✈ HND → SFO
TOKYO → SAN FRANCISCO IN 10H 37M. CONSIDER BUSINESS CLASS. NO, REALLY.
Flight from Tokyo to San Francisco
From Haneda (HND), Japan Asia → SFO (SFO), USA North America
↔ Flying the other way? San Francisco → Tokyo
How long is the flight from Tokyo to San Francisco?
A nonstop flight from Tokyo (HND) to San Francisco (SFO) takes about 10 hours 37 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,149 miles (8,286 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
10h 37m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,149 mi
8,286 km · great-circle
Avg speed
781 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Tokyo timezone
UTC+9
Asia/Tokyo
San Francisco timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Time difference
-16h
16 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~11.2d
Westward — easier
CO₂ footprint per passenger
Economy class, single passenger. Source: DEFRA 2024 averages.
This flight emits roughly 3.6× the CO₂ of an equivalent train trip and 0.9× a car driven alone over the same distance.
Flights from Tokyo
Nearest destinations
- Tokyo → Osaka
- Tokyo → Seoul
- Tokyo → Shanghai
- Tokyo → Beijing
- Tokyo → Taipei
- Tokyo → Hong Kong
- Tokyo → Manila
- Tokyo → Bangkok
- Tokyo → Singapore
- Tokyo → Kuala Lumpur
Long-haul from Tokyo
- Tokyo → Rio de Janeiro
- Tokyo → São Paulo
- Tokyo → Buenos Aires
- Tokyo → Santiago
- Tokyo → Cape Town
- Tokyo → Johannesburg
- Tokyo → Cancun
- Tokyo → Miami
- Tokyo → Casablanca
- Tokyo → Mexico City
More flights to North America
Flights to San Francisco
Nearest origins
- Los Angeles → San Francisco
- Las Vegas → San Francisco
- Seattle → San Francisco
- Vancouver → San Francisco
- Dallas → San Francisco
- Chicago → San Francisco
- Mexico City → San Francisco
- Atlanta → San Francisco
- Toronto → San Francisco
- Cancun → San Francisco
Long-haul to San Francisco
- Johannesburg → San Francisco
- Cape Town → San Francisco
- Nairobi → San Francisco
- Kuala Lumpur → San Francisco
- Singapore → San Francisco
- Mumbai → San Francisco
- Bali (Denpasar) → San Francisco
- Abu Dhabi → San Francisco
- Dubai → San Francisco
- Doha → San Francisco