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FARO TO / FROM LISBON summary of coach / long distance bus times

Information checked and updated 23rd December 2025
Check official website carefully for your exact dates of travel especially if planning to travel around major holidays
Rede Expressos tickets are currently on sale 3 months in advance

The Rede Expressos ticket office at Faro Bus station is open as follows :
Weekdays : 0600 - 2000; Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays 0715 - 1315; 1415 - 1830.
If you are travelling outside those hours you must buy a ticket in advance or use the website or app. Drivers do not sell tickets

The faster journeys are non stop except sometimes for a brief stop at a motorway service station
In Lisbon most journeys use the Sete Rios bus station.
Some journeys serve Lisbon Oriente and a few also stop at the airport.
Oriente is much nearer the airport than Sete Rios and with a direct metro connection.

For confirmed times, ticket prices and purchase use the official website or download the Rede Expressos app to your phone.

Times are subject to alteration around major holidays - Christmas, New Year and Easter. Extra journeys may operate in summer.

LOGOSome vehicles may be in the red and white colours of RENEX or green of MTS.
TIMES BELOW ARE A TYPICAL DAY. MOST JOURNEYS RUN EVERY DAY
Non stop journeys take 3hrs 15 minutes, most take 4 hours.
Faro
Bus Station
leave
 Lisbon
Sete
Rios
Arrive
 JOURNEYS TO LISBON SETE RIOS
Lisbon
Sete Rios
leave		 Faro Bus Station
arrive
 JOURNEYS FROM LISBON SETE RIOS




0015
 0350
 MONDAY ONLY
0030
 0435
 Via Lisbon Oriente at 0415
0100
 0450
0130 0515

0630
 1010
 connection from Lisbon Oriente at 0545
0615 0930 NON STOP
0815
 1130
 NON STOP
There are then 13 - 14 journeys at irregular intervals until these last journeys.
Some are non stop other than a brief 'rest stop' at a motorway service area.
1830 2145 NON STOP
1930 2330
1900
 2215
 Fridays and Sundays only
2030 2355
1930 2330

2130
 0105
 Fridays and Sundays only
2015 2345

2230 0205







Journeys to Lisbon Oriente bus station
which is 9km / 6miles from the city centre but close to the airport
 Journey time varies, average 3hrs 30 minutes. Also goes to the airport
Journeys from Lisbon Oriente bus station
Journey time varies, average 3hrs 30 minutes. Stops at the airport 15 - 30 minutes earlier
0030, 0100, 0730, 1200, 1330, 1530, 1700, 1800,  1900 and 2130
0100, 0500, 0730, 1000, 1030, 1200, 1400, 1530, 1630, 1815, 1930 also at 2100 on Fridays and Sundays


0100, 1930, 2100 - not direct, change at Albufeira
Additional connections between Faro and Lisbon Oriente are available, usually with a change in Albufeira.
The official website will show these when you search

Flixbus operates about twelve journeys a day between Faro and Lisbon Oriente in winter. More journeys may run in summer.

Flixbus stop is behind the local 'Proximo´bus station in the Avenida da Républica.
There is neither shelter nor seat there - picture  location map
Check their website or app for times and tickets

For information about local buses in and around Faro including the airport, click here
For a list of all the timetables on the site, click here
For an alphabetical list of places in the Algarve, click here
For some important general notes about buses in the Algarve, click here

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