Timon to Crato bus

Buses from Timon to Crato start at €24.93 and take 7h 28m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Timon to Crato starts at €24.93 and takes 7h 28m door to door, run by 4 operators over 515 km, with around 20 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 9, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 28mDoor to door
  • 6h 44mMoving
  • €24.93From
  • 13.9 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€24.38
  1. Auto Viação Cruzeiro AV448818:297h 43m02:12Timon bus stationTerminal Rodoviário de Cratos

Door to door 8h 27mCO2 13.9 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€27.13
  1. Auto Viacao Porto Rico AV908206:096h 44m12:53Timon bus stationTerminal Rodoviário de Cratos

Door to door 7h 28mCO2 13.9 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
Auto Viação Cruzeiro€24.387h 27m
Auto Viacao Porto Rico€24.937h 28m
Empresa Auto Viação Progresso€24.387h 28m
Expresso Guanabara€24.387h 28m

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

A hotel room

A room in Crato for the night the bus gets in

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Booking window

When to book Timon to Crato

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

  1. €23.8390 days
  2. €21.6360 days
  3. €24.3845 days
  4. €23.2830 days
  5. €25.4821 days
  6. €24.9314 days
  7. €29.337 days
  8. €41.983 days
  9. €55.731 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.63.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 158 percent. The most expensive point is €55.73, 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. €32.63Sun
  2. €28.78Mon
  3. €28.23Tue
  4. €25.48Wed
  5. €35.93Thu
  6. €33.73Fri
  7. €34.83Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Crato

Bus
  • Terminal Rodoviário de Cratos
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
80% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 20% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 515 km against 447 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 Araripina, Picos, Ouricuri, Valença do Piauí. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Timon at 06:09 and the last at 18:42, across 20 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Timon to Crato

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 Timon to Crato take?

The Coach from Timon to Crato takes 7h 28m door to door, of which 6h 44m is spent moving. The route runs 515 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 Timon to Crato cost?

The Coach from Timon to Crato starts at €24.93 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €29.06. 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 Timon to Crato?

4 operators run the Coach from Timon to Crato: Auto Viação Cruzeiro, Auto Viacao Porto Rico, Empresa Auto Viação Progresso, Expresso Guanabara. Between them they file around 20 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 Timon to Crato use?

The Coach from Timon to Crato leaves from Timon bus station and arrives at Terminal Rodoviário de Cratos. 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 Timon to Crato?

Fares for the Coach from Timon to Crato bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €21.63. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 158 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Timon to Crato produce?

The Coach from Timon to Crato produces about 13.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 515 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 Timon to Crato?

Operators on the Coach from Timon to Crato publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 4 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 28m 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 Timon to Crato on September 9, 2026: 515 km of route against 447 km in a straight line, 20 services a day, 4 operators, a cheapest fare of €24.93, and 7h 28m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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