Direct Flights from Sacramento to Santa Ana
Santa Ana · California
Nonstop service from SMF to SNA on Southwest. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
43 cities have a nonstop to Santa Ana, Sacramento among them.
How long to go to Santa Ana for, from Sacramento
1h 20m in the air, 404 miles: short enough that a single night in Santa Ana is worth it, and a day trip is not absurd.
With roughly 6 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 Santa Ana
Santa Ana is a 2nd class municipality in Cagayan on Luzon, the Philippines. The main beach destination in Cagayan Valley, it also hosts a freeport and is the setting of several overseas survival television series.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Santa Ana
- Disneyland is a theme park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, United States.
- USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa.
- Christ Cathedral, formerly the Crystal Cathedral, is a Catholic church building in Garden Grove, California, United States. Since 2019, it has served as the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange.
- The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E.
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in Los Angeles, California.
- The Norton Simon Museum is an art museum located in Pasadena, California, United States. It was previously known as the Pasadena Art Institute and the Pasadena Art Museum and displays numerous sculptures on its grounds.
- Disney California Adventure is a theme park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company through its Experiences division.
- The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, informally known as the COLA or the Los Angeles Cathedral, is the metropolitan cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in Los Angeles, California, in the United States.
- The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and burial site of Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United States (1969–1974), and his wife Pat Nixon.
- The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is a museum located in Exposition Park in Los Angeles, next to the California Science Center.
- USC School of Cinematic Arts is the film and media school of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California.
- Knott's Berry Farm is a 57-acre (23 ha) amusement park in Buena Park, California, United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags, the park officially opened as Knott's Berry Farm in 1947.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Santa Ana weather, compared with Sacramento
Within 1° of Sacramento 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
- Santa Ana 67°F · Sacramento 55°F · 12° warmer
- April
- Santa Ana 70°F · Sacramento 72°F · 2° colder
- July
- Santa Ana 79°F · Sacramento 93°F · 14° colder
- October
- Santa Ana 78°F · Sacramento 78°F · much the same
Santa Ana is the steadier of the two, moving 17° between its coldest and warmest months where Sacramento moves 38°.
Daily highs averaged from Meteostat station records (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Santa Ana
- Best time to visit
- Santa Ana is comfortable to visit year-round, with daytime highs averaging around 73°F.
- How long to stay
- Santa Ana rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from Disneyland, USS Iowa (BB-61), and Christ Cathedral (Garden Grove, California) and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Sacramento to Santa Ana?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Sacramento (SMF) to Santa Ana (SNA) on Southwest.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Sacramento to Santa Ana?
- Southwest flies nonstop between Sacramento (SMF) and Santa Ana (SNA).
- How many nonstop flights are there from Sacramento to Santa Ana?
- There are about 6 nonstop departures per day (roughly 42 per week) from Sacramento to Santa Ana.
- How far is Santa Ana from Sacramento?
- Santa Ana is about 404 miles from Sacramento by air.
- What is there to do in Santa Ana?
- Popular things to do include Disneyland, USS Iowa (BB-61), Christ Cathedral (Garden Grove, California), Huntington Library, and more.
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