Route brief · SFO → ALC
San Francisco → Alicante
$841
−2% vs typical
seasonal median $860 · difference $19
Sep 24 – Sep 29 · 5 nights
KLM1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $841–$862
- Board rank
- Stronger than 1%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefALCAlicanteA castle on a rock over a working Mediterranean city — and the cheapest fares on the Spanish coast.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsAlicante–Elche (ALC)All routes into AlicanteWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Dec is the cheapest for SF → ALC. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in December around $839 and peak in June near $1,047 — a $208 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under KLM, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $841 for 9,676 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Alicante, this fare ranks 2nd — 5% above the $799 from Los Angeles. For context, the middle fare among the 44 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco is $816.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 17% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,070 then versus $891 now, across 5 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 $818, on Oct 23.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 122 days priced, from 21 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
December 2026
Cheapest in Dec · around $839
2% below the $860 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · San Francisco → Alicante · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Alicante–Elche (ALC)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,676 km each way
- Typical price
- $860 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- KLM
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
SF → ALC, answered.
Is $841 a good price for San Francisco to Alicante?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $860 round-trip and this fare is 2% under it, about $19. 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 San Francisco to Alicante?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Alicante are May–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SF → Alicante?
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 4 months of cached fares, Dec comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from San Francisco to Alicante?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under KLM. 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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