Route brief · SFO → GVA
San Francisco → Geneva
$1,241
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 18 – Jan 8 '27 · 21 nights
Aer Lingus2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefGVAGenevaA lake, a fountain and an airport with a French exit — the fastest way into the Alps in either country.Best windowJun–Sep · Dec–MarAirportsGenève (GVA)All routes into GenevaWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Geneva: Jun–Sep · Dec–Mar. 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 13 hours outbound, on a 21-night trip — ticketed under Aer Lingus, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,241 for 9,363 km each way, that works out to about $66 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 14 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Geneva, this fare ranks 14th — 2.9× the $425 we hold from Chicago. For context, the middle fare among the 40 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco is $796. 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 one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 31% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $950 then versus $1,241 now, across 3 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 $856, on Sep 1.
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) ↔ Genève (GVA)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,363 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Aer Lingus
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Sep · Dec–Mar
SF → GVA, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → Geneva?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Geneva?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Aer Lingus. 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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