San Diego to Honolulu nonstop
Yes: Alaska and Southwest fly direct from San Diego (SAN) to Honolulu (HNL) about 5 times a day, year-round.
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San Diego to Honolulu in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,614 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, a steady 34 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 33 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 32 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 31 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 34 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 35 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 35 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 35 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 35 flights a week
- May 2026: 34 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 34 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 33 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 33 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Alaska 60%, Southwest 40% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 3,740 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 $250 one way, middle half $175 to $325, 5,246 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $225 one way, middle half $175 to $325, 4,826 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $225 one way, middle half $175 to $325, 3,383 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $225 to $400, 3,740 tickets
Oct to Dec and Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $225 one way) and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $275), 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? Honolulu to San Diego nonstop.
Other airports near San Diego with nonstops to Honolulu
Within about 100 miles of San Diego International Airport
Also nonstop from San Diego (SAN)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- San Francisco (SFO) about 22 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 17 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 17 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 15 times a day
- San Jose (SJC) about 15 times a day
- Sacramento (SMF) about 14 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 13 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 12 times a day
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