Detroit to San Francisco nonstop
Yes: Delta and United fly direct from Detroit (DTW) to San Francisco (SFO) about 5 times a day, year-round.
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Detroit to San Francisco in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,079 miles nonstop, about 4 hr 50 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 July 2026 (42 flights a week), quietest in February 2026 (28 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 34 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 35 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 34 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 31 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 29 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 28 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 32 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 34 flights a week
- May 2026: 35 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 41 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 42 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 35 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Delta 78%, United 22% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 3,894 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $250 and $475 one way, median $350. 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 $375 one way, middle half $300 to $525, 3,553 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $425 one way, middle half $350 to $575, 3,283 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $425 one way, middle half $350 to $600, 2,092 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $350 one way, middle half $250 to $475, 3,894 tickets
Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $350 one way) and Oct to Dec and Jan to Mar trips cost the most (median $425), 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 Detroit nonstop.
Other airports near Detroit with nonstops to San Francisco
Within about 100 miles of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
Also nonstop from Detroit (DTW)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 18 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 13 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 10 times a day
- Philadelphia (PHL) about 9 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 9 times a day
- Charlotte (CLT) about 9 times a day
- Newark (EWR) about 8 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 8 times a day
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