Sam Daly WHO GETS / THE DAY
GTFS · 10–15 November 2026

Destinations and hours of public transportation in and out of San Francisco

01 / Map

The lines into the city

San Francisco is the hub. Double rings are transfers. Dashed lines are ferries. Not to scale.

Golden Gate Transit SMART Ferry BART Caltrain Capitol Corridor Gold Runner VINE Santa Cruz METRO Marin Transit SF Bay Ferry Transfer
Day-trip schematic: transit to San Francisco. Double rings are transfers. Dashed lines are ferries.
02 / Chart

The usable day

Teal is time a suburban rider can be in San Francisco (arrive on the first trip, leave on the last trip home). Orange is time an SF rider can be in that town. Switch weekday, Saturday, and Sunday at the top.

Suburban rider in SFSF rider in the suburbinbound · outbound
03 / Agencies

For the city, or for the suburbs?

Each agency on a weekday, Saturday, or Sunday. “For the suburbs” means a resident of those towns can spend the day in San Francisco and still get home. “For the city” means an SF rider can spend the day in those towns.

04 / Overnight

Places that need a night away

Same-day round trips from San Francisco do not close on these corridors. Times are Tuesday 10 November 2026. Transfers need a few minutes; an overnight layover is the point.

Mendocino Transit 65

Fort Bragg / Mendocino

  1. SF101
  2. San Rafael3:12pSMART
  3. Santa Rosa4:11p65
  4. Mendocino7:23p65
  5. Fort Bragg7:53p

65 leaves Santa Rosa at 4:23 p.m. Next morning the 6:00 a.m. bus is back at SMART at 9:55 a.m. for the 10:26 a.m. train south.

Gold Runner + 15

Yosemite Valley

  1. SF7:29aBART
  2. Richmond8:27aGold Runner
  3. Merced11:23a15
  4. Yosemite2:40p

A later path leaves SF at 1:49 p.m. and reaches the Lodge at 8:58 p.m. Coming back, the 8:15 a.m. Lodge bus meets the 12:05 p.m. train at Merced.

Caltrain + MST

Monterey

  1. SF4:20pCaltrain
  2. San Jose6:01pShuttle
  3. Gilroy6:49p59
  4. Salinas8:15p20
  5. Monterey8:59p

The next morning 59 gets to Gilroy at 9:03 a.m., after the last northbound shuttle at 7:31 a.m. Transit home is not the next morning.

Capitol Corridor

Auburn

  1. SF6:09pBART
  2. Richmond7:25pCapitol Corridor
  3. Auburn10:10p

BART from Embarcadero 6:09–6:20 p.m. arrives Richmond 7:01–7:08 p.m. Next morning the 9:36 a.m. from Auburn is at Richmond at 12:10 p.m. Roseville is the same pair of trains.

Caltrain

Gilroy

  1. SF4:20pCaltrain
  2. San Jose6:01pShuttle
  3. Gilroy6:49p

A Gilroy resident can spend 8.5 hours in San Francisco on a weekday. Next morning the 5:52 a.m. shuttle meets northbound Caltrain at Diridon.

California Zephyr

Truckee / Reno

  1. SFBART
  2. Emeryville11:25aZephyr
  3. Truckee5:01pZephyr
  4. Reno6:37p

One train each way. The return is that afternoon westbound: Reno 12:24 p.m., Truckee 1:33 p.m., Emeryville 7:57 p.m.

Coast Starlight

San Luis Obispo / Santa Barbara

  1. SFCaltrain
  2. San Jose1:26pStarlight
  3. San Luis Obispo6:37pStarlight
  4. Santa Barbara9:19p

Also from Emeryville at 11:39 a.m. or Oakland at 12:09 p.m. The northbound arrives Oakland at 12:21 a.m.

05 / Table

First trip in, last trip home

Times follow the weekday / Saturday / Sunday toggle. “In SF” is last trip home minus first arrival downtown. “In town” is the reverse.

06 / Method

How the hours are counted

Three days

Tuesday 10 November, Saturday 14 November, and Sunday 15 November 2026, from each agency’s GTFS. Transfers need 5–20 minutes and are dropped if the wait is longer than about an hour, so an overnight layover does not count as a commute. Overnight destinations use the Tuesday feed, including Mendocino Transit 65, MST 20 and 59, Gold Runner 15, the California Zephyr, and the Coast Starlight.

Where “San Francisco” is

BART at Embarcadero. Caltrain at 4th & King. Golden Gate Transit at downtown stops; ferries at the Ferry Building. Santa Rosa also timed two ways on SMART: 101 at San Rafael to Salesforce, or Larkspur ferry. Bolinas on Marin Transit 61 via Marin City, then Golden Gate Transit. Inverness on Stagecoach 68 via San Rafael. Vallejo on SF Bay Ferry to the Ferry Building. Napa on VINE 29 via El Cerrito del Norte BART. Richmond BART, Gold Runner, and Capitol Corridor include a MacArthur transfer off the East Bay line. Fremont BART includes Bay Fair or MacArthur. Millbrae BART includes the SFO shuttle. Santa Cruz via Highway 17 and Caltrain at Diridon.

Schedules change. This is a snapshot of the feeds, not a trip planner.