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How to get to Furnas by bus

Steaming fumaroles, iron-orange thermal pools and a stew cooked underground — the Azores at their most volcanic.

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Getting to Furnas

Scheduled service

AzoresBus line 110 links Ponta Delgada with Furnas via Ribeira Grande and Maia. The current PDF lists two trips each way on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays/holidays; plan the return before booking a lunch or garden visit.

  • Interurban São Miguel is not the Ponta Delgada MiniBUS — the two systems are separate.
  • Check the correct day column and return stop: the two directions use different village stops.
  • Cozido lunches run to their own clock: reservations are dug up around midday, so a late-morning arrival matters.

Source: AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Current São Miguel interurban timetables () · Municipality of Ponta Delgada: Mini BUS timetable, fares, network, and official app ()

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Steam rising from grey fumaroles beside a stone-walled path in the village of Furnas, with wooded slopes behind.
The fumaroles in the village. Two long lines reach the valley from opposite coasts and stop at different places in it, so the bus back is read from a different table than the bus out. Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped), via Wikimedia Commons

Bus lines serving Furnas

From the AzoresBus line PDFs in force on 14 October 2026. 20 stops printed under "Furnas"; the day-type columns listed are the ones on which at least one of those stops has a printed time, and the times are those printed at the first of those stops each trip reaches.

  • 110 Ponta Delgada – Furnas 13 printed stops here: Furnas (Golf Club) · Furnas (R. de Estaleiro) · Furnas (R. Formosa) · Furnas (Polícia) · and 9 more
    Columns serving Furnas
    Weekdays · Saturdays · Sundays and public holidays
    At Furnas, arriving · Weekdays
    – , 2 trips
    At Furnas, arriving · Saturdays
    – , 2 trips
    At Furnas, arriving · Sundays and public holidays
    – , 2 trips
    At Furnas, towards Ponta Delgada · Weekdays
    – , 2 trips
    At Furnas, towards Ponta Delgada · Saturdays
    – , 2 trips
    At Furnas, towards Ponta Delgada · Sundays and public holidays
    – , 2 trips
    Full timetable, every stop and column →
  • 317 Furnas – Ribeira Quente 10 printed stops here: Furnas (Polícia) · Furnas (Junta de Freguesia) · Furnas (Lg. Marquês da Praia) · Furnas (Águas Quentes) · and 6 more
    Columns serving Furnas
    Weekdays · Saturdays · Sundays and public holidays
    At Furnas, towards Ribeira Quente · Weekdays
    – , 5 trips (some school days only)
    At Furnas, towards Ribeira Quente · Saturdays
    – , 2 trips (June to September only)
    At Furnas, towards Ribeira Quente · Sundays and public holidays
    – , 2 trips (June to September only)
    At Furnas, arriving · Weekdays
    – , 5 trips (some school days only)
    At Furnas, arriving · Saturdays
    – , 2 trips (June to September only)
    At Furnas, arriving · Sundays and public holidays
    – , 2 trips (June to September only)
    Full timetable, every stop and column →
  • 318 Ponta Delgada – Povoação 16 printed stops here: Furnas (Polícia) · Furnas (Junta de Freguesia) · Furnas (Lg. Marquês da Praia) · Furnas (Águas Quentes) · and 12 more
    Columns serving Furnas
    Weekdays · Saturdays · Sundays and public holidays · Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday · Friday
    At Furnas, towards Povoação · Weekdays
    – , 4 trips (some school holidays only)
    At Furnas, towards Povoação · Saturdays
    – , 4 trips (some June to September only)
    At Furnas, towards Povoação · Sundays and public holidays
    – , 4 trips (some June to September only)
    At Furnas, towards Povoação · Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
    , 1 trip
    At Furnas, towards Povoação · Friday
    , 1 trip
    At Furnas, towards Ponta Delgada · Weekdays
    – , 5 trips (some school holidays only)
    At Furnas, towards Ponta Delgada · Saturdays
    – , 4 trips (some June to September only)
    At Furnas, towards Ponta Delgada · Sundays and public holidays
    – , 4 trips (some June to September only)
    Full timetable, every stop and column →
  • 319 Povoação – Furnas 10 printed stops here: Furnas (Polícia) · Furnas (Junta de Freguesia) · Furnas (Lg. Marquês da Praia) · Furnas (Águas Quentes) · and 6 more
    Columns serving Furnas
    Weekdays
    At Furnas, arriving · Weekdays
    – , 5 trips (some school days only, school holidays only)
    At Furnas, towards Povoação · Weekdays
    – , 5 trips (school days only, school holidays only)
    Full timetable, every stop and column →
  • E02 Povoação – Ponta Delgada (via Ribeira Grande) 8 printed stops here: Furnas (R. de Estaleiro) · Furnas (R. Formosa) · Furnas (Polícia) · Furnas (Junta de Freguesia) · and 4 more
    Columns serving Furnas
    Weekdays
    At Furnas, towards Ponta Delgada · Weekdays
    – , 2 trips (some school days only)
    At Furnas, towards Povoação · Weekdays
    – , 3 trips (some school days only)
    Full timetable, every stop and column →

AzoresBus publishes no stop coordinates, and no printed stop name here matched an OpenStreetMap node exactly on the read date, so no coordinates are shown rather than guessed.

What goes wrong here

The 110 and the 318 stop at different places in the valley: the 110 ends at Águas Quentes and does not print Terra Nostra; the 318 prints Furnas (Lagoa), Terra Nostra and Polícia and continues to Povoação [source, source]. The 110 prints one afternoon return from Águas Quentes each day; the cards below give its time [source].

Furnas

The bus network over the terrain

Lines 110317318319

Terrain © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA

Getting back from Furnas

Lines whose current timetable prints a trip from Furnas to Ponta Delgada:

Where next

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Worth your time

What Furnas does best

Furnas is a valley that simmers. Fumaroles hiss in the village centre, mineral springs pour out dozens of different waters, and by the lake, restaurants haul their cozido stew out of the steaming earth at midday. Add the Terra Nostra garden with its famous thermal pool and you have São Miguel's most singular half-day — best planned against the current AzoresBus timetable rather than older schedules.

  1. Terra Nostra Garden

    A 200-year-old botanical park around a vast iron-rich thermal pool. Swim in the rust-coloured water among century-old trees — and accept that your swimsuit may never be white again.

  2. Cozido das Furnas

    The valley’s signature dish is buried in pots by the lake and cooked by the volcano itself for hours. Restaurants lift their pots late morning; book ahead in season.

  3. The fumarole fields

    In the village and by Lagoa das Furnas, vents steam and bubble year-round. The lakeside boardwalk gets you close to the cooking pits safely.

Good to know

  • Bring a dark swimsuit for the thermal pools — the iron water stains light fabric.
  • The valley is warm and sheltered even when the coast is windy; microclimates are an Azorean specialty.
  • Poça da Dona Beija, the smaller open-air thermal pools, stay open into the evening.

Optional experiences

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    Ribeira dos Caldeirões canyoning

    A guided waterfall and canyon activity using slides and rappels in the natural park.

    Getting there: The activity starts at the park. Plan the bus, taxi or rental-car journey to the meeting point before booking.

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    Photo: Jules Verne Times Two, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped), via Wikimedia Commons

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