Route brief · SFO → STO
San Francisco → Stockholm
$643
−9% vs typical
seasonal median $710 · difference $67
Oct 26 – Oct 29 · 3 nights
SAS1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $697–$708
- Board rank
- Stronger than 17%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSTOStockholmFourteen islands, an old town that survived everything, and a summer where the light barely leaves.Best windowJun–AugAirportsArlanda (ARN) · Bromma (BMA) · Skavsta (NYO)All routes into StockholmWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for SF → STO. Best time to be there: Jun–Aug.
Fares on this route stay within about $70 across the 4 months we track — season matters less here than timing the drop. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under SAS, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $643 for 8,621 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 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Stockholm, this fare ranks 8th — 22% above the $525 from Hong Kong. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 34 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 15% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $842 then versus $712 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 $643, on Oct 26.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 10 of 122 days priced, from 36 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 $643
9% below the $710 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · San Francisco → Stockholm · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Arlanda (ARN) · Bromma (BMA) · Skavsta (NYO)
- Flight time
- ~12 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,621 km each way
- Typical price
- $710 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- SAS
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Aug
SF → STO, answered.
Is $643 a good price for San Francisco to Stockholm?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $710 round-trip and this fare is 9% under it, about $67. 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 Stockholm?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Stockholm are Jun–Aug — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SF → Stockholm?
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 Stockholm?
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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