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$982 Find Cheap Flights from Cape Town to San Diego

This is the cheapest round-trip flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight from Cape Town to San Diego departing on 11/5. Fares are subject to change and may not be available on all flights or dates of travel. Click the price to replicate the search for this deal.
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Cheap Flights from Cape Town to San Diego (CPT-SAN)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Cape Town to San Diego 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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Recent round-trip flight deals from Cape Town to San Diego

Wed, Nov 5 - Wed, Nov 26
Delta Logo
8:50 pm - 8:47 pmCPT-SAN
33h 57m2 stops
Delta Logo
10:10 pm - 12:05 pmSAN-CPT
27h 55m2 stops
$982Delta
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Sun, Oct 12 - Sat, Oct 18
Delta Logo
8:05 pm - 6:32 pmCPT-SAN
31h 27m1 stop
Delta Logo
3:15 pm - 7:55 amSAN-CPT
31h 40m2 stops
$1,031Delta
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Wed, Nov 5 - Wed, Nov 26
United Airlines Logo
8:50 pm - 8:05 pmCPT-SAN
33h 15m3 stops
United Airlines Logo
6:45 am - 6:00 pmSAN-CPT
25h 15m2 stops
$1,084United Airlines
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Wed, Nov 5 - Sun, Nov 9
British Airways Logo
8:35 pm - 4:10 pmCPT-SAN
29h 35m1 stop
British Airways Logo
6:00 pm - 2:35 pmSAN-CPT
34h 35m2 stops
$1,163British Airways
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Wed, Nov 5 - Sun, Nov 9
American Airlines Logo
8:35 pm - 5:48 pmCPT-SAN
31h 13m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
1:23 pm - 12:10 pmSAN-CPT
36h 47m2 stops
$1,184American Airlines
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Wed, Nov 5 - Sun, Nov 9
American Airlines Logo
8:35 pm - 3:54 pmCPT-SAN
29h 19m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
12:43 pm - 8:05 amSAN-CPT
33h 22m2 stops
$1,186American Airlines
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Wed, Nov 5 - Sun, Nov 9
British Airways Logo
3:20 pm - 4:10 pmCPT-SAN
34h 50m2 stops
British Airways Logo
6:00 pm - 2:35 pmSAN-CPT
34h 35m2 stops
$1,196British Airways
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Sat, Nov 1 - Sat, Nov 8
United Airlines Logo
8:50 pm - 6:29 pmCPT-SAN
30h 39m2 stops
United Airlines Logo
5:55 pm - 4:10 pmSAN-CPT
60h 15m3 stops
$1,304United Airlines
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Fri, Oct 31 - Fri, Nov 7
Ethiopian Air Logo
2:35 pm - 3:28 pmCPT-SAN
33h 53m3 stops
Ethiopian Air Logo
10:00 pm - 2:35 pmSAN-CPT
30h 35m2 stops
$1,353Ethiopian Air
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Wed, Oct 1 - Wed, Oct 22
Ethiopian Air Logo
2:35 pm - 3:01 pmCPT-SAN
33h 26m3 stops
Ethiopian Air Logo
10:15 pm - 1:45 pmSAN-CPT
30h 30m2 stops
$1,677Ethiopian Air
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Everything you should know

Top airlines
Delta
Cheapest • from $982 (round-trip)
Delta
Best reviews • 7.9 score
Airline reviews
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Airline reviews
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When to travel
March
Cheapest • 22% price drop
June
Most popular
Good to know
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Cheapest round-trip
$982
Typical prices: $969-1437
Delta
Wed 11/5Wed 11/26
CPT - SAN • 2 stops
Cheapest one-way
$1,146
Typical prices: $1,002-1295
Multiple Airlines
Thu 1/1
CPT - SAN • 3 stops
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Cape Town to San Diego flights

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

How much is a round-trip flight from Cape Town to San Diego?

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

The average price of all round-trip flights from Cape Town to San Diego clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

When flying from Cape Town to San Diego, you should consider leaving on a Sunday and avoid Mondays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Cape Town, you’ll find the best rates on Tuesdays and the most expensive ones on Sundays.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Cape Town to San Diego?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Cape Town to San Diego, 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 Cape Town to San Diego is March, where tickets cost $951 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and July, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $1,423 and $1,391 respectively.

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

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Cape Town to San Diego, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Cape Town to San Diego, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 21 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonMarch
Cheapest flight$982
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 23% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 16% increase in price.
Flight from Cape Town to San Diego

When to book flights from Cape Town to San Diego

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Cape Town to San Diego based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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KAYAK looks at all historical flight data for each date to provide a predicted price for one-way trips or round-trips with a duration up to 40 days. While we try to provide actual minimum prices for each date, some prices are predictions and actual prices may differ.

FAQs for booking flights from Cape Town to San Diego

  • What is the cheapest flight from Cape Town to San Diego?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Cape Town to San Diego was $1,146 for a one-way ticket and $982 for a round-trip.

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

    Yes, you’ll need a passport to travel to San Diego from Cape Town.

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

    When flying out of Cape Town you will be using Cape Town Intl. You will be landing at San Diego, also known as San Diego.

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

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

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Cape Town to San Diego?

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

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

    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 Cape Town to San Diego.

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

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

    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 San Diego with an airline and back to Cape Town with another airline. Booking your flights between Cape Town and SAN 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 Cape Town to San Diego?

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

Reviews of the top airline flying from Cape Town to San Diego

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Cape Town to San Diego. 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 Cape Town to San Diego? 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.
7.9
DeltaOverall score based on 7961 reviews
7.3Food
7.9Comfort
8.5Crew
8.2Boarding
7.9Entertainment
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The flight crew was friendly. I tried to adjust my seat online ahead of time but no option existed without additional fees. My friend asked at the gate about a seat change and was able to make it happen. That was great! The flight crew moved a very tall gentleman and his companion which allowed us to have more space which was nice. Overall, good experience. Appreciated the blanket and pillow.

8.0 ExcellentSusan, Aug 2025SYD - LAX
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The flight crew was friendly. I tried to adjust my seat online ahead of time but no option existed without additional fees. My friend asked at the gate about a seat change and was able to make it happen. That was great! The flight crew moved a very tall gentleman and his companion which allowed us to have more space which was nice. Overall, good experience. Appreciated the blanket and pillow.

I was uncomfortably cold on the plane. Other than that it was uneventful and therefore as enjoyable as a plane ride can be.

Food was surprisingly good but the WiFi was not great

My flight was extremely cold. I had a jacket and a cover was left in each seat. The cover was extremely thin and I have a disability, fibromyalgia and arthrithis and AC air is the worst. I closed my vent and my husbands vent and it still was frigid. I asked the attendant if I could get another cover and she quickly almost dismissively and totally unconcerned stating, (I quote) (one per chair) and walked off so quickly that I didn't get a chance to explain to her that I literally have adisability. I didnt want to make a seen so I set on that flight for over 5 hours in pain, joints locking up and extremely uncomfortable. When my fibromyalgia flares up my joints not only ache but they will lock up also and it takes me days to get back to my regular self even though I take medication for it. I felt like it would not have hurt anyone at all for her to just give me an extra cover because I'm sure they have all types of medical issues in people that fly every day.

Not a "Delta" issue, but a JFK issue: We booked a connecting flight with 3 1/2 hours between to clearn immigration and customs. Our inbound flight (BCN to JFK) was on the taxiway 45 minutes which ate into our layover time. Immigtration was insanely quick with the CBP MPC app; however, clearing TSA (again, after we were ALREADY cleared in Spain on the inbound international flight) took over 95 minutes. This left us with 10 minutes before boarding the connecting flight (JFK to SAN) to walk to the far end of Terminal 4 and try to find food. We didn't find any food that could promise to serve us in under 10 minutes so we boarded the Delta flight after coming off a plance and an 8-hour flight knowing that we wouldn't be served any food on the next 5 1/2 hour flight. I feel like Delta needs to put pressure on the JFK TSA to open more screening stations (by our count, we saw only 5 scanners open and a line of - as we said - over 90 minutes. The insult is that we WERE ALREADY SCREENED through TSA, but as you come off one flight into the USA, you have to go through the whole process again. It seems like if you have a connecting flight, there should be a way to pass through immigration and customs without needing to return through TSA.

There are 4 flights in consecutive gates with about the same departure time. Two flights were boarding at the same time. One was delayed or boarding would be happening at the same time. I am not sure what Delta and LAX need to do to have a better layout at the end of Terminal 2

5 hours of delay that could've been much shorter if Delta had taken the 1 hour delay they imposed on the flight before boarding to run any of the plane checks required for flight to find the hydraulic issue that required nearly 3 hours to fix. $24 of meal credit buys a sandwich and a soft drink. Poor communication within the terminal about what gate we'd be re-boarding from and when we'd be re-boarding.

The entertainment and wifi mostly didn't work on this flight.

Terrible entertainment system - kept freezing and audio kept cutting out. Snacks were mediocre at best for a 5 hour flight.

I am still upset that my bag was lost on a recent trip to Rome ; we were inconvenienced and out €150 Euros ; delta has refused to reimburse us

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