SFO Airport Code: San Francisco Airport IATA & ICAO

San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is stored for San Francisco, United States. ICAO KSFO. Timezone America/Los_Angeles. This page does not list live flights, fares or terminals.

Overview

SFO is the IATA airport code stored in this dataset for San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, United States (US). The matching ICAO identifier is KSFO. Travel agents see SFO on tickets, baggage tags, and GDS segment city pairs (six letters, for example SFOLHR when the other airport is London Heathrow). ICAO KSFO is used in flight plans and ATC, not as the two-or-three-character GDS city-pair token. The IANA timezone recorded for local GDS times at this airport is America/Los_Angeles. This code page explains how SFO is used in PNR text. It is not a live departures board. Terminal maps, contact phone numbers, lounge lists, and published flight schedules are not available in this dataset and are not invented here. Nearby airports stored for United States: JFK (New York), EWR (Newark), LGA (New York), LAX (Los Angeles), ORD (Chicago). Related IATA city code in this dataset: SFO. To turn a booked PNR that contains SFO into a customer itinerary, paste the cryptic text into the PNR parser.

How to use this page

Confirm the three-letter token on the ticket or PNR is SFO, not a similar code.
Open the PNR parser and paste the full itinerary that contains SFO.
Convert and check that city and timezone match this record.
Use the airport-code page if you only need IATA versus ICAO for SFO.
Do not copy terminal or lounge claims from other websites onto this page. They are not stored here.

Example

Example GDS segment using this airport as origin: 2 AI 101 J 12OCT 1 SFOLHR HK1 0945 1510 12OCT E The parser should read SFO as departure. Times 0945/1510 are local as printed, not converted to your PC clock. If SFO is missing from the dataset, city and timezone enrichment stay empty rather than guessed.

FAQs

What is the SFO airport code?

SFO is the IATA code stored for San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, United States.

What does SFO stand for?

In this dataset SFO identifies San Francisco International Airport. IATA codes are location identifiers, not always acronyms of the city name.

What is the ICAO code for SFO?

This dataset lists KSFO as the ICAO designator.

Is SFO the same as KSFO?

No. SFO is IATA (tickets and GDS city pairs). KSFO is ICAO (flight plans).

Where is SFO airport?

San Francisco International Airport is stored as San Francisco, United States (US).

What timezone is SFO?

America/Los_Angeles is the IANA zone stored for local GDS time context. DST rules follow that zone.

Which terminals does SFO use?

Terminal information is not available in this dataset.

How do travel agents use SFO in a PNR?

Segment city pairs include SFO as origin or destination, for example SFOLHR. Paste the PNR into the parser to build a clean itinerary.

Are there other airports near San Francisco?

In this dataset, other United States airports include JFK (New York), EWR (Newark), LGA (New York), LAX (Los Angeles), ORD (Chicago).

Can I look up live flights from SFO?

Not on this page. This product parses booked PNR text; it does not query airline schedules.

Is SFO a city code or an airport code?

In this dataset SFO is the airport code and is also grouped under city code SFO.

How often is SFO data updated?

When the stored catalog row changes. Last page template update: 17 Aug 2026. Unverified operational claims are omitted.