We have pulled onto Interstate 5 from 580 at 7am and hit stopped traffic on the Saturday before Christmas. On prime holiday weekends, go an hour earlier. We leave at 6am for SF to LA trips and 5am for LA to SF trips.
You must follow two simple rules to avoid an 8-10 hour trip. If you have more than two people traveling, driving will always be hundreds of dollars less expensive than flying – especially with today’s low gasoline prices.īut don’t think you can just waltz out to your car with your kids and your bags and get up or down the state in 6-7 hours. We drive SF-LA door-to-door in 6 to 7 hours, depending on where we start and end in each metro area, which makes the few hours saved by flying amazingly costly.
When you factor in the time it takes to get to the airport, clear security, check-in, fly, and take ground transportation to your destination – which typically necessitates renting a car – you’re talking, best case, a 4-5 hour “flight time.” But the 400ish-mile-distance between the two cities means it takes almost as much time to fly as it does to drive. If you’re dreading a road trip down (or up) the state, don’t worry: There are several things you can do to make the trip fast and easy.įirst, you have to accept the fact that the fastest way to get between SF and LA is to drive “The 5.” Complainers say the famous Central Valley artery is unattractive and takes forever. Having lived the first half of my life in Los Angeles and the second half in San Francisco, I have driven back and forth between the two cities about a thousand times – often on my own and often with kids in the back seat.
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