San Francisco to Denver nonstop
Yes: United, Southwest and Frontier fly direct from San Francisco (SFO) to Denver (DEN) about 16 times a day, year-round.
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San Francisco to Denver in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 967 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 30 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 105 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 105 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 104 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 101 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 103 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 98 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 99 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 100 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 99 flights a week
- May 2026: 109 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 115 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 115 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 109 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 25%, Frontier 12% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 9,208 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, 9,069 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 8,345 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $150 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 7,298 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 9,208 tickets
Jul to Sep and Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $150 one way) and Oct to Dec 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? Denver to San Francisco nonstop.
Other airports near San Francisco with nonstops to Denver
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
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 13 times a day
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