Route brief · SFO → FRA
San Francisco → Frankfurt
$732
−19% vs typical
seasonal median $905 · difference $173
Oct 8 – Oct 15 · 7 nights
Alaska Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $878–$905
- Board rank
- Stronger than 52%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefFRAFrankfurtBanking towers and a river beach — mostly a place people change planes, which is exactly why fares through it are cheap.Best windowMay–SepAirportsFrankfurt (FRA) · Hahn (HHN)All routes into FrankfurtWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for SF → FRA. Best time to be there: May–Sep.
Fares bottom out in October around $732 and peak in November near $1,025 — a $293 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Alaska Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $732 for 9,134 km each way, that works out to about $40 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Frankfurt, this fare ranks 8th — 40% above the $524 from Miami. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 39 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco, where the middle fare is $794.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $892 then versus $1,025 now, across 6 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 $672, on Sep 23.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 122 days priced, from 15 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Oct · around $732
19% below the $905 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · San Francisco → Frankfurt · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Frankfurt (FRA) · Hahn (HHN)
- Flight time
- ~12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,134 km each way
- Typical price
- $905 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Alaska Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
SF → FRA, answered.
Is $732 a good price for San Francisco to Frankfurt?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $905 round-trip and this fare is 19% under it, about $173. 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 Frankfurt?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Frankfurt are May–Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SF → Frankfurt?
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, Oct 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 Frankfurt?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Alaska Airlines. 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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