Direct Flights from Denver to Oakland
Oakland · California
Nonstop service from DEN to OAK on Southwest. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
29 cities have a nonstop to Oakland, Denver among them.
How long to go to Oakland for, from Denver
2h 25m in the air, 955 miles — a Friday-evening departure still leaves you most of the evening in Oakland. Two nights works.
With roughly 4 departures a day, you are not tied to one flight: if a meeting overruns or the weather turns, there is another one behind it.
About Oakland
Oakland is a port city in the Bay Area of California in the United States. Once an industrial area overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger neighbor to the west, this city of 440,000 people (2020) has begun to step out from under San Francisco's shadow with its notable natural and architectural features and its rise as the multicultural "hipster" city of the Bay Area.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Oakland
- The Internet Archive is an American non-profit library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org.
- Golden Gate Park is an urban park between the Richmond and Sunset districts on the West Side of San Francisco, California, United States.
- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California.
- United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz or The Rock, was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the coast of San Francisco, California, United St…
- Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero.
- USS Hornet (CV/CVA/CVS-12) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy (USN) during World War II.
- The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a computer museum in Mountain View, California.
- The de Young Museum, formally the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco, California, United States, named for early San Francisco newspaperman M. H. de Young.
- The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 46 million specimens.
- The Presidio of San Francisco is a park and former U.S. Army post on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
- Coit Tower is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, overlooking the city and San Francisco Bay.
- Kink.com is an independent San Francisco–based bondage internet pornography company that runs a group of websites devoted to BDSM and related fetishes.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Oakland weather, compared with Denver
Within 2° of Denver on the annual average, so pack much as you would at home — but the two cities do not track each other month to month:
- January
- Oakland 58°F · Denver 45°F · 13° warmer
- April
- Oakland 66°F · Denver 61°F · 5° warmer
- July
- Oakland 72°F · Denver 90°F · 18° colder
- October
- Oakland 72°F · Denver 65°F · 7° warmer
Oakland is the steadier of the two, moving 17° between its coldest and warmest months where Denver moves 46°.
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Oakland
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Oakland is February–November, when daytime highs are a comfortable 61–75°F.
- How long to stay
- Oakland rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from Internet Archive, Golden Gate Park, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Denver to Oakland?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Denver (DEN) to Oakland (OAK) on Southwest.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Denver to Oakland?
- Southwest flies nonstop between Denver (DEN) and Oakland (OAK).
- How many nonstop flights are there from Denver to Oakland?
- There are about 4 nonstop departures per day (roughly 28 per week) from Denver to Oakland.
- How far is Oakland from Denver?
- Oakland is about 955 miles from Denver by air.
- What is there to do in Oakland?
- Popular things to do include Internet Archive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, and more.
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