San Jose to San Diego nonstop
Yes: Southwest, SkyWest and Alaska fly direct from San Jose (SJC) to San Diego (SAN) about 15 times a day, year-round.
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San Jose to San Diego in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 417 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 20 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 (108 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (71 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 91 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 97 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 103 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 88 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 71 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 77 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 90 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 106 flights a week
- May 2026: 99 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 108 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 107 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 103 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Southwest 79%, SkyWest 17% (regional operator), Alaska 4% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 11,114 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 and $200 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 $175, 12,467 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $100 one way, middle half $50 to $175, 12,395 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $100 one way, middle half $50 to $200, 9,337 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $100 one way, middle half $75 to $200, 11,114 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? San Diego to San Jose nonstop.
Other airports near San Jose with nonstops to San Diego
Within about 100 miles of Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport
Also nonstop from San Jose (SJC)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Seattle (SEA) about 14 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 12 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 9 times a day
- Santa Ana (SNA) about 7 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 7 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 7 times a day
- Burbank (BUR) about 6 times a day
- Portland (PDX) about 6 times a day
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