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Cheap Flights from Central America to San Diego

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Central America 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 Central America to San Diego

Wed, Sep 16 - Sun, Sep 20
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4:35 pm - 9:17 am
SJO
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SAN
17h 42m
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2:20 pm - 8:30 am
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17h 10m
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$407Multiple Airlines
Sat, Sep 19 - Sat, Sep 26
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8:45 am - 8:45 pm
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13h 00m
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7:41 pm - 7:37 pm
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SJO
22h 56m
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$411United Airlines
Sat, Sep 19 - Sat, Sep 26
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1:00 pm - 8:18 am
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20h 18m
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12:08 pm - 1:57 pm
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SJO
24h 49m
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$419American Airlines
Tue, Jul 21 - Tue, Jul 28
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7:55 am - 7:50 pm
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12h 55m
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6:15 am - 10:39 pm
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SJO
15h 24m
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$420United Airlines
Sat, Sep 19 - Sat, Sep 26
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1:00 pm - 8:18 am
SJO
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20h 18m
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12:08 pm - 1:57 pm
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SJO
24h 49m
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$421American Airlines
Sat, Sep 19 - Sat, Sep 26
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1:00 pm - 8:18 am
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20h 18m
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4:14 pm - 1:57 pm
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SJO
20h 43m
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$423American Airlines
Sun, Jul 26 - Thu, Jul 30
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11:10 am - 7:01 pm
GUA
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8h 51m
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4:12 pm - 1:42 pm
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GUA
20h 30m
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$500Frontier
Sat, Sep 5 - Sun, Oct 11
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4:25 pm - 6:30 pm
GUA
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27h 05m
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10:00 pm - 9:33 am
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GUA
10h 33m
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$545Copa Airlines
Wed, Jul 15 - Thu, Jul 23
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3:14 am - 6:30 pm
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16h 16m
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10:00 pm - 12:48 pm
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MGA
13h 48m
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$622Copa Airlines
Tue, Jul 21 - Wed, Aug 5
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11:20 pm - 10:08 am
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11h 48m
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10:49 am - 6:10 am
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18h 21m
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$729Avianca
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Low seasonAugust
Cheapest flight$232
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 4% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 19% lower on average.
Flight from San José to San Diego

FAQs for booking flights from Central America to San Diego

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Central America 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 Central America to San Diego.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to San Diego from Central America 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 Central America 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 Central America with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Central America 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 Central America up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Reviews of the top 3 airlines serving from Central America to San Diego

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Central America 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.
7.6
Copa AirlinesOverall score based on 1567 reviews
7.4Comfort
8.1Crew
7.8Boarding
6.8Entertainment
6.9Food
Airline reviews

stood in line to check in luggage for nearly an hour. very poor service and not excusable

4.0 OkayAnonymous, Jun 2026
PTY - AUS
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stood in line to check in luggage for nearly an hour. very poor service and not excusable

Same as the previous flight as far as comfort and food. Entertainment didn’t have a watchable screen so everything would need to be watched on your own device in which they didn’t have a charging port that accommodated my iPhone. Seats were very uncomfortable. Staff was very friendly.

Do not book it’s a scam! They stole $1200 from me

Flight got delayed; had to go through security three times.

A lot things happened in this trip.The fly should be less stress.

Some of the Air hostesses are not that friendly. Need improvement

Had to go through security at the gate again. Had to take off shoes and go through the whole thing again even though we have global entry. They asked us to check in items bought at duty free during our layover and since we checked our luggage at the original departure airport, they forced us to check in a small backpack. None of this ever happened with other airlines. In addition, no vegetarian food option and no snacks during a 7 hr flight. Luggage limits are unusually small. This is unacceptable. Will NEVER fly Copa again and will tell friends and family to avoid this airline.

I upgraded myself to Business Class at the last minute so I had a DREAMS window seat. Seeing as I've never flown Business before everything was novel and fun for me and it made the 7 hour flight much more enjoyable for sure.

Horrible food. No wine or any other alcohol is served on the flight. Water is not served often and they refused when I asked for water in two cups. On the other hand, both going and coming back flights were on time.

it was great! Boarded on-time, reasonable leg room, pleasant staff, decent food. The only thing is we were directed to Terminal 2 when the gate was actually in Terminal 1. Smooth ride. Landed early. Got off plane easily and quickly.

The Manila airport was under renovation so there was no business class lounge. The double security check was disorganized and the flight attendants were grouchy.

Know that the movies that you are going to be offered are the oldest be rated movies they could possibly get. They may have one or two new movies that they keep advertising but when you’re flying 15 hours, there is nothing to see past the first new movie.

Flight attendants on United are the worst in the business. Can’t be bothered to provide even basic levels of service and are as rude as anyone can get. This flight was not an exception to that rule.

Friendly crew, but we were delayed for more than an hour and had to change planes due to maintenance issues.

Horrific. They missed my connecting flight to San Diego. I didn’t get there until Monday at 9am when I had a mandatory court settlement conference scheduled at 6am since we had parties on the east coast. This caused many issues. All because United apparently forgot to hold the doors open until my flight landed that only had a 10 minute delay. This was the last flight to Southern California. So I couldn’t even rent a car to finish the trip. United cannot be trusted when traveling on specific days and times since weather didn’t have anything to do with the delays.

Was a pain having to leave the plane and reboard but glad the plane was fixed

Connecting flights were poor,especially in Naples.our Lufthansa air bus was a joke.way too small for that long of a flight.no room at all.couldn’t even get out of the seats to move around or go to the bathrooms.we thought we were getting an actual air bus,double decker.i will never fly that long in a plane like that again.kind of misleading to call it an air bus.we actually had more room on our buses that we used.

For a 22 minute flight all you expect is for it to be safe and comfortable

Lost connnection had to stayON in Chicago Was a mess

Booked economy through United - air canada treated it as standby and was almost refused boarding.

The seat when "flat" was not flat and pad was too thin to cover it.

Delayed for mechanical and no updates on what was happening and how long the delay might be.

We are too tired and frustrated to comment politely at this point

My flight was delayed for several hours. Sitting at gate 16 for several hours, I got a text from Kayak the gate changed to 9 before it was announced. Very bad communication at each gate from American Airlines employees. I received 10 notifications of delay from Kayak. My vacation started off horrible! I will write to American Airlines corporate office also.

The service and food needs to improve to catch up with other international flights

The flight crew was fantastic! Which the seats had a small TV.

also wi-fi never worked attendant said satellite coverage is spotty over water ..... but we were over land!

They attended to my needs as I couldn't walk and they provided a wheelchair for me.q

This time my flight was smooth and uneventful. They started boarding even earlier than it was scheduled. I was pleasantly surprised. Thank you!

Boarding was a mess - the agent basically called every group in rapid succession, so there was no organization at all. The economy seats are a joke, and main cabin extra seats were sold out when I purchased my flight. As such, I was locked in the same position for four hours. Being 6’6”, it was impossible to get my bag out from under the seat in front of me, and I couldn’t have used my laptop even if my bag were accessible due to the minuscule seat pitch. Also the wifi was broken. American is a joke - can’t wait until they merge with Spirit.

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