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Find cheap flights from San Diego to Lima from $246

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Cheap flight deals from San Diego to Lima (SAN-LIM)

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from San Diego to Lima that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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12:15 pm - 5:35 pmSAN-LIM
27h 20m3 stops
2:50 am - 10:25 pmLIM-SAN
21h 35m3 stops
Sat, May 11 - Tue, May 21
12:15 pm - 5:35 pmSAN-LIM
27h 20m3 stops
1:00 am - 10:25 pmLIM-SAN
23h 25m2 stops
Sat, May 11 - Tue, May 21
10:50 pm - 9:05 pmSAN-LIM
20h 15m1 stop
12:00 pm - 12:34 pmLIM-SAN
26h 34m1 stop
$638Delta
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Wed, Jun 5 - Tue, Jun 25
11:05 am - 5:00 amSAN-LIM
15h 55m2 stops
12:00 pm - 11:01 pmLIM-SAN
13h 01m1 stop
$653LATAM Airlines
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Thu, Oct 10 - Fri, Oct 18
6:15 am - 10:45 pmSAN-LIM
14h 30m1 stop
12:05 am - 6:06 pmLIM-SAN
20h 01m2 stops
$658Delta
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Thu, Oct 10 - Thu, Oct 17
10:45 pm - 10:25 pmSAN-LIM
21h 40m1 stop
6:30 am - 8:28 pmLIM-SAN
15h 58m2 stops
$691American Airlines
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Sat, May 11 - Tue, May 21
6:15 am - 10:45 pmSAN-LIM
14h 30m1 stop
8:15 am - 11:29 pmLIM-SAN
17h 14m2 stops
$692LATAM Airlines
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Sat, May 11 - Wed, May 22
6:15 am - 10:25 pmSAN-LIM
14h 10m2 stops
10:00 pm - 12:56 pmLIM-SAN
16h 56m2 stops
$751American Airlines
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Fri, May 17 - Tue, May 28
11:01 am - 11:00 pmSAN-LIM
33h 59m2 stops
12:55 am - 9:59 pmLIM-SAN
23h 04m3 stops
$780United Airlines
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Sat, Oct 19 - Fri, Oct 25
8:39 pm - 11:00 pmSAN-LIM
24h 21m2 stops
12:55 am - 6:15 pmLIM-SAN
19h 20m1 stop
$863United Airlines
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Sat, Aug 10 - Sat, Aug 17

Flights from San Diego to Lima - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from San Diego to Lima to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from San Diego to Lima?

The average price of all flights from San Diego to Lima clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
For San Diego to Lima, Monday is the cheapest day to fly on average and Friday is the most expensive. Flying from Lima back to San Diego, the best deals are generally found on Friday, with Thursday being the most expensive.

What is the cheapest month to fly from San Diego to Lima?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from San Diego to Lima, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.
The cheapest month for flights from San Diego to Lima is September, where tickets cost $654 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and June, where the average cost of tickets is $1,146 and $899 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from San Diego to Lima?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from San Diego to Lima, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.
To get a below average price on the flight from San Diego to Lima, you should book around 5 days before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 5 days before departure.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from San Diego to Lima?

The cheapest price for the route for each airline clicked by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours.
In the last 3 days, Copa Airlines offered the best one-way deal for that route, at $330. KAYAK users also found San Diego to Lima round-trip flights on Delta from $638 and on LATAM Airlines from $653.

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February

High season

March

Cheapest flight

$246
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 7% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 4% increase in price.
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When to book flights from San Diego to Lima

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from San Diego to Lima based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking flights from San Diego to Lima

  • What is the cheapest flight from San Diego to Lima?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from San Diego to Lima was $246 for a one-way ticket and $618 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between San Diego and Lima?

    Yes, you'll most likely have to show a valid passport before boarding the plane in San Diego and on arrival in Lima.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from San Diego to Lima?

    When flying out of San Diego you will be using San Diego. You will be landing at Lima, also known as Lima J Chavez Intl.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from San Diego to Lima?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from San Diego to Lima?

    Star Alliance, SkyTeam, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between San Diego and Lima, with SkyTeam being the most commonly used for this route.

  • What is the most popular layover when flying to Lima from San Diego?

    Los Angeles is the most popular layover city among KAYAK users traveling from San Diego to Lima.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from San Diego to Lima, Delta or Copa Airlines?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from San Diego to Lima are Delta and Copa Airlines. With an average price for the route of $724 and an overall rating of 8.0, Delta is the most popular choice. Copa Airlines is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $1,474 and an overall rating of 7.8.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from San Diego to Lima?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from San Diego to Lima.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from San Diego to Lima?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Lima from San Diego is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from San Diego to Lima?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Lima with an airline and back to San Diego with another airline. Booking your flights between San Diego and LIM can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from San Diego to Lima?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Lima from San Diego up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top 5 airlines serving from San Diego to Lima

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Diego to Lima. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
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DeltaOverall score based on 11004 reviews
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7.9comfort
8.2boarding
8.6crew
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There was a loud squeaky sound the whole time we were flying.

6.0 GoodEliza, Apr 2024SAN - LAX
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There was a loud squeaky sound the whole time we were flying.

I didn’t not like that I could not select my seat and ended up with the worse seat.

The landing was bad and the hostess came two times and i was sleeping but when she served the person that nexts to me I woke up and she didn’t even asked me if I need any drink or snacks two times!!!!

Plane was late because of a mechanical malfunction and the food listed as available was not. Flight attendants seem over worked and under paid. They just done seem happy. And that can be seen in their faces.

Waited 3 hours on a plane to de-ice due to manpower issues. Waited another hour and a half once we landed because of a gate issue. Missed my connections. Created. A total of 13 hours of delay.

Great, on time departure, friendly and accommodating crew, great leg room, Smith flight

Plane was turned around due to fog half way into the flight, Delta did not properly direct passengers to stay on same flight and instead failed to properly rebook on Alaska

Honestly, I didn’t expect that I will experience this long time wait during the check in. There was only one person who was taking care of the passengers for the economy class and it took us to wait about one hour to do our check i. As a result we barely get to the airplane as the gate was at the end of the airport. That is totally not professional where one crue is working at the registration desk with economy and 3-4 crues are helping for the business class.

Like most domestic flights in the US, you are basically on your own with this airline when it comes to food, so be sure to purchase meals and drinks ahead of time or expect to arrive starving and dehydrated (like I was).

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Copa performed as expected for the amount of money I was willing to spend for the flight; it wasn’t exceptional but it was not bad in any way either. The crew was good; friendly and straightforward. The food was airplane food, so no expectations there and the entertainment was lacking but that was my fault for owning an IPhone with a charging port that’s not compatible with the rest of the world. I’d fly Copa again.

Left my bags in origin city on a business class ticket , spent about 2-3 days in the same clothes plus the flight .

the planes are not modern there are no phone chargers

As usual, the flight with normal legroom was not very comfortable, but the second flight was much better because we had paid for extra legroom. It was very nice to check our bags without an extra fee.

LOCKED MY BAG WITHOUT CONSENT. Had to have my zippers cut upon arrival in Costa Rica.

Pros: "The seats in economy were confortable. The best thing was Copa gave us seats in the second line and my family traveled together."
Cons: "Coffe service could better the experience"
Pros: "Boarding was organized"
Cons: "They didn’t turn on AC until we landed in Lima, during bording they were hurrying people to get on their seats fast"
Pros: "The crew was very interested on help and attentive with the passengers. But the seat wasn't comfortable. The design of the cushion is not the best to be seating"
Pros: "You were on time, that is the most important thing in a fly"
Cons: "You could improve your entertainment, you are not a cheap company"
Pros: "That there was seltzer"
Cons: "The management of preparing the flight and plane so that it was ready for the trip!!"

No air in the middle rows. Had a hard time breathing. Was dying of heat.

Not very good, they nickel & dime you for better seats & pay extra for the checking in bag, bad service all the way around

Horrific checkin procedure with neither Delta nor Latam figuring out how to check me in. 4 hrs on customer support with both and both airlines pointing to each other who should do checking. I was not checked in until morning of flight, which for international flight is concerning.

Flight from Lima to São Paulo didn’t have USB plug to charge the cellphone.

It was a good experience, the flight was a little too long & the food was ok

Check in of my luggage which needed to be paid for was excellent. Thanks to Nora

As usual, LATAM tried to rip me off as a Gringo. They ignored the fact that having paid for my assigned seats, I was entitled to one free luggage per person, up to 10kg, and tried to charge me USD40 per item. While they ripped me off by $160 on my outbound flight (4 luggage pieces, which should have been free), I vehemently protested this time around. Note that they only request this from gringos, not from Spanish speakers. LATAM behaves like a racist extortion organization.

This airline is full of junk fees. After paying to get my kids to sit with me, we were asked at the gate to check in our roller bags and pay $40 for each one. Peruvian passengers all took their roller bag in the plane. I don’t appreciate airlines who spot the gringos to tax them more.

Pros: "Nothing as we could not take the flight."
Cons: "Allowing the option to change your ticket date, but failing all debit and credit cards payments offered, actually means that they are not allowing flight changes due to COVID related issues like they say they do. We had to book new tickets with another airline to get home."
Cons: "I needed to change my ticket and Kayak had another agency issue the ticket. Kayak does not change tickets and the third party and the airline said only Kayak could make the change. Having to purchase a whole new ticket from the airline, save the money and frustration and avoid Kayak and just book directly with the airline. The ticket would have and should have been changed with no fees. $325 lesson learned."

Due to one crew member not showing up to work, our flight was significantly delayed causing us to miss our connecting flight in Houston to Mississippi causing us to be delayed by more than 6 hours and missing our event all together. Very disappointing. All because ONE crew member called in sick. United did grant us a $15 meal voucher, which was a small but appreciated concession that I wasn’t able to use because I ordered my lunch and paid for it before applying the concession, and the staff said it was too late to use it. Ugh! We also had a TWO delay coming back from Mississippi, but that was on American Airlines and it was due to weather, so not their fault. Anyway, not at all impressed with United’s handling of our flight and the HUGE disappointment of missing our important family event for our 90 year old mother. All that money and all that stress and emotions for nothing. Having to wait the hour to bring an employee from LAX seemed like something that should not have happened. Why don’t you have a local back-up? Santa Ana is not a little airport in a rural area.

Hated every minute of it. This flight should have only taken 1.5hrs but was delayed over 10hours. Now I am being told I cannot be compensated or refunded my ticket price or extra leg room, which I purchased but did not receive, because the airline is throwing the blame on the 3rd party I purchased tickets through and 3rd party putting the blame on airline. No one wants to help. They received their money and that's all they care about. Im going on 3 days of still trying to get to my final destination, had to cancel car rental, car insurance and hotel. Currently staying in airport until hotels open up. Thank you Lufthansa, Kayak, Underpricer and United for making this trip the worst ever.

Crew was great and did their best to make us comfortable and captain came out at the beginning to announce why the flight was delayed, weather situation up ahead, and kept us updated throughout the flight.

United WiFi is consistently unusable (it can take 10 mins to load a single web page). If you need Wifi to do work, be prepared to lose half a day of productivity.

Awful. I got stuck next to a person carrying a dog and behind someone with a dog. People need to board these dogs downstairs. The cabin is crowded enough with your pets

Packed in like sardines, very uncomfortable. Sitting the aisle my shoulder was rammed into numerous times by rushing flight attendants. Also flight was very cold.

the head jack on my seat didn't work and the power outlet didn't work for my seat

Beverage and food services are excellent. We enjoy paying the extra for economy plus for the 3 inches more leg room to be exact.

Left 2 hours later for delayed I had to take care a kid with special need since people don’t want to move to accommodate the rest of the family. . It wasn’t bad but that made me upset that people can be that selfish.

Flight was delayed by 3 hours. The pilot made up 1 hour during the flight, but that made the wait at the airport 5 hours once you factor getting there 2 hours early.

The experience was great and much better than the flight going out. of course I was in first class but the service was excellent

Comfort of seats, ease of boarding. Food selection could be better

Food options were limited which is absolutely embarrassing for a Flight of this size The staff did not come around as much and I am not accustomed to such poor service from American Airlines Drinks I believe were limited to soda and water

Crew were attentive and friendly. Flight was smooth and early! I enjoyed the less crowded plane. Thank you!

We are gluten free, there were not any available complimentary gluten free options.

No meal on a cross country flight? SFO-MiA is pretty much the definition of a coast to coast flight. No meal provided. Sky high wi-fi rates too. Stop nickel and diming your customers.

The staff was unprofessional and didn’t communicate very well. The boarding process was very disheveled, potentially due to a power outage the previous day but there was no contingency plan to properly get passengers boarded the following day. Once boarded the aircraft stayed on the tarmac for over 45 minutes due to high winds. The communication was sporadic but an announcement was finally made an additional 30 minutes later that the flight was cancelled but we couldn’t get off the plane. Prior to deplaning one of the gate agents came on the plane and made an announcement for everyone to pickup their checked bags and take a card to rebook a new reservation because they didn’t have adequate staff. Flights were missed, passengers went to different airports and there was little to no assistance from AA.

You cancelled my flight by email then made it very difficult to get in contact with you. Then put me in a flight with a long layover in Mexico returning to the wrong airport in uk. Mind blowing my stressful. I missed see my grand dad because of you.

Apart from the delay due to unforeseen circumstances. The leg from sjc to dfw was fine. It was the leg from dfw to orf that we encountered issues mainly due to the flight attendant crew not being friendly. We had two small children and we needed some assistance to warm up milk so the baby would sleep. The crew just didn’t get it and made things very difficult. One made a remark that the baby’s dirty diaper smell was a “gift” to the plane in a rude way. Normally I’d brush that off as a funny comment if the rest of the trip the attendants were helpful or understanding of the difficulty we faced. But that wasn’t the case. We were met with rudeness on the second leg. Whereas on the first leg the crew were so nice and helpful.

This was not the BA business class it used to be. Mediocre food, attendants seemed stretched thin. All the little luxuries that used to make BA business fun were missing. Flight delayed and the explanation given was they forgot to pick up crew - I hope I misheard! Transfer in LHR “sticky” - we thought we had way too much time at 3hours but it was needed. Next time will try different route.

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from San Diego to Lima found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
5/18Sat
3 stops
31h 50mSAN-LIM
$246
5/18Sat
2 stops
18h 21mSAN-LIM
$251
9/17Tue
3 stops
19h 36mSAN-LIM
$271
5/20Mon
3 stops
46h 31mSAN-LIM
$274
9/16Mon
1 stopUnited Airlines
13h 15mSAN-LIM
$397
9/12Thu
1 stopDelta
14h 30mSAN-LIM
$432
5/19Sun
1 stopDelta
26h 35mSAN-LIM
$443
7/10Wed
1 stopLATAM Airlines
29h 10mSAN-LIM
$485
6/14Fri
1 stopLATAM Airlines
29h 10mSAN-LIM
$518
7/30Tue
3 stopsAmerican Airlines
34h 38mSAN-LIM
$640

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Last minute flights from San Diego to Lima

Last minute flight, train and bus deals

 
These last-minute flight deals are the cheapest flights found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours for flights from San Diego to Lima that are departing in the next 10 days.
4/26Fri
multi-stopCopa Airlines
18h 20mSAN-LIM
4/28Sun
multi-stopCopa Airlines
27h 12mLIM-SAN
$915
4/27Sat
multi-stopCopa Airlines
21h 46mSAN-LIM
4/28Sun
multi-stopCopa Airlines
17h 27mLIM-SAN
$930
4/26Fri
multi-stopLATAM Airlines
18h 25mSAN-LIM
4/27Sat
multi-stopLATAM Airlines
38h 36mLIM-SAN
$931
4/27Sat
multi-stopLATAM Airlines
11h 20mSAN-LIM
4/28Sun
multi-stopLATAM Airlines
18h 23mLIM-SAN
$958
4/27Sat
multi-stopUnited Airlines
14h 40mSAN-LIM
4/28Sun
multi-stopUnited Airlines
20h 15mLIM-SAN
$963
4/27Sat
multi-stopLATAM Airlines
14h 20mSAN-LIM
4/29Mon
multi-stopLATAM Airlines
23h 55mLIM-SAN
$969
4/26Fri
multi-stopDelta
11h 35mSAN-LIM
4/27Sat
multi-stopDelta
24h 01mLIM-SAN
$988
4/26Fri
multi-stop
30h 15mSAN-LIM
4/28Sun
multi-stop
23h 40mLIM-SAN
$989
4/26Fri
multi-stopUnited Airlines
14h 40mSAN-LIM
4/27Sat
multi-stopUnited Airlines
44h 15mLIM-SAN
$1,017
4/26Fri
multi-stop
40h 44mSAN-LIM
4/28Sun
multi-stop
23h 40mLIM-SAN
$1,086

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