Dallas to Sacramento nonstop
Yes: Southwest flies direct from Dallas (DAL) to Sacramento (SMF) about 12 times a week, year-round.
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Dallas to Sacramento in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,442 miles nonstop, about 3 hr 30 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 December 2025 (14 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (9 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 12 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 13 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 14 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 14 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 9 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 12 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 12 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 14 flights a week
- May 2026: 14 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 14 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 14 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 12 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Southwest is the only carrier filing this pair.
- Fares
- Half of the 1,045 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $200 and $300 one way, median $225. 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 $175 one way, middle half $150 to $250, 1,154 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $225 one way, middle half $175 to $325, 1,100 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $200 to $350, 788 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $200 to $300, 1,045 tickets
Jul to Sep trips were the cheapest (median $175 one way) and Oct to Dec, Jan to Mar and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $225), 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? Sacramento to Dallas nonstop.
Other airports near Dallas with nonstops to Sacramento
Within about 100 miles of Dallas Love Field
Also nonstop from Dallas (DAL)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Houston (HOU) about 11 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 8 times a day
- San Antonio (SAT) about 7 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 7 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 7 times a day
- Nashville (BNA) about 7 times a day
- Chicago (MDW) about 7 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 6 times a day
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