San Francisco to Santa Barbara nonstop
Yes: United and SkyWest fly direct from San Francisco (SFO) to Santa Barbara (SBA) about 5 times a day, year-round.
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San Francisco to Santa Barbara in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 262 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 5 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 June 2026 (35 flights a week), quietest in December 2025 (26 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 31 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 32 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 32 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 26 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 27 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 32 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 34 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 32 flights a week
- May 2026: 33 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 35 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 34 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 34 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- United 52%, SkyWest 48% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 1,355 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $150 and $300 one way, median $200. 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 $200 one way, middle half $125 to $275, 1,177 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $200 one way, middle half $150 to $300, 1,257 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $200 one way, middle half $150 to $300, 1,047 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $200 one way, middle half $150 to $300, 1,355 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $200 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? Santa Barbara to San Francisco nonstop.
Other airports near San Francisco with nonstops to Santa Barbara
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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