Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Picos to Recife. From €38.13, fastest 11h 44m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Picos to Recife costs €38.13 at the cheapest and takes 11h 44m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 2 operators. The route covers 844 km. Cheapest is by Coach, fastest is by Coach.
Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on September 29, 2026.
Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
Mode
Door to door
Moving
At the ends
From
CO2
Per day
Coach
11h 46m
11h 2m
44m
€44.18
22.8 kg
10
11h 46mFastest, by Coach
€44.18Cheapest, by Coach
22.8 kgLowest CO2, by Coach
844 kmDistance traveled
Real services
The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Cheapest€38.13
Expresso Guanabara EG926707:304h 9m11:39Terminal Rodoviário de PicosBarbalha bus station
Empresa Auto Viação Progresso EA681912:248h 29m20:53Barbalha bus stationIstmo do Recife
Changes at Barbalha, with 45 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 14h 7mCO2 22.8 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Fastest€61.23
Cruzeiro do Norte Transportes CN890207:304h 3m11:33Terminal Rodoviário de PicosTerminal Metropolitano de Juazeiro do Norte
Azul A731912:511h 9m14:00Juazeiro do Norte JDORecife REC
Changes at Juazeiro do Norte, with 78 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 8h 27mCO2 133.3 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Lowest CO2€48.58
Auto Viação Cruzeiro AV898606:3511h 23m17:58Terminal Rodoviário de PicosIstmo do Recife
Door to door 12h 7mCO2 22.8 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Today's real departures
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
No live timetable for this trip yet.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Prices over the next three weeks
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
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Booking window
When to book Picos to Recife
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
€39.2390 days
€28.7860 days
€35.9345 days
€38.1330 days
€46.3821 days
€48.5814 days
€56.837 days
€62.333 days
€79.381 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €28.78.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 176 percent. The most expensive point is €79.38, 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.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.
Day of the week
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
€51.33Sun
€45.83Mon
€44.18Tue
€46.38Wed
€48.58Thu
€57.93Fri
€54.63Sat
Across the year
How the fare moves month by month
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
€57.93Sep
€39.23Oct
€35.93Nov
€39.78Dec
€36.48Jan
€29.88Feb
The route
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
60% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 40% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 844 km against 734 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 Barbalha, Crato, Brejo Santo, Juazeiro do Norte. 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 Picos at 06:35 and the last at 16:52, across 10 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Terminals
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Picos
Bus
Terminal Rodoviário de Picos
Terminal Rodoviário Senador Helvídio Nunes
Recife
Rail
Recife Central Station
Bus
Istmo do Recife
TI Recife
Air
REC
Ferry
Terminal Marítimo de Passageiros do Recife
Cais da Jaqueira
REC is not in Recife, and the drive in from it is the part of the trip nobody plans. We sell the flight and stop at the terminal door.
Getting from REC into Recife?
A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.
Partner links. We do not run these networks. We earn a commission on a booking, and the price is the same as going direct.
Questions about Picos to Recife
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 Picos to Recife?
The fastest journey from Picos to Recife takes 11h 44m door to door, of which 11h 2m is spent moving, on the Coach. Most services take around 12h 31m, 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 Picos to Recife?
The cheapest fare from Picos to Recife is €38.13, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €59.03. 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 Picos to Recife?
The cheapest way from Picos to Recife is by Coach, at €44.18 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 11h 46m 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 Picos to Recife?
Fares from Picos to Recife bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €28.78. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 176 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Picos to Recife?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Picos to Recife, at €44.18. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 29, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Picos to Recife?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Picos to Recife, at €29.88 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 Picos to Recife?
2 operators sell services from Picos to Recife across 1 modes: Auto Viação Cruzeiro, Empresa Auto Viação Progresso. 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 Picos to Recife?
60 percent of the services we sell from Picos to Recife are direct. The rest connect at Barbalha, Crato, Brejo Santo, Juazeiro do Norte, 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 Picos to Recife use?
Services from Picos to Recife by Coach leave from Terminal Rodoviário de Picos and arrive at Istmo do Recife. 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 Picos to Recife?
2 of the 2 operators we sell from Picos to Recife 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
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.
Every figure above was computed for Picos to Recife on September 10, 2026: 844 km of route against 734 km in a straight line, 10 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €38.13, and 11h 44m 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 Recife a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
What to book in Recife before you go
The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.