Travel to South San Francisco

Every way to reach South San Francisco: 1 mode compared, with fares.

Santa Clara Valley "The Valley of Heart's Delight". Looking west across the valley from Quimby Road, Lake Cunningham Park is in the right foreground, with Reid-Hillview Airport at low center and the high-rise buildings in downtown San Jose beyond. The Santa Clara Valley is a valley just south of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California in the United States. Much of Santa Clara County, California and its county seat San Jose, are in the Santa Clara Valley. The valley was originally known as the Valley of Heart’s Delight for the miles and miles of orchards. Once primarily agricultural because of its highly fertile soil, it is now largely urbanized, although its far southern reaches south of Gilroy remain rural. Silicon Valley is roughly coterminous with the Santa Clara Valley, although since the former is as much a state of mind as an actual location, people often refer to parts of the San Francisco Peninsula as being part of Silicon Valley as well. Locally, the Santa Clara Valley is also referred to as the "South Bay." However, the Santa Clara Valley American Viticultural Area remains important. The northern end of the Santa Clara Valley is at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay, and the southern end is in the vicinity of Gilroy. The valley is bounded by the Santa Cruz Mountains on the southwest and by the Diablo Range on the northeast. It is about 30 miles (50 km) long and about 15 miles (20 km) wide. The valley's largest city, by an 86.7% margin, is San Jose. Taken with Canon XT (350D)

South San Francisco is reachable from 2 places across 1 country by 1 mode, on services run by 1 operator. The cheapest arrival costs €11.88 and the fastest takes 2h 23m door to door. The nearest origin is 16 km away.

Priced for October 10, 2026One passenger, all fees included

Arriving

How people reach South San Francisco

One row per mode that calls here. Reach is the furthest origin that mode serves in a straight line.
ModeOriginsFromFastestReachOperators
Ferry4€11.882h 23m21 km1
  • 2Places you can arrive from
  • 1Countries
  • 1Operators

The ferry gets you into South San Francisco. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in South San Francisco for the night the ferry gets in

Sort by distance from South San Francisco station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km4100%Chinatown, 16 km
Origins

Which countries you can arrive from

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
United States4100%
Terminals

Stations, airports and ports in South San Francisco

South San Francisco

Rail
  • South San Francisco station
  • Butler Road station
Bus
  • San Bruno BART
Ferry
  • SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO (OYSTER POINT)
  • South San Francisco Oyster Point Terminal
Fares

The cheapest journeys into South San Francisco

Cheapest fare and fastest journey into South San Francisco, over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Chinatown to South San Francisco ferry€11.882h 23m16 km
Oakland to South San Francisco ferry€11.882h 27m21 km

South San Francisco is small enough to see in an afternoon, which is easier without the luggage. Storing it is not our business.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near South San Francisco station

Most of the points near South San Francisco station open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Popular trips to South San Francisco

Common questions about Travel to South San Francisco

How can I get to South San Francisco?

South San Francisco is reachable by 1 mode on our network, from 2 places, across 1 countries, on services run by 1 operators. The table on this page compares those modes on the cheapest fare, the fastest journey, how far each reaches and how many carriers run it.

What is the cheapest way to get to South San Francisco?

The cheapest way into South San Francisco is by ferry, from €11.88 for one passenger. That is the lowest fare across all 2 origins we sell into South San Francisco over the next three weeks, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee.

What is the fastest way to get to South San Francisco?

The fastest journey into South San Francisco is by ferry, at 2h 23m door to door. The nearest origin we sell is 16 km away in a straight line, which is why a short fast journey exists at all on this list.

Which stations and airports does South San Francisco have?

South San Francisco has 5 named terminals on our network, including 2 rail stations and 0 airports. Among them are South San Francisco station, Butler Road station. Every journey time on this page allows for reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

Where can I travel to South San Francisco from within 200 km?

4 of the routes we sell into South San Francisco start within 200 km. The nearest is Chinatown, 16 km away in a straight line. Short corridors like these are usually the ones where a train or bus beats a flight door to door.

Where else can I go from South San Francisco in United States?

South San Francisco connects to 2 places on our network across 1 country the furthest of them 21 km away in a straight line. United States routes are listed on this page, and the country pages carry the rest of the network around 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.

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 Catchment, Fares, Door to door, Distances

Elsewhere in United States

The wider region

Being on the water gives South San Francisco a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of South San Francisco and across United States

Day trips that leave South San Francisco in the morning and cover a good part of United States by evening.

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