Los Angeles to Sacramento nonstop
Yes: SkyWest, Southwest, Frontier, United and Delta fly direct from Los Angeles (LAX) to Sacramento (SMF) about 17 times a day, year-round.
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Los Angeles to Sacramento in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 373 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 15 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 (121 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (94 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 107 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 117 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 104 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 97 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 94 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 101 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 102 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 110 flights a week
- May 2026: 119 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 121 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 117 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 121 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- SkyWest 62% (regional operator), Southwest 29%, Frontier 4%, United 4%, Delta under 1% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 6,845 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 and $225 one way, median $125. 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 $125 one way, middle half $75 to $225, 5,985 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $200, 7,178 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $100 one way, middle half $75 to $200, 6,312 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $225, 6,845 tickets
Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $100 one way) and Jul to Sep, Oct to Dec and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $125), 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 Los Angeles nonstop.
Other airports near Los Angeles with nonstops to Sacramento
Within about 100 miles of Los Angeles International Airport
Also nonstop from Los Angeles (LAX)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- San Francisco (SFO) about 36 times a day
- New York (JFK) about 28 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 24 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 23 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 23 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 21 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 20 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 16 times a day
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