AirportsSan Francisco

San Francisco to Detroit

🇺🇸SFO🇺🇸DTWSan Francisco International Airport to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County AirportDomestic, United States
Distance
3,337 km
2,074 miles
Frequency
58 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airlines
2
Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, codeshares included
Typical delay
37 min
32 departures

The route

Great circle, 3,337 km
SFODTW3,337 km
3,337 km (2,074 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 San Francisco International Airport on this route are typically 37 minutes late (likely 28 to 61), across 32 departures we tracked between 2026-03-20 and 2026-06-27.

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

2 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

1 of 12 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
DL 335Delta Air Lines22:55not seen yet15

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

Both airports

How these numbers are measured