Hollywood to Santa Clara bus

Buses from Hollywood to Santa Clara start at €33.73 and take 8h 58m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Hollywood to Santa Clara starts at €33.73 and takes 8h 58m door to door, run by 1 operator over 561 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 13, 2026Priced for October 4, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 58mDoor to door
  • 8h 14mMoving
  • €33.73 to €67.83From
  • 06:35 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 15.1 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 4, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€33.73 to €67.83 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey costs by departure date, from our own model. Read it as a guide to which days are dearer, not as a quote.

Indicative fares

  1. about €67.83Mon14
  2. about €56.28Tue15
  3. about €61.23Wed16
  4. about €65.63Thu17
  5. about €44.73Fri18
  6. about €66.18Sat19
  7. about €49.13Sun20
  8. about €40.33Mon21
  9. about €33.73Tue22
  10. about €42.53Wed23
  11. about €45.28Thu24
  12. about €42.53Fri25
  13. about €39.78Sat26
  14. about €41.43Sun27

Modelled from what this route has cost, not from live availability. Nothing here is held for you, and the operator sets the price on the day.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 4, 2026

Cheapest€30.43
  1. Altamont Corridor Express AC958006:358h 14m14:49Hollywood bus stationSanta Clara bus station

Door to door 8h 58mCO2 15.1 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€70.58
  1. Altamont Corridor Express AC410807:302h 29m09:59Hollywood bus stationBakersfield Greyhound Bus Station
  2. Amtrak California AC592511:303h 6m14:36BakersfieldSanta Clara station

Changes at Bakersfield, with 91 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 7h 50mCO2 17.8 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus 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
Altamont Corridor Express€30.438h 9m72 km/hChangeablePower outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi
  • Altamont Corridor Express

The bus gets you into Santa Clara. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Santa Clara for the night the bus gets in

Filter by neighborhood and by nightly price, and the map tells you what is a walk and what is a cab.

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Booking window

When to book Hollywood to Santa Clara

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

  1. €36.6390 days
  2. €27.6860 days
  3. €22.1845 days
  4. €23.2830 days
  5. €30.4321 days
  6. €41.4314 days
  7. €49.137 days
  8. €58.643 days
  9. €66.341 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €22.18.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 199 percent. The most expensive point is €66.34, 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. €41.43Sun
  2. €40.33Mon
  3. €33.73Tue
  4. €42.53Wed
  5. €45.28Thu
  6. €42.53Fri
  7. €39.78Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

We do not hold named terminals for either end of this corridor yet.

The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 561 km against 488 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 Salinas, Simi Valley, Valencia, Bakersfield. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 14 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. 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 Hollywood at 06:35 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 Hollywood to Santa Clara

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 Hollywood to Santa Clara take?

The Coach from Hollywood to Santa Clara takes 8h 58m door to door, of which 8h 14m is spent moving. The route runs 561 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 Hollywood to Santa Clara cost?

The Coach from Hollywood to Santa Clara starts at €33.73 for one passenger, checked on September 13, 2026. A typical fare is €42.53. 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 Hollywood to Santa Clara?

1 operators run the Coach from Hollywood to Santa Clara: Altamont Corridor Express. 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 Coach from Hollywood to Santa Clara use?

The Coach from Hollywood to Santa Clara leaves from Hollywood bus station and arrives at Santa Clara bus 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 Hollywood to Santa Clara?

Fares for the Coach from Hollywood to Santa Clara bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €22.18. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 199 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Hollywood to Santa Clara produce?

The Coach from Hollywood to Santa Clara produces about 15.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 561 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 Hollywood to Santa Clara?

Operators on the Coach from Hollywood to Santa Clara publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 58m 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 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.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Hollywood to Santa Clara on September 13, 2026: 561 km of route against 488 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €33.73, and 8h 58m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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