Sacramento to San Diego nonstop
Yes: Southwest, SkyWest and Alaska fly direct from Sacramento (SMF) to San Diego (SAN) about 14 times a day, year-round.
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Sacramento to San Diego in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 480 miles nonstop, about 1 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: busiest in March 2026 (105 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (83 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 96 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 95 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 99 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 89 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 83 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 96 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 105 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 105 flights a week
- May 2026: 105 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 105 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 104 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 99 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- Southwest 71%, SkyWest 23% (regional operator), Alaska 5% of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 10,582 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $100 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 $100 one way, middle half $75 to $175, 12,155 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $100 one way, middle half $75 to $200, 11,743 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $75 to $200, 8,974 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $125 one way, middle half $100 to $225, 10,582 tickets
Jul to Sep and Oct to Dec trips were the cheapest (median $100 one way) and Jan to Mar 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? San Diego to Sacramento nonstop.
Other airports near Sacramento with nonstops to San Diego
Within about 100 miles of Sacramento International Airport
Also nonstop from Sacramento (SMF)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 18 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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