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North coast surf beach

How to get to Santa Bárbara (Ribeira Grande) by bus

AzoresBus prints 11 stops in Santa Bárbara (Ribeira Grande) on lines 102, 103 and 111 (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 Santa Bárbara (Ribeira Grande)

AzoresBus prints 11 stops in Santa Bárbara (Ribeira Grande) on lines 102, 103 and 111 (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 102 Ponta Delgada – Ribeira Grande (via Rabo de Peixe): 9 printed stops here; columns Weekdays.
  • Line 103 Ponta Delgada – Ribeira Grande (via Pico do Fogo): 10 printed stops here; columns Weekdays, Saturdays.
  • Line 111 Ribeira Grande – Santa Bárbara: 11 printed stops here; columns Weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, Monday, Tuesday.

Source: 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 111 timetable PDF — Ribeira Grande - Santa Bárbara ()

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Worth your time

What Santa Bárbara (Ribeira Grande) does best

Santa Bárbara is the parish immediately east of Ribeira Grande with the island’s best-known surf beach. The Ribeira Grande lines and a short local line from the Ribeira Grande school print stops here.

Areais de Santa Bárbara

The long black-sand beach is the island’s surfing centre.

Good to know

  • Line 103 prints its return departures from Santa Bárbara on weekdays; line 102 and the local line 111 also serve the parish.
  • This is the Ribeira Grande parish; the Santa Bárbara stops on the north-west lines belong to a different parish near Capelas.

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Bus lines serving Santa Bárbara (Ribeira Grande)

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

  • 102 Ponta Delgada – Ribeira Grande (via Rabo de Peixe) 9 printed stops here: Sta. Bárbara (Bairro) · Sta. Bárbara (Quinta) · Sta. Bárbara (Rot. Via Rápida) · Sta. Bárbara (Casa Costa) · and 5 more
    Columns serving Santa Bárbara (Ribeira Grande)
    Weekdays
    Ponta Delgada → Ribeira Grande · Weekdays
    – , 14 trips
    Ponta Delgada → Ribeira Grande · Wednesday
    – , 1 trip
    Full timetable, every stop and column →
  • 103 Ponta Delgada – Ribeira Grande (via Pico do Fogo) 10 printed stops here: Sta. Bárbara (Bairro) · Sta. Bárbara (Quinta) · Sta. Bárbara (Rot. Via Rápida) · Sta. Bárbara (Casa Costa) · and 6 more
    Columns serving Santa Bárbara (Ribeira Grande)
    Weekdays · Saturdays
    Ponta Delgada → Ribeira Grande · Weekdays
    – , 15 trips
    Ponta Delgada → Ribeira Grande · Saturdays
    – , 9 trips
    Full timetable, every stop and column →
  • 111 Ribeira Grande – Santa Bárbara 11 printed stops here: Sta. Bárbara (Bairro) · Sta. Bárbara (Quinta) · Sta. Bárbara (Rot. Via Rápida) · Sta. Bárbara (Casa Costa) · and 7 more
    Columns serving Santa Bárbara (Ribeira Grande)
    Weekdays · Saturdays · Sundays and public holidays · Monday, Tuesday
    Ribeira Grande → Santa Bárbara · Weekdays
    – , 5 trips
    Ribeira Grande → Santa Bárbara · Monday, Tuesday
    – , 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.