Route brief · SFO → MEX
San Francisco → Mexico City
$429
−11% vs typical
seasonal median $480 · difference $51
Sep 13 – Sep 25 · 12 nights
Volaris1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $450–$481
- Board rank
- Stronger than 24%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMEXMexico CityAltitude, murals, and arguably the best food city in the hemisphere at street prices.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsBenito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU)All routes into Mexico CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for SF → MEX. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in October around $422 and peak in September near $486 — a $64 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 5 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip — ticketed under Volaris, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $429 for 3,038 km each way, that works out to about $71 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Mexico City, this fare ranks 5th — 1.9× the $225 we hold from Chicago.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 32% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $369 then versus $486 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 $252, on Oct 13.
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.
Cheapest in Oct · around $422
12% below the $480 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · San Francisco → Mexico City · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Benito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU)
- Flight time
- ~5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,038 km each way
- Typical price
- $480 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Volaris
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
SF → MEX, answered.
Is $429 a good price for San Francisco to Mexico City?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $480 round-trip and this fare is 11% under it, about $51. 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 Mexico City?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Mexico City are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SF → Mexico City?
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 Mexico City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Volaris. 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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