Route brief · SFO → SCL
San Francisco → Santiago
$826
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Feb 1 '27 – Feb 15 '27 · 14 nights
American1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSCLSantiagoAndes on the skyline, vineyards an hour out, and the longest country in the world starting at the door.Best windowOct–AprAirportsArturo Merino Benítez (SCL)All routes into SantiagoWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Santiago: Oct–Apr. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under American, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $826 for 9,557 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Santiago, this fare ranks 6th — 23% above the $674 from Los Angeles. For context, the middle fare among the 42 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco is $796. We have 2 months 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.
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Arturo Merino Benítez (SCL)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,557 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- American
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Apr
SF → SCL, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → Santiago?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from San Francisco to Santiago?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under American. 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 August 30). 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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