Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Berkeley to Van Nuys. From €33.88, fastest 8h 50m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Travelling from Berkeley to Van Nuys costs €33.88 at the cheapest and takes 8h 50m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 615 km. Cheapest is by Coach, fastest is by Coach.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on 29 September 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | 9h 22m | 8h 38m | 44m | €36.48 | 16.6 kg | 1 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at San Jose, with 48 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 10h 12mCO2 17.1 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 9h 22mCO2 16.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modelled until our booking connectors are live.
| Operator | Service | Departs | Arrives | Takes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC TRANSIT6 changes | 800 | 09:20 | 22:17 | 12h 57m |
| FlixBus-us2 changes | FlixBus 2005 | 13:30 | 00:17 | 11h 13m |
| San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency3 changes | 8 | 14:02 | 00:17 | 10h 53m |
| Amtrak Chartered Vehicle2 changes | 4790 | 14:45 | 02:05 | 12h 1m |
| VTA3 changes | Rapid 500 | 15:36 | 02:05 | 11h 48m |
| VTA3 changes | Rapid 500 | 15:46 | 02:05 | 11h 41m |
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of travelling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Berkeley to Van Nuys | Thu10 Sept | Fri11 Sept | Sat12 Sept | Sun13 Sept | Mon14 Sept | Tue15 Sept | Wed16 Sept | Thu17 Sept | Fri18 Sept | Sat19 Sept | Sun20 Sept | Mon21 Sept | Tue22 Sept | Wed23 Sept |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | €89.83 | €61.23 | €56.83 | €55.73 | €52.43 | €50.78 | €44.18 | €57.93 | €39.23 | €58.48 | €43.63 | €43.63 | €36.48 | €39.23 |
| Train | €72.94 | €79.54 | €61.94 | €70.19 | €49.29 | €56.44 | €41.59 | €52.58 | €52.59 | €62.49 | €44.33 | €51.49 | €41.04 | €41.03 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-29 · €33.88
The journey ends at Van Nuys station. Everything past the barriers belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 45 days ahead. You are inside that window.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Altamont Corridor Express | €34.28 | 8h 50m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €28.99 | 86% |
| Taxes | €2.90 | 9% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 6% |
| Total you pay | €33.88 | 100% |
We cannot promise Van Nuys station still has a left luggage office, because plenty of stations closed theirs.
Priced by the bag and by the day, booked before you get there, and insured while it sits.
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The fastest journey from Berkeley to Van Nuys takes 8h 50m door to door, of which 8h 38m is spent moving, on the Coach. Most services take around 9h 26m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Berkeley to Van Nuys is €33.88, checked on 29 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €43.63. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Berkeley to Van Nuys is by Coach, at €36.48 for one passenger on 29 September 2026. That journey takes 9h 22m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
Fares from Berkeley to Van Nuys bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €28.23. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 158 percent, measured on 29 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Berkeley to Van Nuys, at €36.48. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on 29 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Berkeley to Van Nuys, at €25.48 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
1 operators sell services from Berkeley to Van Nuys across 1 modes: Altamont Corridor Express. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
20 percent of the services we sell from Berkeley to Van Nuys are direct. The rest connect at San Jose, Santa Clara, Fremont, Sunnyvale, with about 48 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Berkeley to Van Nuys by Coach leave from El Cerrito Plaza BART and arrive at Van Nuys. Allow about 44m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Berkeley to Van Nuys allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
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.
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The journey is the easy half to plan. The days in Van Nuys are the half people leave until last.
Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Van Nuys, with free cancellation on most of it.
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