Direct Flights from Orlando to San Francisco
San Francisco · California
Nonstop service from MCO to SFO on Alaska, United. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
80 cities have a nonstop to San Francisco, Orlando among them.
How long to go to San Francisco for, from Orlando
5h 25m in the air, 2,441 miles — past long-weekend range. Five days is roughly where the flying stops dominating the trip.
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 San Francisco
The centerpiece of the Bay Area, San Francisco is one of the most visited cities in the world, and with good reason. The cultural center of northern California, San Francisco is renowned for its mixture of scenic beauty and unique culture that makes it one of the most vibrant and desirable cities in the nation, if not the world.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in San Francisco
- 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).
San Francisco weather, compared with Orlando
17° cooler than Orlando on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- San Francisco 57°F · Orlando 72°F · 15° colder
- April
- San Francisco 65°F · Orlando 84°F · 19° colder
- July
- San Francisco 72°F · Orlando 92°F · 20° colder
- October
- San Francisco 71°F · Orlando 85°F · 13° colder
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to San Francisco
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit San Francisco is March–November, when daytime highs are a comfortable 62–74°F.
- How long to stay
- San Francisco 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 Orlando to San Francisco?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Orlando (MCO) to San Francisco (SFO) on Alaska, United.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Orlando to San Francisco?
- Alaska, United fly nonstop between Orlando (MCO) and San Francisco (SFO).
- How many nonstop flights are there from Orlando to San Francisco?
- There are about 4 nonstop departures per day (roughly 28 per week) from Orlando to San Francisco.
- How far is San Francisco from Orlando?
- San Francisco is about 2,441 miles from Orlando by air.
- What is there to do in San Francisco?
- 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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