Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto runs about 6 times a day, with the first departure around 06:22 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €12.83 and €15.03, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 4h 12m over 260 km, on services run by 2 operators across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 2 operators and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.
Typical fares · Priced for October 6, 2026
€12.83 to €15.03
- 169%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Pouso Alegre
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.
- 06:22First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 6Services per day
- 33%Run direct
Expresso Gardênia runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.
Buying this trip
Bookaway lists departures for Pouso Alegre 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
- about €31.53Sat19
- about €33.18Sun20
- about €20.53Mon21
- about €18.88Tue22
- about €26.58Wed23
- about €24.38Thu24
- about €18.33Fri25
- about €23.28Sat26
- about €22.73Sun27
- about €20.53Mon28
- about €16.13Tue29
- about €17.23Wed30
- about €18.88Thu1
- about €15.03Fri2
- about €17.78Sat3
- about €15.58Sun4
- about €13.38Mon5
- about €12.83Tue6
- about €16.13Wed7
- about €18.33Thu8
- about €18.33Fri9
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 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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When to book Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €18.3390 days
- €11.7360 days
- €12.2845 days
- €15.0330 days
- €18.3321 days
- €15.0314 days
- €18.337 days
- €20.533 days
- €31.531 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.73.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 169 percent. The most expensive point is €31.53, 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.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Pouso Alegre 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
260 km
226 km as the crow flies, 15% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north-west.
Who lives at each end
162,133 → 698,642
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
What the journey 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 260 km against 226 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 José dos Campos, Campinas, Atibaia, Mairiporã. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 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 RAO into Ribeirão Preto is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
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.
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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 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 Pouso Alegre 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 Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto?
The fastest journey from Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto takes 4h 12m door to door, of which 3h 52m is spent moving, on the coach. Most services take around 4h 30m, 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 Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto?
The cheapest fare from Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto is €12.83, as of September 18, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €20.53. 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 Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto?
The cheapest way from Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto is by coach, at €12.83 for one passenger on October 6, 2026. That journey takes 4h 36m 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 Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto?
Fares from Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €11.73. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 169 percent, measured on September 18, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto, at €16.13. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 18, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto?
November is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto, at €12.83 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 Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto?
2 operators sell services from Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto across 1 mode: Auge Transporte Rodoviario e Turismo, Expresso Gardênia. 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 Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto?
33 percent of the services we sell from Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto are direct. The rest connect at São José dos Campos, Campinas, Atibaia, Mairiporã, with about 47 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 Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto use?
Services from Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto by coach leave from Terminal Rodoviário de Pouso Alegre 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 Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto?
2 of the 2 operators we sell from Pouso Alegre 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 Pouso Alegre to Ribeirão Preto on September 18, 2026: 260 km of route against 226 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €12.83, and 4h 12m 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.
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
Pouso Alegre reaches 90 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 94 to 2,102 km. Ribeirão Preto reaches 294 places in 1 countries, from 90 to 2,286 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Pouso Alegre
- 90Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 17Operators
Arriving in Ribeirão Preto
Leaving Ribeirão Preto
- 294Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 43Operators