Route · US

Los Angeles to Santa Barbara

1 operator run this water, from 41 min.

Getting from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara

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Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

United Airlines LAX → SBA 142 km non-stop EM2 in the air 2 h 11 est. rate not held 209 km/h average

Other ways to reach Santa Barbara

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Santa Barbara without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Goleta Amtrak – Santa Barbara 11 min Amtrak

Carpinteria Amtrak – Santa Barbara 12 min Amtrak

Oxnard – Santa Barbara 46 min Amtrak

San Francisco – Santa Barbara 1 h 02 United Airlines

Phoenix – Santa Barbara 1 h 25 American Airlines

Portland – Santa Barbara 2 h 05 Alaska Airlines

Denver – Santa Barbara 2 h 20 Frontier Airlines

Seattle – Santa Barbara 2 h 20 Alaska Airlines

San Luis Obispo – Santa Barbara 2 h 35 Amtrak

And other ways to reach Los Angeles

Glendale Amtrak – Los Angeles 12 min Amtrak

Van Nuys – Los Angeles 23 min Amtrak

Burbank Amtrak – Los Angeles 27 min Amtrak

Fullerton Amtrak Station – Los Angeles 29 min Amtrak

Pomona Amtrak – Los Angeles 41 min Amtrak

Bakersfield – Los Angeles 43 min United Airlines

Palm Springs – Los Angeles 43 min United Airlines

San Diego – Los Angeles 43 min Alaska Airlines

San Luis Obispo – Los Angeles 49 min United Airlines

Fresno – Los Angeles 55 min Alaska Airlines

Where else these quays go

Also from Los Angeles

Aguascalientes · Albuquerque · Amsterdam · Anchorage · Aspen · Atlanta · Auckland · Austin · Bakersfield · Baltimore · Beijing · Belize City · Boise · Boston

Also from Santa Barbara

Carpinteria Amtrak · Denver · Goleta Amtrak · Oxnard · Phoenix · Portland · San Francisco · San Luis Obispo · Seattle

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Los Angeles–Santa Barbara crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. Not for this crossing, not for any crossing, not for any mode.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.