Phoenix to San Diego nonstop
Yes: Southwest, American, SkyWest and Frontier fly direct from Phoenix (PHX) to San Diego (SAN) about 17 times a day, year-round.
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Phoenix to San Diego in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 304 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 10 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 May 2026 (124 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (99 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 114 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 122 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 111 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 104 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 99 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 106 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 114 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 120 flights a week
- May 2026: 124 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 120 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 121 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 117 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Southwest 55%, American 28%, SkyWest 11% (regional operator), Frontier 6% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 7,315 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 and $250 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, 8,032 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $225, 7,430 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $75 to $250, 6,730 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $250, 7,315 tickets
Jul to Sep, Oct to Dec and Apr to Jun trips were the cheapest (median $125 one way) and Jan to Mar trips cost the most (median $150), 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 Diego to Phoenix nonstop.
Also nonstop from Phoenix (PHX)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Denver (DEN) about 22 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 19 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 18 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 15 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 15 times a day
- Salt Lake City (SLC) about 14 times a day
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 13 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 12 times a day
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