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Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto. From €25.48, fastest 7h 30m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto runs about 6 times a day, with the first departure around 06:42 and the last around 14:00. One passenger pays between €25.48 and €33.18, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 7h 30m over 518 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked September 13, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

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

€25.48 to €33.18

  • 140%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Paracatu

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.

  • 06:42First departure
  • 14:00Last departure
  • 6Services per day
  • 33%Run direct

Viacao Continental de Transportes runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Bookaway lists departures for Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto 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 €51.88Mon14
  2. about €45.83Tue15
  3. about €47.48Wed16
  4. about €49.68Thu17
  5. about €41.98Fri18
  6. about €50.23Sat19
  7. about €44.73Sun20
  8. about €33.18Mon21
  9. about €36.48Tue22
  10. about €38.13Wed23
  11. about €37.58Thu24
  12. about €43.08Fri25
  13. about €35.38Sat26
  14. about €41.98Sun27
  15. about €25.48Mon28
  16. about €26.03Tue29
  17. about €26.03Wed30
  18. about €30.43Thu1
  19. about €28.78Fri2
  20. about €34.28Sat3
  21. about €29.88Sun4

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 Ribeirão Preto. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Ribeirão Preto for the night the bus gets in

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

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Booking window

When to book Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto

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

  1. €31.5390 days
  2. €27.1360 days
  3. €21.6345 days
  4. €21.6330 days
  5. €29.8821 days
  6. €41.9814 days
  7. €44.737 days
  8. €47.483 days
  9. €51.881 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 140 percent. The most expensive point is €51.88, 1 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.
€51.88€21.631371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto 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

518 km

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

Who lives at each end

94,023698,642

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

ParacatuParacatuRibeirão PretoRibeirão Preto
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 518 km against 451 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 Cristalina, Brasília, Goiânia, Anápolis. The gap between arriving and leaving is 55 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 RAO into Ribeirão Preto is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Ribeirão Preto

Settled in advance, so the ride into Ribeirão Preto 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 Barracão

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

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Questions about Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto

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 Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto?

The fastest journey from Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto takes 7h 30m door to door, of which 7h 26m is spent moving, on the coach. Most services take around 8h 1m, 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 Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto?

The cheapest fare from Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto is €25.48, as of September 13, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €38.68. 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 Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto?

The cheapest way from Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto is by coach, at €33.18 for one passenger on September 28, 2026. That journey takes 8h 10m 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 Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto?

Fares from Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto 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 140 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 Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto, at €33.18. 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 Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto, 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 Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto?

1 operators sell services from Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto across 1 mode: Viacao Continental de Transportes. 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 Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto?

33 percent of the services we sell from Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto are direct. The rest connect at Cristalina, Brasília, Goiânia, Anápolis, with about 55 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 Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto use?

Services from Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto by coach leave from Rodoviária and arrive at Rodoviária. 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 Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto?

1 of the 1 operators we sell from Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto 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 Paracatu to Ribeirão Preto on September 13, 2026: 518 km of route against 451 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €25.48, and 7h 30m 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 Ribeirão Preto is somebody else's catalog.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Ribeirão Preto and across Brazil

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

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The two ends, compared

Paracatu reaches 43 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 94 to 2,069 km. Ribeirão Preto reaches 294 places in 1 countries, from 90 to 2,286 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Paracatu

  • 43Places you can leave for
  • 1Countries
  • 13Operators

Arriving in Ribeirão Preto

Leaving Ribeirão Preto

  • 294Places you can leave for
  • 1Countries
  • 43Operators

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