SF Bay Area
Commute times in the Bay Area: compare neighborhoods before you move
In the Bay Area, the Bay Bridge, 101 and 280 corridors punish the wrong home choice with hours of weekly traffic, while BART and Caltrain reward the right one. Peninsula vs East Bay vs city is fundamentally a question of which commutes you can live with.
Sample rush-hour drive times in SF Bay Area
Two example homes compared against common the Bay Area destinations, using real Google Maps traffic data at peak departure times:
| Destination | 39500 Stevenson Pl | 2850 24th St |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown San Francisco | 1h 15m | 20 min |
| Stanford University | 45 min | 1h |
| SFO Airport | 45 min | 25 min |
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