Direct Flights from San Francisco to Honolulu
Honolulu · Hawaii
Nonstop service from SFO to HNL on Alaska, United. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
35 cities have a nonstop to Honolulu, San Francisco among them.
How long to go to Honolulu for, from San Francisco
5h 20m in the air, 2,397 miles — past long-weekend range. Five days is roughly where the flying stops dominating the trip.
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 Honolulu
The capital of Hawaii and its primary point of entry, Honolulu is by far the state's largest city, with 980,000 people—two-thirds of the state's population—residing within the metro area as of 2018. Situated on the southern shore of the island of Oahu, Honolulu serves as the center of government and commerce for the state, the home of the largest airport in the Hawaiian Islands, and the site of the state's best-known tourist destination: Waikiki Beach.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Honolulu
- USS Missouri (BB-63) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is now a museum ship. Completed in 1944, she is the last battleship commissioned by the United States.
- The Honolulu Museum of Art is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke.
- The USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed on USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and commemorat…
- USS Bowfin (SS/AGSS-287), is a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy named for the bowfin fish.
- The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu.
- The Honolulu Zoo is a 42-acre (17 ha) zoo in Queen Kapiʻolani Park in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.
- The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace is the mother church and cathedral of the Diocese of Honolulu.
- The Waikīkī Aquarium is an aquarium in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. It was founded in 1904 and has been an institution of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa since 1919.
- The Aloha Tower is a retired lighthouse that is considered one of the landmarks of the state of Hawaii in the United States.
- Queen Kapiʻolani Regional Park is the largest and second-oldest public park in Hawaii, located in Honolulu on the east end of Waikiki just beyond Kuhio Beach Park and the Waikiki residential neighborhood.
- Falls of Clyde was the last surviving iron-hulled, four-masted full-rigged ship, and the last surviving sail-driven oil tanker. She was designated a U.S.
- Sea Life Park Hawaii is a marine mammal park, bird sanctuary and aquarium in Waimānalo near Makapuʻu Point, north of Hanauma Bay on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, United States.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Honolulu weather, compared with San Francisco
18° warmer than San Francisco on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Honolulu 80°F · San Francisco 57°F · 23° warmer
- April
- Honolulu 83°F · San Francisco 65°F · 18° warmer
- July
- Honolulu 88°F · San Francisco 72°F · 16° warmer
- October
- Honolulu 87°F · San Francisco 71°F · 15° warmer
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Honolulu
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Honolulu is December–March, when daytime highs are a comfortable 80–82°F.
- How long to stay
- Honolulu rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from USS Missouri (BB-63), Honolulu Museum of Art, and USS Arizona Memorial and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from San Francisco to Honolulu?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from San Francisco (SFO) to Honolulu (HNL) on Alaska, United.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from San Francisco to Honolulu?
- Alaska, United fly nonstop between San Francisco (SFO) and Honolulu (HNL).
- How many nonstop flights are there from San Francisco to Honolulu?
- There are about 6 nonstop departures per day (roughly 42 per week) from San Francisco to Honolulu.
- How far is Honolulu from San Francisco?
- Honolulu is about 2,397 miles from San Francisco by air.
- What is there to do in Honolulu?
- Popular things to do include USS Missouri (BB-63), Honolulu Museum of Art, USS Arizona Memorial, USS Bowfin, and more.
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