Route brief · SFO → AGP
San Francisco → Málaga
$644
−26% vs typical
seasonal median $875 · difference $231
Oct 22 – Oct 27 · 5 nights
SAS2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $657–$873
- Board rank
- Stronger than 71%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAGPMálagaThe Costa del Sol’s airport, and a city that quietly became worth staying in — Picasso, Roman theatre, real tapas.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsMálaga–Costa del Sol (AGP)All routes into MálagaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for SF → AGP. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $644 and peak in June near $907 — a $263 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 16 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under SAS, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $644 for 9,569 km each way, that works out to about $34 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 15 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Málaga, this fare ranks 2nd — 14% above the $567 from São Paulo. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 43 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco, where the middle fare is $796.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $742 then versus $811 now, across 5 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 $644, on Oct 22.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 10 of 122 days priced, from 26 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
December 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $644
26% below the $875 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · San Francisco → Málaga · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Málaga–Costa del Sol (AGP)
- Flight time
- ~16 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,569 km each way
- Typical price
- $875 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- SAS
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
SF → AGP, answered.
Is $644 a good price for San Francisco to Málaga?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $875 round-trip. At $644 you're 26% below that, saving about $231, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from San Francisco to Málaga?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Málaga are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SF → Málaga?
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 Málaga?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under SAS. 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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