AirportsNarita

Narita to San Francisco

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅NRTπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈSFONarita International Airport to San Francisco International AirportJapan to United States
Distance
8,227 km
5,112 miles
Frequency
29 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airlines
4
United Airlines, Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways, codeshares included
Typical delay
28 min
76 departures

The route

Great circle, 8,227 km
NRTSFO8,227 km
8,227 km (5,112 miles) great-circle, measured between the two airports' published coordinates. The line is the shortest path over the globe, which on a flat map bows away from a straight line.

How delayed is this route?

Measured over months

Departures from Narita International Airport on this route are typically 28 minutes late (likely 24 to 35), across 76 departures we tracked between 2026-03-23 and 2026-08-14.

median delay of tracked departures on this leg. Flight Owl's own resolved departure predictions (flights our users tracked), not a census of all flights at the airport.

Airlines on this route

4 airlines with a flight number here

Every airline that puts its own flight number on this route. On a busy pair most of them are codeshare partners selling seats on another airline's aircraft, so this is wider than the list of airlines that actually operate it.

Flights on this route

3 of 5 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
UA 838United Airlines17:05B77W29
NH 8All Nippon Airways17:00B77W27
JL 58Japan Airlines18:15B78916

Departure times are local to Narita International Airport. A flight appears here once we have tracked it at least 10 times.

Both airports

How these numbers are measured