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Chapadinha to Fortaleza

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Chapadinha to Fortaleza. From €27.68, fastest 8h 46m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Chapadinha to Fortaleza runs about 4 times a day, with the first departure around 06:11 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €27.68, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 8h 46m over 615 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked September 14, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €27.68, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares

€27.68

  • 145%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Chapadinha

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:11First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 4Services per day
  • 25%Run direct

Expresso Guanabara runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Bookaway lists departures for Chapadinha to Fortaleza 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 €50.78Tue15
  2. about €59.58Wed16
  3. about €67.83Thu17
  4. about €65.08Fri18
  5. about €53.53Sat19
  6. about €49.13Sun20
  7. about €35.93Mon21
  8. about €33.73Tue22
  9. about €37.58Wed23
  10. about €42.53Thu24
  11. about €40.33Fri25
  12. about €45.83Sat26
  13. about €41.43Sun27
  14. about €27.68Mon28
  15. about €28.23Tue29
  16. about €32.63Wed30
  17. about €34.28Thu1
  18. about €36.48Fri2
  19. about €39.78Sat3
  20. about €32.08Sun4
  21. about €28.78Mon5

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

A hotel room

A room in Fortaleza for the night the bus gets in

Sort by distance from Estação Ferroviária João Felipe and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Chapadinha to Fortaleza

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

  1. €37.0390 days
  2. €30.4360 days
  3. €33.1845 days
  4. €28.2330 days
  5. €28.7821 days
  6. €27.6814 days
  7. €35.937 days
  8. €67.833 days
  9. €50.781 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 14 days ahead, at €27.68.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 145 percent. The most expensive point is €67.83, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 14 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€67.83€27.681371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 14 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Chapadinha to Fortaleza and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.

The shape of it

615 km

535 km as the crow flies, 15% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs east.

Who lives at each end

80,1952,400,000

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

Observed

Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.

The route

ChapadinhaChapadinhaFortalezaFortaleza
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
25% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 75% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 615 km against 535 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 Teresina, Parnaíba, Campo Maior. The gap between arriving and leaving is 68 minutes, of which about 14 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.

Fortaleza is large, and the road in from FOR can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Fortaleza

Settled in advance, so the ride into Fortaleza costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

The bus gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Estação Ferroviária João Felipe

Most of the points near Estação Ferroviária João Felipe open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Questions about Chapadinha to Fortaleza

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 it take to get from Chapadinha to Fortaleza?

The fastest journey from Chapadinha to Fortaleza takes 8h 46m door to door, of which 8h 17m is spent moving, on the coach. Most services take around 9h 19m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Chapadinha to Fortaleza?

The cheapest fare from Chapadinha to Fortaleza is €27.68, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €42.53. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Chapadinha to Fortaleza?

The cheapest way from Chapadinha to Fortaleza is by coach, at €27.68 for one passenger on September 28, 2026. That journey takes 9h 1m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Chapadinha to Fortaleza?

Fares from Chapadinha to Fortaleza bottom out around 14 days before departure, at €27.68. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 145 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Chapadinha to Fortaleza?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Chapadinha to Fortaleza, at €28.78. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 14, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Chapadinha to Fortaleza?

January is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Chapadinha to Fortaleza, at €25.48 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs service from Chapadinha to Fortaleza?

1 operators sell services from Chapadinha to Fortaleza across 1 mode: Expresso Guanabara. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from Chapadinha to Fortaleza?

25 percent of the services we sell from Chapadinha to Fortaleza are direct. The rest connect at Teresina, Parnaíba, Campo Maior, with about 68 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Chapadinha to Fortaleza use?

Services from Chapadinha to Fortaleza by coach leave from Rodoviária and arrive at Terminal Rodoviário de Fortaleza Engenheiro João Tomé. Allow about 44m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Chapadinha to Fortaleza?

1 of the 1 operators we sell from Chapadinha to Fortaleza allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

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, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Chapadinha to Fortaleza on September 14, 2026: 615 km of route against 535 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €27.68, and 8h 46m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Being on the water gives Fortaleza a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Fortaleza and across Brazil

Day trips that leave Fortaleza in the morning and cover a good part of Brazil by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Chapadinha reaches 23 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 126 to 2,231 km. Fortaleza reaches 171 places in 8 countries, from 211 to 7,448 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Chapadinha

  • 23Places you can leave for
  • 1Countries
  • 4Operators

Arriving in Fortaleza

Leaving Fortaleza

  • 171Places you can leave for
  • 8Countries
  • 18Operators

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