Route brief · NYC → SJU
New York → San Juan
$146
−64% vs typical
seasonal median $400 · difference $254
Oct 29 – Nov 9 · 11 nights
JetBlueNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $307–$422
- Board rank
- Stronger than 99%
- Route sample
- 10 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSJUSan JuanFive centuries of old town on a Caribbean island that takes US dollars and needs no passport from the States.Best windowDec–AprAirportsLuis Muñoz Marín (SJU)All routes into San JuanWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 10 months, Oct is the cheapest for NYC → SJU. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in October around $146 and peak in July near $606 — a $460 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies JetBlue nonstop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 11-night trip. At $146 for 2,586 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Of the 5 departure cities we track at a similar distance from San Juan, this is the cheapest right now — 24% under the next one, Houston. It is also the cheapest of the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of New York.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 29 · $146 (52% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $288 then versus $303 now, across 7 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 $145, on Oct 22.
Cheapest in Oct · around $146
64% below the $400 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · New York → San Juan · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Luis Muñoz Marín (SJU)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,586 km each way
- Typical price
- $400 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- JetBlue
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
NYC → SJU, answered.
Is $146 a good price for New York to San Juan?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $400 round-trip. At $146 you're 64% below that, saving about $254, which we rate exceptional for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from New York to San Juan?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in San Juan are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book NYC → San Juan?
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 10 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from New York to San Juan?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (JetBlue). The outbound leg runs around 4 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). 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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