, 2026: 1545 km of route against 1344 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €78.28, and 22h 39m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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