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South coast parish · the long village

How to get to Ponta Garça by bus

AzoresBus prints 29 stops in Ponta Garça on lines 316 and 318 (line PDFs, edition effective 1 September 2026). Each line prints separate weekday, Saturday and Sunday/holiday columns; they are shown separately on every line page.

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Getting to Ponta Garça

AzoresBus prints 29 stops in Ponta Garça on lines 316 and 318 (line PDFs, edition effective 1 September 2026). Each line prints separate weekday, Saturday and Sunday/holiday columns; they are shown separately on every line page.

  • Line 316 Vila Franca do Campo – Ponta Garça: 28 printed stops here; columns Weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
  • Line 318 Ponta Delgada – Povoação: 17 printed stops here; columns Weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

Source: AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line 316 timetable PDF — Vila Franca do Campo - Ponta Garça () · AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line 318 timetable PDF — Ponta Delgada - Povoação ()

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Worth your time

What Ponta Garça does best

Ponta Garça stretches for kilometres along the south coast road east of Vila Franca do Campo. The local line from the Vila Franca terminal and the Ponta Delgada – Povoação line both print stops the whole way through it.

Village life along one road

Churches, cafés and viewpoints are strung along the single main road.

Good to know

  • Line 316 starts at the Vila Franca terminal and runs separate weekday and weekend columns.

Keep exploring

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Bus lines serving Ponta Garça

From the current AzoresBus line PDFs (edition effective 1 September 2026). 29 stops printed under "Ponta Garça"; the day-type columns listed are the ones on which at least one of those stops has a printed time.

  • 316 Vila Franca do Campo – Ponta Garça 28 printed stops here: Ponta Garça (Lazeira) · Ponta Garça (Vila Marta) · Ponta Garça (Meio Moio) · Ponta Garça (Campo de Futebol) · and 24 more
    Columns serving Ponta Garça
    Weekdays · Saturdays · Sundays and public holidays
    Vila Franca do Campo → Ponta Garça · Weekdays
    – , 13 trips
    Vila Franca do Campo → Ponta Garça · Saturdays
    – , 6 trips
    Full timetable, every stop and column →
  • 318 Ponta Delgada – Povoação 17 printed stops here: Ponta Garça (Lazeira) · Ponta Garça (Vila Marta) · Ponta Garça (Meio Moio) · Ponta Garça (Campo de Futebol) · and 13 more
    Columns serving Ponta Garça
    Weekdays · Saturdays · Sundays and public holidays · Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday · Friday
    Ponta Delgada → Povoação · Weekdays
    – , 4 trips
    Ponta Delgada → Povoação · Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
    – , 1 trip
    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.