Route brief · SFO → SYD
San Francisco → Sydney
$1,020
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 23 – Oct 4 · 11 nights
Fiji Airways1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSYDSydneyHarbour sails, cliff walks and flat whites that ruin you for coffee anywhere else.Best windowOct–Nov · Mar–AprAirportsKingsford Smith (SYD)All routes into SydneyWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Sydney: Oct–Nov · Mar–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 16 hours outbound, on a 11-night trip — ticketed under Fiji Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,020 for 11,948 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Sydney, this fare ranks 6th — 34% above the $760 from Delhi. For context, the middle fare among the 49 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco is $826. 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.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,187 then versus $1,209 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 $1,020, on Sep 23.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Kingsford Smith (SYD)
- Flight time
- ~16 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,948 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Fiji Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr
SF → SYD, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → Sydney?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Sydney?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Fiji Airways. 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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