Airport
San Francisco International Airport SFO
San Francisco, United States · Large airport · ICAO KSFO
Fog is a genuine scheduling factor here: when it closes one of the parallel approaches, arrival capacity roughly halves and delays spread down the west coast. The international terminal is a separate building from the domestic ones.
Reference data
- IATA
- SFO
- ICAO
- KSFO
- Elevation
- 13 ft
- Coordinates
- 37.6198, -122.3748
Local time at SFO
12:35 PDT
Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · UTC−07:00 · America/Los_Angeles
Offsets shift with daylight saving. The time zone planner resolves them for a specific travel date rather than today.
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Routes covered from SFO
Distances and time-zone comparisons for airport pairs involving SFO. These are reference pages about the geography of a route — not schedules, and not a claim that any airline flies it.
Staying near SFO
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Nearby airports
Ranked by actual distance from SFO's coordinates, not by name or region. Useful when a fare or a schedule makes a neighbouring airport worth the ground transfer.
| IATA | Airport | City | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQL | San Carlos Airport | San Carlos | 16 km | Look up |
| OAK | Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport | Oakland | 18 km | Look up |
| SJC | Mineta San Jose International Airport | San Jose | 49 km | Look up |
| CCR | Buchanan Field | Concord | 50 km | Look up |
| SCK | Stockton Metropolitan Airport | Stockton | 104 km | Look up |
| STS | Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport | Santa Rosa | 106 km | Look up |
Airlines based here
Carriers in this site's directory that treat SFO as a hub. This is not a list of every airline serving the airport.
Verify anything that matters
Terminals, transfer times and facilities change, and this page does not track them. For operational detail, go to the airport itself.
Official SFO website San Francisco International Airport on Wikipedia
Where this data comes from
Codes, coordinates and elevation come from the public-domain OurAirports dataset, pinned at build time — 4,133 airports, last refreshed 6 September 2026. The time zone is derived from the coordinates above.