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Cheap Flights from Houston to San Jose

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

Thu, Oct 23 - Mon, Oct 27
Frontier Logo
6:33 pm - 5:47 pmIAH-SJC
25h 14m1 stop
Frontier Logo
12:35 pm - 3:42 pmSJC-IAH
25h 07m1 stop
$151Frontier
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Thu, Oct 2 - Sun, Oct 5
Frontier Logo
9:08 pm - 11:30 amIAH-SJC
16h 22m1 stop
Frontier Logo
12:26 pm - 11:09 amSJC-IAH
20h 43m1 stop
$152Frontier
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Mon, Sep 22 - Fri, Oct 3
Spirit Airlines Logo
9:29 am - 8:00 pmIAH-SJC
12h 31m1 stop
Spirit Airlines Logo
6:35 am - 4:43 pmSJC-IAH
8h 08m1 stop
$175Spirit Airlines
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Mon, Sep 29 - Tue, Sep 30
Spirit Airlines Logo
9:29 am - 3:21 pmIAH-SJC
7h 52m1 stop
Spirit Airlines Logo
6:35 am - 4:43 pmSJC-IAH
8h 08m1 stop
$208Spirit Airlines
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Thu, Oct 16 - Wed, Oct 22
Southwest Logo
7:45 am - 9:40 amHOU-SJC
3h 55mnonstop
Southwest Logo
6:45 am - 12:25 pmSJC-HOU
3h 40mnonstop
$373Southwest
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Thu, Oct 16 - Wed, Oct 22
Southwest Logo
10:00 am - 1:15 pmHOU-SJC
5h 15m1 stop
Southwest Logo
6:45 am - 12:25 pmSJC-HOU
3h 40mnonstop
$383Southwest
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Thu, Oct 23 - Tue, Oct 28
Delta Logo
2:22 pm - 7:59 pmHOU-SJC
7h 37m1 stop
Delta Logo
12:40 pm - 11:00 pmSJC-HOU
8h 20m1 stop
$393Delta
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Sat, Nov 1 - Sat, Nov 8
Delta Logo
6:00 am - 4:04 pmHOU-SJC
12h 04m2 stops
Delta Logo
5:55 pm - 9:45 amSJC-HOU
13h 50m2 stops
$403Delta
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Mon, Nov 17 - Wed, Nov 26
American Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 10:16 amHOU-SJC
6h 16m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 7:50 pmSJC-HOU
11h 50m1 stop
$516American Airlines
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Fri, Oct 10 - Sat, Oct 18
American Airlines Logo
4:41 pm - 10:06 pmHOU-SJC
7h 25m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
1:18 pm - 10:14 pmSJC-HOU
6h 56m1 stop
$517American Airlines
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Our travelers' advice
AI-generated summary based on content written by travel experts
United's Economy Plus offers extra legroom on this route.
SJC's rideshare pickups are right by baggage claim.
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Frontier
Cheapest • from $151 (round-trip)
Southwest
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HOU-SJC
Cheapest • 7% average savings
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When to book
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Our data shows that travelers who book at least 2 weeks in advance save around 31% compared to booking last minute.
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Cheapest round-trip
$151
Overall average: $214
Frontier
Thu 10/23Mon 10/27
IAH - SJC • 1 stop
Cheapest non-stop
$373
Typical prices: $471-957
United Airlines
Tue 10/14Tue 10/21
IAH - SJC • Non-stop
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Expert advice for your flight from Houston to San Jose

 
Snippets provided in this section are AI-generated based on a summarization of KAYAK-commissioned articles. The articles are presented as-is, for general informational purposes only, and may not be up-to-date. The opinions contained in the articles are original to the author and reflect their authentic experience, which may vary significantly from the experience of others.
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Airports
IAH

IAH offers free Wi-Fi throughout its terminals, perfect for staying connected before your flight.

Read more about IAHby John Walton
HOU

HOU is compact and easy to navigate, with a single terminal and short walking distances, making it ideal for quick departures.

Read more about HOUby Yulia Denisyuk
SJC

SJC's rideshare pickups are conveniently located directly across from baggage claim, making it easy to reach your destination.

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Yulia is a freelance journalist who’s dispatched from 90+ countries. Her work focuses on cultures, adventure trips and air travel, appearing in NatGeo, NYT, CNTraveler, and more. For past assignments, she’s stayed with nomads in Mongolia and learned the art of Imigongo in Rwanda. She’s based in Chicago; in winter she often questions that decision.

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KAYAK's insights & trends for Houston to San Jose flights

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

What is the cheapest Houston to San Jose flight route?

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

The cheapest return flight from Houston to San Jose costs $240 on the route between Houston Hobby Airport (HOU) and San Jose (SJC). Over the past month, this route was, on average, 7% cheaper than other Houston-San Jose routes. The most popular route is between Houston George Bush Intcntl Airport (IAH) and San Jose (SJC).

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Houston to San Jose?

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

For Houston to San Jose, Tuesday is the cheapest day to fly on average and Monday is the most expensive. Flying from San Jose back to Houston, the best deals are generally found on Wednesday, with Friday being the most expensive.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Houston to San Jose?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Houston to San Jose, 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 San Jose is January, where tickets cost $264 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and July, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $488 and $470 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Houston to San Jose?

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 San Jose, 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 San Jose, you should book around 2 weeks before departure, which saves you about 31% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 3 weeks before departure.

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Cheapest flight$75
Flight from Houston George Bush Airport to San Jose

When to book flights from Houston to San Jose

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Houston to San Jose 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 Houston to San Jose

  • What is the cheapest flight from Houston to San Jose?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Houston to San Jose was $75 for a one-way ticket and $151 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Houston and San Jose?

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

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Houston to San Jose?

    There are 2 airports in Houston (Houston Hobby and Houston George Bush Intcntl.) and only 1 airport in San Jose (San Jose). The cheapest flights are generally found on the Houston George Bush Airport to San Jose flight route.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Houston to San Jose?

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

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Houston to San Jose?

    oneworld is the only airline alliance operating flights between Houston and San Jose.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Houston to San Jose?

    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 San Jose.

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

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

    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 Jose with an airline and back to Houston with another airline.

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

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

Prefer to fly direct from Houston to San Jose?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Houston to San Jose.
Find which airlines fly direct from Houston to San Jose Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Houston to San Jose

Monday

Southwest, United Airlines

Southwest, United Airlines

Tuesday

Southwest, United Airlines

Southwest, United Airlines

Wednesday

Southwest, United Airlines

Southwest, United Airlines

Thursday

Southwest, United Airlines

Southwest, United Airlines

Friday

Southwest, United Airlines

Southwest, United Airlines

Saturday

Southwest, United Airlines

Southwest, United Airlines

Sunday

Southwest, United Airlines

Southwest, United Airlines

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Direct returns

San Jose to Houston

Monday

Southwest, United Airlines

Southwest, United Airlines

Tuesday

Southwest, United Airlines

Southwest, United Airlines

Wednesday

Southwest, United Airlines

Southwest, United Airlines

Thursday

Southwest, United Airlines

Southwest, United Airlines

Friday

Southwest, United Airlines

Southwest, United Airlines

Saturday

Southwest, United Airlines

Southwest, United Airlines

Sunday

Southwest, United Airlines

Southwest, United Airlines

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Houston to San Jose

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Houston to San Jose. 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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SouthwestOverall score based on 4242 reviews
8.0Comfort
8.1Boarding
7.5Entertainment
7.0Food
8.6Crew
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Very smooth checking in our luggage with a super pleasant SW agent. I enjoyed a fun entertaining movie.

10.0 ExcellentGordon, Jul 2025GEG - OAK
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Very smooth checking in our luggage with a super pleasant SW agent. I enjoyed a fun entertaining movie.

First time traveling on Southwest since bag fees were implemented. Usual good service. Just more expensive now.

Flight crew and cabin crew were great. I had to rearrange flights because my original flight was 3hrs delayed for weather, the rub is the flight I moved to boarded on time then we sat at the gate for 2 hours because scheduling stole our first officer for another flight, TWICE. Then our actual FO was an hour delayed. To make it worse my original flight went from a 3 hour delay to departing 15min EARLY. Just poor scheduling operations all around.

It was a perfect flight in all aspects! Both legs!

Boarding process, crew were good. But the seats were so uncomfortable that was all I could focus on. I literally had to sit forward so that all 3 of us could fit in row. I will try to avoid Southwest in the future for any flights over 60 minutes.

Great flight, 47 passengers on a 180 seat plane. Stewardess was pleasant and cheerful.

Great experience flying Southwest. The crew was really kind and helpful, and very friendly with our toddler.

Plane late from DC to Austin 30 minutes. Crew made up much of the time enroute to San Diego.

Fine, but how to board on SW versus othrr airlines, is just lame. Goood staff though and all was solid otherwise.

Was as expected. Crowed planes. Too many carryons delaying takeoff. But the ride only took an hour and saved me a lot of time SFO is a not a great airport.

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

This had nothing to do with Delta… The flights were on time and flawless. The service was excellent. We purchased seats in (aisle/middle) comfort plus since this was a cross country flight. Unfortunately, the woman seated at the window was 300+ pounds and, as might be expected, covered up about a third of the middle seat also. there was absolutely nothing that Delta could have done about that… I just don’t know what the answer should be. If you purchase a seat, you should should be able to use the entire seat and not just the portion that someone else is not sitting/oozing in. Disappointing…there should be something that could be done….I'm just not sure what solution could be.

The newer screen was super cool and had the option to watch many different shows or movies. Crew was polite and helpful. However again, many children screaming bloody murder and kicking my seat, and parents doing nothing about it as usual.

Plane was crowded and even when we hit altitude, the plane was hot, not enough air flow.

Flight was delayed and missed my connection Lufthansa didn’t respond.

the delay for 3 hours was understandable due to weather conditions but the flight should’ve provided some on flight compensations or at least provide more food.

United could have one single once of customer service. No human United employee would help me with the invalid mileage plus number, they said I had to speak with the computer.

Overall it was good. I missed my connection but I was put on another flight.

Although the flight was delayed the crew and the flight itself were very good. Couldn't fault anything and after the disappointment of being abandoned in the US by BA it was a welcome relief to travel with United

Boarding experience was smooth. Flight attendants were friendly and helpful. Entertainment system on the Houston-Edmonton flight did not function for passengers on the left side of the aisle. On the bird's eye flight from Quito to Houston, they should not serve a meal. No one needs to eat after midnight and it is disturbing for those passengers trying to sleep.

Smooth flight. Boarding was chaotic. Could not hear the gate agent over the intercom. People were lined up in the wrong lines. Groups one and two were told to board through line one and group 3 through line 2. All very confusing. Once in the air, the flight was smooth. There was no entertainment option on this aircraft, even though it was a larger aircraft.

My suitcase was completed destroyed. The top part is broken and unusable now.

Spirit is low fare air line. Food also cost you. No free food.

Everyone was kind for the most part. I did travel with children and paid for seats and even then it was not as suitable. I tried calling their customer service prior to check in and I was told they couldn't help me because I didn't purchase my tickets with them.

I think the staff was nice. They took time to explain safety protocols. Boarding was great. They started early and our flight left a little early which was convenient. Having free games to play would have been better

Better than my las vagas experience, but still dissapointed with the airline support service.

The flight was on time. The seats are very narrow.

Unclear pricing; ended up being charged an extra $52 just to get onboard

Seats are poor. They do not lean back. They do not even have pockets on the back, making it impossible to store a phone or a coke bottle. If you opt for basic economy cheap seats, they stick you always in the middle or window seat, even though there are unoccupied seats on the aisle. And then there is the nickel and diming. No carry-ons. And checking your carry-on is $70. At the end there is no price advantage but there is plenty of aggravation.

Worst Airplane ride I ever have taken... My purchased seat was changed without my consent

would be great to get basic water, soda at least and stop charging for carry ons

They changed our departure time 6 times before I even reached the airport. Delayed, Ontime, Delayed Back on time, Then Delayed. We finally boarded the plane and then we had to sit on the runway for over an hour only to be told they were taking us back to the gate for an additional 2 hour delay. Lack of communication and a complete waste of time! Never again!

Great for the price. No wifi or entertainment, but gate agents and crew were fantastic and we boarded quickly and left on time.

Decent clean onboard experience. Okay discount airline experience. Unfortunately, any customer service interactions are difficult and unhelpful. There is no service. Also, a premium seat only gets you premium boarding if you line up first. Once they start general boarding you must go to the back of the line. Not very premium

The crew was mostly okay. The flight attendant who answered our questions was curt and unhelpful unfortunately. He seemed upset and I understand having off days.

We were delayed three times ,and that destroyed my plans, and reservations

Very bad! No good service delayed my second connection flight

They canceled flight. Hard to believe there was even a plane incoming for us to get on

Book with frontier airlines with the mentality that they'll cancel your flight, kick you off and lose your luggage. Anything besides that is a win. Compare prices with other airlines (to include luggage) and if frontier is still worth it, book it but know all of their policies.

Plane was down graded and I lost my uncharged exit row with more leg room. No mention or offer of refund from podium. Flight attendant was nice to explain this happens often and that I could request a refund via online form submission. I did this and have heard nothing back.

Horrendous. I do not recommend Frontier. The passengers lack manners and decency, and the flight attendants lack professionalism. If I wasn’t in a bind to fly with 48 hours notice for a job interview, I would not have selected a flight with Frontier and I never plan to fly with them in the future.

The reps working at the airport counter were dumber than a second coat of paint.

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