Cheapest€10.07
- Caravan Airport Transportation CA430714:021h 17m15:19West Salem Transit CenterTualatin (POINT)
Door to door 2h 1mCO2 2.2 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Salem to Portland bus
Buses from Salem to Portland start at €10.07 and take 1h 55m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Salem to Portland on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Buses from Salem to Portland starts at €10.07 and takes 1h 55m door to door, run by 4 operators over 81 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 1h 55mDoor to door
- 1h 11mMoving
- €10.07 to €11.18From
- 06:03 to 14:45First and last departure
- 8Per day
- 2.2 kgCO2
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 15 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€10.07 to €11.18 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €10.07Tue15
- about €10.63Wed16
- about €11.18Thu17
- about €10.08Fri18
- about €10.08Sat19
- about €10.07Sun20
- about €10.07Mon21
- about €10.07Tue22
- about €10.07Wed23
- about €10.07Thu24
- about €10.07Fri25
- about €10.07Sat26
- about €10.07Sun27
- about €10.07Mon28
Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.
The cheapest and the fastest on 15 September 2026
Bus operators
The coach gets you into Portland. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Portland for the night the coach gets in
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When to book Salem to Portland
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €10.0790 days
- €10.0760 days
- €10.0745 days
- €10.0730 days
- €10.0721 days
- €10.0714 days
- €10.077 days
- €11.183 days
- €10.071 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €10.07.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 11 percent. The dearest point is €11.18, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits outside the cheap window, which opens around 90 days before departure. There is no advantage to booking this minute.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €10.07Sun
- €10.07Mon
- €10.07Tue
- €10.07Wed
- €10.07Thu
- €10.07Fri
- €10.07Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Salem
Coach
- West Salem Transit Center
- Keizer Transit Center
Portland
Coach
- Tualatin (POINT)
- Mill Plain Transit Center
What the journey actually looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 77% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 23% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 81 km against 70 km in a straight line, a detour of 16 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Olympia, Corvallis, Eugene. The gap between arriving and leaving is 62 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Salem at 06:03 and the last at 14:45, across 8 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Buses against the other ways to make this journey
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 1h 25m | 41m | 44m | €12.99 | 2.7 kg | 5 |
| Coach | 1h 55m | 1h 11m | 44m | €10.07 | 2.2 kg | 8 |
Questions about Salem to Portland
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 Salem to Portland take?
The Coach from Salem to Portland takes 1h 55m door to door, of which 1h 11m is spent moving. The route runs 81 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 Salem to Portland cost?
The Coach from Salem to Portland starts at €10.07 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €10.08. 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 Salem to Portland?
4 operators run the Coach from Salem to Portland: Caravan Airport Transportation, Oregon Department of Transportation, Oregon Express Shuttle, Pacific Crest Bus Lines. Between them they file around 8 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 Salem to Portland use?
The Coach from Salem to Portland leaves from West Salem Transit Center and arrives at Tualatin (POINT). 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.
Is the Coach the best way from Salem to Portland?
Travelling from Salem to Portland by Train costs €12.99 and takes 1h 25m door to door, against 1h 55m by Coach. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
When should I book the Coach from Salem to Portland?
Fares for the Coach from Salem to Portland bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €10.07. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 11 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Salem to Portland produce?
The Coach from Salem to Portland produces about 2.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 81 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 Salem to Portland?
Operators on the Coach from Salem to Portland publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 4 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 55m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
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.
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.
Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Salem to Portland on 14 September 2026: 81 km of route against 70 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 4 operators a cheapest fare of €10.07, and 1h 55m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Related journeys
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