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

Information checked and updated 16th August 2026
Check official websites or apps 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.
Flixbus sales window varies. For confirmed times, ticket prices and purchase use these official websites or apps.

 The Rede Expressos ticket office at Lagos bus station is only open as follows::
Weekdays 0800 - 1300 and 1430 to 1800 Saturdays, Sundays and Hoilidays 0800 - 1300 and 1330 - 1530

If you are travelling outside those hours you must buy a ticket in advance or use the website or app.
Flixbus do not have a ticket office at Lagos bus station. They do have agents elsewhere in town. Check their website or app.

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.

Times are subject to alteration around major holidays - Christmas, New Year and Easter. Extra journeys may operate in summer.
Advice - there is nowhere to buy food or drink at or near the bus station. Get yours beforehand.

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Times below are typical. Most journeys run every day
Lagos
Bus Station
 leave
 Lisbon
Sete Rios
Arrive
  JOURNEYS TO
 LISBON SETE RIOS

Lisbon
Sete Rios
leave		 Lagos
Bus Station
arrive
 JOURNEYS FROM
LISBON SETE RIOS
0015 0405 continues to Lisbon Airport arriving at 0420 0100
 0450
 Summer only. In winter, change vehicle in Albufeira
0130
 0535
 In winter runs Mondays only
 0600
 1000
0545 0925
0700
 1025
There are then 13 - 14 journeys at irregular intervals until these last journeys every day.
1745
 2125
 continues to Lisbon Oriente arrive 2145
 2030 0010
1815 2155
2130
 0130
1930 2335
2330 0255 Fridays and Sundays only
2000
 2330
 in winter runs Fridays and Sundays only


Journeys to Lisbon Oriente bus station
which is 9km / 6miles from the city centre but close to the airport
Journey time average 4 hours - also goes to the airport
 Journeys from Lisbon Oriente
Journey time average 4 hours
Stops at the airport 15 - 30 minutes earlier
0015, 0615, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1315, 1415, 1600, 1745, 2030, 2330
 0100, 0315, 0545, 0830, 0930, 1115, 1315, 1515, 1700, 1800, 1930, 2100

Flixbus operates about 18 journeys a day between Lagos and Lisbon Oriente in summer. Fewer journeys run in winter. Average journey time is 3 hours 50 minutes.  These are the times for 18th August.

First departure from Lagos is at 0730, last at 1930, 2130. First departures from Lisbon Oriente at 0245, 0420, 0715, then the last at 1715 and 1815. There are no direct journeys to or from Lisbon Airport. Use Rede Expressos.

Check their website or app for times and tickets.

For information about local buses in and around Lagos, 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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