Skip to content
United States · North America

Flights to San Francisco: how far it is, and from where

San Francisco sits at 37.6°N, 122.4°W, served by San Francisco (SFO). Below are 11 routes into it, with the great circle distance and an estimated flying time for each.

This page is about distance and geography — there are no fares or schedules on it. For tickets, use a booking site; for how far it actually is and what you fly over to get there, you’re in the right place.

Routes here
11
in the catalogue
Nearest
543 km
from Los Angeles
Furthest
13,988 km
from Bangalore
Airports
1
SFO

How far San Francisco is from everywhere else

Great circle distance between the airports, and an estimate of the time in the air. Every row links to the route in full.

FromDistanceEstimatedDirection
Los AngelesLAX543 km1h 11mbarely any time shift
HonoluluHNL3,857 km5h 18meastbound — the harder direction
New YorkJFK4,152 km5h 40mwestbound — the easier direction
TokyoHND8,285 km10h 48meastbound — the harder direction
LondonLHR8,616 km11h 12mwestbound — the easier direction
SeoulICN9,085 km11h 47meastbound — the harder direction
ShanghaiPVG9,877 km12h 47meastbound — the harder direction
Hong KongHKG11,128 km14h 20meastbound — the harder direction
DelhiDEL12,382 km15h 53meastbound — the harder direction
SingaporeSIN13,582 km17h 23meastbound — the harder direction
BangaloreBLR13,988 km17h 53meastbound — the harder direction

What San Francisco adds to a map

San Francisco puts a pin in United States, and North America is one of the seven continents — the coarsest and most useful measure of how much of the world a flight map actually covers. The furthest route here, from Bangalore, is 13,988 km: 34.9% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

What actually counts as a country visited →

Been to San Francisco?

Put it on a globe with everywhere else you’ve flown. Free for your first 15 flights, and it works offline.

Download now