Flying from San Francisco to Denver?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
Flying from San Francisco to Denver?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
Flying from San Francisco to Denver?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
San Francisco → Denver
A medium flight within United States. Denver is 1 hour ahead. Remember to put your watch forward when you land.
The City by the Bay
San Francisco packs a famously hilly, fog-prone peninsula into about 122 sq km (47 sq mi), with the bay on one side and the Pacific on the other. It is one of the few American cities genuinely built for transit and walking: a dense streetcar, cable car, and bus network covers the city, and BART carries it onward to Oakland and Berkeley. Distances are short, but steep hills and scarce parking make a car more trouble than help in the core. Cool, foggy summers surprise visitors expecting California heat.
Surrounding hubs
| 665 km / 413 mi | |
| 719 km / 447 mi | |
| 962 km / 598 mi |
The Mile High City
Denver sits exactly a mile above sea level where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains, a compact downtown ringed by wide, flat suburbs. It is the gateway to the mountains for skiing and hiking, and much of its draw is what lies a short drive west. The core is walkable and a rail line runs in from the airport, but the wider region runs on the car. The altitude is real, so take the first day easy.
Surrounding hubs
| 968 km / 601 mi | |
| 1,009 km / 627 mi | |
| 1,032 km / 641 mi |
Find out which side of the plane to sit on.
Pick your airports, set your departure time, and you're done.
We calculate the sun's position based on your flight path and departure time, then tell you which side of the plane gets direct sun and which stays shaded. No guessing, just math.
Enter your flight
Pick your departure and arrival airports and set your departure time at the departure airport. FlightSide estimates the duration and you can adjust it if you know the exact schedule.
We track the sun along your route
Your flight path is broken into hundreds of points. At each one we check where the sun is and which side of the plane it faces.
You get a recommendation
Which side of the plane to sit on, left or right, depending on whether you'd rather avoid the sun or enjoy it. The percentages and the map are there if you want to see why.
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Notes from the product.
Small updates, route observations, and clearer explanations for how the app keeps evolving.
Type less, wait less, wonder more
Airport search now understands metro codes and old city names, FlightSide loads noticeably faster, and a new Feeling lucky button chooses a flight for anyone without one in mind.
A closer look at the route, not just the seat
FlightSide now shows the two cities and key details about the flight alongside the seat recommendation: confirm you picked the right airports, read the time change off two clocks, and check the return leg.
It's all about the sun (after all)
Not all sunlight reaches the side windows. FlightSide now weighs the sun’s angle to the cabin and shows twilight along the route.