San Diego to Santa Barbara nonstop
Yes: Southwest and SkyWest fly direct from San Diego (SAN) to Santa Barbara (SBA) about 12 times a week, in the summer season only.
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San Diego to Santa Barbara in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 192 miles nonstop, about 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 Apr 2026 to Jun 2026 and Aug 2026, up to 14 flights a week, with no flights the rest of the year.
- Sep 2025: no regular flights
- Oct 2025: no regular flights
- Nov 2025: no regular flights
- Dec 2025: no regular flights
- Jan 2026: no regular flights
- Feb 2026: no regular flights
- Mar 2026: no regular flights
- Apr 2026: 4 flights a week
- May 2026: 14 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 4 flights a week
- Jul 2026: no regular flights
- 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
- Southwest 52%, SkyWest 48% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- No fare sample is published for this route, so we show no price. Flight search will have live numbers.
Flying the other way? Santa Barbara to San Diego nonstop.
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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