FLL to SFO: Distance and Flight Time

How far is it from Fort Lauderdale to San Francisco?

The great-circle distance between Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL) and San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is 4,151 km (2,579 mi, 2,241 nautical miles). That is the straight-line distance; a real flight is a little longer because of air-traffic routing.

How long is the flight from FLL to SFO?

A nonstop flight typically takes about 5h 40m. This is an estimate from the distance; actual block times depend on the aircraft, winds and the exact routing. SFO is roughly northwest of FLL.

How is the FLL to SFO route written in code?

The pair is written FLL-SFO in IATA codes and KFLL-KSFO in ICAO codes, the form used on a flight plan. Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport is FLL (KFLL), San Francisco International Airport is SFO (KSFO).

Both ICAO codes start with K, the prefix ICAO assigns to the contiguous United States, so this is a route inside one ICAO region. How ICAO prefixes are laid out.

The two fields sit at almost the same height, within 4 ft (1 m) of each other.

Airlines flying FLL to SFO

3 airlines appear on this route in the open route dataset, 3 of them still listed as active. Each row gives the IATA code, the ICAO code and the radio callsign, which is what an air traffic controller hears:

A further 1 carrier sell this pair as a codeshare without operating it: FL.

Route and carrier data comes from the OpenFlights open dataset, regenerated here on 3 July 2026. It is a historical snapshot of scheduled connections, not a live schedule, and it includes codeshare listings, so some carriers shown may no longer operate the route or exist. How we build this · Data and sources.

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