#1
Best Places to Meet Halfway Between San Francisco and Vienna
Best overall match
Los Angeles, United States
Best overall balance of travel time, flight price, weather, hotel cost and flight availability.
✈ San Francisco 1h
✈ Vienna 12h 20m
From €1865 combined
The Best Meeting Point for San Francisco and Vienna: Los Angeles, United States
29 destinations can be reached directly from both San Francisco and Vienna on the same outbound and return dates. Los Angeles, United States is our best overall match, while London, United Kingdom has the shortest travel time, London, United Kingdom has the cheapest flights, Los Angeles, United States has the best weather, Warsaw, Poland has the lowest hotel costs, and Istanbul, Turkey offers the most matching flight options . You can also search all 29 matching destinations with our destination finder .
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Shortest travel time
London, United Kingdom
10h 40m from San Francisco ·
1h 40m from Vienna
Cheapest flights
London, United Kingdom
From €788 combined
Best weather
Los Angeles, United States
25°C
Cheapest hotels
Warsaw, Poland
€40/night
Most flight options
Istanbul, Turkey
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Rome, Italy
#3
Lisbon, Portugal
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#4
Istanbul, Turkey
#5
Barcelona, Spain
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Washington, United States
#7
Warsaw, Poland
#8
New York, United States
#9
Toronto, Canada
#10
Newark, United States
#11
Boston, United States
#12
Madrid, Spain
#13
Montreal, Canada
#14
Chicago, United States
#15
Paris, France
#16
London, United Kingdom
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Zurich, Switzerland
#18
Frankfurt, Germany
#19
Copenhagen, Denmark
#20
Dublin, Ireland
#21
Seoul, South Korea
#22
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
#23
Munich, Germany
#24
Doha, Qatar
#25
Shanghai, China
#26
Beijing, China
#27
Amsterdam, Netherlands
#28
Tokyo, Japan
#29
Taipei, Taiwan
Frequently Asked Questions
Why direct flights from both cities instead of a geographic midpoint?
A map midpoint between San Francisco and Vienna is usually a town neither of you can reach easily. We instead show real destinations both cities fly to directly, which is normally faster and cheaper than meeting at the literal halfway point.
Where can someone from San Francisco and someone from Vienna meet halfway?
Any destination on this page works as a meet-in-the-middle point: both San Francisco and Vienna have a direct flight to it, so you arrive in the same place without changing planes. Open the finder to see every shared date, sorted by weather and combined flight cost.
How are the destinations ranked?
Each shared destination is scored on the weather forecast across the trip and the combined flight value from both cities. The finder lets you re-rank and filter by budget, trip length and travel dates.
We live in different countries. Where should we meet between San Francisco and Vienna?
Every option here is reachable on a direct flight from both San Francisco and Vienna, including international routes, so a cross-border meet-up needs no connections on either side.
Can we search from Vienna and San Francisco instead?
The order does not matter. San Francisco to Vienna and Vienna to San Francisco produce the same destinations, since a direct route works both ways.