Route brief · YTO → SJO
Toronto → San José
$391
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Jan 11 '27 – Jan 20 '27 · 9 nights
Porter Airlines CanadaNonstop
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 flies Porter Airlines Canada nonstop and takes about 5.5 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip. At $391 for 3,778 km each way, that works out to about $52 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from San José, this fare ranks 4th — 36% above the $288 from New York. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 9 routes of similar length we watch out of Toronto, where the middle fare is $391. We have 3 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 7 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 27% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $470 then versus $598 now, across 7 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 $387, on Nov 7.
- Wed, Sep 2$552
- Thu, Sep 3$709
- Fri, Sep 11$787
- Wed, Sep 16$650
- Tue, Sep 22$598
- Wed, Sep 30$515
- Wed, Oct 14$510
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
- Pearson (YYZ) · Billy Bishop (YTZ) ↔ Juan Santamaría (SJO)
- Flight time
- ~5.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,778 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Porter Airlines Canada
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
YTO → SJO, answered.
How far in advance should I book YTO → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Toronto to San José?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Porter Airlines Canada). The outbound leg runs around 5.5 hours.
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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