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

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The long distance bus station at Portimão is 1.5km / nearly a mile from the city centre. More information here. Both Flixbus and Rede Expressos use this facility.

  The Rede Expressos ticket office at Portimão long distance bus station is open only these hours :0800 - 1100 and 1300 - 1815 daily.
Their ticket office in the town centre at Largo do Dique is open 0900 - 1300; 1400 - 1900 weekdays; 0900 - 1400 Saturdays. Closed Sundays and holidays

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.

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 except a small kiosk which always seems closed. Get yours beforehand.

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

Lisbon
Sete Rios
leave		 Portimão
Bus Station
arrive
 JOURNEYS FROM LISBON SETE RIOS
0050 0405 continues to Lisbon Airport arrival 0420 0100
 0445
 from Lisbon ORIENTE. You can also travel from Sete Rios at 0100, changing at Albufeira arrival also 0445
0150
 0535
 Mondays only
 0600
 0930
 starts from Lisbon Oriente at 0545
0610 0925
0815 1130
There are then 12 - 13 departures at irregular intervals until these final journeys each day
1840
 2155
2030 2345
1915
 2215
 Fridays and Sundays only
 2130 0100 starts from Lisbon Oriente at 2100
1950
 2335
2330 0230 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 3 hours 30 minutes
also goes to the airport
 Journeys from Lisbon Oriente
stops at the airport 15- 30 minutes earlier
0050, 0645, 1030, 1130, 1205, 1230, 1350, 1445, 1700, 1810, 2100, 2300
 0100, 0315, 0545, 0630, 0700, 0830, then about every two hours until last journeys at 1800, 1930 and 2100.
From the airport also at 0915 and 1645.

Flixbus operates about 15 journeys a day between Portimão and Lisbon Oriente in summer. Fewer journeys run in winter. Average journey time 3 hrs 20 minutes.

Summary of current times - From Lisbon Oriente at 0245, 0715, 0830, 0915 then about once every hour until 1715, last journey is at 1815.

From Portimão at 0800 then at irregular intervals until 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000 and a last journey at 2200, which arrives in Lisbon at 0220 next morning.
 Check their website or app for times and tickets.

For information about local buses in and around Portimão, 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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