Buses from Oakland to Riverside start at €32.62 and take 11h 39m at their fastest.
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Oakland to Riverside on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Buses from Oakland to Riverside starts at €32.62 and takes 11h 39m door to door, run by 3 operators over 715 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 12 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€35.92 to €85.98 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.
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What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
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Altamont Corridor Express AC695707:308h 1m15:31EmeryvilleValencia bus station
Metrolink M797616:202h 5m18:25Valencia bus stationRiverside bus stationChanges at Valencia, with 49 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 11h 39mCO2 24.3 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Altamont Corridor Express AC441507:308h 44m16:14EmeryvilleMcBean Regional Transit Station (MRTC)
Amtrak California AC582917:371h 5m18:42Santa ClaritaRiverside stationChanges at Santa Clarita, with 83 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 11h 56mCO2 24.2 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
| Operator | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Altamont Corridor Express | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
| Metrolink | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
| Amtrak California | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power sockets, Wi-Fi |
The coach gets you into Riverside. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
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.
The Coach from Oakland to Riverside takes 11h 39m door to door, of which 10h 6m is spent moving. The route runs 715 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.
The Coach from Oakland to Riverside starts at €32.62 for one passenger, as of 22 September 2026. A typical fare is €33.72. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
3 operators run the Coach from Oakland to Riverside: Altamont Corridor Express, Metrolink, Amtrak California. Between them they file around 3 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.
The Coach from Oakland to Riverside leaves from Emeryville and arrives at Riverside bus station. 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.
Fares for the Coach from Oakland to Riverside bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €34.82. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 103 percent, measured on 22 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Coach from Oakland to Riverside produces about 24.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 715 km, which works out at roughly 34 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Operators on the Coach from Oakland to Riverside publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 11h 39m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
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The coach is the simple part. What you do once you are in Riverside is somebody else's catalogue.
Day trips that leave Riverside in the morning and cover a good part of United States by evening.
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11h 39m
10h 6m
€35.92 to €85.98
07:30 to 07:30
3
24.4 kg
Coach