Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 seat map
Seat map
Hover or tap any seat to see its rating and details.
Tap or hover a seat for its rating and details. On a phone, pinch to zoom and drag to pan.
- Exit rows: 14 and 15
- 46 extra-legroom seats
- 6 seats without under-seat storage
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How we rate seats →Seat guide
Cabin-by-cabin guidance generated from the verified layout records behind this map — which seats the ratings favor, which to think twice about, and the rows worth knowing about before you pick.
Economy
- Exit rows: 14 and 15
- 46 extra-legroom seats
- 6 seats without under-seat storage
Frequently asked questions
- How many seats does the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 have?
- This configuration has 175 seats: 175 Economy.
- What are the best seats on the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800?
- No standout seat is established by the available evidence for this layout. Unresolved comfort details remain unverified.
- Which seats should I avoid?
- No seats on this layout are flagged as ones to avoid.
- Which rows are the exit rows?
- Rows 14 and 15 are exit rows.
- Does the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 have lie-flat seats?
- No — this configuration has no lie-flat seats.
Cabins
Economy
- Pitch
- 31.5–34"published
- Width
- 16.7"published
- Seat
- Standard seat, Extra-legroom seat
Pitch and aircraft-wide narrowest/widest seat width published in the current Southwest support table. Widths are a range, not an exact individual seat width. Numerical recline remains an unpublished estimate. The shared 175-seat diagram is illustrative; its exact assignment to this aircraft and subfleet remains unverified.
Onboard facilities
Drawn on the interactive map above — hover a monument to confirm its position.
2 door pairs
Amenities
Seat map image
A printable snapshot of this exact layout — save it for boarding-day reference. The interactive map above stays the source of truth.
Sources
Every measurement and claim on this page traces back to one of these. Last verified Jul 14, 2026.
- Southwest AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 14, 2026
Definitions of Extra Legroom / Preferred / Standard seat tiers; Extra Legroom located at the front of the cabin and near the exit rows; 'up to five additional inches' of legroom vs Standard/Preferred with 'seat pitch will vary by aircraft type' (five-inch figure stated for the 737-700); assigned seating for travel January 27, 2026 and beyond; Extra Legroom extra snacks/premium beverages on 251+ mile flights.
https://www.southwest.com/customer-enhancements/assigned-seating/ ↗ - Southwest Airlines Co. (Investor Relations)PRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 14, 2026
'Seatisfaction' announcement introducing Extra Legroom, Preferred and Standard seat types and assigned seating, with group-based boarding that prioritizes Extra Legroom seats.
https://www.southwestairlinesinvestorrelations.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1882/the-choice-is-yours-seatisfaction-is-coming-to-southwest-airlines ↗ - Southwest AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 14, 2026
Inflight entertainment is free and streams to the customer's own device via the onboard portal (no downloads or sign-in); free movies/TV series/live TV where WiFi-enabled; Starlink WiFi onboard.
https://www.southwest.com/inflight-entertainment-portal/ ↗ - WikipediaINDEPENDENT SOURCERetrieved Jul 14, 2026
Southwest's Boeing 737-800 is configured with 175 seats in an all-economy cabin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_fleet ↗ - Southwest AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Jul 14, 2026
Onboard experience overview: in-seat USB power is available on retrofitted airframes and is not fleet-wide; no seatback screens; streaming entertainment.
Page is a JS-rendered Salesforce help-center app that was bot-blocked (HTTP timeout) at retrieval, so no byte snapshot could be archived; the in-seat-power retrofit distinction is retained from Southwest's help center and cross-checked against the 737-800 being an all-NG (pre-2022) subfleet.
https://support.southwest.com/helpcenter/s/article/onboard-experience-and-wifi ↗ - Southwest AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Sep 30, 2026
Current operated types, capacities, product pitch ranges, aircraft-wide width envelope, movable aisle armrests and lavatory inventory.
Widths are the aircraft-wide narrowest/widest envelope; no individual seat width assignment. Absolute row pitch varies within product ranges.
https://support.southwest.com/helpcenter/article/airplane-specifications ↗ - Southwest AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Sep 30, 2026
Assigned seating in effect January 27, 2026; Extra Legroom, Preferred and Standard product definitions.
Product availability and benefits do not establish per-tail row geometry.
https://www.southwest.com/customer-enhancements/assigned-seating/ ↗ - Southwest AirlinesPRIMARY SOURCERetrieved Sep 30, 2026
Illustrative 737-800/MAX 8 row positions and seat colors; 175 positions, 46 Extra Legroom, 45 Preferred, 84 Standard.
The airline labels this illustration for 737-800/MAX 8. It does not certify every tail, furniture geometry, seat letters or physical dimensions. ABCDEF letters follow the pre-existing model convention; the image labels rows only.
https://www.southwest.com/swa-resources/images/responsive/customer-enhancements/assigned-seating/M-LOPA.png ↗
2026-09-30: Current primary support table confirms 175 seats, Extra Legroom pitch 34 inches, Standard/Preferred pitch 31–32, aircraft-wide width 15.5–17.8, and one forward/two rear lavatories. Corrected the shared illustrative grid: row 1 has the right three positions (DEF convention), row 15 four middle positions (BCDE); other rows are complete. Gold tops identify 46 Extra Legroom positions: 1DEF, rows 2–5, 6ABC, rows 14–16. Preferred 6DEF and rows 7–13 =45; Standard rows 17–30 =84. Southwest explicitly labels this illustration for 737-800/MAX 8; it is representative, not a per-tail certified layout. Seat letters follow existing model convention rather than labels printed on the image. Exact monument coordinates, individual windows, recline, hardware, power and fleet counts remain unresolved. Unsupported inferred furniture/wing/rating assumptions were removed. The original configuration ID is retained; no new physical variant or retrofit date inferred.
What changed
- Oct 1, 2026Primary-source Claude follow-up: distinguish premium snack301-mile and drink251-mile thresholds; correct WiFi membership and designated-aircraft terms; qualify unresolved airframe/provider and derived position wording. Follow-up removes absent field hints only; existing supported corrections are preserved.
- Sep 30, 2026Correct representative numbered illustration, partial rows and 46/45/84 product assignment; update primary measurements and remove unsupported geometry/ratings.
- Jul 14, 2026Initial mapping of Southwest's assigned-seating 737-800 cabin (live for travel 2026-01-27): single Economy class with Extra Legroom / Preferred / Standard location tiers. Layout derived from counts, transferring the 737 MAX 8 (wn-7m8-175y) structural pattern to the shared 39.5 m fuselage; windowGridType 737-800.
