Burbank to San Francisco nonstop
Yes: United, SkyWest and Southwest fly direct from Burbank (BUR) to San Francisco (SFO) about 9 times a day, year-round.
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Burbank to San Francisco in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 326 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 10 min 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 March 2026 (70 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (48 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 53 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 57 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 58 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 57 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 48 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 54 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 70 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 63 flights a week
- May 2026: 64 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 59 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 61 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 62 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 58%, SkyWest 24% (regional operator), Southwest 18% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 6,309 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $50 and $200 one way, median $100. 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 $150 one way, middle half $100 to $225, 4,053 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $225, 4,896 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $75 one way, middle half $50 to $150, 5,855 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $100 one way, middle half $50 to $200, 6,309 tickets
Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $75 one way) and Jul to Sep trips cost the most (median $150), in the DOT ticket survey for 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 Burbank nonstop.
Other airports near Burbank with nonstops to San Francisco
Within about 100 miles of Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope Airport
Also nonstop from Burbank (BUR)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 11 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 8 times a day
- Sacramento (SMF) about 7 times a day
- Oakland (OAK) about 7 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 6 times a day
- San Jose (SJC) about 6 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 6 times a day
- Salt Lake City (SLC) about 4 times a day
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