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Cheap flight deals from San Francisco to Ixtapa (SFO-ZIH)

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from San Francisco to Ixtapa 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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3:12 pm - 10:59 amSFO-ZIH
18h 47m1 stop
3:46 pm - 10:34 amZIH-SFO
19h 48m1 stop
$414Aeromexico
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Wed, Jul 31 - Wed, Aug 7
3:12 pm - 10:59 amSFO-ZIH
18h 47m1 stop
3:46 pm - 10:34 amZIH-SFO
19h 48m1 stop
$439Aeromexico
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Tue, Jul 9 - Wed, Jul 17
6:30 am - 7:58 pmSFO-ZIH
12h 28m2 stops
12:44 pm - 11:52 pmZIH-SFO
12h 08m2 stops
$454Delta
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Tue, Jul 9 - Wed, Jul 17
3:29 pm - 10:59 amSFO-ZIH
18h 30m1 stop
1:41 pm - 10:59 pmZIH-SFO
10h 18m1 stop
$473Delta
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Sat, Jun 22 - Wed, Jun 26
12:35 am - 11:49 amSFO-ZIH
10h 14m1 stop
12:40 pm - 11:44 pmZIH-SFO
12h 04m1 stop
$534United Airlines
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Fri, Sep 6 - Sat, Sep 14
8:15 pm - 2:17 pmSFO-ZIH
17h 02m1 stop
3:33 pm - 7:29 amZIH-SFO
16h 56m1 stop
$564Alaska Airlines
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Mon, May 13 - Mon, May 20
9:05 am - 1:20 pmSFO-ZIH
27h 15m1 stop
2:15 pm - 10:33 pmZIH-SFO
9h 18m1 stop
$573American Airlines
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Fri, May 24 - Wed, May 29
5:45 am - 2:29 pmSFO-ZIH
7h 44m1 stop
3:23 pm - 10:36 pmZIH-SFO
8h 13m1 stop
$591American Airlines
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Wed, Jul 17 - Sat, Jul 27
6:00 am - 2:17 pmSFO-ZIH
7h 17m1 stop
3:33 pm - 9:11 pmZIH-SFO
6h 38m1 stop
$614Alaska Airlines
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Sat, May 11 - Sat, May 18
12:35 am - 11:49 amSFO-ZIH
10h 14m1 stop
12:40 pm - 9:44 amZIH-SFO
22h 04m2 stops
$2,128United Airlines
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Fri, Sep 6 - Sat, Sep 14

Flights from San Francisco to Ixtapa - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from San Francisco to Ixtapa 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 Francisco to Ixtapa?

The average price of all flights from San Francisco to Ixtapa clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
When flying from San Francisco to Ixtapa, you should consider leaving on a Tuesday and avoid Thursdays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to San Francisco, you’ll find the best rates on Mondays and the most expensive ones on Tuesdays.

What is the cheapest month to fly from San Francisco to Ixtapa?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from San Francisco to Ixtapa, 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 Francisco to Ixtapa is January, where tickets cost $483 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and November, where the average cost of tickets is $725 and $698 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from San Francisco to Ixtapa?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from San Francisco to Ixtapa, 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 Francisco to Ixtapa, you should book around 2 days before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 33 days before departure.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from San Francisco to Ixtapa?

The cheapest price for the route for each airline clicked by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours.
The best deals for a one-way ticket found by KAYAK users over the last 3 days were on Delta ($200) and Alaska Airlines ($214). The cheapest round-trip tickets were found on Aeromexico ($414) and Delta ($454).

Which cabin class options are there for flights between San Francisco and Ixtapa?

The average price of flights for each cabin class for the route found by users searching on KAYAK over the last 2 weeks.
There are 2 cabin class options for the route. These are Business and Economy. Perform a search on KAYAK to find the latest prices and availability for all cabin fares, which differ across airlines.

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Low season

September

High season

December

Cheapest flight

$200
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 12% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 23% increase in price.
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When to book flights from San Francisco to Ixtapa

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from San Francisco to Ixtapa 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 Francisco to Ixtapa

  • What is the cheapest flight from San Francisco to Ixtapa?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from San Francisco to Ixtapa was $200 for a one-way ticket and $414 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between San Francisco and Ixtapa?

    A passport is required to fly from San Francisco to Ixtapa.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from San Francisco to Ixtapa?

    On your way to Ixtapa, you’ll fly out from San Francisco. You’ll be landing at Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo Intl.

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from San Francisco to Ixtapa?

    Only Alaska Airlines offers inflight Wi-Fi service on the San Francisco to Ixtapa flight route.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from San Francisco to Ixtapa?

    The Boeing 737-800 Passenger/BBJ2 (winglets) is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the San Francisco to Ixtapa flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from San Francisco to Ixtapa?

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

  • Which is the best airline for flights from San Francisco to Ixtapa, Alaska Airlines or Delta?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from San Francisco to Ixtapa are Alaska Airlines and Delta. With an average price for the route of $569 and an overall rating of 8.0, Alaska Airlines is the most popular choice. Delta is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $583 and an overall rating of 8.0.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from San Francisco to Ixtapa?

    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 Francisco to Ixtapa.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Ixtapa from San Francisco 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 Francisco to Ixtapa?

    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 Ixtapa with an airline and back to San Francisco with another airline. Booking your flights between San Francisco and ZIH 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 Francisco to Ixtapa?

    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 Ixtapa from San Francisco up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top tips for finding a cheap flight from SFO to Ixtapa

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $667 or less round-trip.

Top 5 airlines serving from San Francisco to Ixtapa

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Francisco to Ixtapa. 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.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from San Francisco to Ixtapa? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.0
Alaska AirlinesOverall score based on 9116 reviews
7.3Entertainment
7.9Comfort
8.6Crew
8.2Boarding
7.3Food
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I like that we took off on time and arrived a bit early. I like that I could gate check my bag and board early. I don't like how crowded the flight was. I had ok leg room, but could feel every move of the person next to me. And the aisles are very narrow. The gate and flight crews were terrific.

8.0 ExcellentKaren, Apr 2024SFO - JFK
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I like that we took off on time and arrived a bit early. I like that I could gate check my bag and board early. I don't like how crowded the flight was. I had ok leg room, but could feel every move of the person next to me. And the aisles are very narrow. The gate and flight crews were terrific.

The flight was diverted and departed from San Jose instead of San Francisco. This could’ve been executed more smoothly because after arriving in San Jose it seemed like nothing was being processed correctly as needed for the gate agents to do their jobs well and the flight to leave on time

Excellent service and prices. I was not award of inflight entertainment.

Both flights from NYC to SFO were delayed more than an hour. No wifi, no screens/movies etc. The crew was nice.

They gave me a seat with extra leg room. But they didn't offer me anything to drink, just because it was an hour flight

flight delayed 2ish hours; status updates easily could have been conveyed in a more timely manner

Temperature was very cold. seat was uncomfortable bc headrest did not work properly - the earflaps would not move.

Alaska airlines is the best. Best customer service, crew, and value for money.

I have taken 4 Alaska flights in the past 3 weeks and every single flight was delayed. They give you a $12 voucher for airport food, sometimes too late, after you’ve already eaten. That might get you a bagel. Reservations, rentals, etc have to be cancelled with no repercussions. Will be avoiding Alaska if possible.

Window seat and a packed plane. A very uncomfortable flight.

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).

You need to be a hacker to get the (Free) WiFi

Happy attentive flight crew. All in all good flight the night flight works well. Getting into Mexico City early so you don't get caught up it all the immigration and custom ques, additionally, this helps when exiting the airport and crossing the city to your final destination. All works very well and would do it again

Some entertainment and food/snack service would have been nice

All the pessengers should be wait in a line útil the creo and piloto are arrived.

Planes seat could be bigger very uncomfortable for tall humans.

Atraso de dos horas y media con vuelos sobre vendidos

Great airplane The confort was within the high standards. My only little problem was That all the movies ( only 3) was on Spanish, even though I was selecting the audio on English it didn't happen. After that I highly recommend aeromexico

1 hour waiting for suitcases to come out traveling in business class and food in business class is a sandwich? Avoid Aeromexico .

No space reserved for anyone who didn’t have underseat in front of them. Made it inconvenient to get the backs secured. No inflight entertainment in the 190. Bring your own! Food was excellent and we were surprised to get a full breakfast.

Cons: "left Houston more than 2 hours later, arrive in Mexico over 2 am"
Cons: "El problema es que nunca pude cambiar mi vuelo y con ustedes fue imposible comunicarse para que me auxiliaran. Muy mal por ustedes no por la línea."

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.

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

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.

Airline did not explain reasons why flight was delayed two hours. Explanations were badly needed and rarely provided. Problem seemed to clearly be the airline’s fault and not the fault of the weather or airport.

Very uncomfortable seats and seat backs, and I am only 5’9”. Delayed due to crew issues, spent a long time with no ventilation. Teeny overhead bins. Wifi worked well. Arrived safely.

I was delighted that we were able to get on the 4:40 pm flight rather than our original booking at 6:55 pm!! Other than that, the flight was comfortable and landed early😊

Not sure why JAL partnered with American Airlines because their service is no where near similar. Flight attendants were not friendly and didn’t smile. Food was horrible…

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.

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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 Francisco to Ixtapa found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
9/11Wed
2 stopsDelta
12h 23mSFO-ZIH
$200
9/11Wed
1 stopAlaska Airlines
7h 40mSFO-ZIH
$214
9/6Fri
1 stopUnited Airlines
16h 19mSFO-ZIH
$215
9/6Fri
2 stopsDelta
12h 23mSFO-ZIH
$234
9/10Tue
3 stops
37h 32mSFO-ZIH
$512

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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 Francisco to Ixtapa that are departing in the next 10 days.
5/3Fri
multi-stopAeromexico
19h 45mSFO-ZIH
5/6Mon
multi-stopAeromexico
27h 34mZIH-SFO
$762
5/3Fri
multi-stopAeromexico
12h 54mSFO-ZIH
5/6Mon
multi-stopAeromexico
27h 34mZIH-SFO
$767
4/30Tue
multi-stopAeromexico
19h 45mSFO-ZIH
5/7Tue
multi-stopAeromexico
32h 39mZIH-SFO
$802
4/30Tue
multi-stopAlaska Airlines
5h 57mSFO-ZIH
5/7Tue
multi-stopAlaska Airlines
9h 38mZIH-SFO
$874
5/3Fri
multi-stopAeromexico
19h 45mSFO-ZIH
5/6Mon
multi-stopAeromexico
22h 02mZIH-SFO
$1,028
4/30Tue
multi-stopAeromexico
19h 45mSFO-ZIH
5/7Tue
multi-stopAeromexico
14h 58mZIH-SFO
$1,143
4/30Tue
multi-stopAeromexico
26h 59mSFO-ZIH
5/7Tue
multi-stopAeromexico
32h 39mZIH-SFO
$1,175

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San Francisco - Ixtapa Flights

Departure:

San Francisco (SFO)United States

Destination:

Ixtapa (ZIH)Mexico

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Ixtapa - San Francisco

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