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St Louis to Sacramento

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from St Louis to Sacramento. From €216.08, fastest 7h 8m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

St Louis to Sacramento runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:36 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €216.08 and €223.75, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 7h 8m over 2,787 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked September 17, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares · Priced for October 5, 2026

€216.08 to €223.75

  • 187%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving St Louis

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 €585.42Fri18
  2. about €558.28Sat19
  3. about €561.23Sun20
  4. about €371.84Mon21
  5. about €372.43Tue22
  6. about €379.51Wed23
  7. about €512.85Thu24
  8. about €351.78Fri25
  9. about €368.30Sat26
  10. about €371.84Sun27
  11. about €287.47Mon28
  12. about €312.25Tue29
  13. about €345.88Wed30
  14. about €373.02Thu1
  15. about €288.65Fri2
  16. about €288.06Sat3
  17. about €280.98Sun4
  18. about €216.08Mon5
  19. about €223.75Tue6
  20. about €247.35Wed7
  21. about €306.94Thu8

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 St Louis to Sacramento

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

  1. €250.3090 days
  2. €204.2860 days
  3. €211.9545 days
  4. €229.6530 days
  5. €306.9421 days
  6. €373.0214 days
  7. €512.857 days
  8. €561.233 days
  9. €585.421 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €204.28.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 187 percent. The most expensive point is €585.42, 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.
€585.42€204.28137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to St Louis to Sacramento and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

2 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.

The shape of it

2,787 km

2,706 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs west.

Who lives at each end

279,695524,943

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

St. LouisSt. LouisSacramentoSacramento
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 2,787 km against 2,706 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 Salt Lake City, Denver, Las Vegas, San Francisco. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 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. 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 St Louis 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 St Louis to Sacramento?

The fastest journey from St Louis to Sacramento takes 7h 8m door to door, of which 4h 6m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 7h 20m, 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 St Louis to Sacramento?

The cheapest fare from St Louis to Sacramento is €216.08, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €371.84. 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 St Louis to Sacramento?

The cheapest way from St Louis to Sacramento is by flight, at €216.08 for one passenger on October 5, 2026. That journey takes 7h 16m 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 St Louis to Sacramento?

Fares from St Louis to Sacramento bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €204.28. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 187 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for St Louis to Sacramento?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from St Louis to Sacramento, at €287.47. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 17, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for St Louis to Sacramento?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from St Louis to Sacramento, at €179.50 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 St Louis to Sacramento?

No operator record names St Louis 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 St Louis to Sacramento?

20 percent of the services we sell from St Louis to Sacramento are direct. The rest connect at Salt Lake City, Denver, Las Vegas, San Francisco, with about 47 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 St Louis to Sacramento use?

Services from St Louis to Sacramento by flight leave from St. Louis STL 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 St Louis to Sacramento?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from St Louis 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 St Louis to Sacramento on September 17, 2026: 2787 km of route against 2706 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €216.08, and 7h 8m 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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Day trips that leave Sacramento in the morning and cover a good part of United States by evening.

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The two ends, compared

St Louis reaches 76 places in 5 countries on services we hold, over distances from 42 to 3,065 km. Sacramento reaches 79 places in 3 countries, from 50 to 4,023 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving St Louis

  • 76Places you can leave for
  • 5Countries
  • 22Operators

Arriving in Sacramento

Leaving Sacramento

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

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