Direct Flights from San Francisco to Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale · Florida
Nonstop service from SFO to FLL on JetBlue, United. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
Airlines
JetBlue, United
Nonstop flights
~3/day
Distance
2,579 mi
Flight time
~5h 40mgate to gate
Elevation
9 ftabout the same as home
Days operated
Daily (all week)
How rare is this nonstop?
91 cities have a nonstop to Fort Lauderdale, San Francisco among them.
How long to go to Fort Lauderdale for, from San Francisco
5h 40m in the air, 2,579 miles — past long-weekend range. Five days is roughly where the flying stops dominating the trip.
About Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale is a coastal city on the Atlantic Ocean in the US state of Florida. It is known as the "Venice of America" due to its expansive canal system. Situated in Broward County in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro area, the city's population is over 180,000 (2021).
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Fort Lauderdale
- The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, previously known as Villa Vizcaya, is the former villa and estate of businessman James Deering, of the Deering McCormick-International Harvester fortune, on Biscayne Bay in the present-day…
- The Miami Seaquarium was a 38-acre (15 ha) oceanarium located on the island of Virginia Key in Biscayne Bay, Miami-Dade County, Florida, located near downtown Miami.
- Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)—officially known as the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County—is a contemporary art museum that relocated in 2013 to the Maurice A. Ferré Park in Downtown Miami, Florida.
- Butterfly World is located in Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek, Florida. It opened in 1988, and it is the largest butterfly park in the world, and the first park of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
- Bayfront Park is a 32-acre (13 ha) public, urban park in Downtown Miami, Florida on Biscayne Bay.
- The Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation is a Holocaust memorial at 1933-1945 Meridian Avenue, in Miami Beach, Florida.
- The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens is a center for Japanese arts and culture located west of Delray Beach in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.
- Haulover Park is a 177-acre (72 ha) urban park owned and operated by Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation & Open Spaces Department, located in metropolitan Miami, just north of Bal Harbour, Florida.
- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is a collecting museum located in North Miami, Florida.
- Maurice A. Ferré Park is a 30-acre (12 ha) public, urban park in downtown Miami, Florida. The park opened in 1976 on the site of several slips served by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad.
- The Lowe Art Museum is the art museum of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. The museum is located on the campus of the University of Miami and is accessible by Miami Metrorail at University Station.
- The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is an art museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Originating in 1958 as the Fort Lauderdale Art Center, the museum is now located in an 83,000-square-foot (7,700 m2) modernist building des…
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Fort Lauderdale weather, compared with San Francisco
18° warmer than San Francisco on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Fort Lauderdale 76°F · San Francisco 57°F · 18° warmer
- April
- Fort Lauderdale 83°F · San Francisco 65°F · 19° warmer
- July
- Fort Lauderdale 90°F · San Francisco 72°F · 18° warmer
- October
- Fort Lauderdale 86°F · San Francisco 71°F · 14° warmer
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Fort Lauderdale
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Fort Lauderdale is November–March, when daytime highs are a comfortable 76–81°F.
- How long to stay
- Fort Lauderdale rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami Seaquarium, and Pérez Art Museum Miami and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from San Francisco to Fort Lauderdale?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from San Francisco (SFO) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL) on JetBlue, United.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from San Francisco to Fort Lauderdale?
- JetBlue, United fly nonstop between San Francisco (SFO) and Fort Lauderdale (FLL).
- How many nonstop flights are there from San Francisco to Fort Lauderdale?
- There are about 3 nonstop departures per day (roughly 21 per week) from San Francisco to Fort Lauderdale.
- How far is Fort Lauderdale from San Francisco?
- Fort Lauderdale is about 2,579 miles from San Francisco by air.
- What is there to do in Fort Lauderdale?
- Popular things to do include Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami Seaquarium, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Butterfly World, and more.
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