Berkeley
Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.
Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2020 census recorded a population of 124,321.
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Getting to Berkeley
- Airports
- Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK), 17 km · San Francisco (SFO), 29 km · Mineta San Jose (SJC), 64 km
- San Jose → Berkeley4914 km · quickest by air, 14h 4m · $850–1,300
- Sacramento → Berkeley104 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · $10–14
- Fresno → Berkeley254 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · $23–32
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Berkeley
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Berkeley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are ferries from San Francisco to nearby Oakland, but are probably most useful as a scenic method of travel.
- Get inIf you are traveling by private boat or charter yacht, Berkeley has a 1,000 berth marina, the largest municipal marina in the Bay Area.
From Wikivoyage: Berkeley, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Berkeley
Berkeley is 7 km from Oakland, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.