Milwaukee to San Francisco flight

Flights from Milwaukee to San Francisco start at €318.74 and take 7h 25m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Milwaukee to San Francisco starts at €318.74 and takes 7h 25m door to door, run by 1 operator over 3,047 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked September 13, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 25mDoor to door
  • 4h 15mMoving
  • €318.74 to €538.81From
  • 06:52 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 451.0 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on September 28, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€318.74 to €538.81 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €538.81Mon14
  2. about €443.23Tue15
  3. about €523.47Wed16
  4. about €511.67Thu17
  5. about €448.54Fri18
  6. about €495.74Sat19
  7. about €445.00Sun20
  8. about €318.74Mon21
  9. about €341.16Tue22
  10. about €325.23Wed23
  11. about €425.53Thu24
  12. about €386.59Fri25
  13. about €401.34Sat26
  14. about €405.47Sun27

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

Cheapest€268.00
  1. Frontier Airlines FA784107:304h 3m11:33Milwaukee MKELas Vegas LAS
  2. Air Canada AC932912:311h 19m13:50Las Vegas LASSan Francisco SFO

Changes at Las Vegas, with 58 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 9h 30mCO2 788.7 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€290.42
  1. Southwest Airlines SA913206:524h 15m11:07Milwaukee MKESan Francisco SFO

Door to door 7h 25mCO2 451.0 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Southwest Airlines€290.427h 25m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Southwest Airlines

The flight gets you into San Francisco. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in San Francisco for the night the flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book Milwaukee to San Francisco

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €361.8190 days
  2. €237.9160 days
  3. €233.1945 days
  4. €211.9530 days
  5. €314.6121 days
  6. €405.4714 days
  7. €445.007 days
  8. €523.473 days
  9. €538.811 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €211.95.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 154 percent. The most expensive point is €538.81, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €405.47Sun
  2. €318.74Mon
  3. €341.16Tue
  4. €325.23Wed
  5. €425.53Thu
  6. €386.59Fri
  7. €401.34Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Milwaukee

Air
  • MKE

San Francisco

Air
  • SFO
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 3,047 km against 2,959 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Las Vegas, Denver, Omaha, Minneapolis. The gap between arriving and leaving is 58 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Milwaukee at 06:52 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Milwaukee to San Francisco

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco take?

The Flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco takes 7h 25m door to door, of which 4h 15m is spent moving. The route runs 3,047 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco cost?

The Flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco starts at €318.74 for one passenger, as of September 13, 2026. A typical fare is €290.42. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco?

1 operators run the Flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco: Southwest Airlines. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco use?

The Flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco leaves from Milwaukee MKE and arrives at San Francisco SFO. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco?

Fares for the Flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €211.95. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 154 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco produce?

The Flight from Milwaukee to San Francisco produces about 451.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 3047 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Milwaukee to San Francisco on September 13, 2026: 3047 km of route against 2959 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €318.74, and 7h 25m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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