Buses from Riverside to Oakland start at €31.52 and take 11h 43m at their fastest.
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The Buses from Riverside to Oakland starts at €31.52 and takes 11h 43m door to door, run by 2 operators over 723 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 13, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€40.33 to €79.93 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.
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Typical fares
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Metrolink M363407:302h 9m09:39Riverside bus stationValencia bus station
Altamont Corridor Express AC110410:288h 27m18:55Valencia bus stationEmeryvilleChanges at Valencia, with 49 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 12h 9mCO2 24.3 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
The bus gets you into Oakland. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 10h 57m | 8h 50m | 2h 7m | €37.74 | 24.2 kg | 1 |
| Coach | 11h 43m | 9h 51m | 1h 52m | €31.52 | 24.4 kg | 2 |
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.
The Coach from Riverside to Oakland takes 11h 43m door to door, of which 9h 51m is spent moving. The route runs 723 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.
The Coach from Riverside to Oakland starts at €31.52 for one passenger, as of September 22, 2026. A typical fare is €32.07. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
2 operators run the Coach from Riverside to Oakland: Metrolink, Altamont Corridor Express. Between them they file around 2 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.
The Coach from Riverside to Oakland leaves from Riverside bus station and arrives at Emeryville. 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.
Traveling from Riverside to Oakland by Train costs €37.74 and takes 10h 57m door to door, against 11h 43m by Coach. 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.
Fares for the Coach from Riverside to Oakland bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €30.97. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 147 percent, measured on September 22, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Coach from Riverside to Oakland produces about 24.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 723 km, which works out at roughly 34 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
Operators on the Coach from Riverside to Oakland publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 11h 43m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
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 labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
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Being on the water gives Oakland a set of days out that do not start at a station.
Day trips that leave Oakland in the morning and cover a good part of United States by evening.
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11h 43m
9h 51m
€40.33 to €79.93
07:30 to 07:30
2
24.4 kg
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