Direct Flights from San Francisco to Miami
Miami · Florida
Nonstop service from SFO to MIA on American, United. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
83 cities have a nonstop to Miami, San Francisco among them.
How long to go to Miami for, from San Francisco
5h 40m in the air, 2,581 miles — past long-weekend range. Five days is roughly where the flying stops dominating the trip.
With roughly 5 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 Miami
Miami is a major city in the southeastern United States and the second most populous city in Florida. The Greater Miami metropolitan area is the largest in the state with an estimated population just under 6.1 million (2021), which makes it the 9th most populous metro area in the United States.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Miami
- Biscayne National Park is a national park of the United States located south of Miami, Florida, in Miami-Dade County. The park preserves Biscayne Bay and its offshore barrier reefs.
- 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.
- The Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens, also known as Zoo Miami, is a zoological park and garden in Miami and is the largest zoo in 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.
- 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.
- The Cathedral of Saint Mary is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami. The cathedral is named for Mary, mother of Jesus, and is located at 7525 N.W.
- 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.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Miami weather, compared with San Francisco
18° warmer than San Francisco on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Miami 77°F · San Francisco 57°F · 19° warmer
- April
- Miami 84°F · San Francisco 65°F · 19° warmer
- July
- Miami 91°F · San Francisco 72°F · 19° warmer
- October
- Miami 86°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 Miami
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Miami is November–March, when daytime highs are a comfortable 77–82°F.
- How long to stay
- Miami rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from Biscayne National Park, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, and Miami Seaquarium and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from San Francisco to Miami?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from San Francisco (SFO) to Miami (MIA) on American, United.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from San Francisco to Miami?
- American, United fly nonstop between San Francisco (SFO) and Miami (MIA).
- How many nonstop flights are there from San Francisco to Miami?
- There are about 5 nonstop departures per day (roughly 35 per week) from San Francisco to Miami.
- How far is Miami from San Francisco?
- Miami is about 2,581 miles from San Francisco by air.
- What is there to do in Miami?
- Popular things to do include Biscayne National Park, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami Seaquarium, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and more.
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