Route brief · STO → SJO
Stockholm → San José
$924
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 1 – Dec 15 · 14 nights
KLM1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSJOSan JoséNobody comes for the capital — they come for two coasts, volcanoes and cloud forest, all within four hours.Best windowDec–AprAirportsJuan Santamaría (SJO)All routes into San JoséWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in San José: Dec–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 14 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under KLM, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $924 for 9,737 km each way, that works out to about $47 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 19 departure cities we track at a similar distance from San José, this fare ranks 9th — 46% above the $631 from Madrid. For context, the middle fare among the 39 routes of similar length we watch out of Stockholm is $757. 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 8 days we hold a cached fare for
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- Wed, Sep 2$1,200
- Thu, Sep 3$1,117
- Fri, Sep 4$1,116
- Sat, Sep 5$1,103
- Sun, Sep 6$1,107
- Mon, Sep 7$1,107
- Wed, Oct 7$931
- Thu, Nov 19$927
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
- Arlanda (ARN) · Bromma (BMA) · Skavsta (NYO) ↔ Juan Santamaría (SJO)
- Flight time
- ~14 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,737 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- KLM
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
STO → SJO, answered.
How far in advance should I book STO → San José?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Stockholm to San José?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under KLM. 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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