Route · SFO → LAX
Flights from San Francisco to Los Angeles
The SFO–LAX corridor is one of the busiest short-haul routes in North America, covering roughly 544 kilometres with a typical block time of just over an hour — often shorter wheels-up to touchdown. United, American, Southwest, Delta, and Alaska all operate the route at high frequency, deploying narrowbodies such as the Boeing 737 and Airbus A319/A320 family on rotations that can run a dozen or more departures daily per carrier. A practical note worth knowing: at LAX, different carriers use different terminals with no easy airside connection, so if you are self-connecting, build in at minimum ninety minutes. Fares on this corridor tend to compress on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, when business travel thins out, while Sunday evenings and Monday mornings command a premium; both cities share the Pacific time zone, so there is no clock adjustment to manage.
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Cheapest dates to fly
Live prices · powered by AviasalesThe calendar below pulls live fares from our search partner for San Francisco (SFO) → Los Angeles (LAX). Use the… year view to spot the cheapest week to fly, the day-of-week patterns most travellers miss, and any shoulder-season dips worth shifting your trip around. Prices refresh every few hours, so what you see is what your booking page should look like a moment later — click any date to jump straight to the fare on Aviasales.
Airlines on this route
8 carriersThe 8 carriers we currently track on the San Francisco–Los Angeles route, from full-service flag carriers to low-cost competitors. Tap any airline for its full… profile, baggage rules, fleet context, and a live fare search pre-filtered to that carrier — useful if you're loyal to a frequent-flyer programme, want to compare onboard product on the same dates, or are weighing a cheaper one-stop against a pricier nonstop.
Flights from San Francisco to Los Angeles
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from San Francisco to Los Angeles — the actual flight numbers, departure and arrival… times your booking page will pull from. Use it to plan around departure preferences (early morning vs late evening), see which carriers fly on which weekdays, or pick a connection that lets you sleep in your own bed before a long-haul leg. Click any row to load it directly in the search.
Airport guides
Quick links into the airport profiles at both ends of the route. Each guide covers terminal layout, the airlines that base hubs at SFO and… LAX, the other routes those airports serve, and the ground-transit options most travellers wish they'd read about before landing — the practical context you only really need to know once you've booked, but want to skim before you do.