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North coast city · secondary bus terminal

How to get to Ribeira Grande by bus

AzoresBus prints 11 stops in Ribeira Grande on lines 101, 102, 103, 105, 108, 109, 110, 111, E01, E02 and N05 (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 Ribeira Grande

AzoresBus prints 11 stops in Ribeira Grande on lines 101, 102, 103, 105, 108, 109, 110, 111, E01, E02 and N05 (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 101 Ponta Delgada – Ribeirinha: 11 printed stops here; columns Weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
  • Line 102 Ponta Delgada – Ribeira Grande (via Rabo de Peixe): 11 printed stops here; columns Weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
  • Line 103 Ponta Delgada – Ribeira Grande (via Pico do Fogo): 4 printed stops here; columns Weekdays, Saturdays.
  • Line 105 Ponta Delgada – Nordeste (Lomba da Pedreira): 11 printed stops here; columns Weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
  • Line 108 Ponta Delgada – Lomba S. Pedro (via Porto Formoso e Maia): 11 printed stops here; columns Weekdays.
  • Line 109 Ribeira Grande – Ribeirinha: 7 printed stops here; columns Weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
  • 5 more lines print stops here; see the routes block below.

Source: AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line 101 timetable PDF — Ponta Delgada - Ribeirinha () · AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line 102 timetable PDF — Ponta Delgada - Ribeira Grande (via Rabo de Peixe) () · AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line 103 timetable PDF — Ponta Delgada - Ribeira Grande (via Pico do Fogo) () · AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line 105 timetable PDF — Ponta Delgada - Nordeste (Lomba da Pedreira) () · AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line 108 timetable PDF — Ponta Delgada - Lomba S. Pedro (via Porto Formoso e Maia) () · AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line 109 timetable PDF — Ribeira Grande - Ribeirinha () · AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line 110 timetable PDF — Ponta Delgada - Furnas () · AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line 111 timetable PDF — Ribeira Grande - Santa Bárbara () · AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line E01 timetable PDF — Nordeste - Ponta Delgada (via Ribeira Grande e Lagoa) () · AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line E02 timetable PDF — Povoação - Ponta Delgada (via Ribeira Grande) () · AzoresBus (Vale do Ave Açores): Line N05 timetable PDF — Ponta Delgada - Ribeira Grande () · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): Article intros for São Miguel and Terceira places

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Worth your time

What Ribeira Grande does best

Ribeira Grande faces the open Atlantic on the north coast, a short cross-island ride from Ponta Delgada. AzoresBus prints a Terminal stop here, and several north-coast and east-coast lines pass through it, which makes it the natural change point for the tea coast, Nordeste and the Furnas line along the north.

The old centre

Stone bridges, a baroque church front and the municipal garden sit close together on the river that gives the town its name.

Santa Bárbara beach

The long black-sand surf beach lies just east of the centre, on the road the coastal lines follow.

Good to know

  • AzoresBus keeps a staffed ticket office at the Ribeira Grande terminal; see the tickets guide for the printed opening hours.
  • Night line N05 runs late from Ponta Delgada to the terminal; check the printed return column before relying on it.
  • Ribeira Grande is a municipality in the northern part of the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese Azores. The population in 2011 was 32,112, in an area of 180.15 km2. (Wikipedia, "Ribeira Grande, Azores", read 18 September 2026.)

Keep exploring

The green and blue crater lakes of Sete Cidades seen from the caldera rim São Miguel · twin crater lakes Sete Cidades The green and blue lakes in a drowned volcano — the single most famous view in the Azores. Plan the ride Steam rising from the fumaroles of Furnas on São Miguel São Miguel · volcanic spa valley Furnas Steaming fumaroles, iron-orange thermal pools and a stew cooked underground — the Azores at their most volcanic. Plan the ride Lagoa do Fogo crater lake surrounded by green slopes on São Miguel São Miguel · fire lake Lagoa do Fogo A pristine crater lake in a nature reserve on the island’s central ridge — wild, protected, and worth the effort. Plan the ride

Bus lines serving Ribeira Grande

From the current AzoresBus line PDFs (edition effective 1 September 2026). 11 stops printed under "Ribeira Grande"; the day-type columns listed are the ones on which at least one of those stops has a printed time.

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 102 and 103 both reach the terminal but by different roads, and several 102 returns start at Rabo de Peixe rather than the terminal; on weekdays the 103 returns from Santa Bárbara [source, source].