Route brief · ATH → SJO
Athens → San José
$968
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 20 – Jan 14 '27 · 25 nights
Air Canada1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSJOSan JoséNobody comes for the capital — they come for two coasts, volcanoes and cloud forest, all within four hours.Best windowDec–AprAirportsJuan Santamaría (SJO)All routes into San JoséWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in San José: Dec–Apr. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 16 hours outbound, on a 25-night trip — ticketed under Air Canada, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $968 for 10,848 km each way, that works out to about $45 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 19 departure cities we track at a similar distance from San José, this fare ranks 13th — 53% above the $631 from Madrid. For context, the middle fare among the 23 routes of similar length we watch out of Athens is $934. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
Route facts
- Airports
- Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH) ↔ Juan Santamaría (SJO)
- Flight time
- ~16 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,848 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air Canada
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
ATH → SJO, answered.
How far in advance should I book ATH → San José?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Athens to San José?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Canada. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on August 24). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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