New York to San Francisco nonstop
Yes: Delta, JetBlue, American and Alaska fly direct from New York (JFK) to San Francisco (SFO) about 19 times a day, year-round.
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New York to San Francisco in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,586 miles nonstop, about 5 hr 55 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 (141 flights a week), quietest in February 2026 (107 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 135 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 137 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 126 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 118 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 115 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 107 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 119 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 127 flights a week
- May 2026: 133 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 141 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 131 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 135 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Delta 33%, JetBlue 29%, American 24%, Alaska 14% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 21,863 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $200 and $450 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 $300 one way, middle half $225 to $425, 19,281 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $300 one way, middle half $200 to $450, 19,744 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $175 to $425, 15,251 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $450, 21,863 tickets
Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $250 one way) and Jul to Sep and Oct to Dec trips cost the most (median $300), 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 New York nonstop.
Other airports near New York with nonstops to San Francisco
Within about 100 miles of John F. Kennedy International Airport
Also nonstop from New York (JFK)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 28 times a day
- Boston (BOS) about 13 times a day
- Orlando (MCO) about 12 times a day
- Miami (MIA) about 11 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 11 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 10 times a day
- San Juan (SJU) about 10 times a day
- Fort Lauderdale (FLL) about 9 times a day
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