Chicago to San Jose nonstop
Yes: United and American fly direct from Chicago (ORD) to San Jose (SJC) about 12 times a week, year-round.
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Chicago to San Jose in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,829 miles nonstop, about 4 hr 20 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew in 11 of the last 12 months (not in January 2026): busiest in August 2026 (12 flights a week), quietest in December 2025 (3 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 7 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 7 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 7 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 3 flights a week
- Jan 2026: no regular flights
- Feb 2026: 4 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 6 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 7 flights a week
- May 2026: 7 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 7 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 7 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 12 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 88%, American 12% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 367 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $225 and $400 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 $275 one way, middle half $225 to $375, 389 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $300 one way, middle half $250 to $425, 352 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $300 one way, middle half $225 to $425, 260 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $225 to $400, 367 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $275 to $300 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? San Jose to Chicago nonstop.
Other airports near Chicago with nonstops to San Jose
Within about 100 miles of Chicago O'Hare International Airport
Also nonstop from Chicago (ORD)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- New York (LGA) about 30 times a day
- Boston (BOS) about 25 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 24 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 22 times a day
- Washington (DCA) about 20 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 20 times a day
- Minneapolis (MSP) about 19 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 19 times a day
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