Washington to San Francisco nonstop
Yes: United and Alaska fly direct from Washington (DCA) to San Francisco (SFO) about 3 times a day, year-round.
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Washington to San Francisco in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,442 miles nonstop, about 5 hr 35 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, a steady 21 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 21 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 21 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 21 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 21 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 20 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 21 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 21 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 21 flights a week
- May 2026: 21 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 21 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 20 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 21 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 66%, Alaska 34% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 3,014 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $225 and $450 one way, median $300. 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 $300 one way, middle half $225 to $450, 1,981 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $325 one way, middle half $250 to $475, 2,042 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $450, 2,142 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $300 one way, middle half $225 to $450, 3,014 tickets
Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $275 one way) and Oct to Dec trips cost the most (median $325), 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 Washington nonstop.
Other airports near Washington with nonstops to San Francisco
Within about 100 miles of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
Also nonstop from Washington (DCA)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Boston (BOS) about 23 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 20 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 18 times a day
- Orlando (MCO) about 13 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 12 times a day
- Nashville (BNA) about 11 times a day
- Miami (MIA) about 10 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 9 times a day
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