Passengers
72,096
Melbourne to San Francisco, 12 months to May 2026
Melbourne to San Francisco
USA · 233 months of data from Jan 1985 · San Francisco to Melbourne
Both directions
145,343
including San Francisco to Melbourne
Flight time
14h 10m
1h 45m shorter than the return
Load factor
80%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
72,096 passengers flew Melbourne to San Francisco in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 145,343 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 80% full, much the same in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to San Francisco.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Melbourne to San Francisco is 14h 10m gate to gate, over 12,641 km. Coming back takes 15h 55m — a difference of 1h 45m, so this direction is the quicker one.
Scheduled block time — gate to gate, not time in the air — taken from the current timetable for this leg. Long-haul flights are often timetabled differently in each direction because of winds aloft, so the return is not always the same length. Check your own booking for the flight you are taking.
Flight numbers on this route
1 flight number currently scheduled from Melbourne to San Francisco. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 7 departures in all.
United · 1 · Boeing 787-9
UA61
Current timetable as at 2026-09-06
Timetables change, and these carry no punctuality figures of their own — no on-time data is published for international flights at all. The passenger and load factor figures above cover the route, not any single flight number.
Passengers, 1985 to 2026
To May 2026 · Marks show industry events
How full were the flights?
Inbound load factor, read as a floor rather than an exact figure. Some flights on this pair also carried passengers to and from other cities, and their seats cannot be split between those journeys. Dividing by every seat on every aircraft that touched the route gives the lowest the true figure can be, so actual occupancy is at or above the line. Seat data begins in 2009, so this series is shorter than the passenger chart above.
Load factor: seats data from 2009
When is this route busiest?
Average passengers by calendar month over the last ten years, relative to the annual average.
Freight
Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.
To May 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 14,081 · Jan 2024 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – May 2026 (233 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 3,380 tonnes |
| Destination region | USA |
No punctuality data is published for international services, so there are no cancellation or on-time figures on this page. That series covers domestic routes only.