Route brief · SFO → HNL
San Francisco → Honolulu
$177
−44% vs typical
seasonal median $315 · difference $138
Oct 28 – Nov 4 · 7 nights
UnitedNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $233–$343
- Board rank
- Stronger than 92%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHNLHonoluluWaikīkī sunsets and volcanic ridgelines — mainland fare wars put Hawai‘i under $300 more often than you’d think.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–NovAirportsDaniel K. Inouye (HNL)All routes into HonoluluWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Oct is the cheapest for SF → HNL. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in October around $177 and peak in March near $382 — a $205 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies United nonstop and takes about 6 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip. At $177 for 3,854 km each way, that works out to about $23 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $39 that medium-haul fares on this board typically run. It is also the cheapest of the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
Tap any day → live search
The median cached fare across this calendar is 14% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $399 then versus $343 now, across 6 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $177, on Oct 28.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 18 of 93 days priced, from 75 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Oct · around $177
44% below the $315 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · San Francisco → Honolulu · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Daniel K. Inouye (HNL)
- Flight time
- ~6 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,854 km each way
- Typical price
- $315 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov
SF → HNL, answered.
Is $177 a good price for San Francisco to Honolulu?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $315 round-trip. At $177 you're 44% below that, saving about $138, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from San Francisco to Honolulu?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Honolulu are Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SF → Honolulu?
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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 6 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from San Francisco to Honolulu?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (United). The outbound leg runs around 6 hours.
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.
Next step
Sleeping in Honolulu?
Lock the flight first — then compare stays for Oct 28 – Nov 4 · 7 nights.
Browse hotels ↗
Missed it?
Cached fares expire. This route has a feed of its own — follow it and the next SF → HNL drop reaches you as soon as we find it.
Follow SF → HNL