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Cheap Flights from Houston to Central America

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
San Salvador
San Salvadornonstop$282
San José
San José1 stop$464
Guatemala City
Guatemala City1 stop$396
Panama City
Panama City1 stop$424
Liberia
Liberianonstop$366
Managua
Managua1 stop$567
San Pedro Sula
San Pedro Sula2 stops$413
Coxen Hole
Coxen Holenonstop$864
Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa2 stops$1,044
San Salvador
San Salvadornonstop$282
San José
San José1 stop$464
Guatemala City
Guatemala City1 stop$396
Panama City
Panama City1 stop$424
Liberia
Liberianonstop$366
Managua
Managua1 stop$567
San Pedro Sula
San Pedro Sula2 stops$413
Coxen Hole
Coxen Holenonstop$864
Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa2 stops$1,044

Book Cheap Houston to Central America Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Houston to Central America 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.
Discover the best prices for you by selecting your travel dates on KAYAK.

Recent round-trip flight deals from Houston to Central America

Thu, Oct 1 - Sat, Oct 3
Volaris El Salvador Logo
2:47 pm - 4:42 pm
IAH
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SAL
2h 55mnonstop
Volaris El Salvador Logo
9:12 am - 1:17 pm
SAL
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IAH
3h 05mnonstop
$282Volaris El Salvador
Tue, Nov 10 - Thu, Nov 12
Volaris El Salvador Logo
1:37 pm - 4:33 pm
IAH
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SAL
2h 56mnonstop
Volaris El Salvador Logo
9:01 am - 12:07 pm
SAL
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IAH
3h 06mnonstop
$283Volaris El Salvador
Tue, Sep 8 - Thu, Sep 10
Volaris El Salvador Logo
2:47 pm - 4:42 pm
IAH
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SAL
2h 55mnonstop
Volaris El Salvador Logo
9:12 am - 1:17 pm
SAL
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IAH
3h 05mnonstop
$285Volaris El Salvador
Thu, Aug 20 - Fri, Aug 28
Avianca Logo
2:05 pm - 4:00 pm
IAH
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SAL
2h 55mnonstop
Avianca Logo
8:00 am - 12:05 pm
SAL
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IAH
3h 05mnonstop
$291Avianca
Fri, Aug 28 - Sat, Sep 26
Avianca Logo
5:45 pm - 7:40 pm
IAH
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SAL
2h 55mnonstop
Avianca Logo
12:05 pm - 4:10 pm
SAL
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IAH
3h 05mnonstop
$300Avianca
Fri, Jul 10 - Fri, Jul 17
Frontier Logo
7:23 pm - 1:42 pm
IAH
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GUA
19h 19m
1 stop
Frontier Logo
2:47 pm - 8:45 am
GUA
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IAH
16h 58m
1 stop
$398Frontier
Fri, Aug 7 - Sun, Aug 16
Frontier Logo
12:16 pm - 1:42 pm
IAH
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GUA
50h 26m
2 stops
Frontier Logo
2:47 pm - 8:45 am
GUA
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IAH
16h 58m
1 stop
$400Frontier
Tue, Nov 3 - Tue, Nov 10
Southwest Logo
11:45 am - 2:00 pm
HOU
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BZE
2h 15mnonstop
Southwest Logo
2:55 pm - 5:25 pm
BZE
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HOU
2h 30mnonstop
$463Southwest
Tue, Sep 1 - Tue, Sep 15
Southwest Logo
8:35 pm - 12:45 pm
HOU
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SJO
17h 10m
2 stops
Southwest Logo
1:40 pm - 6:20 pm
SJO
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HOU
3h 40mnonstop
$466Southwest
Thu, Oct 15 - Thu, Oct 22
United Airlines Logo
9:39 am - 12:21 pm
IAH
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SJO
3h 42mnonstop
United Airlines Logo
7:55 am - 12:40 pm
SJO
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IAH
3h 45mnonstop
$476United Airlines
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for Houston to Central America flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Houston to Central America to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest Houston to Central America flight route?

Data is based on round-trip flight searches on KAYAK over the past month.

The cheapest ticket to Central America from Houston found in the last 5 days was to San Salvador, at $209 round-trip. The most popular route is from Houston George Bush Intcntl Airport (IAH) to San Salvador (SAL), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 5 days was $209.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Central America?

The average price for all round-trip flights from Houston to Central America depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

The cheapest time of day to fly to Central America is generally in the afternoon, when round-trip flights cost $333 on average. Morning departures are around 1% more expensive than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Central America is generally at night, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $390.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Houston to Central America?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Houston to Central America, 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 Houston to Central America is October, when tickets cost $254 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and June, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $504 and $461 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Houston to Central America?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Houston to Central America clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

When flying from Houston to Central America, you should consider leaving on a Thursday and avoid Sundays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Houston, you’ll find the best rates on Thursdays and the most expensive ones on Sundays.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Houston to Central America?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Houston to Central America, 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 Houston to Central America, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 9% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 26 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Cheapest flight$121
Flight from Houston George Bush Airport to San José

FAQs - booking Central America flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Houston to Central America?

    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 Houston to Central America.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Houston to 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 Houston to Central America?

    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 from Houston to Central America with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Houston to Central America?

    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 from Houston to 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 5 airlines serving from Houston to Central America

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Houston to Central America? 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
SouthwestOverall score based on 4238 reviews
8.0Comfort
8.1Boarding
8.6Crew
7.0Food
7.5Entertainment
Airline reviews

It was great. The gate staff were very helpful in Portland when my son forgot his rolling bag and had to go back to get it just in time to make it on the plane. We really appreciate that. Great job!

10.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Jun 2026
DEN - ORF
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It was great. The gate staff were very helpful in Portland when my son forgot his rolling bag and had to go back to get it just in time to make it on the plane. We really appreciate that. Great job!

Airline is not very senior friendly. Flights are late, forcing us to run to the connecting flight. Food is awful. Wish they would go back to pretzels and peanuts. During flight, pressurization isn’t quite right and all of our ears get plugged. Everything is nickel and dime, charging for boarding, seat selection and legroom. While a screen at the desk in the gate area says check your roll on bag now for free due to space limitation, the employee at the desk will not check the bag without a $100 fee. Insane.

Kayak could’ve posted the correct gate number. Almost missed my flight.

Slow boarding, limited food and drink portions. Bad delays and turbulence

there were two flight attendants that were up front...that were the best! They get KUDOs for making my trip only fantastic. Tell them Jeff said that!

OKay. I sat in the back of the plane and it was really loud between babies and little kids, and adults who.like to talk a lot and loudly most of the flight.

Flight coming out of Buffalo was delayed, so we had to be rescheduled on another flight from Baltimore to Phoenix which means we had a long layover and got home 3.5 hours late. Shuttle to parking stopped at 10pm, so we had to pay for an Uber to the parking lot and got charged an extra day of parking since it was after midnight. Not the best experience. Long day!

Was fine, delayed and feels like southwest is always late

I don't know why flying out of Sarasota requires two plane changes.

The first time I flew in the extra legroom section. It was difficult to notice a difference. I had bad luck with my neighbors. The crew was okay. Southwest has reduced the live TV options.

This airline always trick us so we end up paying again for the luggage’s. This airline is worthless and take advantage of travelers .

Now days most airlines flying to Central America have a really poor service, but if you buy first class they will treat you better. I miss those days when flying was fun.

Friendly staff at all very easy check in and organize process

Horrible airline, upgraded to sit on seats made of stone. Staff were rude and on top of it they charge an arm and a leg for luggage 🧳 never again

The seats are the worst I upgraded to premium big mistake and it seems like no one likes there job very unpleasant

they don’t have TV Seat to Type in space

Packed flight, which makes it tough on crew and boarding staff (and the customers of course). But this was great boarding, clear instructions, etc. Traveling on the weekends are always fraught with danger as you have families and less frequent flyers thus more confusion. But this flight went as planned.

Boarded early, left early, arrived 40 mins early! A win win for me!

I felt scammed. The priced advertised was different than what I paid. I paid the whole some online. I then got a call 20 minutes later saying I need to paid 70 more person. She said the price online is not the guaranteed price.

We had a delay, but thankfully I made it to my connection. Overall it went smooth

Left an hour and a half after the listed time. Up side was it had TV screens on the seat.

It's a long flight and I would have liked better snacks between lunch and the arrival meal. It's fine to have fruit and nuts but I really don't like ramen because it's salty junk soup. I'd suggest sandwiches. They're not expensive nor are they hard to store for a long flight. The FA's had a couple of big services and they were super busy preparing, executing and then cleaning up. Then they disappeared.

Great flight. Got to watch a movie. Smooth flight and early arrival at ORD.

I've been flying American mostly, and it's been very frustrating. This united flight makes me realize maybe the issue isn't flying, but the airline. United was a significantly better experience. The plane was more comfortable, with a normal amount of leg room (vs the ridiculous reductions AA has made), more comfortable seats, screens to watch movies. It was a much better experience!

We had excellent customer service despite the chaos at George Bush airport in Houston!

It isvvery small flight. No leg room . No space to put my personal item at feet.

A flawless trip, great experience. Keep up the good work!

The employees at the gate were not communicating, they preferred to give the upgrade to pilots and not to the elite passengers Every flight I more disappointing, clients shooed be priority instead of other employees even if they are pilots, there was plenty room for pilots in economy

The worst experience I've ever had because the "people" @ Avianca wouldn't let me fly because they said I needed a round trip ticket

Seating was tight. Seats don't recline. Initial flight was cancelled. Lost two days of vacation.

Horrible experience with Avianca, they delayed their flight and when we arrived to NYC, AVIANCA took 1 hr y 30 mins to park the airplane and all passenger get off the plane, it made me lost all my trains to get back home and I came back to my place at 3 am instead of 12 am. On the top of that their plane seat are so uncomfortable and is not enough space and killed my legs and knees, Avianca used to be good when it was a Colombian company, now after Brasilian company bought them, their service quality is bad and their flights are delayed and oversold.

It was delayed and I lost my connection flight to Cali and I missed my Mom's funeral

I actually upgraded to the medium level of seats from basic and even doing that it may have been physically the most uncomfortable flight I have ever had. They packed everyone like is a train to death camp. It was a red eye so I hoped to get some sleep but it was physically impossible to find a comfortable way to rest. I met other folks on the same flight and they said the same thing. It was an utterly miserable flight and if I have any other options I will never fly with them again

only a bag of chips and a bottle of water in business class was served

Deplaning was a mess, I sat in business (seats are horrible) and the front door had a problem so we had to deplane from the rear exit. The stairs were not tall enough to reach so there was a large step down from the plane to the top of the stairs.

Staff are the rudest in the industry … awful customer service … will never fly Avianca again

There weren't enough employees at check in took awhile to get bags checked. There wasn't a wheel chair for me, I was sent to someone who turns out to work for a different airline, if My flight hadn't been delayed I probably would have missed my flight as it was, by the time I arrived at my gate, they started boarding in about 15 minutes. I don't know who took me to my gate, definitely was not the normal people who take passengers to the gate. I'm guessing she may have been in a management position. I wish I knew her name, she went beyond to help me. With that said everyone was kind, and were doing the best they could. So, I choose to say it was an Adventure, stressful start, but good. In the end went well. The situation was not only difficult for passengers but the employee's.

The staff at the check in counter was so rude. Made you feel Incompetent

Frontier scheduled a 40 minute connection in DEN. What they failed to mention was that they “close the doors” 20 mins prior to departure, which means you only have 20 mins. Not enough time. Possibly against DOT regulations. Filing complaint.

Flight was scheduled at 9:40pm. Got delayed to 10 am, the next day. crazy

The bag check, flight check-in, and onboard experience convinced my wife and me that we will actively go out of our way to avoid flying Frontier Airlines in the future. At bag check, we were informed that check-in could only be completed via the Frontier mobile app. Unfortunately, the app was extremely frustrating—sending us through repetitive, confusing loops that repeatedly forced us to decline add-on services with nearly every click. While most airline apps upsell, this one felt intentionally exhausting. As the process dragged on, we became genuinely concerned that my phone battery would die before check-in could be completed. We approached the bag check staff—who were standing together talking—and explained both our frustration and our predicament. They laughed. Later, my wife described the interaction as “gaslighting,” which felt accurate. We were then informed it would cost $25 per person simply to have our boarding passes printed. From that point forward, the tone of the experience was consistently hostile. The bag check employees were condescending and combative, behaving more like bullies than customer service staff. Unfortunately, that same attitude continued onboard. One flight attendant argued with me when I attempted to stow my backpack in the overhead bin. I explained that we had each paid $75 to check our bags specifically so we would not need to use carry-on space and could have adequate legroom. She demanded to see my ticket, pointed out that it said “no carry-on”—which I acknowledged—and I reiterated that this was precisely why we paid to check our bags. Her response was, “I don’t make the rules.” She then walked away, but not before asking if I “truly wanted to fly back to Chicago today?”—an unnecessary and unmistakable threat. It is also worth noting that despite booking our tickets together in the same transaction, we were not seated together. Upon our return to Chicago—where we could once again sit together—we compared onboard experiences. We both remarked on how unhappy the flight attendants appeared and how each of us was separately asked whether we would like to purchase a beverage. We declined. At no point was water mentioned as an option, leaving us with the clear impression that even water came at a cost—or that complimentary water, if available at all, was deliberately left unmentioned. Overall, the experience was shocking and deeply disappointing, but it was also a profound learning experience—one we will not forget and will not repeat. -Steve

Plane was hot and miserable and the crew was rude!

12 hour delay required getting on and off plane 3 times - would have at least liked to have been offered a snack or drink

They didn’t offer a water, even after I asked

They switched our terminal 3 times and we were delayed for four plus hours!!!

It was an early flight and most people napped/slept and the crew let us which was nice.

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