Chicago to Sacramento nonstop
Yes: Southwest flies direct from Chicago (MDW) to Sacramento (SMF) about 2 times a day, year-round.
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Chicago to Sacramento in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,790 miles nonstop, about 4 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 July 2026 (19 flights a week), quietest in November 2025 (7 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 18 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 12 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 7 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 7 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 7 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 7 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 13 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 14 flights a week
- May 2026: 14 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 18 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 19 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 17 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Southwest is the only carrier filing this pair.
- Fares
- Half of the 730 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $200 and $325 one way, median $250. 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, 930 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $250 one way, middle half $200 to $375, 513 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $200 to $350, 398 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $250 one way, middle half $200 to $325, 730 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $225 to $250 one way in every quarter of the DOT ticket survey (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 Chicago nonstop.
Other airports near Chicago with nonstops to Sacramento
Within about 100 miles of Chicago Midway International Airport
Also nonstop from Chicago (MDW)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Atlanta (ATL) about 10 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 7 times a day
- Dallas (DAL) about 7 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 6 times a day
- Kansas City (MCI) about 6 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 6 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 6 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 6 times a day
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