Direct Flights from Washington to San Francisco
San Francisco · California
Nonstop service from IAD, BWI and DCA to SFO on Alaska, Southwest, United. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
Which airports fly this route
Washington has 3 airports with nonstop service to San Francisco. Fares differ by airport — each row opens that exact search on Kayak.
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- Find flights ↗IADSFOWashington Dulles International
- Find flights ↗BWISFOBaltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall
- Find flights ↗DCASFORonald Reagan Washington National
How rare is this nonstop?
80 cities have a nonstop to San Francisco, Washington among them.
How long to go to San Francisco for, from Washington
5h 20m in the air, 2,413 miles — past long-weekend range. Five days is roughly where the flying stops dominating the trip.
With roughly 13 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 San Francisco
The centerpiece of the Bay Area, San Francisco is one of the most visited cities in the world, and with good reason. The cultural center of northern California, San Francisco is renowned for its mixture of scenic beauty and unique culture that makes it one of the most vibrant and desirable cities in the nation, if not the world.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in San Francisco
- 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).
San Francisco weather, compared with Washington
Within 1° of Washington on the annual average, so pack much as you would at home — but the two cities do not track each other month to month:
- January
- San Francisco 57°F · Washington 43°F · 14° warmer
- April
- San Francisco 65°F · Washington 67°F · 2° colder
- July
- San Francisco 72°F · Washington 88°F · 16° colder
- October
- San Francisco 71°F · Washington 68°F · 3° warmer
San Francisco is the steadier of the two, moving 17° between its coldest and warmest months where Washington moves 45°.
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to San Francisco
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit San Francisco is March–November, when daytime highs are a comfortable 62–74°F.
- How long to stay
- San Francisco 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 Washington to San Francisco?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Washington (IAD, BWI, DCA) to San Francisco (SFO) on Alaska, Southwest, United.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Washington to San Francisco?
- Alaska, Southwest, United fly nonstop between Washington (IAD, BWI, DCA) and San Francisco (SFO).
- Which Washington airports have nonstop flights to San Francisco?
- You can leave from 3 Washington airports: IAD (Washington Dulles International) on United; BWI (Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall) on Southwest, United; DCA (Ronald Reagan Washington National) on Alaska, United.
- How many nonstop flights are there from Washington to San Francisco?
- There are about 13 nonstop departures per day (roughly 91 per week) from Washington to San Francisco.
- How far is San Francisco from Washington?
- San Francisco is about 2,413 miles from Washington by air.
- What is there to do in San Francisco?
- 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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