Direct Flights from Santa Barbara to Portland
Portland · Oregon
Nonstop service from SBA to PDX on Alaska. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
71 cities have a nonstop to Portland, Santa Barbara among them.
How long to go to Portland for, from Santa Barbara
2h 5m in the air, 785 miles — a Friday-evening departure still leaves you most of the evening in Portland. Two nights works.
About Portland
Few American cities can match the youthful spirit of Portland, "The City of Roses". The largest city in the state of Oregon, Portland's residents are proud of their city, which draws people for its scenic beauty, great outdoors environment, excellent microbreweries, and eco-friendly urban planning policies, as well as a reputation for colorful characters and a proudly liberal outlook with an attitude to match.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Portland
- Mill Ends Park is the smallest urban park in the United States. It consists of 1 tree, located in the median strip of SW Naito Parkway next to Tom McCall Waterfront Park along the Willamette River near SW Taylor Street i…
- The Portland Art Museum (PAM) is an art museum in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. The Portland Art Museum has 240,000 square feet, with more than 112,000 square feet of gallery space.
- Portland Japanese Garden is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, cultural institution, and public attraction in Portland, Oregon.
- The Oregon Zoo, originally the Portland Zoo and later the Washington Park Zoo, is a zoo in Portland, Oregon, United States.
- Forest Park is a public municipal park in the Tualatin Mountains west of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States.
- The International Rose Test Garden is a rose garden in Washington Park in Portland, Oregon, United States. There are over 10,000 rose bushes of approximately 650 varieties.
- Beacon Rock State Park is a geologic preserve and public recreation area on Route 14 in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area in Skamania County, Washington, United States.
- Champoeg is a former town in the U.S. state of Oregon. Now a ghost town, it was an important settlement in the Willamette Valley in the early 1840s.
- Hoyt Arboretum is a public park in Portland, Oregon, which is part of the complex of parks collectively known as Washington Park.
- Leach Botanical Garden is a 16-acre (6.5 ha) botanical garden located in outer southeast Portland, Oregon, near S.E. 122nd Avenue and Foster Road. It was acquired by the Portland Parks Bureau in 1972.
- The Pittock Mansion is a French Renaissance-style château in the West Hills of Portland, Oregon, United States.
- St. Mary's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is a Catholic cathedral in Portland, Oregon in the United States. It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Portland weather, compared with Santa Barbara
7° cooler than Santa Barbara on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Portland 47°F · Santa Barbara 65°F · 18° colder
- April
- Portland 62°F · Santa Barbara 69°F · 7° colder
- July
- Portland 81°F · Santa Barbara 74°F · 7° warmer
- October
- Portland 64°F · Santa Barbara 74°F · 10° colder
Portland also swings harder through the year than Santa Barbara does — 36° between its coldest and warmest months against 11°.
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Portland
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Portland is April–October, when daytime highs are a comfortable 62–82°F.
- How long to stay
- Portland rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from Mill Ends Park, Portland Art Museum, and Portland Japanese Garden and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Santa Barbara to Portland?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Santa Barbara (SBA) to Portland (PDX) on Alaska.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Santa Barbara to Portland?
- Alaska flies nonstop between Santa Barbara (SBA) and Portland (PDX).
- How many nonstop flights are there from Santa Barbara to Portland?
- There is about 1 nonstop departure per day (roughly 7 per week) from Santa Barbara to Portland.
- How far is Portland from Santa Barbara?
- Portland is about 785 miles from Santa Barbara by air.
- What is there to do in Portland?
- Popular things to do include Mill Ends Park, Portland Art Museum, Portland Japanese Garden, Oregon Zoo, and more.
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