Honolulu, Oahu to San Francisco nonstop
Yes: United and Alaska fly direct from Honolulu, Oahu (HNL) to San Francisco (SFO) about 7 times a day, year-round.
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Honolulu, Oahu to San Francisco in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,398 miles nonstop, about 5 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 June 2026 (62 flights a week), quietest in September 2025 (34 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 34 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 41 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 40 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 49 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 42 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 41 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 48 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 48 flights a week
- May 2026: 49 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 62 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 62 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 47 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 72%, Alaska 28% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 7,512 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $225 and $375 one way, median $275. 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 $225 one way, middle half $175 to $325, 8,740 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $225 one way, middle half $150 to $375, 7,298 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $350, 5,838 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $225 to $375, 7,512 tickets
Jul to Sep and Oct to Dec trips were the cheapest (median $225 one way) and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $275), 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 Honolulu, Oahu nonstop.
Also nonstop from Honolulu, Oahu (HNL)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Kahului (OGG) about 26 times a day
- Lihue (LIH) about 21 times a day
- Kona (KOA) about 19 times a day
- Hilo (ITO) about 16 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 16 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 8 times a day
- San Diego (SAN) about 5 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 5 times a day
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