Route brief · PAR → SJO
Paris → San José
$958
−15% vs typical
seasonal median $1,125 · difference $167
Mar 19 '27 – Mar 25 '27 · 6 nights
Transavia France2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,032–$1,263
- Board rank
- Stronger than 38%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
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.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Mar is the cheapest for PAR → SJO. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in March around $958 and peak in August near $1,539 — a $581 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 15 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Transavia France, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $958 for 8,919 km each way, that works out to about $54 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from San José, this fare ranks 12th — 52% above the $631 from Madrid. For context, the middle fare among the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of Paris is $713.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,044 then versus $1,033 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 $931, on Nov 4.
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.
Cheapest in Mar · around $958
15% below the $1,125 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Paris → San José · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY) ↔ Juan Santamaría (SJO)
- Flight time
- ~15 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,919 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,125 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Transavia France
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
PAR → SJO, answered.
Is $958 a good price for Paris to San José?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,125 round-trip and this fare is 15% under it, about $167. 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 Paris to San José?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Mar 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 PAR → 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 6 months of cached fares, Mar comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Paris to San José?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Transavia France. 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 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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