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Flights from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from San Francisco to Vancouver?

The average price of all flights from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl Airport clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
If your flying dates are flexible, you should consider flying to Vancouver on a Wednesday, as we generally find the cheapest rates on that day for this route. On the other hand, Saturday is the most expensive day to fly from San Francisco to Vancouver. For your return ticket, we recommend flying on a Wednesday and avoiding Fridays for the best deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl Airport?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl Airport, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.
The cheapest month for flights from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl Airport is October, where tickets cost ₹ 19,745 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and June, where the average cost of tickets is ₹ 29,660 and ₹ 25,161 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl Airport?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl Airport, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.
To get a below average price on the flight from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl Airport, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 13 days before departure.

Which airlines fly direct between San Francisco and Vancouver Intl Airport?

Airline and price data is aggregated from results in KAYAK’s search results from the last 2 weeks for flights from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl Airport.
There are 4 airlines that fly direct from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl Airport. They are: Air Canada, Flair Airlines, United Airlines and WestJet. The cheapest price of all airlines flying this route was found with Flair Airlines at ₹ 6,399 for a one-way flight. On average, the best prices for this route can be found at Flair Airlines.

How many flights are there between San Francisco and Vancouver Intl Airport per day?

Each day, there are between 11 and 13 nonstop flights that take off from San Francisco and land in Vancouver Intl Airport, with an average flight time of 2h 28m. The most common departure time is 18:00 and most flights take off in the morning. Each week, there are 80 flights. The most frequent day of departure is Thursday, when 16% of all weekly flights depart. The fewest flights depart on a Friday.

Which cabin class options are there for flights between San Francisco and Vancouver Intl Airport?

The average price of flights for each cabin class for the route found by users searching on KAYAK over the last 2 weeks.
There is only one cabin class option available for the route, which is Economy. Perform a search on KAYAK to find the latest prices and availability for all cabin fares, which differ across airlines.

What’s the earliest departure time from San Francisco to Vancouver?

Early birds can take the earliest flight from San Francisco at 07:00 and will be landing in Vancouver Intl Airport at 09:24.

What’s the latest departure time from San Francisco to Vancouver?

If you prefer to fly at night, the latest flight from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl Airport jets off at 19:40 and lands at 22:04.

Good to know

Low season

January

High season

June
Best time to beat the crowds (11% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (8% more expensive on average)

When to book flights from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
Estimated return price
KAYAK looks at all historical flight data for each date to provide a predicted price for one-way trips or returns with a duration up to 40 days. While we try to provide actual minimum prices for each date, some prices are predictions and actual prices may differ.

FAQs for booking San Francisco to Vancouver flights

  • Does San Francisco airport have lounges?

    If you have checked in to the airport early, or your flight was canceled, relaxing at the lounge is the best option. Air France-KLM lounge is located in international terminal Concourse A, level 3 charging around $43 (C$54) per person. The Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse is at international terminal concourse A, level 5, charging about $45 per person.

  • Does Vancouver international airport have public transportation?

    There is a transit rail known as the Canada line that connects Vancouver airport (YVR) and downtown Vancouver and Richmond. The journey takes approximately 30min to downtown Vancouver and 18min to downtown Richmond. It will cost you approximately $7 from Vancouver airport to downtown Vancouver.

  • Is San Francisco Airport (SFO) a hub for airlines?

    San Francisco airport is a hub for United Airlines and Alaska airlines. However, it hosts international, regional, and domestic passengers and cargo services for more than 30 airlines.

  • What parking options does San Francisco Airport offer?

    There are various parking options that you can select. You can park at international garage A or G, domestic garage, long term garage, or long term surface lot each charging $2 for 15 minutes. A Valet parking option is also available charging $45 for the first 24 hours.

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from San Francisco to Vancouver?

    Air Canada, United Airlines, Asiana Airlines, and Delta offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the San Francisco to Vancouver flight route.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from San Francisco to Vancouver?

    The Boeing 737 MAX 8 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the San Francisco to Vancouver flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from San Francisco to Vancouver?

    Star Alliance, SkyTeam, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between San Francisco and Vancouver, with Star Alliance being the most commonly used for this route.

  • On which days can I fly direct from San Francisco to Vancouver?

    There are direct flights from San Francisco to Vancouver on a daily basis.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from San Francisco to Vancouver?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from San Francisco to Vancouver.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from San Francisco to Vancouver?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Vancouver from San Francisco is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from San Francisco to Vancouver?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional return ticket. You could then fly to Vancouver with an airline and back to San Francisco with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from San Francisco to Vancouver?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Vancouver from San Francisco up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top tips for finding a cheap flight from San Francisco to Vancouver

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for ₹ 8,530 or less one-way and ₹ 20,534 or less round-trip.
  • San Francisco Airport (SFO) is the main airport that serves the city of San Francisco. It is approximately 13 miles (21 km) from downtown San Francisco. You will take either a metro, a taxi, a bus, or a private shuttle from downtown San Francisco. Taxis and shuttles operate 24h daily, and the journey will take almost 35min at the cost of about $61 to the airport. If you take a bus, it will take around 1h 15min and cost you around $5 to reach San Francisco Airport. If you opt for the metro, it will cost you approximately $20.96 and take around 27min to reach San Francisco Airport.
  • There are four terminals in San Francisco Airport (SFO): International airport, domestic terminal 1, domestic terminal 2, and domestic terminal 3. There is an Airtrain that connects the terminals with other airport locations and garages.
  • Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is 9 miles (15 km) from the city center. It takes approximately 20min to arrive at the city center from Vancouver airport and approximately 30-45min in case of traffic. There are car rental facilities located at the Vancouver airport terminal. The facilities offer on-site and off-site car rentals. You have to give advance notice of 48 hours to the car rental company for availability.
  • San Francisco International Airport offers free Wi-Fi access to passengers. You only have to log in. There are ATMs situated in all terminals of the airport. You will also benefit from the currency exchange services located in terminal 3 post-security and international terminal pre-security.
  • If you are traveling with your pet, there are animal relief areas inside and outside all terminals. The animal relief areas are found either inside or outside security. If you are taking your child along, then there are nursing rooms located in terminal 1 post-security, terminal 2 pre-security, and terminal 3 pre-security.
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Prefer to fly direct from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl?

Find which airlines fly direct from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

San Francisco to Vancouver Intl

Monday

ANA, Aeromexico, Air Canada, +11 more

ANA, Aeromexico, +12 more

Tuesday

ANA, Aeromexico, Air Canada, +12 more

ANA, Aeromexico, +13 more

Wednesday

ANA, Aeromexico, Air Canada, +12 more

ANA, Aeromexico, +13 more

Thursday

ANA, Aeromexico, Air Canada, +11 more

ANA, Aeromexico, +12 more

Friday

ANA, Aeromexico, Air Canada, +12 more

ANA, Aeromexico, +13 more

Saturday

ANA, Aeromexico, Air Canada, +12 more

ANA, Aeromexico, +13 more

Sunday

ANA, Aeromexico, Air Canada, +11 more

ANA, Aeromexico, +12 more

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Direct returns

Vancouver Intl to San Francisco

Monday

ANA, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

ANA, Air Canada, +12 more

Tuesday

ANA, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

ANA, Air Canada, +12 more

Wednesday

ANA, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

ANA, Air Canada, +12 more

Thursday

ANA, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

ANA, Air Canada, +12 more

Friday

ANA, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

ANA, Air Canada, +12 more

Saturday

ANA, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +12 more

ANA, Air Canada, +13 more

Sunday

ANA, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, +11 more

ANA, Air Canada, +12 more

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Top 3 airlines serving from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Francisco to Vancouver. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from San Francisco to Vancouver Intl? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
7.4
United AirlinesOverall score based on 11255 reviews
6.7food
8.1crew
7.2comfort
7.7boarding
7.1entertainment
Airline reviews

Hated every minute of it. This flight should have only taken 1.5hrs but was delayed over 10hours. Now I am being told I cannot be compensated or refunded my ticket price or extra leg room, which I purchased but did not receive, because the airline is throwing the blame on the 3rd party I purchased tickets through and 3rd party putting the blame on airline. No one wants to help. They received their money and that's all they care about. Im going on 3 days of still trying to get to my final destination, had to cancel car rental, car insurance and hotel. Currently staying in airport until hotels open up. Thank you Lufthansa, Kayak, Underpricer and United for making this trip the worst ever.

2.0 MediocreAnonymous, Apr 2024SFO - FRA
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Hated every minute of it. This flight should have only taken 1.5hrs but was delayed over 10hours. Now I am being told I cannot be compensated or refunded my ticket price or extra leg room, which I purchased but did not receive, because the airline is throwing the blame on the 3rd party I purchased tickets through and 3rd party putting the blame on airline. No one wants to help. They received their money and that's all they care about. Im going on 3 days of still trying to get to my final destination, had to cancel car rental, car insurance and hotel. Currently staying in airport until hotels open up. Thank you Lufthansa, Kayak, Underpricer and United for making this trip the worst ever.

Crew was great and did their best to make us comfortable and captain came out at the beginning to announce why the flight was delayed, weather situation up ahead, and kept us updated throughout the flight.

United WiFi is consistently unusable (it can take 10 mins to load a single web page). If you need Wifi to do work, be prepared to lose half a day of productivity.

Awful. I got stuck next to a person carrying a dog and behind someone with a dog. People need to board these dogs downstairs. The cabin is crowded enough with your pets

Packed in like sardines, very uncomfortable. Sitting the aisle my shoulder was rammed into numerous times by rushing flight attendants. Also flight was very cold.

Beverage and food services are excellent. We enjoy paying the extra for economy plus for the 3 inches more leg room to be exact.

Flight was delayed by 3 hours. The pilot made up 1 hour during the flight, but that made the wait at the airport 5 hours once you factor getting there 2 hours early.

No snacks served! Seating in the kast row in uncomfortable.

Airline did not explain reasons why flight was delayed two hours. Explanations were badly needed and rarely provided. Problem seemed to clearly be the airline’s fault and not the fault of the weather or airport.

Very uncomfortable seats and seat backs, and I am only 5’9”. Delayed due to crew issues, spent a long time with no ventilation. Teeny overhead bins. Wifi worked well. Arrived safely.

Flight was delayed 1.5 hrs due to problem with a previous flight to mine; I was informed appropriately via Text & Email, however, website did not keep up with messages sent by nearly an hour. When checking-in warm & friendly reception at check-in desk until female Air Canada Rep noticed my flight number and instantly pivoted to a condescending & sarcastic comments about getting my bag checked in since I’m running so late; then tone instantly changed again few minutes later when she muttered, “Oh, they’ve delayed it” another sign systems & worse front line staff, not fully informed or simply not reading their flight status updates. Flight crew were very friendly & did a great job trying to make up lost time due to the delay.

It was great, love the experience and will definitely recommend 👌. Communication was great

It was great to check carryon luggage at no charge when there was no room for ours. A hidden benefit of having low-tier tickets. Also great to stay off plane as long as possible. Airline gave us seats we wanted on this last leg, again at no charge.

We had a good flight, service was good and lots of leg room. Service was good and the staff were friendly.

Short flight, crew members were very nice, so much so I'll take the return flight next weekend

It was fine. The seating was tight. My husband is 6' 2", so we were glad to get seats with no one in front of him. I was glad that the plane wasn't packed so I could spread out.

I liked Seattle but nothing air Canada did there was any good at all neither was kayak as when I purchased my flights the price I purchased at was not what kayak charged to my card and there has been no responses to my emails ....

Flew in Business Class. The new AC lounge at SFO is one of the best I’ve been to with a spacious design and an open air deck. Flight itself was on-time and as expected overall.

No food, not even snacks on the 6hr flight from Newark to Vancouver! The movie collection made up for it though and they did come around with drinks twice. Just good to know so you can eat ahead/bring snacks onto the flight. It was a bumpy ride induced by wind and rain but otherwise got to the destination safely and promptly.

On the flight back from SFO to Vancouver ..the crew was less than professional. They completely missed asking if I wanted a drink (and I was awake at all times) and I had to walk to the back of the plane to ask for a cup of water to take with my medication. Also, there was a charge for ear adapters for the movie screen which were given out free on the flight from Vancouver to SFO. The flight from Vancouver to SFO had pleasant crew members. What a difference in the flight back.

Of all the countries I've flown to and airlines from around the world, I have never had such a dismissive an arrogant employee during boarding. After waiting in line for 20 minutes to board, I was sent to a second line for Passport verification. Natalie from Flair, repeatedly tried to scan my passport which didn't work for some reason but was too lazy to input my information manually. Bar code scanners aren't 100% reliable as we all know. She asked me my birthdate 3 times, made me wait to be the last person aboard and then smugly threatened me that my only bag could be charged for (same backpack I used as on my arrival as carry on). Natalie working in Ft. Lauderdale and the was the epitome of lobotomized tiktok brain with the charm of junk mail.

Food selection is very poor and sears are very uncomfortable.

Flight was 3 hrs late and another 2 hrs wait for baggage to arrive on carousel and a $7.00 food voucher that arrived as we were boarding our flight.

Seat rows so close together no one dares to put their seats back. Knees pressed against the seat in front, had to find a position putting my legs under the seat in front. But for 6 hours keeping that one position was ridiculous. All savings on the purchase price are taken back through charge backs for luggage $200 each way, Seat selection $44 per seat or you are seated by a computer randomly. Wife sat 5 rows away. Would avoid Flair in the future

The flight was safe (priority). Everything else is low-cost: too hard, delays, mediocre boarding, cost for carry-on and checked luggage.

Flair flight was 4 hours late due to not having a crew and the plane was filthy. Just water service Terrible experience flight 1513

Flair did not notify you when they changed gate number!

Can't be happy with a 5 hour delay. Only given $10 voucher for food and still EVERYTHING was an upcharge during the flight.

TThe first time I have ever flown with flare and both ways sucked

There was no entertainment There was no food or beverage service , not even a glass of water The plane door could not be opened upon arrival

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Destination:

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