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title: "Flights to San Francisco: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to San Francisco, United States, from 11 cities — 543 km at the nearest, 13,988 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/san-francisco
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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.

| From                                                      |     | Distance  | Estimated | Direction                        |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-sfo) | LAX | 543 km    | 1h 11m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Honolulu](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-hnl)    | HNL | 3,857 km  | 5h 18m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jfk-to-sfo)    | JFK | 4,152 km  | 5h 40m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-hnd)       | HND | 8,285 km  | 10h 48m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-sfo)      | LHR | 8,616 km  | 11h 12m   | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Seoul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-icn)       | ICN | 9,085 km  | 11h 47m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Shanghai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-pvg)    | PVG | 9,877 km  | 12h 47m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Hong Kong](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-hkg)   | HKG | 11,128 km | 14h 20m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Delhi](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-sfo)       | DEL | 12,382 km | 15h 53m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-sin)   | SIN | 13,582 km | 17h 23m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Bangalore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/blr-to-sfo)   | BLR | 13,988 km | 17h 53m   | eastbound — 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 →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/counting-countries)

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