ExceptionalNonstop · 1.5h
SFO to LASUnited States
Las Vegas
$61
usually $155
−61%
Most monthly lows $130–$295. Cheaper than every other month on record (5).
Flights · SFO → JNB
San Francisco to Johannesburg
Best fare, round trip
$844
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Tue 7 Sep
- Return
- Tue 21 Sep
- Stay
- 14 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 24h
- Airline
Kenya Airways
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
South AfricaJohannesburgAfrica’s busiest airport and the road to Kruger — most people connect, some stay for the best museums on the continent.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsO. R. Tambo (JNB) · Lanseria (HLA)Every route into JohannesburgFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 24 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Kenya Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $844 for 16,964 km each way, that works out to about $25 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $42 per 1,000 km that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Johannesburg, this fare ranks 2nd — 35% above the $626 from Houston. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 15 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco, where the middle fare is $1,112. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Johannesburg: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ O. R. Tambo (JNB) · Lanseria (HLA)
- Flight time
- ≈24 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈16,964 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Kenya Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
SF → JNB, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → Johannesburg?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from San Francisco to Johannesburg?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Kenya Airways. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 7 October). 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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