Cheapest€27.68
- Altamont Corridor Express AC986406:357h 16m13:51Valencia bus stationSan Jose Diridon Transit Center
Door to door 8hCO2 13.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Valencia to San Jose bus
Buses from Valencia to San Jose start at €30.43 and take 8h at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Valencia to San Jose on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Buses from Valencia to San Jose starts at €30.43 and takes 8h door to door, run by 1 operator over 503 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 8hDoor to door
- 7h 16mMoving
- €30.43 to €72.23From
- 06:35 to 07:30First and last departure
- 5Per day
- 13.6 kgCO2
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 4 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€30.43 to €72.23 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 €58.48Tue15
- about €55.18Wed16
- about €72.23Thu17
- about €40.33Fri18
- about €59.58Sat19
- about €44.73Sun20
- about €44.73Mon21
- about €30.43Tue22
- about €38.13Wed23
- about €40.88Thu24
- about €38.68Fri25
- about €36.48Sat26
- about €37.58Sun27
- about €33.73Mon28
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 4 October 2026
Fastest€67.28
- Altamont Corridor Express AC682207:301h 55m09:25Valencia bus stationBakersfield Greyhound Bus Station
- Amtrak California AC614111:053h 5m14:10BakersfieldSan Jose Diridon station
Changes at Bakersfield, with 100 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 7h 24mCO2 16.2 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Bus operators
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Altamont Corridor Express | €27.68 | 7h 19m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
The coach gets you into San Jose. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in San Jose for the night the coach gets in
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When to book Valencia to San Jose
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €29.3390 days
- €25.4860 days
- €33.7345 days
- €26.0330 days
- €27.6821 days
- €33.7314 days
- €44.737 days
- €72.233 days
- €58.481 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €25.48.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 183 percent. The dearest point is €72.23, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 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.
- €37.58Sun
- €33.73Mon
- €30.43Tue
- €38.13Wed
- €40.88Thu
- €38.68Fri
- €36.48Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
San Jose
Coach
- San Jose Diridon Transit Center
- Gish
What the journey actually looks like
- 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 503 km against 437 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 Visalia, Salinas, Bakersfield, Fresno. The gap between arriving and leaving is 71 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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 Valencia at 06:35 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Valencia to San Jose
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 Valencia to San Jose take?
The Coach from Valencia to San Jose takes 8h door to door, of which 7h 16m is spent moving. The route runs 503 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 Valencia to San Jose cost?
The Coach from Valencia to San Jose starts at €30.43 for one passenger, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare is €54.08. 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 Valencia to San Jose?
1 operators run the Coach from Valencia to San Jose: Altamont Corridor Express. Between them they file around 5 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 Valencia to San Jose use?
The Coach from Valencia to San Jose leaves from Valencia bus station and arrives at San Jose Diridon 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 Valencia to San Jose?
Fares for the Coach from Valencia to San Jose bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €25.48. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 183 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Valencia to San Jose produce?
The Coach from Valencia to San Jose produces about 13.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 503 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 Valencia to San Jose?
Operators on the Coach from Valencia to San Jose publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 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 Valencia to San Jose on 14 September 2026: 503 km of route against 437 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €30.43, and 8h door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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