Direct Flights from Minneapolis to Oakland
Oakland · California
Nonstop service from MSP to OAK on Sun Country. 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, Minneapolis among them.
How long to go to Oakland for, from Minneapolis
3h 40m in the air, 1,575 miles. A two-night trip loses most of two days to travel; three or four nights is where this one starts to make sense.
Note that this route only operates May to August, so the trip has to fit that window.
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 Minneapolis
11° warmer than Minneapolis on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Oakland 58°F · Minneapolis 24°F · 34° warmer
- April
- Oakland 66°F · Minneapolis 57°F · 9° warmer
- July
- Oakland 72°F · Minneapolis 83°F · 11° colder
- October
- Oakland 72°F · Minneapolis 58°F · 14° warmer
Oakland is the steadier of the two, moving 17° between its coldest and warmest months where Minneapolis moves 60°.
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at the nearest weather station to each city.
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 Minneapolis to Oakland?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Minneapolis (MSP) to Oakland (OAK) on Sun Country.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Minneapolis to Oakland?
- Sun Country flies nonstop between Minneapolis (MSP) and Oakland (OAK). Sun Country flies it May to August only.
- How far is Oakland from Minneapolis?
- Oakland is about 1,575 miles from Minneapolis 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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