The Warriors are still six-plus weeks away from the start of training camp, but at least they can start making plans for the six-month regular season.

The NBA announced all 30 teams’ schedules Friday afternoon and, to no one’s surprise, Golden State will have plenty of national exposure.

Here are the biggest takeaways from the Warriors’ 2018-19 season schedule:

Fast start: The Warriors’ Oct. 16 season opener against Oklahoma City marks their earliest opener since they fell at Phoenix, 121-101, on Oct. 10, 1980. It is perhaps no shock, then, that Golden State’s nine games in October are the team’s most since it played 11 in October 1980. Fresh off their opener against the Thunder, the Warriors hit the road for games at Utah and Denver. Three days later, Golden State leaves for an East Coast swing in New York and a game in Chicago. The month ends with a matchup against New Orleans, the Warriors’ first Halloween home game since 2000.

West relief: The Warriors will play two games against each Eastern Conference team. Of the 15 Western Conference teams, Golden State will face 11 of them four times. The good news for the Warriors: The four teams they’ll play only three times — the Thunder (two home, one away), Pelicans (two home, one away), Spurs (one home, two away) and Jazz (one home, two away) — are some of the West’s best. All four of those made the playoffs last season, going a combined 191-137 in the regular season. The Thunder, which features a core of Russell Westbrook, Paul George, Steven Adams, Andre Roberson and Dennis Schroder, could rival Houston as Golden State’s biggest threat in the West.

Resting up: A year ago, the NBA shortened the preseason schedules and moved up the regular-season openers to limit the physical toll of back-to-back sets. Now, in Year 2, Golden State has even more time to rest between games. Its 13 back-to-back sets in 2018-19 are down from 14 last season, marking its fewest since the league went to an 82-game regular season schedule in 1967. Of the Warriors’ 13 back-to-backs, five have both games on the road, four are away-and-homes, three are home-and-homes and one is a home-and-away. For the first time since the 1971-72 season, Golden State will finish the season on a back-to-back set when it plays at New Orleans on April 9 before flying to Memphis for a game on April 10.

Big travel: The Warriors’ location on the West Coast is always going to put them among the most-traveled teams in the league. However, it hardly helps that Golden State has become must-watch TV. The Warriors will make 28 national TV appearances in 2018-19, with games aired on TNT (12), ESPN (10) and ABC (six). Because national TV games must be jammed into specific days of the week (Thursdays for TNT; Saturdays and Sundays for ESPN and ABC), the NBA has limited flexibility when crafting schedules if it wants its top teams playing on those stages. The result? Golden State will travel 50,430 miles in 2018-19, up from a total distance of 50,310 miles last season. Only about three or four teams crack the 50,000-mile mark in a given season.

Home for the holidays: Players had to be happy when they saw the schedule and realized that they’d be home for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Though they have to play the Pelicans on Halloween night at Oracle Arena, the Warriors have an off night on Thanksgiving between home games against Oklahoma City on Nov. 21 and Portland on Nov. 23. As announced earlier this week, Golden State will play the Lakers on ABC on Christmas Day. It will be the eighth time in nine years, including the sixth straight, that the Warriors have had a game on Dec. 25.

Connor Letourneau is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: cletourneau@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @Con_Chron

Warriors by the numbers 10-16 Date of season opener at home vs. Oklahoma City 28 Games that will be shown on national TV 13 Sets of back-to-back games (had 14 last season) 6 Consecutive seasons playing on Christmas Day 50,430 Miles they will travel (120 more than last season) Source: warriors.com