Route brief · SFO → VCE
San Francisco → Venice
$893
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Jan 2 '27 – Jan 10 '27 · 8 nights
Lufthansa1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefVCEVeniceImpossible and overrun, and still worth it in the hours the day-trippers are not there.Best windowApr–May · Oct–NovAirportsMarco Polo (VCE) · Treviso (TSF)All routes into VeniceWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Venice: Apr–May · Oct–Nov. 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 12.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Lufthansa, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $893 for 9,714 km each way, that works out to about $46 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 Venice, this fare ranks 11th — 1.6× the $542 we hold from Kuala Lumpur. For context, the middle fare among the 44 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco is $816. 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.
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Marco Polo (VCE) · Treviso (TSF)
- Flight time
- ~12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,714 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Lufthansa
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Oct–Nov
SF → VCE, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → Venice?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Venice?
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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