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Best Costa Rica Flight Deals from Raleigh

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
San José
San José1 stop$269
Liberia
Liberia1 stop$380
San José
San José1 stop$269
Liberia
Liberia1 stop$380

Cheap Flights from Raleigh to Costa Rica

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Raleigh to Costa Rica 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 Raleigh to Costa Rica

Wed, Sep 3 - Wed, Sep 10
Copa Airlines Logo
4:21 pm - 9:51 pmRDU-SJO
7h 30m1 stop
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5:57 am - 2:27 pmSJO-RDU
6h 30m1 stop
$269Copa Airlines
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Fri, Sep 26 - Sat, Oct 4
Delta Logo
5:20 am - 12:08 pmRDU-SJO
8h 48m1 stop
Delta Logo
1:35 pm - 10:38 pmSJO-RDU
7h 03m1 stop
$276Delta
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Sun, Oct 5 - Sun, Oct 12
Copa Airlines Logo
4:19 pm - 7:35 amRDU-SJO
17h 16m1 stop
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4:10 am - 2:28 pmSJO-RDU
8h 18m1 stop
$279Copa Airlines
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Wed, Sep 3 - Wed, Sep 10
American Airlines Logo
7:58 am - 7:42 pmRDU-SJO
13h 44m2 stops
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7:21 am - 11:11 pmSJO-RDU
13h 50m2 stops
$280American Airlines
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Wed, Sep 24 - Mon, Sep 29
American Airlines Logo
11:40 am - 7:42 pmRDU-SJO
10h 02m1 stop
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7:21 am - 10:03 pmSJO-RDU
12h 42m2 stops
$283American Airlines
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Wed, Aug 13 - Wed, Aug 20
JetBlue Logo
6:45 am - 11:55 amRDU-SJO
7h 10m1 stop
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1:00 pm - 11:59 pmSJO-RDU
8h 59m1 stop
$336JetBlue
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Sat, Jul 26 - Fri, Aug 22
JetBlue Logo
6:45 am - 11:55 amRDU-SJO
7h 10m1 stop
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1:00 pm - 11:59 pmSJO-RDU
8h 59m1 stop
$345JetBlue
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Mon, Jul 21 - Wed, Jul 30
Spirit Airlines Logo
9:10 am - 11:11 amRDU-SJO
28h 01m1 stop
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12:16 pm - 8:15 amSJO-RDU
17h 59m1 stop
$347Spirit Airlines
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Mon, Jul 28 - Sun, Aug 3
United Airlines Logo
5:00 pm - 10:39 pmRDU-SJO
7h 39m1 stop
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5:30 am - 10:00 pmSJO-RDU
14h 30m1 stop
$376United Airlines
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Mon, Jul 21 - Sat, Jul 26
United Airlines Logo
6:49 am - 2:23 pmRDU-LIR
9h 34m1 stop
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11:05 am - 9:55 pmLIR-RDU
8h 50m1 stop
$583United Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Raleigh to Costa Rica flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Raleigh to Costa Rica to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Raleigh to Costa Rica?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Raleigh to Costa Rica, 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 Raleigh to Costa Rica is September, when tickets cost $355 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and June, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $632 and $564 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Raleigh to Costa Rica?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Raleigh to Costa Rica clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

When flying from Raleigh to Costa Rica, you should consider leaving on a Tuesday and avoid Saturdays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Raleigh, you’ll find the best rates on Mondays and the most expensive ones on Saturdays.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Raleigh to Costa Rica?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Raleigh to Costa Rica, 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 Raleigh to Costa Rica, you should book around 2 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 2 weeks before departure.


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Low seasonOctober
High seasonMarch
Cheapest flight$119
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 4% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 8% increase in price.
Flight from Raleigh to San José

FAQs - booking Costa Rica flights

  • What kind of travel documentation do I need to travel to Costa Rica?

    If you're traveling to Costa Rica as a tourist, you will not need a visa if you're staying for less than 90 days, but you do need to present a return airline ticket upon your arrival. You also need a valid passport, and you need to make sure that your passport is valid for the entire time you are in Costa Rica.

  • If I plan on renting a car when I arrive in Costa Rica, what child car seat laws should I know about before I start driving?

    In Costa Rica, every child up to 12 months of age needs to travel in a rear-facing car seat, and then up to four years old, they need to travel in a forward-facing car seat. Children between the ages of four and six years old need to travel in a booster seat, and then children from six years old to 12 years old need to travel on a booster cushion.

  • What type of public transportation is available to take me from the San José Juan Santamaria International Airport to downtown San Jose?

    A great choice to get from the airport to the downtown areas is to take bus number 200 offered by TUASA, which makes the journey in around 30min.

  • Are there any facilities for nursing mothers at the Raleigh Durham International Airport?

    There are two Mamava Nursing Suite locations at this airport, with the first being near gate A6 and the second being near gate C8. These suites offer a bench as well as a fold-down table and electrical outlets, plus a locking door.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Raleigh to Costa Rica?

    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 Raleigh to Costa Rica.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Raleigh to Costa Rica?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Raleigh to Costa Rica 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 Raleigh to Costa Rica?

    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 Raleigh to Costa Rica 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 Raleigh to Costa Rica?

    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 Raleigh to Costa Rica up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Costa Rica?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to Costa Rica is generally at night, when round-trip flights cost $295 on average. Morning departures are around 35% more expensive than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Costa Rica is generally in the morning, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $552.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to Costa Rica

  • A very popular destination in Costa Rica for people traveling from Raleigh Durham International Airport (RDU) is to travel to the San José Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO). On this route, you will find one-stop service aboard Delta Airlines, Air Canada, American Airlines, and United Airlines.
  • One airport that offers a very popular route between Raleigh and Costa Rica is Liberia Airport (LIR). If you would like to travel to this airport from the Raleigh Durham International Airport, you will find one-stop flights aboard Delta Airlines and American Airlines.
  • One of the most convenient ways to travel to the Raleigh Durham International Airport from downtown Raleigh without having to drive yourself is the travel board bus number 100 offered by Go Triangle to the Go Triangle Regional Transit Center, where you can then take the RDU shuttle to the airport. This entire trip takes about 45min.
  • If you are traveling to the San José Juan Santamaria International Airport and are looking for a great hotel right at the airport, a good choice is either the Sonesta Select San Jose Airport or the Springhill Suites by Marriott San Jose Airport.
  • If you're looking for a comfortable and convenient place to wait for your flight to Costa Rica, the Raleigh Durham International Airport offers airline lounges from Delta Airlines, American Airlines, and United Airlines, all of which offer comfortable seating, food and beverage options, and entertainment options.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Raleigh to Costa Rica

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Raleigh to Costa Rica? 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
DeltaOverall score based on 7970 reviews
7.9Entertainment
7.9Comfort
8.5Crew
7.3Food
8.2Boarding
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Crew was excellent. Comfort seats not as nice as other kinds of planes.

10.0 ExcellentMary, Jun 2025SAN - ATL
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Crew was excellent. Comfort seats not as nice as other kinds of planes.

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.

It was a great flight and the stewards and stewardess were all kind and accommodating!! The seats were comfortable and entertainment screen excellent!

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

Flight was an hour late, who knows why. It was OK, nothing outstanding.

Only not having an assigned seat was an issue. Rest was great

There was a security issue at the airport and we were unable to land. We circled endlessly and then landed at another airfield for fuel. We then circled the airport again, almost landed but didn’t fully touch down before circling again. I am thankful to the crew for keeping us safe- the issue was the airline and staff at the airport getting us seats on our connecting flights. That part was hours of searching for someone and getting in double my steps.

Boarding was organised and relaxed. Crew were fantastic! Seats were lacking padding causing butt pain and stiffness.

I like for how they process during check in. It was very smoothly.

The flight was scheduled for 2:30 PM. Early in the morning we got a text message saying the flight was delayed and rescheduled for 3:00 PM. We got to the airport with that in mind. Then we got a message during check-in at the flight was rescheduled again for 2:30 PM. We almost missed our flight. In fact, our bags Were told that they would not make it. At the end, everything worked out. But it is very stressful.

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.

It was ok. However, the food was quite poor since I don't eat pasta.

Enforce the boarding process by group numbers. Tell people to stay seated during the meal/drink distribution. It took forever to get food and drinks because people would not stay out the isle and let the crew do their jobs. Everyone wanted to go to the bathroom forcing the crew to enter and leave the isle constantly so people can pass. Tell people to keep their electronics off speaker mode. No one wants to hear phone conversations and music playing.

Placed us in the last rear row of the plane so could not recline seats because of the rear wall, and also made it more of a tight space when the passenger in front reclined their seat. While understand seat assignments, every passenger should be afforded a reclining seat. The odor control scent from the restrooms was overwhelming strong. My wife and I could not deal with it, and she suffered a terrible headache as a result. I kept getting hit by the crew since I was on the ilse seat. No apologies, nothing. They made me feel like I was supposed to take the beating for a 3 hr flight.

There was no individual at the front check in when I arrived. I waited for at least 15 minutes and walked around asking security/janitors if they could help and they did not have a solution. So I had to take my checked bag through security and they threw away some of my items. I ended up making it to the gate only a few minutes before it closed due to my waiting for an agent at check in.

The flight was delayed twice and I could not speak with anyone at the airport about checking in. The phone number to Copa - the customer service agents were polite. They are just limited at helping because they are not at the airport

My flight delayed and i misss the connection they send me to orlando no to tampa i have to pay a uber to my house

It would have been better if they don't separate families in seating. We were seated in the aile row in the middle of a family of four. It would have been better if they they seat the family of four together than separated.

No headphones given for inflight entertainment. I missed my flight from the previous day and the customer service agent tried to extort an additional $100.00 US from me for missing my flight. Really?!

The flight was delayed about 4 hours without any explanation. No wifi or entertainment at all on planes. Had to pay for checked bags I was allowed according to reservations.

Spend hours delayed with no food, water anything sitting on the aieplane with no ability to eat or use the restroom. My entire experience was the absolute worst. I will never fly jet Blue again.

It would have been nice if they had offered more than one set of snacks

Seats were not too comfortable; it was impossible to locate the underseat power outlet.

You get what you pay for with JetBlue. Every little thing costs more, you are nickel and dimed until the end. Entertainment doesn’t function. Flight attendants do the bare minimum.

The check in and boarding process was a bit of a cluster. Two people at the counter to check in, three random lines that nobody knew which was for what, and people kept getting shuffled from one line to another for no apparent reason because then they’d get shuffled back and end up getting out further back in the line than they were originally. I only had to hand my already checked bag over and it took 45 minutes. I was never assigned a seat so when I tried to board I was pulled out of line again while someone had to try to manually assign me a seat. During the flight I got up to go to the bathroom, and there was an attendant in the aisle offering pillows etc and it was a 30 min wait unbuckled standing by the bathrooms because she said I couldn’t go past her. First and last time flying jet blue to be honest.

Communication since no reason or explanation was given for 3 hrs delay

The flight departed more than 1 hour late. Leg room is bigger than most airlines

Flight was delayed several 3 hours - no reason was given and no communication what so ever.

No overhead baggage room even though I was seated in row 2. Consequently had to check in my carry on bag. Baggage carousel was jammed. Took 45 min to get my bag.

Excellent from start to finish. All staff members were amazing!

This flight never occurred because AA couldn’t get their act together.

Boarding was very efficient. Everyone got on board and we got on our way very quickly. It was frustrating that the entertainment app was not functioning properly. I was not able to activate some of the movies offered. The crew on this flight appears to be pretty grumpy. They had no smile on their faces. I felt like they were doing us a favor for being there.

Delayed because of weather in Nashville. I think God or some higher power generally has cursed me when it comes to flying out of Charlotte on American. I'm delayed pretty much everytime. We need Team Cobra Kai types to come in and "sweep the leg(s)" of the Charlotte ops people on principle. Don't let the sweet southern rocking chairs fool you, Charlotte is a sinkhole

Long 5 hour and 45 min flight and only one drink service and cookie snack

Newark airport grounded inbound flight and only announced when the flight was about to start taxing.

Was a normal flight but it was delayed, and there wasn't an explanation.

Terrible. The flight was delayed two hours due to weather. Then when we got on the plane, the first pilot ended up timing out and we had to wait for a second pilot. Second pile came on board and we tax it out. Had to return back to the gate because of an unruly passenger. Then the copilot timed out. Had to wait for new copilot. Also had to wait for maintenance to check for fuel. Then found out the second pilot timed out and we had to wait for a third pilot. Was ready to go and then needed maintenance again for another issue. In the end, it was 2 o’clock in the morning when they announced that the flight couldn’t go because the third pilot and the second copilot had timed out.

American Airlines initially postponed the flight. Then they cancelled it an rescheduled us on a flight that would take over 24 hours with multiple stops. They then changed this flight to a reasonable alternative the next day which they later cancelled and replaced with a flight that would take off with an additional 16 hour delay. They blamed weather but I noticed (at 4am) that Delta had direct flights from Charlotte to Detroit. I went on line. Booked it and was in Detroit buy 9am. The interesting thing is they did a similar thing to a family member just 2 days earlier. I don't think I will fly American unless I have to.

I was a little disappointed of not having an android charger. Only one it was for an iPhone. I've flown American in the past and had access to one.

At least it was a short flight. Greyhound with wings.

Good on that leg. When I arrived in Detroit I had to wait over an hour for luggage.

Not very good because of an almost 3 hour delay for an hour long flight.

The spirit flight was on time. The airplane itself was surprisingly very nice. We had great seats. Seems like there's more room. Only complaint is that I didn't get a full refund for my mistakenly buying the baggage twice.

We had an almost 7 hour flight delay. We left the gate twice and taxi-ed and then returned the gate twice. Finally we got a new flight crew (our third one) and then left the gate to the final time before departing at 6:45pm (original flight time was 12pm). Out of Newark.

I made it safely. The flight was delayed, though. Not upset or expect anything.

The flight times got delayed multiple times due to weather which is understandable, but later the time got prepared 30min. Made to the flight barely but got stressed too much.

I am very happy with my experience with Spirit Airlines. Both flights were on time. Boarding was very pleasant. Crew was very nice. Flights were amazing and we even arrived earlier than the schedule time. I am hoping Spirits keeps on having non stop flight from Ft Lauderdale to Hartford for many years to come.

First off, i received an e-mail to allow me to check in for our flight. I folllowed the link, when it came to the seat selection, I was unable to select any "free" seats ( meaning without any additional charge) because everything was " unavailable". My Husband and I were ttavelling with our 3 children hence, i wanted to be assured that we were all seated next to each other. I tried 3 times and everytime I click the selection it said " error loading". What the system wants is for me to buy the seats ( anywhere from $25 to $50 dollars each passenger) like I did on our flight bound to L.A. I called customer service and the guy was unhelpful all he kept repeating was to come really early at the airport and we will be assigned seats there. Imagine my anxiety!!! Spirit says they are a budget airline but they are actually the opposite!! And just before our flight, the flight attendant KEPT announcing/ selling the seats that were not purchased for a cheaper price!! Like it was a bidding/ bargaining game! This was our first and last time to fly Spirit.

you guys canceled my flight last minute and lost my luggage.

The crew was very nice. I would like to see them offer basic refreshments just like a soda and pretzels, etc. for free.

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