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Cheap flight deals to San Diego

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights to San Diego that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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06:05 - 22:11CHC-SAN
36h 06m3 stops
14:35 - 15:30SAN-CHC
27h 55m2 stops
$1,732
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Tue, 22 Oct - Tue, 19 Nov
06:05 - 22:11CHC-SAN
36h 06m3 stops
14:35 - 15:30SAN-CHC
27h 55m2 stops
$1,741
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Tue, 22 Oct - Tue, 19 Nov
06:05 - 20:33CHC-SAN
34h 28m2 stops
10:53 - 15:30SAN-CHC
31h 37m2 stops
$1,914American Airlines
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Tue, 22 Oct - Tue, 19 Nov
06:35 - 20:00CHC-SAN
33h 25m2 stops
06:15 - 14:10SAN-CHC
34h 55m2 stops
$1,951United Airlines
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Tue, 22 Oct - Tue, 19 Nov
06:05 - 22:11CHC-SAN
36h 06m3 stops
12:40 - 15:30SAN-CHC
29h 50m3 stops
$2,058
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Tue, 22 Oct - Tue, 19 Nov
06:05 - 21:59CHC-SAN
35h 54m3 stops
12:40 - 15:30SAN-CHC
29h 50m3 stops
$2,068
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Tue, 22 Oct - Tue, 19 Nov

Flights to San Diego - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights to San Diego to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest day to fly to San Diego?

The average price of all flights to San Diego clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to San Diego is Friday where tickets can be as cheap as $1,892. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Saturday, where prices are $2,297 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly to San Diego?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights to San Diego, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.
The cheapest month for flights to San Diego is August, where tickets cost $1,814 on average for one-way flights. On the other hand, the most expensive months are April and December, where the average cost of tickets from New Zealand is $2,379 and $2,254 respectively. For return trips, the best month to travel is August with an average price of $1,814.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to San Diego?

The average price for all flights to San Diego depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.
The cheapest time of day to fly to San Diego is generally in the morning, when flights cost $1,905 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to San Diego is generally at night, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $2,228.

How far in advance should I book a flight to San Diego?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights to San Diego, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.
To get a below average price, you should book around 0 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 47 days before departure.

How long is the flight to San Diego?

The duration of your flight to San Diego depends on your departure and arrival airports. Obviously any flights that include a layover will also be longer. The most popular route to San Diego on KAYAK is from Christchurch, which takes 36h 06m.

Good to know

Low season

April

High season

July

Cheapest flight

$713
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 14% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly (11% more expensive on average)
Flight from Christchurch to San Diego

When to book flights to San Diego

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel to San Diego based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
Estimated return price
KAYAK looks at all historical flight data for each date to provide a predicted price for one-way trips or returns with a duration up to 40 days. The information is for flights to San Diego based on your location. While we try to provide actual minimum prices for each date, some prices are predictions and actual prices may differ.

FAQs - booking San Diego flights

  • How far is San Diego Airport from central San Diego?

    There are 4 km between San Diego city centre and San Diego Airport.

  • What is the name of San Diego’s airport?

    All flights to San Diego land at San Diego Airport. The airport code is SAN,and it can also be referred to as Lindbergh Field, San Diego, or San Diego Intl.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights to San Diego?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights to San Diego.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket to San Diego?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to San Diego is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights to San Diego?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to San Diego with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight to San Diego?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to San Diego up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • Which airline offers the most flights to San Diego?

    Of the 12 airlines that fly to San Diego, Southwest offers the most flights, with around 890 per week, followed by Alaska Airlines with 586 flights per week.

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Top tips for finding cheap flights to San Diego

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Prefer to fly direct to San Diego?

Find which airlines fly direct to San Diego Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

New Zealand to San Diego

Monday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +55 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +56 more

Tuesday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +57 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +58 more

Wednesday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +56 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +57 more

Thursday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +55 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +56 more

Friday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +56 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +57 more

Saturday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +54 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +55 more

Sunday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +56 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +57 more

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Direct returns

San Diego to New Zealand

Monday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +55 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +56 more

Tuesday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +57 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +58 more

Wednesday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +56 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +57 more

Thursday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +55 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +56 more

Friday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +56 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +57 more

Saturday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +54 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +55 more

Sunday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +56 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +57 more

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Top 4 airlines flying to San Diego

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to San Diego. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from New Zealand to San Diego. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with to San Diego? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.1
Air New ZealandOverall score based on 564 reviews
8.4Boarding
8.7Crew
7.6Food
8.1Comfort
7.8Entertainment
Airline reviews

Can you please process refund. Mum died and dad went to Pakistan to bury her after cancelling flight.

2.0 MediocreAnonymous, May 2024AKL - YVR
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Can you please process refund. Mum died and dad went to Pakistan to bury her after cancelling flight.

Short flight so no entertainment, turbulence so no food service - overall flight as expected

All was good, the only thing was it didn't run on time.

The staff and crew on board were excellent. Business class however, was very weird. I thought we would have individual pods, but the way it was set up was unexpected. Not very private and If you wanted to lay down, you had to have an entire bed made up for you by the crew, rather than how Delta one works where you could just lie down whenever you feel like it. It was a 16 hour flight. I chose not to have my bed made, and that turned out to be a good idea because everybody who had their bed made had to wait for the crew to roll up their mattresses. So strange!

Crew were pleasant, happy to be there and were a joy to be around. Entire operation was professional, well thought out and ran like a Swiss clock.

Couldn’t request a vegan meal somehow but I noticed other people getting them

United flight from SFO to PDX was cancelled. I will ask for a refund. Had to book on Alaska

Good food and entertainment options. Great Staff that were all welcoming and caregiving.

The recline on the seat in front of me came back so that I was staring at the top of the man’s head in front of me the whole trip. He refused to bring his seat back up twice every time he was instructed to do so and only relented when he had a tray of good in front of him. And then right back in my lap!!! Horrible man!! I complained to the staff multiple times, but no one would address the issue. Otherwise, it would have been a perfect flight.

Flight was canceled due to technical issue shortly before the check-in counters opened. Passengers were rebooked on a flight three days later. Request to be accommodated on Air Tahiti Nui could not be processed. Customer service sorted out the refund after calling and being put on hold for almost an hour.

Transferring from International to Domestic/Mainland was a PITA; Hawaiian could not handle the rebooking of bags quickly after customs, etc. Eventually took it over to Terminal One where they were able to do it quickly. The "snack" or whatever on the flight was - Pepperoni Bagel - and for anyone who doesn't eat Pepperoni, tough luck. I guess they consider it too difficult to have Plain Bagel for anyone else. We don't count; they don't want our business. Then I got to SJC and found they had smashed one corner of my (brand new) suitcase such that it wouldn't roll because that corner collapses inward. They explain to me was SOL, as "they can do anything to the outside and they're not responsible". So if you fly Hawaiian Air, expect to have to replace luggage routinely. They don't want my business, they won't get my business.

Awful kids kicking seats and screaming the whole flight and parents didn’t say a damn thing!

Kayak reserved return seating for me but did not book it. I paid $115 extra and my seat was not reserved.

seat cushions could be replaced. the foam bottoms out (I am 170 lb man). more lower back support would help. I tend not to recline the seat, so it would help if the seats were very slightly inclined; makes it hard to sleep without toppling forwards.

Great flight. Had free internet for whole flight. Made it so much more enjoyable

The jet bridge electricity was out. We were boarding in the dark. No air-conditioning and it was extremely hot. Every person that came out of that jet bridge into the aircraft was profusely sweating. Truthfully, sitting in first class, it was no Hawaiian hospitality. Just a bunch of senior flight attendants are doing their routine over and over.

The in flight speakers little touches of humor were entertaining.

The flight left and arrived on time. the only food offered on the 5+ hour flight was a cheese sandwich. Unlike Alaska Airlines there was no information on the website regarding food at all or any option to purchasse in advance. Otherwise, it was an excellent flight.

We were not given the seats we reserved. But helpful attendant at gate gave us very nice seats.

The flight was very smooth and comfortable. The entire flight crew was very professional and provided excellent service. Thank you.

loved the bulkhead seats with all the extra leg room! The initial dinner was excellent unfortunately the last meal was unsatisfactory. Our salad was partially frozen and the pizza roll was 90% dough. My only complaint

See my previous comments. I was probably booked in business but was moved to economy

Boarding was efficient. Crew was not pleasant and skipped me during a round of beverage service. Older plane with no seat back screens and I couldn’t connect to wifi or their entertainment offerings.

My flight was delayed for a whole day, so I lost a day of my vacation.

I was refused to used the toilet closes to my seat and had to go to the back of the plane .. it was difficult for me I’m a wheelchair customer

No entertainment system or wifi on a 12 hour flight. They failed to include GF meals And snacks as requested on my ticket so I had very little available to eat. Crew seemed indecisive.

Ability to watch movies.No earbud sound system.Marginal beverage service.Unexplained late take off resulting in VERY tight connection in LA which proved maximally stressful.

Ability to watch movies.No earbud sound system.Marginal beverage service.

Great service; lots of water offered, frequent trash cleanup; tasty food

United Airlines was fantastic, however, UnderPricer was a nightmare. I got to the airport 4 hours before my flight. We are moving to New Zealand so had quite a bit of baggage (16 checked items) and so wanted to have plenty of time to get everything taken care of properly. When I went to check in they (United) could only find a ticket for me. The 5 tickets for my children were never officially ticketed. I called Underpricer and they told me it was United's fault and United told me that Underpricer just needs to reissue the tickets, but they refused to. I asked the Underpricer agent to transfer me to his supervisor as I was not getting the help I needed. He told me the supervisor was busy but that he would call me back in 30 minutes. 30 minutes came and went with no phone call. After an hour I called Underpricer back but they would not let me talk to the person I had talked to before, just told me that he was talking with the supervisor and technical support. I called again an hour later, was told the same thing. I tried again later, with only about 30 minutes until my flight was scheduled to leave (meaning I had been at the airport for more than 3 hours with my 5 children trying to get ticketed and board the flight). Also, my husband had moved to New Zealand 3 months prior, I haven't seen him in 3 months, my children hadn't seen their dad in 3 months, we were all extremely eager to get on that flight and get to New Zealand. The situation with the tickets did not get resolved until after it was too late to check our luggage and board our flight. We were devastated. My 11 year old son was in tears at not being able to be on his way to see his dad. Thankfully we were rebooked for the next evening, but that night it felt devastating. We'd been at the airport for 4 hours waiting. My in-laws waited with me and then helped me reload all our baggage and took us home to stay with them for the night. On the newly booked flights we could not sit together - my children were spread throughout the plane. So, even though I had paid extra to select our seats after buying my seats from Underpricer only two of us were able to sit together (thankful that my 11 year old wasn't all by himself, but not happy that my 14 & 16 year old daughters were seated by strangers). I really feel that Underpricer should refund me what I paid for the seating ($120 USD). It was a very frustrating situation and I plan on never using Kayak or Underpricer ever again.

Flight was delayed and still they didn't manage to transfer my bag to the flight. The onboard staff was quick to show desperation and frustration with the not-so-easy passengers.

Flight was excellent in all aspects, - comfort , food, drinks, service, entertainment. Inspite of the computer glitch, the flight was on schedule and flawlessly. Thank you, air Canada.

We paid $110 for more leg room. My traveling companion’s knees were right up against the seat in front. Where was more leg room. We feel ripped off. Food,,,there wasn’t any not even a bag of pretzels. As a result, there was very little service.

It was fine. Give us free headphones or allow Bluetooth or something, or an app to watch on your phone. Grow up

The nicest thing I can say about Air Canada is that they are consistent. Consistent delays plagued our trip. We never had one leg of the journey as scheduled.

It would’ve been very helpful to have people directing traffic when we got off the plane at the Toronto airport however, the person who appeared to be having that responsibility was sitting on a chair playing on a cell phone instead of doing their job

A 6 hour flt and only offered water twice the entire flight. A small bag of flavored pretzels was offered as well w/ the first round of beverages. The landing was ‘hot’ but I arrived safely. The plane was nice and new and the seats were roomie. I’m use to warmer more generous hospitality but all and all I’d fly with them again but I’d bring more water and snacks.

Experienced flight cancelations and delays in 5 days. They seem pretty common to AC. Experienced with one of AC's check-in agents at the counter of a big liar. She lied and acted (yes like acting in a movie) that an early flight was fully booked and refused to rebook me, but my flight was delayed two hours so I could not make my connection. Later, I got help at the gate to switch the early flight (Big thanks to that agent). Ater boading, I found the early flight was only 2/3 full meaning there was almost one vacant seat in a 3-person seater, and multiple empty 3-seaters. AC is wired that it is filled with good and bad employees. BTW, AC employees seem never smile, or they don't know how.

My mother, 80years old, had arranged for wheelchair assist to and from the aircraft cabin and in the airport but, no one showed up for her to de-plane. Apart from Air Canada having a reputation of being late for every leg of its flight so nothing was new this time so this time they did worse by not assisting seniors. I guess our whole family is done with this airline

Seating for almost 3 hours in the plan before aircraft takeoff. Very exhausted .

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Recent return flight deals

 
These are the cheapest return flights to San Diego found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
22/10Tue
3 stops
36h 06mCHC-SAN
19/11Tue
2 stops
27h 55mSAN-CHC
$1,732
22/10Tue
3 stops
36h 06mCHC-SAN
19/11Tue
2 stops
27h 55mSAN-CHC
$1,741
22/10Tue
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
34h 28mCHC-SAN
19/11Tue
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
31h 37mSAN-CHC
$1,914
22/10Tue
2 stopsUnited Airlines
33h 25mCHC-SAN
19/11Tue
2 stopsUnited Airlines
34h 55mSAN-CHC
$1,951
22/10Tue
3 stops
36h 06mCHC-SAN
19/11Tue
3 stops
29h 50mSAN-CHC
$2,058
22/10Tue
3 stops
35h 54mCHC-SAN
19/11Tue
3 stops
29h 50mSAN-CHC
$2,068

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best deals for one-way flights to San Diego found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
20/8Tue
2 stops
41h 06mCHC-SAN
$713
20/8Tue
3 stops
46h 25mCHC-SAN
$953

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Recent domestic flight deals

15/8Thu
directSpirit Airlines
1h 29mOAK-SAN
19/8Mon
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
20h 42mSAN-OAK
$163
15/8Thu
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
5h 35mOAK-SAN
19/8Mon
multi-stopSpirit Airlines
18h 14mSAN-OAK
$190
2/11Sat
directAlaska Airlines
1h 40mSFO-SAN
2/11Sat
directAlaska Airlines
1h 35mSAN-SFO
$215
28/11Thu
directAlaska Airlines
1h 40mSFO-SAN
28/11Thu
directAlaska Airlines
1h 35mSAN-SFO
$222
4/9Wed
directDelta
2h 47mSEA-SAN
8/9Sun
directDelta
2h 50mSAN-SEA
$232
5/9Thu
directDelta
2h 51mSEA-SAN
8/9Sun
directDelta
2h 50mSAN-SEA
$234
12/9Thu
directSouthwest
1h 35mOAK-SAN
12/9Thu
multi-stopSouthwest
11h 55mSAN-OAK
$344
12/9Thu
multi-stopSouthwest
5h 25mOAK-SAN
12/9Thu
multi-stopSouthwest
11h 55mSAN-OAK
$367
20/12Fri
directUnited Airlines
1h 39mSFO-SAN
23/12Mon
multi-stopUnited Airlines
3h 19mSAN-SFO
$437
18/12Wed
multi-stopUnited Airlines
4h 32mSEA-SAN
24/12Tue
multi-stopUnited Airlines
7h 47mSAN-SEA
$484

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