Sacramento to Los Angeles nonstop
Yes: SkyWest, Southwest, Frontier, United and Delta fly direct from Sacramento (SMF) to Los Angeles (LAX) about 18 times a day, year-round.
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Sacramento to Los Angeles in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 373 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 15 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 (123 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (94 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 107 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 117 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 104 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 97 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 94 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 101 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 101 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 109 flights a week
- May 2026: 119 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 122 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 117 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 123 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- SkyWest 62% (regional operator), Southwest 30%, Frontier 4%, United 3%, Delta under 1% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 6,819 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 and $225 one way, median $125. 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 $125 one way, middle half $75 to $200, 5,909 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $100 one way, middle half $75 to $200, 7,122 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $100 one way, middle half $75 to $200, 6,209 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $225, 6,819 tickets
Oct to Dec and Jan to Mar trips were the cheapest (median $100 one way) and Jul to Sep and Apr to Jun trips cost the most (median $125), 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? Los Angeles to Sacramento nonstop.
Other airports near Sacramento with nonstops to Los Angeles
Within about 100 miles of Sacramento International Airport
Also nonstop from Sacramento (SMF)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- San Diego (SAN) about 14 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 14 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 11 times a day
- Las Vegas (LAS) about 10 times a day
- Phoenix (PHX) about 8 times a day
- Burbank (BUR) about 7 times a day
- Salt Lake City (SLC) about 6 times a day
- Portland (PDX) about 6 times a day
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