Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills train

Trains from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills start at €11.88 and take 1h 17m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills starts at €11.88 and takes 1h 17m door to door, run by 1 operator over 62 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 30 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 1h 17mDoor to door
  • 33mMoving
  • €11.88 to €20.14From
  • 06:21 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 2.0 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 30 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€11.88 to €20.14 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.

Departure times on this route

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Southern California Regional Rail Authority runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this journey

Bookaway lists departures for Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €20.14Mon21
  2. about €14.64Tue22
  3. about €14.64Wed23
  4. about €17.94Thu24
  5. about €15.19Fri25
  6. about €15.74Sat26
  7. about €14.64Sun27
  8. about €11.89Mon28
  9. about €12.44Tue29
  10. about €11.88Wed30
  11. about €15.74Thu1
  12. about €12.99Fri2
  13. about €15.19Sat3
  14. about €13.54Sun4

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

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 30 September 2026

Cheapest€11.88
  1. Southern California Regional Rail Authority SC996806:2133m06:54Lake Elsinore stationChino Hills station

Door to door 1h 17mCO2 2.0 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Southern California Regional Rail Authority€11.881h 15m140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi

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A hotel room

A room in Chino Hills for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills

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

  1. €12.9990 days
  2. €11.8860 days
  3. €11.8845 days
  4. €11.8830 days
  5. €11.8821 days
  6. €13.5414 days
  7. €14.647 days
  8. €14.643 days
  9. €20.141 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 70 percent. The dearest point is €20.14, 1 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.
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. €13.54Sun
  2. €11.89Mon
  3. €12.44Tue
  4. €11.88Wed
  5. €15.74Thu
  6. €12.99Fri
  7. €15.19Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Terminals not named for this corridor.

The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 62 km against 54 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 Oceanside, Carlsbad. The gap between arriving and leaving is 100 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 10 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 Lake Elsinore at 06:21 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills

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 Train from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills take?

The Train from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills takes 1h 17m door to door, of which 33m is spent moving. The route runs 62 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 Train from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills cost?

The Train from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills starts at €11.88 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €28.39. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills?

1 operators run the Train from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills: Southern California Regional Rail Authority. 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.

Which terminal does the Train from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills use?

The Train from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills leaves from Lake Elsinore station and arrives at Chino Hills 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.

When should I book the Train from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills?

Fares for the Train from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 70 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills produce?

The Train from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills produces about 2.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 62 km, which works out at roughly 33 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 Train from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills?

Operators on the Train from Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 17m 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 The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.

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 Lake Elsinore to Chino Hills on 20 September 2026: 62 km of route against 54 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 1h 17m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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