San Francisco to Baltimore nonstop
Yes: United and Southwest fly direct from San Francisco (SFO) to Baltimore (BWI) about 3 times a day, year-round.
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San Francisco to Baltimore in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 2,457 miles nonstop, about 5 hr 35 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 (24 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (18 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 20 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 24 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 19 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 20 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 18 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 20 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 20 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 20 flights a week
- May 2026: 20 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 19 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 19 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 19 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 63%, Southwest 37% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 1,965 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $200 and $425 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 $275 one way, middle half $200 to $400, 1,604 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $300 one way, middle half $225 to $450, 1,415 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $425, 769 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $425, 1,965 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $275 to $300 one way in every quarter of the DOT ticket survey (Q3 2024 to Q2 2025). Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Baltimore to San Francisco nonstop.
Other airports near San Francisco with nonstops to Baltimore
Within about 100 miles of San Francisco International Airport
Also nonstop from San Francisco (SFO)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 36 times a day
- San Diego (SAN) about 22 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 21 times a day
- New York (JFK) about 19 times a day
- Chicago (ORD) about 18 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 17 times a day
- Boston (BOS) about 16 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 16 times a day
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