Distance from SFO to San Francisco, CA

The total distance from SFO to San Francisco, CA is 20 miles.

This is equivalent to 32 kilometers or 17 nautical miles.

Your trip begins at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California.
It ends in San Francisco, California.

Your flight direction from San Francisco International Airport to San Francisco, California is Northwest (-43 degrees from North).

Are you flying the other direction? Check the reverse flight distance from San Francisco, CA to SFO.

The distance calculator measures the straight line flight distance ("as the crow flies") between points. It uses the great circle formula to compute the travel mileage.

Flight distance calculator

This site provides an online flight distance calculator for all types of travel routes. You can enter airports, cities, states, countries, or zip codes to find the distance between any two points. The database uses the latitude and longitude of each location to calculate distance using the great circle distance formula. The calculation is done using the Vincenty algorithm and the WGS84 ellipsoid model of the Earth, which is the same one used by most GPS receivers. This gives you the flight distance "as the crow flies." Find your flight distances quickly to estimate the number of frequent flyer miles you'll accumulate. Or ask how far is it between cities to solve your homework problems. You can lookup U.S. cities, or expand your search to get the world distance for international trips.

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