--- title: "SFO — San Francisco Airport, San Francisco · Orbit" description: "San Francisco International Airport (SFO/KSFO) serves San Francisco, United States. Opened 1927, 54.5 million passengers in 2025, 18 km from San Francisco." url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/sfo --- San Francisco · United States · North America # SFO — San Francisco San Francisco International Airport serves San Francisco, United States, 18 km from the city centre, and sits at 37.6°N, 122.4°W. This site carries 11 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each. **IATA** SFO the code on your bag tag **ICAO** KSFO used by air traffic control **Opened** 1927 per Wikidata **Passengers** 54.5M in 2025 ## History & name Operated by the City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco International Airport opened in 1927 and sits 18 km from the city at 13 feet above sea level. Its 4 runways reach 3,618 m, and it handled 54.5 million passengers in 2025. Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%5FFrancisco%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8688) ## At a glance **Full name** San Francisco International Airport **Serves** San Francisco, United States **City centre** 18 km from San Francisco **Opened** 1927 **Operator** City and County of San Francisco **Passengers** 54.5 million in 2025 **Runways** 4 runways, longest 3,618 m **Elevation** 13 ft (4 m) **Map** [Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=37.61980,-122.37480) **Website** [flysfo.com ↗](http://www.flysfo.com/) ## Where it sits 37.6°N, 122.4°W puts SFO in the northern hemisphere, 4,183 km from the equator and 5,824 km from the North pole. Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **207th** most northerly, which makes it the 455th most southerly. ## Straight through the middle Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 37.6°S, 57.6°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Roland Garros (RUN) in Réunion, still 1,871 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean. ## What’s near it The closest other airport on this site is **Oakland San Francisco Bay** (OAK), 18 km away in a straight line. 2 airports here sit within 100 km — worth checking which one your ticket actually says. OAK Oakland San Francisco Bay 18 km SJC Norman Y. Mineta San Jose 49 km ## Distances from SFO Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Bangalore, at 13,988 km. | To | | Distance | Estimated | | --------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- | | [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-sfo) | LAX | 543 km | 1h 11m | | [Honolulu](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-hnl) | HNL | 3,857 km | 5h 18m | | [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jfk-to-sfo) | JFK | 4,152 km | 5h 40m | | [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-hnd) | HND | 8,285 km | 10h 48m | | [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-sfo) | LHR | 8,616 km | 11h 12m | | [Seoul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-icn) | ICN | 9,085 km | 11h 47m | | [Shanghai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-pvg) | PVG | 9,877 km | 12h 47m | | [Hong Kong](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-hkg) | HKG | 11,128 km | 14h 20m | | [Delhi](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-sfo) | DEL | 12,382 km | 15h 53m | | [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-sin) | SIN | 13,582 km | 17h 23m | | [Bangalore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/blr-to-sfo) | BLR | 13,988 km | 17h 53m | [Distance from SFO to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=SFO&to=BLR) [Map a trip from SFO →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=SFO-BLR) ## Where these facts come from The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates. What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out. [Measure SFO to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to San Francisco →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/san-francisco) ## Flown through SFO? Orbit knows all 8,801 airports offline and works out the distance the moment you enter two codes. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/airports/sfo for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt