Route brief · SFO → AUH
San Francisco → Abu Dhabi
$1,276
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 11 – Dec 14 · 3 nights
Turkish Airlines1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAUHAbu DhabiQuieter and cheaper than Dubai an hour up the road, with the Grand Mosque and the Louvre to itself.Best windowNov–MarAirportsZayed International (AUH)All routes into Abu DhabiWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Abu Dhabi: Nov–Mar. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 17.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,276 for 13,087 km each way, that works out to about $49 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Abu Dhabi, this fare ranks 10th — 1.8× the $692 we hold from New York. For context, the middle fare among the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco is $830. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Zayed International (AUH)
- Flight time
- ~17.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~13,087 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
SF → AUH, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → Abu Dhabi?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from San Francisco to Abu Dhabi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish Airlines. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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