Oakland

Worth seeing in and around Oakland

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   University of California, Berkeley

   Public university in Berkeley, California, USA

   7.6 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   University of California

   University system in California, United States

   200 m · Wikipedia
3. 03
   San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge

   Suspension bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland, California, USA

   6.8 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Oakland Coliseum

   Baseball stadium in Oakland, California, United States

   8.5 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Diocese of Oakland

   Diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States

   0 m · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute

   American research institute (1982-)

   8.7 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Oakland Museum of California

   Art museum in Oakland, California

   900 m · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Mills College at Northeastern University

   Liberal arts and sciences college located in Oakland, United States

   8.2 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Zaytuna College

   Muslim liberal arts college

   6.8 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    California Memorial Stadium

    Stadium located on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley, California, United States

    7.6 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Oakland

Airports

Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK), 10 km · San Francisco (SFO), 22 km · Mineta San Jose (SJC), 58 km

Stations

Q3095511, 8.6 km · Oakland–Jack London Square station, 1.2 km

• San Jose → Oakland

  4910 km · quickest by air, 13h 45m · $840–1,280
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• Sacramento → Oakland

  110 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · $10–14
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• Fresno → Oakland

  250 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · $23–31
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No local-transport research exists yet for Oakland

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 Oakland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Oakland – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.