Route brief · SFO → TLV
San Francisco → Tel Aviv
$905
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 11 – Oct 19 · 8 nights
Lufthansa2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefTLVTel AvivBauhaus blocks, a beach in the middle of the city, and Jerusalem an hour away.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsBen Gurion (TLV)All routes into Tel AvivWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Tel Aviv: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 16 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Lufthansa, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $905 for 11,895 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Tel Aviv, this fare ranks 6th — 1.7× the $542 we hold from Los Angeles. For context, the middle fare among the 50 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco is $826. 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.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% lower than when tracking began on Aug 17 — $1,139 then versus $1,091 now, across 4 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 $905, on Oct 11.
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) ↔ Ben Gurion (TLV)
- Flight time
- ~16 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,895 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Lufthansa
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
SF → TLV, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → Tel Aviv?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Tel Aviv?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Lufthansa. 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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