São Gonçalo
São Gonçalo is a municipality in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the Southeast region.
São Gonçalo is a municipality in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the Southeast region. It is located in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, having land limits with the municipalities of Niterói, Maricá and Itaboraí, and a maritime limit, by Guanabara Bay, with the capital, Rio de Janeiro. According to the 2022 census, it has a population of 960,652 inhabitants, making it the second most populous municipality in the state and the 18th most populous in the country.
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Getting to São Gonçalo
- Airports
- Santos Dumont (SDU), 15 km · Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim (GIG), 20 km
- São Paulo → São Gonçalo375 km · quickest by air, 4h 52m · R$360–570
- Belo Horizonte → São Gonçalo336 km · quickest by air, 5h 24m · R$370–580
- Vitória → São Gonçalo396 km · quickest by air, 4h 28m · R$340–530
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for São Gonçalo
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for São Gonçalo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inDeparting from XV de Novembro Square, in Rio de Janeiro, you can opt for the Barcas (ferries), which cost R$4.50 or R$3.10 with the "Bilhete Único" (in January 2013).
- Get inArriving from Rio de Janeiro airports: From Santos Dumont Airport it is possible to walk to Estação das Barcas (1500 m) and take a ferry to Niterói (see above) or take bus number 100 to Niterói, from Viação Mauá, crossing the walkway in front of the airport, and from Niterói, take a bus to São Gonçalo.
From Wikivoyage: São Gonçalo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-04.
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Next door to São Gonçalo
São Gonçalo is 8 km from Niterói, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.