San Francisco (SFO) – Salt Lake City (SLC)
- Distance
- 964 km
- 599 mi · 520 nm
- Flight time
- 1 h 50 min / 2 h 11 min
- Average gate to gate: SFO → SLC / back
- Time difference
- 1 h
- CO2 per passenger
- 121 kg
- One way, economy, incl. RF (72 kg CO2 only)
- Passengers / year
- 705,455
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · −3.2%
- Flights / week
- 133
- Both directions, average
- Seats filled
- 78%
- 906,062 seats a year
- Airlines nonstop
- 5
- DL, OO, UA
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 SFO
- 65°
- Heading from SLC
- 252°
- Halfway point
- 39.32, -117.29
- Great-circle km
- 962 km (sphere, for EU261)
- In the air SFO → SLC
- 1 h 23 min
- In the air SLC → SFO
- 1 h 40 min
- Clocks
- Salt Lake City is 1 h ahead of San Francisco
The estimate for a route without real times is 1 h 55 min; how it is worked out is on Sources.
Show as a table
| Month | Passengers |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 64,646 |
| Sep 2025 | 57,633 |
| Oct 2025 | 65,216 |
| Nov 2025 | 49,670 |
| Dec 2025 | 51,639 |
| Jan 2026 | 50,411 |
| Feb 2026 | 54,419 |
| Mar 2026 | 61,491 |
| Apr 2026 | 50,917 |
| May 2026 | 63,006 |
| Jun 2026 | 67,570 |
| Jul 2026 | 68,837 |
Show as a table
| Month | Flights |
|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 589 |
| Sep 2025 | 501 |
| Oct 2025 | 573 |
| Nov 2025 | 519 |
| Dec 2025 | 582 |
| Jan 2026 | 557 |
| Feb 2026 | 581 |
| Mar 2026 | 644 |
| Apr 2026 | 581 |
| May 2026 | 611 |
| Jun 2026 | 579 |
| Jul 2026 | 583 |
Airlines flying SFO–SLC nonstop
| Airline | Flights / week | Share of passengers |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 65 | 58% |
| OOSkyWest Airlines | 40 | 18% |
| UAUnited Air Lines | 19 | 16% |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 7.3 | 8% |
| QXHorizon Air | 0.8 | 0% |
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
- Embraer ERJ-175 · 1,914 flights
- Boeing 737-900ER · 951 flights
- Airbus Industrie A319 · 947 flights
- Boeing 737-800 · 722 flights
- A200-100 BD-500-1A10 · 458 flights
- Airbus Industrie A320-100/200 · 438 flights
- A220-300 BD-500-1A11 · 358 flights
- Airbus Industrie A321-200n · 284 flights
Also carried: 263 tonnes of freight and 4 tonnes of mail a year (passenger and cargo flights).
Punctuality
- On time
- 71.3%
- Arrived within 15 min of schedule
- Average delay
- 20 min
- Late arrivals count, early ones as 0
- Cancelled
- 1%
- Flights counted
- 6,907
- Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
| Airline | On time | Average delay |
|---|---|---|
| DLDelta Air Lines | 70.7% | 19 min |
| OOSkyWest Airlines | 71.6% | 22 min |
| UAUnited Air Lines | 73.5% | 18 min |
| F9Frontier Airlines | 68.5% | 29 min |
Delay minutes by cause: airline 28% · aircraft arriving late 34% · air traffic system 38% · weather 1% · 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
- $256
- One way, all cabins
- Average over a year
- $213
- Q2 2025 – Q1 2026
- Largest airline
- Delta Air Lines
- 49% of passengers · $266
- Lowest-fare airline
- Delta Air Lines
- 49% of passengers · $266
History, not a price to book: what the average passenger paid per one-way trip in each quarter (Q2 2025 $194 · Q3 2025 $190 · Q4 2025 $211 · Q1 2026 $256).
Fare outlook, Q1 2027: about $261, likely $231–$297
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 81% of the time over 21 quarters (median error 8.5%). 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 4% 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: 962 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.