Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) – Sacramento (SMF)
- Distance
- 2,303 km
- 1,431 mi · 1,243 nm
- Flight time
- 3 h 35 min / 3 h 17 min
- Average gate to gate: DFW → SMF / back
- Time difference
- 2 h
- CO2 per passenger
- 289 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (171 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 528,003
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · −7.8%
- Flights / week
- 61
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 89%
- 591,966 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 1
- AA
Traffic: U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service), Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Distance: WGS-84 ellipsoid. CO2: UK DESNZ 2026 factors. Sources
The way there
- Heading from DFW
- 293°
- Heading from SMF
- 99°
- Halfway point
- 36.43, -108.86
- Great-circle km
- 2,298 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air DFW → SMF
- 3 h 11 min
- In the air SMF → DFW
- 2 h 51 min
- Clocks
- Sacramento is 2 h behind Dallas-Fort Worth
The estimate for a route without real times is 3 h 30 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
Show as a table
| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 51,786 |
| Sep 2025 | 41,199 |
| Oct 2025 | 49,320 |
| Nov 2025 | 40,727 |
| Dec 2025 | 46,927 |
| Jan 2026 | 38,009 |
| Feb 2026 | 35,876 |
| Mar 2026 | 42,438 |
| Apr 2026 | 43,386 |
| May 2026 | 44,674 |
| Jun 2026 | 43,986 |
| Jul 2026 | 49,675 |
Show as a table
| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 304 |
| Sep 2025 | 240 |
| Oct 2025 | 285 |
| Nov 2025 | 249 |
| Dec 2025 | 274 |
| Jan 2026 | 233 |
| Feb 2026 | 223 |
| Mar 2026 | 265 |
| Apr 2026 | 267 |
| May 2026 | 275 |
| Jun 2026 | 258 |
| Jul 2026 | 295 |
Airlines flying DFW–SMF nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| AAAmerican Airlines | 61 | 100% |
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. Airlines with at least one flight a month. U.S. DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (all carriers, scheduled service). Sources
Aircraft on this route
- Airbus Industrie A321Neoxlr · 2,042 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 645 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321-200n · 454 flights
- Boeing B737 Max 800 · 24 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-100/200 · 2 flights
- Airbus Industrie A319 · 1 flight
Also carried: 3 tonnes of freight and 102 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 73.8%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 23 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 2.5%
- Flights counted
- 3,262
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
Delay minutes by cause: airline 41% · aircraft arriving late 45% · air traffic system 10% · weather 4% · security 0%.
Both directions, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026. BTS Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance (US domestic flights of the larger US airlines). Sources
What passengers paid
- Average fare, Q1 2026
- $319
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $317
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- American Airlines
- 92% of passengers · $321
- Lowest-fare airline
- Frontier Airlines
- 2% of passengers · $173
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $319 · Q3 2025 $305 · Q4 2025 $324 · Q1 2026 $319).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $326, likely $282–$371
The average fare paid we expect a year after Q1 2026, the newest DOT quarter. On this route, past forecasts made this way fell inside the range 86% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 6.4%). An estimate from US DOT data: not a price you can book, not a guarantee, not advice on when to buy. How the outlook works
Cheapest quarter on this route: Q3, typically 3% below the year's average (9 years of DOT data, without 2020–21).
U.S. DOT Consumer Airfare Report, Table 1a (airline ticket sample, US domestic airport pairs). Sources
Delay compensation (EU261 / UK261)
Measured by great-circle distance: 2,298 km.
Neither EU261 nor UK261 covers this route: it neither starts nor ends in the EU, EEA, Switzerland or the UK. Other countries have their own rules (for example Canada's APPR or Brazil's ANAC rules).
Also owed for a cancellation with less than 14 days' notice or denied boarding. Not owed for extraordinary circumstances. On a connection, the distance to the final destination counts. From 23 October 2027 the EU's Regulation 2026/2202 applies; it keeps these amounts (what changes in 2027). Information, not legal advice.
More routes from DFW
| Route | Distance | Passengers / year |
|---|---|---|
| DFW → ATL | 1,177 km | 1,929,257 |
| DFW → ORD | 1,290 km | 1,916,312 |
| DFW → LAX | 1,987 km | 1,914,491 |
| DFW → DEN | 1,032 km | 1,745,260 |
| DFW → LGA | 2,235 km | 1,726,005 |
| DFW → PHX | 1,396 km | 1,648,391 |
| DFW → LAS | 1,698 km | 1,630,211 |
| DFW → MCO | 1,585 km | 1,605,592 |
| DFW → SEA | 2,671 km | 1,577,921 |
| DFW → MIA | 1,804 km | 1,512,657 |