San Francisco to Los Angeles nonstop
Yes: United, SkyWest, Delta, Southwest, Alaska and American fly direct from San Francisco (SFO) to Los Angeles (LAX) about 36 times a day, year-round.
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San Francisco to Los Angeles in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 337 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 10 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 (254 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (173 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 213 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 224 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 205 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 190 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 173 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 183 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 206 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 228 flights a week
- May 2026: 229 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 252 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 251 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 254 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 29%, SkyWest 21% (regional operator), Delta 21%, Southwest 14%, Alaska 11%, American 4% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 21,761 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 and $175 one way, median $100. 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 $100 one way, middle half $75 to $150, 24,049 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $100 one way, middle half $75 to $150, 24,385 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $100 one way, middle half $75 to $150, 18,917 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $100 one way, middle half $75 to $175, 21,761 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $100 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? Los Angeles to San Francisco nonstop.
Other airports near San Francisco with nonstops to Los Angeles
Within about 100 miles of San Francisco International Airport
Also nonstop from San Francisco (SFO)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- 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
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 13 times a day
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