Route brief · SFO → MCO
San Francisco → Orlando
$252
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 7 – Oct 11 · 4 nights
Southwest1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMCOOrlandoThe theme parks are the point, and the fare war they create is the cheapest way into Florida.Best windowFeb–Apr · Oct–NovAirportsOrlando (MCO) · Sanford (SFB)All routes into OrlandoWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Orlando: Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov. 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 6 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under Southwest, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $252 for 3,934 km each way, that works out to about $32 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco. We have 3 months 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.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $267 then versus $258 now, across 4 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 $232, on Aug 22.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Orlando (MCO) · Sanford (SFB)
- Flight time
- ~6 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,934 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Southwest
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov
SF → MCO, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → Orlando?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Orlando?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Southwest. 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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