SAT, Guatemala’s tax and customs agency, lists three customs posts on the Honduran border, and gives all three a Honduran address. They are aduanas integradas, integrated posts. Which one you use depends on where you are going: El Florido for Copán Ruinas, Agua Caliente for Ocotepeque, Corinto for the Caribbean coast and San Pedro Sula. Everything below was read on 24 September 2026.

Quick summary

  • El Florido (Copán Ruinas): Litegua shows departures from the capital routed to El Florido, 08:45, 12:00, 15:00, at Q145 in a Capital–Chiquimula search read 4 November 2026 (no separate El Florido fare); shuttles to Copán Ruinas cost USD 50. Tourist service 06:00-21:00.
  • Agua Caliente (Ocotepeque): tourist service 06:00-21:00; no bus company we read sells a ticket to the border itself.
  • Corinto (Cortés): open 05:00-22:00; Guatemala Transportation’s USD 60 Pullman to San Pedro Sula (05:30 and 23:00, 10-11 hours) crosses here.
  • Fees: Guatemala charges no exit fee at land crossings. See border-run costs and the CA-4 rule.
  • Honduran entry fee: the published Honduran regulation, Article 127(19), lists USD 3 for non-Central-American foreigners entering by land, with an exemption for official or diplomatic passport holders. The shared CA-4 stay is not a blanket fee exemption.

The three crossings compared

Integrated post (SAT)SAT addressGuatemalan customs hours (SAT)Services SAT listsHow to get there
El FloridoEl Florido, Copán Ruinas, Copán, HondurasOffice and operative 06:00-18:00; tourists 06:00-21:00; every dayGoods, tourists, FYDUCA, transitLitegua from Guatemala City via Chiquimula and Jocotán; Copán shuttles
Agua CalienteSanta Fe, Ocotepeque, HondurasOffice 08:00-16:00; operative 06:00-18:00; tourists 06:00-21:00; every dayGoods, FYDUCA, tourist permitsNo bus to the border found on the timetables we read
CorintoAldea Corinto, Omoa, Cortés, Honduras05:00-22:00, Monday to SundayGoods, FYDUCA, touristsGuatemala Transportation’s Pullman to San Pedro Sula

At El Florido and Agua Caliente SAT’s customs window for tourists (atención a turistas) runs three hours past its goods window: 18:00 for cargo, 21:00 for tourists. These are customs hours; IGM, which stamps passports, publishes none. Honduras’s migration institute (INM) does: El Florido and Agua Caliente 06:00-21:00, Corinto 05:00-22:00, every day (read 1 October 2026): the same closing times SAT publishes for travellers at each post.

Agua Caliente and Corinto each have their own page: Agua Caliente border crossing and Corinto border crossing.

El Florido: the Copán crossing

  • Litegua: its booking system lists Primera Plus departures from Guatemala City at 08:45, 12:00 and 15:00, routed Ciudad Capital – Teculután – Chiquimula – Jocotán – El Florido. Those departures appear, at Q145, in a Capital–Chiquimula search read 4 November 2026 (the same Q145 shows in the El Rancho search for 10 November); Litegua shows no separate El Florido fare. Litegua’s El Florido agency is at Km 218, 200 metres from the customs post (tel. 5204-7083).
  • Shuttles to Copán Ruinas: Guatemala Transportation lists 04:15 from Guatemala City and 03:30 from Antigua, both USD 50, returning from Copán at 06:00 (USD 50). From Panajachel it sells a 16:00 departure at USD 68 that overnights in Antigua (hotel not included) and continues at 04:00.
  • Full route detail, including the Copán side: Guatemala to Copán.

Agua Caliente: Ocotepeque

SAT places this post in Santa Fe, Ocotepeque, and lists tourist permits among its services. We found no bus operator that sells a ticket to this border on the timetables we read. IGM’s delegations map (a 2020 file, read from the archived copy of 18 October 2022) files its Agua Caliente delegation under Esquipulas, 234 km from Guatemala City; the three published windows, the road and the 2021 closure are on Agua Caliente border crossing.

Corinto: the Caribbean crossing

Every way from the capital to San Pedro Sula, including the bus through San Salvador and the flight, is on Guatemala City to San Pedro Sula; to the Honduran capital, see Guatemala City to Tegucigalpa.

Guatemala Transportation sells a Pullman from Guatemala City to San Pedro Sula at 05:30 and 23:00, USD 60, 10-11 hours, and names the crossing as El Corinto – Puerto Cortez. SAT lists the integrated Corinto post as open 05:00-22:00 every day, with tourists among its services. IGM’s delegations map has no delegation called Corinto; its Izabal land delegation is El Cinchado, and in September 2026 Infobae reported IGM controls at El Cinchado and IGM teams working inside the integrated Corinto post. Detail on Corinto border crossing. For the Guatemalan end of the Caribbean coast, see Guatemala City to Puerto Barrios.

What IGM recorded at holidays

In its Semana Santa 2022 bulletin IGM described little movement at Agua Caliente and increased flow at El Florido and Corinto. That is a ranking, not a queue time; the full record, and why nobody publishes live waits, is on our border wait-times page.

Maps

What is not published

  • Crossing or queue times at any of the three posts.
  • IGM’s hours for its migration booths.
  • A bus or microbus timetable to Agua Caliente or to Corinto, on any operator page we read.
  • Honduran entry requirements for every nationality, which this page does not cover. Two points from the UK government’s Honduras advice: since 31 October 2026 British citizens can visit Honduras for up to 90 days without a visa, and immigration may charge a USD 3 cash fee at land borders. Check your own nationality with Honduran authorities.

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