Bakersfield to San Francisco nonstop
Yes: SkyWest flies direct from Bakersfield (BFL) to San Francisco (SFO) about 2 times a day, year-round.
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Bakersfield to San Francisco in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 238 miles nonstop, about 1 hr gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in October 2025 (14 flights a week), quietest in February 2026 (7 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 12 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 14 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 14 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 14 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 8 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 7 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 7 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 7 flights a week
- May 2026: 9 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 14 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 14 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 13 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- SkyWest is the only carrier filing this pair.
- Fares
- Half of the 152 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $100 and $250 one way, median $125. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $200, 161 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $125 one way, middle half $100 to $225, 174 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 147 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $100 to $250, 152 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $125 one way in every quarter of the DOT ticket survey (Q3 2024 to Q2 2025). Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? San Francisco to Bakersfield nonstop.
Other airports near Bakersfield with nonstops to San Francisco
Within about 100 miles of Meadows Field
Also nonstop from Bakersfield (BFL)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Phoenix (PHX) about 3 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 2 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 7 times a week
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 5 times a week
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