Route brief · SFO → AKL
San Francisco → Auckland
$816
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Jan 29 '27 – Feb 14 '27 · 16 nights
American1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAKLAucklandA city built on fifty volcanoes between two harbours — and the start of every New Zealand road trip.Best windowNov–AprAirportsAuckland (AKL)All routes into AucklandWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Auckland: Nov–Apr. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 19.5 hours outbound, on a 16-night trip — ticketed under American, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $816 for 10,508 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Auckland, this fare ranks 8th — 42% above the $576 from Los Angeles. For context, the middle fare among the 50 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco is $813. 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.
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Auckland (AKL)
- Flight time
- ~19.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,508 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- American
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Apr
SF → AKL, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → Auckland?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from San Francisco to Auckland?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under American. 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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