Route brief · SFO → HAM
San Francisco → Hamburg
$581
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 11 – Sep 14 · 3 nights
United2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHAMHamburgMore canals than Venice and a working port at its centre — Germany at its least postcard-like.Best windowMay–SepAirportsHamburg (HAM)All routes into HamburgWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Hamburg: 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 14 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $581 for 8,880 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 14 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Hamburg, this fare ranks 2nd — 28% above the $454 from Miami. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco, where the middle fare 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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Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Hamburg (HAM)
- Flight time
- ~14 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,880 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
SF → HAM, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → Hamburg?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Hamburg?
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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