Direct Flights from Santa Barbara to Oakland
Oakland · California
Nonstop service from SBA to OAK on Southwest. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
29 cities have a nonstop to Oakland, Santa Barbara among them.
How long to go to Oakland for, from Santa Barbara
1h in the air, 264 miles: short enough that a single night in Oakland is worth it, and a day trip is not absurd.
About Oakland
Oakland is a port city in the Bay Area of California in the United States. Once an industrial area overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger neighbor to the west, this city of 440,000 people (2020) has begun to step out from under San Francisco's shadow with its notable natural and architectural features and its rise as the multicultural "hipster" city of the Bay Area.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Oakland
- 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).
Oakland weather, compared with Santa Barbara
3° cooler than Santa Barbara on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Oakland 58°F · Santa Barbara 65°F · 7° colder
- April
- Oakland 66°F · Santa Barbara 69°F · 3° colder
- July
- Oakland 72°F · Santa Barbara 74°F · 2° colder
- October
- Oakland 72°F · Santa Barbara 74°F · 2° colder
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Oakland
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Oakland is February–November, when daytime highs are a comfortable 61–75°F.
- How long to stay
- Oakland 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 Santa Barbara to Oakland?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Santa Barbara (SBA) to Oakland (OAK) on Southwest.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Santa Barbara to Oakland?
- Southwest flies nonstop between Santa Barbara (SBA) and Oakland (OAK).
- How many nonstop flights are there from Santa Barbara to Oakland?
- There is about 1 nonstop departure per day (roughly 7 per week) from Santa Barbara to Oakland.
- How far is Oakland from Santa Barbara?
- Oakland is about 264 miles from Santa Barbara by air.
- What is there to do in Oakland?
- 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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