Santa Ana to San Bernardino train

Trains from Santa Ana to San Bernardino start at €16.84 and take 1h 21m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Santa Ana to San Bernardino starts at €16.84 and takes 1h 21m door to door, run by 3 operators over 77 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 27 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 1h 21mDoor to door
  • 37mMoving
  • €11.89 to €20.14From
  • 06:06 to 14:47First and last departure
  • 8Per day
  • 2.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 27 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€11.89 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

12Go lists the departures it sells between Santa Ana and San Bernardino.

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Buying this journey

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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 €19.59Mon21
  2. about €17.39Tue22
  3. about €18.49Wed23
  4. about €17.94Thu24
  5. about €20.14Fri25
  6. about €17.39Sat26
  7. about €16.84Sun27
  8. about €12.99Mon28
  9. about €11.89Tue29
  10. about €11.89Wed30
  11. about €13.54Thu1
  12. about €13.54Fri2
  13. about €14.64Sat3
  14. about €12.44Sun4

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

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 27 September 2026

Fastest€21.24
  1. Lossan Rail Corridor Agency LR863906:1437m06:51Santa Ana Regional Transportation CenterSan Bernardino Santa Fe Depot

Door to door 1h 21mCO2 2.5 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

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

A hotel room

A room in San Bernardino for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book Santa Ana to San Bernardino

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

  1. €10.0790 days
  2. €10.0760 days
  3. €10.0745 days
  4. €10.0730 days
  5. €10.0721 days
  6. €10.0714 days
  7. €10.077 days
  8. €11.183 days
  9. €11.731 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 16 percent. The dearest point is €11.73, 1 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.
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. €10.07Sun
  2. €10.07Mon
  3. €10.07Tue
  4. €10.07Wed
  5. €10.07Thu
  6. €10.07Fri
  7. €10.07Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Santa Ana

Rail
  • Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center

San Bernardino

Rail
  • San Bernardino Santa Fe Depot
  • San Bernardino Transit Center
  • Tippecanoe Avenue station
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
67% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 33% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 77 km against 67 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 Torrance, East Los Angeles, Hollywood, Los Angeles. The gap between arriving and leaving is 61 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 Santa Ana at 06:06 and the last at 14:47, across 8 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Trains against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Train1h 21m37m44m€16.842.5 kg8
Coach1h 50m1h 6m44m€10.072.6 kg4

Questions about Santa Ana to San Bernardino

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 Santa Ana to San Bernardino take?

The Train from Santa Ana to San Bernardino takes 1h 21m door to door, of which 37m is spent moving. The route runs 77 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 Santa Ana to San Bernardino cost?

The Train from Santa Ana to San Bernardino starts at €16.84 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €21.79. 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 Santa Ana to San Bernardino?

3 operators run the Train from Santa Ana to San Bernardino: Amtrak California, Lossan Rail Corridor Agency, Southern California Regional Rail Authority. 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 Train from Santa Ana to San Bernardino use?

The Train from Santa Ana to San Bernardino leaves from Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center and arrives at San Bernardino Santa Fe Depot. 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 Train the best way from Santa Ana to San Bernardino?

Travelling from Santa Ana to San Bernardino by Coach costs €10.07 and takes 1h 50m door to door, against 1h 21m by Train. 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 Train from Santa Ana to San Bernardino?

Fares for the Train from Santa Ana to San Bernardino bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €10.07. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 16 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Santa Ana to San Bernardino produce?

The Train from Santa Ana to San Bernardino produces about 2.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 77 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 Santa Ana to San Bernardino?

Operators on the Train from Santa Ana to San Bernardino publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 21m 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 Santa Ana to San Bernardino on 20 September 2026: 77 km of route against 67 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 3 operators a cheapest fare of €16.84, and 1h 21m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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