The sector is held by United Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
SFO San Francisco to MTY Monterrey
San Francisco International, the United States, to General Mariano Escobedo, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,474 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 40m
- Door to door
- 10h 25m
What SFO to MTY looks like
The SFO to MTY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
San Francisco SFO to Monterrey MTY is a medium haul sector of 2,474 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,474 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 40m.
San Francisco SFO is a major hub in the network held here, 189 scheduled destinations and 656.9 departures a day. Monterrey MTY has 64 destinations and 159.4 departures a day.
San Francisco carries about 4.1 times the departures of Monterrey, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Monterrey runs 2 hours ahead of San Francisco in January and one hour ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on SFO to MTY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SFO to MTY | 1.29 | 9 | United Airlines |
| MTY to SFO | 1.14 | 8 | United Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, United Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 17 departures a week on SFO to MTY, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 3h 40m block time on SFO to MTY. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to SFO | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At SFO before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| SFO to MTY in the air, estimated | 220 min | 8h 10m |
| Formalities at MTY | 90 min | 9h 40m |
| Delivery run in Monterrey | 45 min | 10h 25m |
| Door to door | 625 min | 10h 25m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for SFO to MTY is 10h 25m.
A courier who leaves San Francisco at 09:00 local is on the ground in Monterrey at about 14:40 local and at the door by 16:55 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Monterrey, the last useful departure from San Francisco is around 10:05 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 25 of them join SFO to MTY.
| Connecting at | SFO to hub, flights a day | Hub to MTY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenix PHX | 13.57 | 0.86 | 2,476 | 5h 25m |
| Las Vegas LAS | 21.86 | 1.43 | 2,497 | 5h 49m |
| Los Angeles LAX | 42.71 | 0.71 | 2,523 | 5h 50m |
| Los Cabos SJD | 2.57 | 1.57 | 3,027 | 5h 52m |
| Houston IAH | 10.29 | 8 | 3,289 | 6h 34m |
| Dallas DFW | 16.57 | 7.29 | 3,197 | 6h 35m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at SFO in the afternoon actually flies on.
25 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Phoenix PHX, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a week.
Through PHX the routing covers 2,476 km against the 2,474 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 25m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Las Vegas LAS at 5h 49m and Los Angeles LAX at 5h 50m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves San Francisco, Oakland OAK is 18 km away by great circle and carries 89 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through SFO or MTY. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Genentech, South San FranciscoBiotechnology research and manufacturing. The original biotech cluster, and still the densest. Logistics through San Francisco SFO.
Plan San Francisco to Monterrey yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for SFO to MTY in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The SFO airport entry
- The MTY airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Mexico
- The written lane, Dubai to San Francisco
- The written lane, San Francisco to Taipei
- The written lane, Seoul to San Francisco
- The route calculator
More pairs through SFO and MTY: Atlanta to Monterrey, Mexico City to Monterrey, Guadalajara to Monterrey, Mexico City to Monterrey, Chicago to Monterrey, Tijuana to Monterrey, Monterrey to Queretaro, Miami to Monterrey.