San Francisco International Airport

Using the San Francisco International Airport airport profile

San Francisco International Airport serves San Francisco, US, at reference coordinates 37.6190, -122.3750. Its canonical aviation identifier on PocketWorld is ICAO code KSFO| IATA: SFO. The listed elevation and timezone come from the airport reference catalog and help place the airfield on the globe; they are not a substitute for an aeronautical information publication or a current airport notice.

Geographically, San Francisco International Airport is recorded in San Francisco, California, US, north of the equator and west of Greenwich. At 13 feet in the reference catalog, it is grouped here as a low-elevation airport; its timezone identifier is America/Los_Angeles. These stable attributes help distinguish the airport from places with similar names or shared metropolitan codes. You can also open the San Francisco city profile.

The flight section reports only aircraft found in PocketWorld's latest available public ADS-B snapshot with enough origin or destination metadata to associate them with SFO. Receiver coverage, provider availability, transponder settings and metadata quality vary by region and aircraft. A flight can therefore be operating normally without appearing here, and a callsign or airport pair can be missing, delayed or stale.

Position data is not an airline schedule

An observed aircraft position can help explain where a flight was recently seen, together with altitude, speed and route fields when those values are present. It does not by itself confirm a gate, terminal, boarding time, delay, diversion or cancellation. Arrivals and departures shown here are matches from public telemetry, not a complete airport operations board.

Use this page for geographic context and open the interactive flight map to inspect nearby traffic. Before travelling, verify schedules and operational changes with the airline or the airport. PocketWorld documents its source limits in Methodology and names the public providers on the Sources page.