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 → PUJ
San Francisco to Punta Cana
Best fare, round trip
$720
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Sun 3 Jan
- Return
- Thu 7 Jan
- Stay
- 4 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 8h
- Airline
United
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Dominican RepublicPunta CanaWall-to-wall all-inclusives on a very good beach — which is exactly why the fares are the Caribbean’s cheapest.Best windowDec–AprAirportsPunta Cana (PUJ)Every route into Punta CanaFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $720 for 5,626 km each way, that works out to about $64 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $43 per 1,000 km typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Punta Cana, this fare ranks 6th — 1.7× the $424 we hold from São Paulo. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 8 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco, where the middle fare is $720. 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 Punta Cana: Dec–Apr.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% lower than when tracking began on 9 Aug — $757 then versus $720 now, across 12 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 $497, on 25 Oct.
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.
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
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) ↔ Punta Cana (PUJ)
- Flight time
- ≈8 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈5,626 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
Good to know
SF → PUJ, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → Punta Cana?
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 Punta Cana?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under United. 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 17 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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