Tucson to Riverside flight

Flights from Tucson to Riverside start at €80.97 and take 5h 8m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Tucson to Riverside starts at €80.97 and takes 5h 8m door to door, run by 3 operators over 823 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 22 September 2026Priced for 12 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 8mDoor to door
  • 2h 8mMoving
  • €85.10 to €219.03From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 143.5 kgCO2

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.

€85.10 to €219.03 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.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €158.26Wed23
  2. about €219.03Thu24
  3. about €143.51Fri25
  4. about €154.13Sat26
  5. about €129.35Sun27
  6. about €125.22Mon28
  7. about €106.93Tue29
  8. about €95.72Wed30
  9. about €115.78Thu1
  10. about €98.08Fri2
  11. about €115.19Sat3
  12. about €100.44Sun4
  13. about €97.49Mon5
  14. about €85.10Tue6

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 12 October 2026

Cheapest€80.97
  1. Southwest Airlines SA714107:301h 15m08:45Tucson International Airport TUSSan Diego International Airport SAN
  2. Amtrak California AC102509:491h 9m10:58Santa Fe DepotRiverside station

Changes at San Diego, with 64 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 5h 25mCO2 131.0 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€92.18
  1. Air Canada AC923607:301h 25m08:55Tucson International Airport TUSLos Angeles International Airport LAX
  2. Amtrak California AC287809:5843m10:41Los Angeles Union StationRiverside station

Changes at Los Angeles, with 63 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 5h 8mCO2 156.0 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Southwest Airlines740 km/hFixed fareNot published
Amtrak California140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
Air Canada740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Southwest Airlines
  • Amtrak California
  • Air Canada

The flight gets you into Riverside. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Riverside for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Riverside station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Tucson to Riverside

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €82.7490 days
  2. €78.6160 days
  3. €67.4045 days
  4. €85.1030 days
  5. €85.6921 days
  6. €85.1014 days
  7. €106.937 days
  8. €143.513 days
  9. €158.261 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €67.40.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 135 percent. The dearest point is €158.26, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €100.44Sun
  2. €97.49Mon
  3. €85.69Tue
  4. €95.72Wed
  5. €115.78Thu
  6. €98.08Fri
  7. €115.19Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Tucson

Air
  • TUS
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 823 km against 633 km in a straight line, a detour of 24 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at San Diego, Los Angeles. The gap between arriving and leaving is 64 minutes, of which about 14 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. 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 Tucson at 07:30 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 Tucson to Riverside

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 Flight from Tucson to Riverside take?

The Flight from Tucson to Riverside takes 5h 8m door to door, of which 2h 8m is spent moving. The route runs 823 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 Flight from Tucson to Riverside cost?

The Flight from Tucson to Riverside starts at €80.97 for one passenger, as of 22 September 2026. A typical fare is €86.58. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Tucson to Riverside?

3 operators run the Flight from Tucson to Riverside: Southwest Airlines, Amtrak California, Air Canada. 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 Flight from Tucson to Riverside use?

The Flight from Tucson to Riverside leaves from Tucson International Airport TUS and arrives at Riverside station. Allow about 1h 57m 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 Flight from Tucson to Riverside?

Fares for the Flight from Tucson to Riverside bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €67.40. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 135 percent, measured on 22 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Tucson to Riverside produce?

The Flight from Tucson to Riverside produces about 143.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 823 km, which works out at roughly 174 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 Flight from Tucson to Riverside?

Operators on the Flight from Tucson to Riverside publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 8m 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.

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.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Tucson to Riverside on 22 September 2026: 823 km of route against 633 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 3 operators a cheapest fare of €80.97, and 5h 8m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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