ExceptionalNonstop · 2h
VIE to BRUBelgium
Brussels
$78
usually $190
−59%
Most monthly lows $139–$201. Cheaper than every other month on record (4).
Flights · VIE → SJO
Vienna to San José
Best fare, round trip
$1,243
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Thu 10 Dec
- Return
- Sun 20 Dec
- Stay
- 10 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 16h
- Airline
Austrian
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Costa RicaSan JoséNobody comes for the capital — they come for two coasts, volcanoes and cloud forest, all within four hours.Best windowDec–AprAirportsJuan Santamaría (SJO)Every route into San JoséFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 16 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip — ticketed under Austrian, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,243 for 9,948 km each way, that works out to about $62 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from San José, this fare ranks 17th — 1.9× the $650 we hold from Madrid. For context, the middle fare among the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of Vienna 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in San José: Dec–Apr.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 21% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,126 then versus $894 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 $871, on 30 Jan '27.
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.
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Schwechat (VIE) ↔ Juan Santamaría (SJO)
- Flight time
- ≈16 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,948 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Austrian
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
Good to know
VIE → SJO, answered.
How far in advance should I book VIE → 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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Vienna to San José?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Austrian. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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