Cheapest€16.13
- Amtrak San Joaquins AS596406:394h 18m10:57Modesto Greyhound Bus StationChico Transit Center
Door to door 5h 2mCO2 7.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Modesto to Chico bus
Buses from Modesto to Chico start at €17.78 and take 5h 2m at their fastest.
The Buses from Modesto to Chico starts at €17.78 and takes 5h 2m door to door, run by 1 operator over 280 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 5h 2mDoor to door
- 4h 18mMoving
- €17.78From
- 7.6 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amtrak San Joaquins | €16.13 | 4h 32m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
The journey ends at Chico station. Everything past the barriers belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
Rooms within reach of Chico station
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When to book Modesto to Chico
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €17.2290 days
- €17.2260 days
- €18.3345 days
- €17.7830 days
- €17.2321 days
- €17.7814 days
- €23.287 days
- €33.733 days
- €45.281 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €17.22.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 163 percent. The dearest point is €45.28, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €22.18Sun
- €19.43Mon
- €19.43Tue
- €17.78Wed
- €21.63Thu
- €21.08Fri
- €23.28Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Modesto
Coach
- Modesto Greyhound Bus Station
- Southern Pacific Depot - Modesto
Chico
Coach
- Chico Transit Center
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 280 km against 244 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Roseville, Stockton, Sacramento, Elk Grove. The gap between arriving and leaving is 60 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Modesto at 06:39 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Modesto to Chico
The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does the Coach from Modesto to Chico take?
The Coach from Modesto to Chico takes 5h 2m door to door, of which 4h 18m is spent moving. The route runs 280 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Coach from Modesto to Chico cost?
The Coach from Modesto to Chico starts at €17.78 for one passenger, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare is €16.68. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Coach from Modesto to Chico?
1 operators run the Coach from Modesto to Chico: Amtrak San Joaquins. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Coach from Modesto to Chico use?
The Coach from Modesto to Chico leaves from Modesto Greyhound Bus Station and arrives at Chico Transit Center. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
When should I book the Coach from Modesto to Chico?
Fares for the Coach from Modesto to Chico bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €17.22. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 163 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Modesto to Chico produce?
The Coach from Modesto to Chico produces about 7.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 280 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
What is provided on board the Coach from Modesto to Chico?
Operators on the Coach from Modesto to Chico publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 2m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Modesto to Chico on 9 September 2026: 280 km of route against 244 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €17.78, and 5h 2m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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