Route brief · SFO → EDI
San Francisco → Edinburgh
$847
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 24 – Nov 2 · 9 nights
WestJet2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefEDIEdinburghA volcanic crag with a castle on it, a medieval old town below, and the Highlands within a morning.Best windowMay–SepAirportsEdinburgh (EDI)All routes into EdinburghWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Edinburgh: May–Sep. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 11.5 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under WestJet, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $847 for 8,124 km each way, that works out to about $52 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Edinburgh, this fare ranks 3rd — 27% above the $669 from Bangkok. For context, the middle fare among the 30 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco is $758. We have 1 month 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.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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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.
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Edinburgh (EDI)
- Flight time
- ~11.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,124 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- WestJet
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
SF → EDI, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → Edinburgh?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Edinburgh?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under WestJet. 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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