Criciúma to Santa Maria runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:53 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €28.23 and €28.78, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 7h 40m over 512 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.
Typical fares
€28.23 to €28.78
- 150%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Criciúma
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.
- 06:53First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 5Services per day
- 20%Run direct
Auto Viação Catarinense runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.
Buying this trip
Bookaway lists departures for Criciúma 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 €54.08Mon14
- about €45.83Tue15
- about €54.08Wed16
- about €47.48Thu17
- about €54.08Fri18
- about €51.88Sat19
- about €40.88Sun20
- about €36.48Mon21
- about €28.78Tue22
- about €33.18Wed23
- about €44.73Thu24
- about €41.98Fri25
- about €35.93Sat26
- about €36.48Sun27
- about €27.13Mon28
- about €27.68Tue29
- about €30.43Wed30
- about €34.28Thu1
- about €32.08Fri2
- about €33.18Sat3
- about €28.23Sun4
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 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
Sort by distance from Sítio Ferroviário de Santa Maria and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Criciúma to Santa Maria
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €34.2890 days
- €25.4860 days
- €21.6345 days
- €21.6330 days
- €28.2321 days
- €36.4814 days
- €40.887 days
- €54.083 days
- €54.081 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €21.63.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 150 percent. The most expensive point is €54.08, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Criciúma to Santa Maria 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
512 km
445 km as the crow flies, 15% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs west.
Who lives at each end
227,438 → 271,735
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
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
- 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 512 km against 445 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 São Leopoldo, Venâncio Aires, Caxias do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul. 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.
The fare from RIA into Santa Maria is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
A car waiting when you land in Santa Maria
Settled in advance, so the ride into Santa Maria costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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Who runs this route
The bus gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Baggage storage near Sítio Ferroviário de Santa Maria
Most of the points near Sítio Ferroviário de Santa Maria open before the first train and close after the last one.
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Questions about Criciúma 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 it take to get from Criciúma to Santa Maria?
The fastest journey from Criciúma to Santa Maria takes 7h 40m door to door, of which 7h 31m is spent moving, on the coach. Most services take around 8h 10m, 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 Criciúma to Santa Maria?
The cheapest fare from Criciúma to Santa Maria is €27.13, as of September 13, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €36.48. 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 Criciúma to Santa Maria?
The cheapest way from Criciúma to Santa Maria is by coach, at €28.78 for one passenger on September 28, 2026. That journey takes 8h 15m 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 Criciúma to Santa Maria?
Fares from Criciúma to Santa Maria bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €21.63. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 150 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Criciúma to Santa Maria?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Criciúma to Santa Maria, at €28.78. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 13, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Criciúma to Santa Maria?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Criciúma to Santa Maria, at €20.53 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 Criciúma to Santa Maria?
1 operators sell services from Criciúma to Santa Maria across 1 mode: Auto Viação Catarinense. 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 Criciúma to Santa Maria?
20 percent of the services we sell from Criciúma to Santa Maria are direct. The rest connect at São Leopoldo, Venâncio Aires, Caxias do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul, with about 45 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 Criciúma to Santa Maria use?
Services from Criciúma to Santa Maria by coach leave from Rodoviária de Criciúma and arrive at Rodoviária de Santa Maria. 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 Criciúma to Santa Maria?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Criciúma to Santa Maria 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 Criciúma to Santa Maria on September 13, 2026: 512 km of route against 445 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €27.13, and 7h 40m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
The bus is the simple part. What you do once you are in Santa Maria is somebody else's catalog.
Day trips out of Santa Maria and across Brazil
Day trips that leave Santa Maria in the morning and cover a good part of Brazil by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Criciúma reaches 103 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 81 to 3,049 km. Santa Maria reaches 67 places in 1 countries, from 133 to 2,243 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Criciúma
- 103Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 11Operators
Arriving in Santa Maria
Leaving Santa Maria
- 67Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 5Operators