Cheapest€11.73
- Amtrak San Joaquins AS418506:082h 46m08:54Chico Transit Center4th Street Station
Door to door 3h 30mCO2 5.4 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Chico to Reno bus
Buses from Chico to Reno start at €11.73 and take 3h 30m at their fastest.
The Buses from Chico to Reno starts at €11.73 and takes 3h 30m door to door, run by 2 operators over 201 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 3h 30mDoor to door
- 2h 46mMoving
- €11.73From
- 5.4 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 23, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | Fastest |
|---|---|
| Amtrak San Joaquins | 3h 29m |
| Sage Stage | 3h 26m |
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When to book Chico to Reno
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €13.9390 days
- €10.6360 days
- €11.7345 days
- €11.7330 days
- €13.3821 days
- €11.7314 days
- €17.787 days
- €23.283 days
- €27.681 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.63.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 160 percent. The most expensive point is €27.68, 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.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €16.13Sun
- €15.03Mon
- €15.03Tue
- €13.38Wed
- €16.68Thu
- €15.03Fri
- €17.23Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Chico
Bus
- Chico Transit Center
Reno
Bus
- 4th Street Station
- RTC Meadowood Mall
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- 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 201 km against 175 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 Roseville, Sacramento, Elk Grove, Stockton. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 Chico at 06:08 and the last at 07:30, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Chico to Reno
The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Chico to Reno take?
The Coach from Chico to Reno takes 3h 30m door to door, of which 2h 46m is spent moving. The route runs 201 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 Chico to Reno cost?
The Coach from Chico to Reno starts at €11.73 for one passenger, checked on September 23, 2026. A typical fare is €19.43. 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 Chico to Reno?
2 operators run the Coach from Chico to Reno: Amtrak San Joaquins, Sage Stage. Between them they file around 6 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 Chico to Reno use?
The Coach from Chico to Reno leaves from Chico Transit Center and arrives at 4th Street 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 Coach from Chico to Reno?
Fares for the Coach from Chico to Reno bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.63. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 160 percent, measured on September 23, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Chico to Reno produce?
The Coach from Chico to Reno produces about 5.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 201 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
What is provided on board the Coach from Chico to Reno?
Operators on the Coach from Chico to Reno publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 30m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
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 modeled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Chico to Reno on September 9, 2026: 201 km of route against 175 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €11.73, and 3h 30m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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