San Diego to Seattle nonstop
Yes: Alaska, Delta and Southwest fly direct from San Diego (SAN) to Seattle (SEA) about 15 times a day, year-round.
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San Diego to Seattle in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 1,050 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 40 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 August 2026 (107 flights a week), quietest in November 2025 (74 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 89 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 77 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 74 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 78 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 75 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 76 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 86 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 95 flights a week
- May 2026: 95 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 101 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 102 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 107 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Alaska 57%, Delta 35%, Southwest 8% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 10,759 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $125 and $275 one way, median $175. 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 $150 one way, middle half $100 to $250, 12,072 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 10,654 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $275, 8,457 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 10,759 tickets
Jul to Sep, Oct to Dec and Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $150 one way) and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $175), 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? Seattle to San Diego nonstop.
Other airports near San Diego with nonstops to Seattle
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
- 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
- Oakland (OAK) about 12 times a day
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