San Francisco (SFO) to Fort Lauderdale (FLL): 2,579 miles (4,151 km) great-circle, about 5h 40m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $352 round-trip on American Airlines, with 1 stop, departing May 25, 2026.
$352 round-trip, American Airlines AA3082, departing 2026-05-25 at 05:00, returning 2026-05-31. The recorded itinerary left on a Monday, returning on a Sunday 6 nights later; the fare was observed 30 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $352, it ranked 9th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from SFO (median $646). That is 13.6 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), below the SFO median of 16.9 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from SFO of similar length: New York (2,580 mi) at $140 and Miami (2,581 mi) at $249.
SFO to FLL is the only one of 30 SFO routes where American Airlines priced cheapest. It is the 19th longest of the 30 routes we track from SFO.
Of 28 departure airports with a fare to Fort Lauderdale, San Francisco (SFO) ranked 23rd at $352. Lowest: $64 from Charlotte (CLT); highest: $1825 from Wellington (WLG); 16 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Frontier (8), Spirit (8), JetBlue (4), WestJet (3), Air Transat (1) and American Airlines (1), plus 3 more.
The reverse, Fort Lauderdale (FLL) to San Francisco (SFO), was $350 round-trip on Southwest, 2 stops, departing July 22, 2026. Fort Lauderdale to San Francisco flights.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones America/Los_Angeles, America/New_York; flight time is our estimate.