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Palm Springs to Sacramento

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Palm Springs to Sacramento. From €63.86, fastest 4h 29m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Palm Springs to Sacramento runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:36 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €63.86, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 4h 29m over 711 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked September 19, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €63.86, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for October 5, 2026

€63.86

  • 183%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Palm Springs

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:36First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 5Services per day
  • 20%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €168.88Sun20
  2. about €138.79Mon21
  3. about €116.96Tue22
  4. about €105.16Wed23
  5. about €152.36Thu24
  6. about €135.84Fri25
  7. about €100.44Sat26
  8. about €101.62Sun27
  9. about €88.05Mon28
  10. about €90.41Tue29
  11. about €100.44Wed30
  12. about €115.19Thu1
  13. about €98.67Fri2
  14. about €86.28Sat3
  15. about €82.15Sun4
  16. about €63.86Mon5
  17. about €63.86Tue6
  18. about €74.48Wed7
  19. about €91.00Thu8
  20. about €85.69Fri9
  21. about €89.82Sat10

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

The flight gets you into Sacramento. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Sacramento for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Sacramento Valley Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Palm Springs to Sacramento

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

  1. €88.0590 days
  2. €62.6860 days
  3. €59.7345 days
  4. €68.5830 days
  5. €89.8221 days
  6. €86.2814 days
  7. €100.447 days
  8. €116.963 days
  9. €168.881 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €59.73.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 183 percent. The most expensive point is €168.88, 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.
€168.88€59.73137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 45 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Palm Springs to Sacramento and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.

The shape of it

711 km

690 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north-west.

Who lives at each end

47,371524,943

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

0/2

2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.

The route

Palm SpringsPalm SpringsSacramentoSacramento
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

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 711 km against 690 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas. The gap between arriving and leaving is 52 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 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.

Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Sacramento Valley Station

Most of the points near Sacramento Valley Station open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Questions about Palm Springs to Sacramento

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 it take to get from Palm Springs to Sacramento?

The fastest journey from Palm Springs to Sacramento takes 4h 29m door to door, of which 1h 19m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 4h 33m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Palm Springs to Sacramento?

The cheapest fare from Palm Springs to Sacramento is €63.86, as of September 19, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €100.44. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Palm Springs to Sacramento?

The cheapest way from Palm Springs to Sacramento is by flight, at €63.86 for one passenger on October 5, 2026. That journey takes 4h 29m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Palm Springs to Sacramento?

Fares from Palm Springs to Sacramento bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €59.73. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 183 percent, measured on September 19, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Palm Springs to Sacramento?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Palm Springs to Sacramento, at €88.05. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 19, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Palm Springs to Sacramento?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Palm Springs to Sacramento, at €52.65 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs service from Palm Springs to Sacramento?

No operator record names Palm Springs to Sacramento directly. Southwest Airlines publish service areas covering both ends and may serve it, so we list them as possible operators rather than confirmed ones.

Is there a direct service from Palm Springs to Sacramento?

20 percent of the services we sell from Palm Springs to Sacramento are direct. The rest connect at Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, with about 52 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Palm Springs to Sacramento use?

Services from Palm Springs to Sacramento by flight leave from Palm Springs PSP and arrive at Sacramento SMF. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Palm Springs to Sacramento?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Palm Springs to Sacramento allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

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, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Palm Springs to Sacramento on September 19, 2026: 711 km of route against 690 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €63.86, and 4h 29m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Sacramento is somebody else's catalog.

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The two ends, compared

Palm Springs reaches 21 places in 2 countries on services we hold, over distances from 159 to 3,370 km. Sacramento reaches 79 places in 3 countries, from 50 to 4,023 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Palm Springs

  • 21Places you can leave for
  • 2Countries
  • 14Operators

Arriving in Sacramento

Leaving Sacramento

  • 79Places you can leave for
  • 3Countries
  • 21Operators

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