Route brief · SFO → PAR
San Francisco → Paris
$667
−2% vs typical
seasonal median $680 · difference $13
Dec 1 – Dec 8 · 7 nights
SAS2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $677–$806
- Board rank
- Stronger than 1%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPARParisStill the benchmark. Croissant inflation is real, but a $380 crossing fixes the math.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsCharles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY)All routes into ParisWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Dec is the cheapest for SF → PAR. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in December around $667 and peak in November near $852 — a $185 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under SAS, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $667 for 8,953 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Paris, this fare ranks 8th — 27% above the $527 from Kuala Lumpur. 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.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $820 then versus $794 now, across 6 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 $559, on Sep 14.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 122 days priced, from 31 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
December 2026
Cheapest in Dec · around $667
2% below the $680 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · San Francisco → Paris · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY)
- Flight time
- ~14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,953 km each way
- Typical price
- $680 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- SAS
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
SF → PAR, answered.
Is $667 a good price for San Francisco to Paris?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $680 round-trip and this fare is 2% under it, about $13. 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 Paris?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Paris are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SF → Paris?
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 5 months of cached fares, Dec 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 Paris?
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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