San Luis Obispo to San Francisco nonstop
Yes: SkyWest and United fly direct from San Luis Obispo (SBP) to San Francisco (SFO) about 3 times a day, year-round.
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San Luis Obispo to San Francisco in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 191 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 every month of the last year: busiest in October 2025 (27 flights a week), quietest in December 2025 (19 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 20 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 27 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 25 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 19 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 22 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 21 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 21 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 21 flights a week
- May 2026: 22 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 21 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 21 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 20 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- SkyWest 56% (regional operator), United 44% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 242 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $125 and $325 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 $125 one way, middle half $100 to $225, 259 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $250, 307 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $100 to $300, 212 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $325, 242 tickets
Jul to Sep trips were the cheapest (median $125 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? San Francisco to San Luis Obispo nonstop.
Other airports near San Luis Obispo with nonstops to San Francisco
Within about 100 miles of San Luis County Regional Airport
Also nonstop from San Luis Obispo (SBP)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Phoenix (PHX) about 2 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 2 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 12 times a week
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 7 times a week
- San Diego (SAN) about 6 times a week
- Las Vegas (LAS)
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