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Boston to San José

Best fare, round trip

$398

Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.

Found
Depart
Mon 2 Nov
Return
Thu 12 Nov
Stay
10 nights
Flight
2 stops · 10h
Airline
American
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Costa RicaSan JoséNobody comes for the capital — they come for two coasts, volcanoes and cloud forest, all within four hours.Best windowDec–AprAirportsJuan Santamaría (SJO)Every route into San José

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Trip options: Round-trip · Economy · 1 adult
Travellers: 1 adult

Fare seasonality

When this route gets cheap.

The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip — ticketed under American, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $398 for 3,823 km each way, that works out to about $52 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $43 per 1,000 km typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from San José, this fare ranks 3rd — 60% above the $249 from New York. We have 2 months 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in San José: Dec–Apr.

The 2 days we hold a cached fare for

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The median cached fare across this calendar is 19% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $407 then versus $486 now, across 15 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $365, on 26 Oct.

These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.

Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026

We are still collecting this route's months — 2 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.

Route facts

Airports
Logan (BOS) ↔ Juan Santamaría (SJO)
Flight time
≈10 hours outbound
Distance
≈3,823 km each way
Airlines on the board
American
Itineraries
Connections on current fares
Best months to visit
Dec–Apr

Good to know

BOS → SJO, answered.

How far in advance should I book BOS → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.

Are there nonstop flights from Boston to San José?

The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under American. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.

Are these prices guaranteed?

No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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