Route brief · SFO → DEL
San Francisco → Delhi
$722
−4% vs typical
seasonal median $750 · difference $28
Sep 15 – Sep 30 · 15 nights
United1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $722–$752
- Board rank
- Stronger than 4%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefDELDelhiMughal tombs, Lutyens boulevards and the loudest markets on earth — plus the Taj Mahal at arm’s length.Best windowOct–MarAirportsIndira Gandhi (DEL)All routes into DelhiWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Sep is the cheapest for SF → DEL. Best time to be there: Oct–Mar.
Fares on this route stay within about $37 across the 4 months we track — season matters less here than timing the drop. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 20.5 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $722 for 12,355 km each way, that works out to about $29 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Delhi, this fare ranks 4th — 7% above the $674 from New York. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 46 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco, where the middle fare is $832.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $838 then versus $752 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 $722, on Sep 15.
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 Sep · around $722
4% below the $750 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · San Francisco → Delhi · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Indira Gandhi (DEL)
- Flight time
- ~20.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~12,355 km each way
- Typical price
- $750 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Mar
SF → DEL, answered.
Is $722 a good price for San Francisco to Delhi?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $750 round-trip and this fare is 4% under it, about $28. 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 Delhi?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Delhi are Oct–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SF → Delhi?
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, Sep 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 Delhi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under United. 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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