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$135 Find Cheap Flights from San Francisco to Columbus

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Cheap Flights from San Francisco to Columbus (SFO-CMH)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from San Francisco to Columbus that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent round-trip flight deals from San Francisco to Columbus

Fri, Sep 5 - Tue, Sep 9
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5:45 am - 10:45 pmSFO-CMH
14h 00m1 stop
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12:53 pm - 9:21 pmCMH-SFO
11h 28m1 stop
Sat, Aug 16 - Mon, Aug 25
Frontier Logo
8:53 pm - 2:10 pmSFO-CMH
14h 17m1 stop
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8:27 pm - 12:19 amCMH-SFO
6h 52m1 stop
$268Frontier
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Thu, Aug 21 - Tue, Aug 26
Delta Logo
2:40 pm - 11:56 pmSFO-CMH
6h 16m1 stop
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11:49 am - 6:52 pmCMH-SFO
10h 03m1 stop
$277Delta
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Mon, Aug 18 - Mon, Aug 25
Delta Logo
9:35 pm - 9:04 amSFO-CMH
8h 29m1 stop
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6:15 pm - 10:49 pmCMH-SFO
7h 34m1 stop
$287Delta
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Sat, Aug 23 - Mon, Aug 25
United Airlines Logo
8:25 am - 4:08 pmSFO-CMH
4h 43mnonstop
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5:28 pm - 7:32 pmCMH-SFO
5h 04mnonstop
$289United Airlines
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Thu, Aug 21 - Sun, Aug 24
United Airlines Logo
5:00 am - 3:59 pmSFO-CMH
7h 59m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
7:40 am - 9:44 amCMH-SFO
5h 04mnonstop
$299United Airlines
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Fri, Oct 31 - Tue, Nov 4
American Airlines Logo
11:25 pm - 4:00 pmSFO-CMH
13h 35m1 stop
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4:44 pm - 10:08 pmCMH-SFO
8h 24m1 stop
$302American Airlines
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Mon, Aug 25 - Wed, Aug 27
Southwest Logo
2:20 pm - 12:40 amSFO-CMH
7h 20m1 stop
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6:35 am - 12:10 pmCMH-SFO
8h 35m2 stops
$314Southwest
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Wed, Sep 3 - Wed, Sep 24
Southwest Logo
8:35 am - 9:05 pmSFO-CMH
9h 30m2 stops
Southwest Logo
6:35 am - 12:10 pmCMH-SFO
8h 35m2 stops
$319Southwest
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Sun, Aug 24 - Wed, Aug 27
American Airlines Logo
12:45 am - 10:54 amSFO-CMH
7h 09m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
11:14 am - 6:53 pmCMH-SFO
10h 39m1 stop
$325American Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for San Francisco to Columbus flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from San Francisco to Columbus to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from San Francisco to Columbus?

The average price of all round-trip flights from San Francisco to Columbus Airport clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

If your flying dates are flexible, you should consider flying to Columbus on a Saturday, as we generally find the cheapest rates on that day for this route. On the other hand, Monday is the most expensive day to fly from San Francisco to Columbus. For your return ticket, we recommend flying on a Thursday and avoiding Sundays for the best deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from San Francisco to Columbus Airport?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from San Francisco to Columbus Airport, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from San Francisco to Columbus Airport is January, where tickets cost $362 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and November, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $538 and $523 respectively.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from San Francisco to Columbus Airport?

The average round-trip price for all non-stop flights, flights with one layover, and flights with two layovers for the route found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

Yes, flying with a layover may cost you more time, but you can also save money on the route, with a 1 stop layover the cheapest option at $926 on average.

How far in advance should I book a flight from San Francisco to Columbus Airport?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from San Francisco to Columbus Airport, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from San Francisco to Columbus Airport, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 36% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 25 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flight$135
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 20% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 2% increase in price.
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When to book flights from San Francisco to Columbus

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from San Francisco to Columbus based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking San Francisco to Columbus flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from San Francisco to Columbus Airport?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from San Francisco to Columbus Airport was $135 for a one-way ticket and $257 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between San Francisco and Columbus?

    A passport is not required to fly from San Francisco to Columbus.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from San Francisco to Columbus?

    When flying out of San Francisco you will be using San Francisco. You will be landing at Columbus, also known as Columbus.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from San Francisco to Columbus?

    The Airbus A319 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the San Francisco to Columbus flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from San Francisco to Columbus?

    Star Alliance is the only airline alliance operating flights between San Francisco and Columbus.

  • On which days can I fly direct from San Francisco to Columbus?

    There are nonstop flights from San Francisco to Columbus on a daily basis.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from San Francisco to Columbus, Delta or Southwest?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from San Francisco to Columbus are Delta and Southwest. With an average price for the route of $342 and an overall rating of 8.0, Delta is the most popular choice. Southwest is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $431 and an overall rating of 8.0.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from San Francisco to Columbus?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from San Francisco to Columbus.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from San Francisco to Columbus?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Columbus from San Francisco is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from San Francisco to Columbus?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Columbus with an airline and back to San Francisco with another airline. Booking your flights between San Francisco and CMH can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from San Francisco to Columbus?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Columbus from San Francisco up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

KAYAK’s top tips for finding a cheap flight from San Francisco to Columbus Airport

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $323 or less one-way and $401 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from San Francisco to Columbus?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from San Francisco to Columbus.
Find which airlines fly direct from San Francisco Airport to Columbus Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

San Francisco to Columbus

Monday

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Tuesday

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Wednesday

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Thursday

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Friday

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Saturday

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Sunday

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Columbus to San Francisco

Monday

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Tuesday

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Wednesday

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Thursday

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Friday

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Saturday

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from San Francisco to Columbus

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Francisco to Columbus. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from San Francisco to Columbus? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
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SouthwestOverall score based on 4246 reviews
8.1Boarding
7.0Food
7.5Entertainment
8.0Comfort
8.6Crew
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Delayed flight. Nicest crew member was a SW pilot flying seated next to me who kindly move to seat the final passenger. Flight extra delayed. My cup of refreshment of ginger ale was so packed with ice it was literally 2 sips.

4.0 OkayTraci, Jun 2025OAK - SEA
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Delayed flight. Nicest crew member was a SW pilot flying seated next to me who kindly move to seat the final passenger. Flight extra delayed. My cup of refreshment of ginger ale was so packed with ice it was literally 2 sips.

No trays in our seats, we sat in first row, purchased a business class fare. Had to hold our drinks and snack in our hands. No plugs for our cell phones. Had to pay for it a drink cocktail each. Seats so uncomfortable.

Flight wasn’t even full, but too many carry-ons caused us to run out of bin space. New bag fee has folks who would usually check their bags carrying on. Watching Southwest morph into Spirit/Frontier is so sad to watch

Southwest is Southwest. No frills. If you're luck enough to get a happy crew (we did), then it makes for a nicer flight.

It was a perfect flight in all aspects! Both legs!

Great flight, 47 passengers on a 180 seat plane. Stewardess was pleasant and cheerful.

Short flight with plenty of open seats. Drinks and snacks were still provided even on such a short flight. <1 hr

I liked the crew member who gave flight instructions on "in case of a problem:. The seats are so small that only a young teenager could sit in middle seat.

Great flight staff. Ease of boarding. Overall, very uneventful and easy trip.

Employees were kind and funny, as always! Flight was late but no announcements were made for people with tight connections to help them transition quickly. No service due to turbulence.

My husband upgraded our seats and I don't know if it was due to the type of planet was or if they didn't upgrade our seats. We were supposed to be in I believe comfort seats and they were just as tight as any other seat- no leg room and we are very tall people but at least it wasn't extremely cold. My husband did put in a complaint about our seating because he paid extra and if we would have known that the space and the tightness would have been the same, we just would have gotten the emergency row emergency row seats that we normally get. We love Delta but both our flights coming home we're not good. Oh I forgot to mention that on our flight to Hawaii our luggage wheels got broke and we had to purse new luggage on vacation then we never had this problem so we didn't know protocol and reported it after we got home only for them to tell is we only had 24hrs to report the damage. Not sure what was going on with Delta this vacation trip.

Crew was excellent. Comfort seats not as nice as other kinds of planes.

It was a great flight and the stewards and stewardess were all kind and accommodating!! The seats were comfortable and entertainment screen excellent!

There are 4 flights in consecutive gates with about the same departure time. Two flights were boarding at the same time. One was delayed or boarding would be happening at the same time. I am not sure what Delta and LAX need to do to have a better layout at the end of Terminal 2

There was a security issue at the airport and we were unable to land. We circled endlessly and then landed at another airfield for fuel. We then circled the airport again, almost landed but didn’t fully touch down before circling again. I am thankful to the crew for keeping us safe- the issue was the airline and staff at the airport getting us seats on our connecting flights. That part was hours of searching for someone and getting in double my steps.

Most aspects were good however if they assign boarding zones they ought to enforce them or why bother? My luggage from SAN-JFK-MAD was lost in NY so I without my main bag for two days upon arrival in Spain. They were helpful in tracking it and eventually delivered it to my hotel. The flub was because of a delay upon arrival in NYC. I had booked 2 1/2 hours between flights but we had to hold on the taxiway for an hour after landing while waiting for a clear gate which likely caused the baggage error.

Excellent flight, the planes were newer, they did a nice job with boarding, great service overall.

It would be nice if was given wires ear buds. Overall was a good experience was able to sleep on the plane

737-800 in first class was pretty dumpy. Seat had an uncomfortable angle, storage under the seat was blocked so even my very modest backpack didn't fit, power outlet was flaky. Weird tiny seat pockets that couldn't hold a gallon ziploc bag, emesis bag missing, etc. etc. No in-flight service due to turbulence. Crew was excellent, boarding was smooth despite a full flight.

Delta flight was on time, seats were comfortable, and crew was nice.

I learned that seating towards the end of plane that a line forms for the restroom and people use your chair as a hand railing, bumping your seat consistently. I was seated in the aisle. I think that next time if I am towards the back row I would want to sit in the middle or window seat.

The best airline I have ever travel , really good customer service, attention and service !!

It was delayed instead of departing at 9:20pm, we departed at 11pm… putting us in Columbus after 2am! It was awful. Had I known about the delay, I could have spent some time in the United Lounge… I was starving because I started my journey in Budapest… so I was exhausted and hungry. Plus I had to make new arrangements to be picked up at the airport in Columbus, instead of midnight it was 2:30 am after getting luggage and out of airport. Not feasible. I would have just stayed in Chicago for the night and gotten a morning flight.

Everything was great. Only thing that could’ve made it better was buy on board options for hot food, but the snacks were decent. The flight attendants were great. I had no complaints. I was able to make it to my destination safely

Horrific. They missed my connecting flight to San Diego. I didn’t get there until Monday at 9am when I had a mandatory court settlement conference scheduled at 6am since we had parties on the east coast. This caused many issues. All because United apparently forgot to hold the doors open until my flight landed that only had a 10 minute delay. This was the last flight to Southern California. So I couldn’t even rent a car to finish the trip. United cannot be trusted when traveling on specific days and times since weather didn’t have anything to do with the delays.

Very comfortable (upgraded to business class). The audio on my screen didn’t work, but I managed to play the audio through my phone while watching the screen.

Flight was late as pilot crew had to land at different airport in their previous flight. Passengers boarded and had to wait for pilots inside plane. Series of incomplete and unnecessary announcements by an annoying voice, rather than complete, informative announcements.

Boarding seemed to be organized bedlam. For what ever reason, preboarding took longer than 20 minutes. Made the plane 20 minutes late taking off. Luckily we arrived on time. Flight crew seemed very friendly. Only slight turbulence.

The personnel were professional and friendly. The Boeing 737 Max 9 is too claustrophobic and was very warm at both airport gates, and still warm in the air.

While the staff was pleasant and helpful, the following observations are for your awareness. There was some delay on the tarmac on take off and landing. The paid lunch/food offerings were limited. Entertainment was only available on WiFi at a cost.

Our flight was 1.5 hours delayed. There was no weather for the inbound flight, so I don't understand why. This meant a VERY late arrival and only a quick nap before my morning flight.

Delayed flight, so I switched fights to SFO to Phoenix , Phoenix to DSM. Excellent service through American Airlines

Flight was delayed and after being in the airport for like seven hours, it was canceled.

AA re-routed flight from HNL to LAX due to delay. My group of 3 with reserved seats in row 9 was broken up, with one assigned to a middle seat, another in the last row of the plane. Not happy. No explanation to the delay. No apologies. No compensation. Would have been nice to be offered an Admiral Club admission or a voucher for the extra 3 hours of layover in LAX. Could not hear the boarding gate announcements in LAX. Adjacent gate was boarding at the same time. Loud speakers were competing against each other. Barely made my boarding group.

Almost a 6 hour flight and the only food option is a cheese plate… and chips. Also how is it there are no options for texting on American. I’ll be going back to delta and united.

The chair cushions may need an upgrade. I have been noticing they are so worn out, thin so you’d sit in a dip 😄. Other than that, all was an enjoyable trip. Thanks AA!

Cramped seats. FAA should make airlines have more legroom, for even short people complain

Eventless. It was a good flight and good crew. Can’t complaint.

Very helpful ground crew after an earlier flight delay and being rebooked on a different flight.

British Airways staff are very polite and willing to help.

Cancelled flight after I arrived at airport after 75 min drive and parking. Next flight was 4 days in the future. Had to scramble and buy a much more expensive flight on another carrier.

I liked the turn-style feature at gate 209B at LAX. Very efficient process. The gate staff also made several, clearly directed announcements so I felt very informed.

The seats were awful, hard plastic covered in sheet vinyl. The airline tries to scam you into paying extra to get seat together when the flight wasn’t full. They were going to separate a family with young children but my wife who had a row to herself gave up her seat so the young mom could be with her young boys. I’m never giving this airline my money again.

It was a short flight so no food or entertainment….

Cancelled and declined to find alternatives Earlier flight is 2 days later Sent the cancellation notification very late, wish I knew earlier would have stayed to watch the Miami open final game Very disappointing service

Frontier had yet another flight cancellation. Have never made a complete round trip with this airline without at least one leg getting cancelled. Miserable flights - dirty, uncomfortable planes that apparently always have issues since I've had multiple delays and cancellations with them.

Flight was delayed 3 times, would have been nice to have received text message instead of email notifications. Frontier app wasn’t even updated accordingly, no gate number disclosed. No agent at front desk of gate to inform of delay. Very confused and left if the dark

They changed the timing , first delayed by 4 hours then went back to 40 mins late, we had to run back to airport to not miss our flight. This is ridiculous

No frills for sure. No gate announcements about flight delay, not even water to drink on the flight.

The check in process was a mess for no reason. I spent an hour waiting in line trying to get them to print my boarding pass and as a result I missed my flight.

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