ExceptionalNonstop · 2h
MAD to RAKMorocco
Marrakech
$36
usually $95
−62%
Most monthly lows $58–$101. Cheaper than every other month on record (7).
Flights · MAD → SJO
Madrid to San José
Best fare, round trip
$650
−15%
below its usual $765
you keep $115
Found
- Depart
- Fri 19 Feb
- Return
- Sat 6 Mar
- Stay
- 15 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 12.5h
- Airline
Avianca
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $671 and $979. The drop beats 40% of measured fares on the board, over 9 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
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 JoséFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in February around $650 and peak in August near $1,079, 66% dearer, across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12.5 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip — ticketed under Avianca, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $650 for 8,483 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Of the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from San José, this is the cheapest right now — 18% under the next one, Frankfurt. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid, where the middle fare is $650. The best time to be in San José: Dec–Apr.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,002 then versus $981 now, across 18 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 $603, on 17 Nov.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 16 of 111 days priced, from 91 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
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November 2026
1234567Sunday 8 November: $977. Compare fares from this day.Monday 9 November: $948. Compare fares from this day.1011121314Sunday 15 November: $963. Compare fares from this day.1617Wednesday 18 November: $803. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 19 November: $764. Compare fares from this day.2021222324252627282930
December 2026
123456789101112131415161718Saturday 19 December: $1.5k. Compare fares from this day.2021Tuesday 22 December: $1.4k. Compare fares from this day.2324Friday 25 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 26 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 27 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Monday 28 December: $969. Compare fares from this day.2930Thursday 31 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.
January 2027
1234Tuesday 5 January: $931. Compare fares from this day.67891011121314151617Monday 18 January: $795. Compare fares from this day.19202122232425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Feb, around $650
15% below the $765 typical fare
$979Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$764Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$969Dec, above the usual price. Compare December fares.$795Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$650Feb, the cheapest month. Compare February fares.$671Mar, below the usual price. Compare March fares.$671Apr, below the usual price. Compare April fares.$672Jun, below the usual price. Compare June fares.$1079Aug, above the usual price. Compare August fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Madrid to San José, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Juan Santamaría (SJO)
- Flight time
- ≈12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,483 km each way
- Typical price
- $765 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Avianca
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
Good to know
MAD → SJO, answered.
Is $650 a good price for Madrid to San José?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $765 round-trip and this fare is 15% under it. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Madrid to San José?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Feb comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in San José are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → 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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 9 months of cached fares, Feb comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Madrid to San José?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Avianca. 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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