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Cheap Flights from San Diego to Cincinnati (SAN-CVG)

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

Thu, Jul 3 - Mon, Jul 7
Frontier Logo
12:59 pm - 12:55 amSAN-CVG
8h 56m1 stop
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4:00 pm - 11:57 pmCVG-SAN
10h 57m1 stop
$200Frontier
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Thu, Jul 3 - Mon, Jul 7
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6:51 pm - 12:55 amSAN-CVG
27h 04m1 stop
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4:00 pm - 11:57 pmCVG-SAN
10h 57m1 stop
$210Frontier
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Thu, Aug 14 - Sun, Aug 17
Breeze Airways Logo
12:41 pm - 8:12 pmSAN-CVG
4h 31mnonstop
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9:03 am - 10:51 amCVG-SAN
4h 48mnonstop
$218Breeze Airways
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Thu, Aug 14 - Sun, Aug 17
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6:15 am - 9:37 pmSAN-CVG
12h 22m1 stop
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10:27 pm - 7:21 amCVG-SAN
11h 54m1 stop
Thu, Aug 7 - Thu, Aug 14
Breeze Airways Logo
12:41 pm - 8:12 pmSAN-CVG
4h 31mnonstop
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10:08 am - 11:56 amCVG-SAN
4h 48mnonstop
$240Breeze Airways
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Mon, Sep 22 - Tue, Sep 30
Delta Logo
10:15 pm - 9:42 amSAN-CVG
8h 27m1 stop
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6:45 am - 10:51 amCVG-SAN
7h 06m1 stop
$293Delta
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Mon, Sep 22 - Tue, Sep 23
United Airlines Logo
10:54 am - 10:03 pmSAN-CVG
8h 09m2 stops
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3:31 pm - 8:25 pmCVG-SAN
7h 54m1 stop
$298United Airlines
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Sat, Sep 6 - Fri, Sep 12
Delta Logo
1:22 pm - 11:09 pmSAN-CVG
6h 47m1 stop
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7:55 pm - 11:45 pmCVG-SAN
6h 50m1 stop
$331Delta
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Mon, Sep 22 - Tue, Sep 30
United Airlines Logo
10:54 am - 10:03 pmSAN-CVG
8h 09m2 stops
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7:00 am - 12:57 pmCVG-SAN
8h 57m2 stops
$393United Airlines
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Sat, Jul 5 - Sat, Jul 12
American Airlines Logo
10:45 pm - 11:03 amSAN-CVG
9h 18m1 stop
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2:00 pm - 8:20 pmCVG-SAN
9h 20m1 stop
$514American Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for San Diego to Cincinnati flights

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

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

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

If your flying dates are flexible, you should consider flying to Cincinnati on a Saturday, as we generally find the cheapest rates on that day for this route. On the other hand, Sunday is the most expensive day to fly from San Diego to Cincinnati. For your return ticket, we recommend flying on a Friday and avoiding Sundays for the best deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from San Diego to Cincinnati?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from San Diego to Cincinnati, 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 San Diego to Cincinnati is August, where tickets cost $308 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and March, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $450 and $428 respectively.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from San Diego to Cincinnati?

The average round-trip price for all non-stop flights, flights with one layover, and flights with two layovers for the route found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

No, with an average price for the route of $346, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

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

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from San Diego to Cincinnati, 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 San Diego to Cincinnati, you should book around 2 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 21 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonFebruary
High seasonSeptember
Cheapest flight$88
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 3% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 10% lower on average.
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When to book flights from San Diego to Cincinnati

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from San Diego to Cincinnati 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 San Diego to Cincinnati

  • Which transport facilities are available after arriving in Cincinnati?

    If you wish to take public transport at Cincinnati International Airport after you arrive from San Diego, TANK buses are there to ease your navigation. TANK, simply Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky, offers complimentary shuttle services to and from the airport to downtown Cincinnati. If you're staying in a hotel near the airport, such as Cincinnati Airport and Residence Inn Cincinnati Airport, have free buses to pick you up from the airport.

  • Are there recreational facilities for visitors who arrive at Cincinnati from San Diego?

    If you want recreational time with your kids after the flight from San Diego, Cincinnati International Airport has various facilities. The Cincinnati International Airport has two kid-friendly play areas that provide engaging, family-friendly games. Additionally, a scenic viewing spot just outside the airport is available during the daytime until 10 pm and features picnic tables and a children's playground.

  • Do airports in San Diego offer lactating rooms for mothers with babies?

    Yes. There are three lactation rooms, which include soft lighting, electrical outlets, comfy seats, and washing stations, available to mothers with young children at San Diego International Airport. One lactating room is located in Terminal 1 and another in Terminal 2.

  • Where can I get a restaurant after arriving at Cincinnati International Airport?

    After your flight from San Diego, Cincinnati International Airport offers a variety of dining options for you and your traveling companions. The airport offers delicious culinary options for you to choose from. For fast meals, the airport has a burger and pizza place. If you prefer a sit-down meal, make a reservation at Hop & Cask and Max & Erma's.

  • What is the cheapest flight from San Diego to Cincinnati?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from San Diego to Cincinnati was $88 for a one-way ticket and $200 for a round-trip.

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

    No

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from San Diego to Cincinnati?

    Alaska Airlines, JetBlue, and Delta offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the San Diego to Cincinnati flight route.

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

    The Airbus A220-300 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the San Diego to Cincinnati flight route.

  • On which days can I fly direct from San Diego to Cincinnati?

    You can catch a nonstop flight from San Diego to Cincinnati on on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from San Diego to Cincinnati, Breeze Airways or Delta?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from San Diego to Cincinnati are Breeze Airways and Delta. With an average price for the route of $323 and an overall rating of 8.1, Breeze Airways is the most popular choice. Delta is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $402 and an overall rating of 8.0.

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

    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 San Diego to Cincinnati.

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

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

    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 Cincinnati with an airline and back to San Diego with another airline. Booking your flights between San Diego and CVG 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 San Diego to Cincinnati?

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

KAYAK’s top tips for finding a cheap flight from San Diego to Cincinnati

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $150 or less one-way and $199 or less round-trip.
  • Feel lucky if you want to surprise your loved one or yourself with gifts and souvenirs, as Cincinnati International Airport (CVG) has some to offer. You can find airplane apparel supplies at Flight Station, and Brooks Brothers is the ideal place to go for more general shopping.
  • If you're exhausted from your travel and don't feel like going into the city, Cincinnati International Airport provides areas where you may unwind. The Cincinnati Airport DoubleTree is a terrific choice for weary travelers because it is conveniently located inside the airport grounds, and business travelers may have meetings in the hotel's boardroom.
  • The San Diego International Airport (SAN) never fails to provide its visitors with something spectacular. Before your flight to Cincinnati, the airport offers various entertainment. Local musicians perform at the airport, and the highly trained airport dogs lick the guests as a gesture of welcome. While you're waiting to board your flight, you're never bored.
  • The San Diego International Airport offers behind-the-scenes excursions for teenagers and older kids. These excursions provide up-close views of the airplane runways as well as the infield sections fenced off as a nesting habitat for California Least Tern.
  • Military personnel and their families may unwind while waiting to catch their flight at the San Diego International Airport USO center. Additionally, the airport features a meditation space and artwork on exhibit in Terminals 1 and 2.

Prefer to fly direct from San Diego to Cincinnati?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from San Diego to Cincinnati Cinci./N. Kentucky.
Find which airlines fly direct from San Diego Airport to Cincinnati Cinci./N. Kentucky Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

San Diego to Cincinnati Cinci./N. Kentucky

Tuesday

Breeze Airways

Breeze Airways

Thursday

Breeze Airways

Breeze Airways

Sunday

Breeze Airways

Breeze Airways

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Direct returns

Cincinnati Cinci./N. Kentucky to San Diego

Tuesday

Breeze Airways

Breeze Airways

Thursday

Breeze Airways

Breeze Airways

Sunday

Breeze Airways

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Top 5 airlines serving from San Diego to Cincinnati

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Diego to Cincinnati. 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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Breeze AirwaysOverall score based on 181 reviews
8.8Crew
6.6Entertainment
8.3Boarding
6.7Food
8.2Comfort
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The flight was comfortable with the usual slight turbulence. Macadamia Nuts would be great snacks to purchase in flight.

10.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Jun 2025MCO - SBN
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The flight was comfortable with the usual slight turbulence. Macadamia Nuts would be great snacks to purchase in flight.

This is one of the worst trips that I have ever had. Ending up with an overnight delay. I’m not happy with the fact that they did not provide and set up the arrangement needed for lodging that we had to do it on our own. I also feel there should’ve been Compensation for food.

Had to approach landing twice which caused concern but probably due to weather

This was my first time flying your airline and it was okay. The people were nice but I am not used to all the add ons and no movies or even water. But I knew it was going to be that way. I think I prefer paying for the extras to be more comfortable.

Plane did no snacks and had no wifi or entertainment although the flight was 4 hours long.

My original booking was a nonstop flight. It got changed to a flight with a 6vhour layover that became a 7+ hour lay over. I'll never fly this airline again after this roundtrip is over.

I was surprised at how wonderful it was. The aircraft was clean. The crew was warm and welcoming and as a result the passengers were friendly. One warning the only free thing was water. I kind of liked picking wet hat I was willing to pay for and what I was willing to skip.

The flight wasn’t big on frills, which is fine with me. I flew into Islip MacArthur Airport, which saved me from having to go through LaGuardia to visit friends on Long Island. It was inexpensive and super convenient!

Great experience! This was my first time flying with them and I could not have been happier.

Airplane was newer and very clean, lots of space. Crew was great. There was no food and entertainment but that was expected so not an issue.

Most aspects were good however if they assign boarding zones they ought to enforce them or why bother? My luggage from SAN-JFK-MAD was lost in NY so I without my main bag for two days upon arrival in Spain. They were helpful in tracking it and eventually delivered it to my hotel. The flub was because of a delay upon arrival in NYC. I had booked 2 1/2 hours between flights but we had to hold on the taxiway for an hour after landing while waiting for a clear gate which likely caused the baggage error.

Excellent flight, the planes were newer, they did a nice job with boarding, great service overall.

It would be nice if was given wires ear buds. Overall was a good experience was able to sleep on the plane

737-800 in first class was pretty dumpy. Seat had an uncomfortable angle, storage under the seat was blocked so even my very modest backpack didn't fit, power outlet was flaky. Weird tiny seat pockets that couldn't hold a gallon ziploc bag, emesis bag missing, etc. etc. No in-flight service due to turbulence. Crew was excellent, boarding was smooth despite a full flight.

Delta flight was on time, seats were comfortable, and crew was nice.

Thank you for not flipping the plane on the run way. You guys get a 5 star rating for the flight!!!

Boarding is, as it always is… horrible. Gate lice. Slow moving zones. Too many people with carry ons

Although the flight left late, we arrived early. It was one of the quickest boarding and off boarding experiences I’ve had. It was kind of annoying the only drinks they had were water, coffee, and tea. The flight was very smooth, temperature was just right, and flight attendants were friendly.

It was terrible, if they ran flights on time it would make a big difference.

Delta seems to be improving in many areas, except they are super bad with the food available. Bring back normal food service on long flights.

it was so bad. I tried to board my flight from vancouver to saskatoon. And to my surprise they did not board me cause the flight was changed and no email was send to me. and on my boarding pass which i got from seattle says different flight. I did not knew anyone from Vancouver, air canada crew was rude, i asked for today flight but they were rude and i had early morning dental appointment in saskatoon. I was so much in pain and my whole day is wasted today. and i suffered alot. They did provide me hotel but they did not provide me any food. I am really really disappointed first time had so bad experience with air canada. I may think twice to book it again. If i can get any reply or any composition that would be great. Thanks

Very comfortable (upgraded to business class). The audio on my screen didn’t work, but I managed to play the audio through my phone while watching the screen.

I was supposed to be on business class at first class from Denver back to Miami due to weather changes. I missed my connection and it’s put on a flight to Fort Lauderdale. Instead of honoring my business class/1st class ticket, they put me in coach, but there were two first class seats open. I think it’s absolutely disgusting that I paid for first class $1300 ticket and they put me in economy and they had to open seats available and I have still not been refunded the difference. I ended up having to eat a snack box instead of the meal I was supposed to get and did not get home till 2 AM so I think that’s a little pathetic that I had to live off crackers for dinner And my poor dog ate some cheese and salami. Oh yes, apparently when they switched me to the new flight they forgot to mention I had a service dog

Boarding seemed to be organized bedlam. For what ever reason, preboarding took longer than 20 minutes. Made the plane 20 minutes late taking off. Luckily we arrived on time. Flight crew seemed very friendly. Only slight turbulence.

The personnel were professional and friendly. The Boeing 737 Max 9 is too claustrophobic and was very warm at both airport gates, and still warm in the air.

While the staff was pleasant and helpful, the following observations are for your awareness. There was some delay on the tarmac on take off and landing. The paid lunch/food offerings were limited. Entertainment was only available on WiFi at a cost.

get E+, a must for 5 hours flight if you are tall

The first flight was better in terms of the aircraft.

The gate was too far away for the connecting flight

Compared with other carriers business class for an overnight was not worth the extra expense.

The chair cushions may need an upgrade. I have been noticing they are so worn out, thin so you’d sit in a dip 😄. Other than that, all was an enjoyable trip. Thanks AA!

Cramped seats. FAA should make airlines have more legroom, for even short people complain

Flight was full, and would have preferred an aisle seat, but due to getting a late ticket ,the seat I had was adequate. The flight crew were very help full and hard working. Food and drink were excellent for the 11hr flight. Overall I was pleased with flight, and would recommend British Airways again.

Eventless. It was a good flight and good crew. Can’t complaint.

Very helpful ground crew after an earlier flight delay and being rebooked on a different flight.

The plane was late and then sat on the runway for almost 45 minutes before taking off.

We kept being told that the flight was full and that all overhead compartments were full and therefore had to check in our hand luggage. We were some of the last people to board and noticed that there was still sufficient space in the overhead compartments. We were obliged to check in hand luggage when there was space and so had to wait at luggage retrieval which took a while to then noticed damage to our luggage - not a great experience!

This was an overnight flight. There was no meal service in first class, just a simple snack basket was offered along with beverages. There should have been some type of continental breakfast prior to arrival in PHL. As an Executive Platinum American Airlines Advantage member, I received no name recognition from the first class flight attendant. When disembarking at PHL, the flight attendants were more interested in their cell phones than saying "thank you" to the passengers as they disembarked.

The flight was quick and to the point. The crew just did their job w/o excessive talking and everything was just perfect.

Awkward carry on process. Forced to check all carry on. No overhead space of worthiness. Left delayed, but made up the time. Crew was amicable.

Cancelled flight after I arrived at airport after 75 min drive and parking. Next flight was 4 days in the future. Had to scramble and buy a much more expensive flight on another carrier.

I liked the turn-style feature at gate 209B at LAX. Very efficient process. The gate staff also made several, clearly directed announcements so I felt very informed.

The seats were awful, hard plastic covered in sheet vinyl. The airline tries to scam you into paying extra to get seat together when the flight wasn’t full. They were going to separate a family with young children but my wife who had a row to herself gave up her seat so the young mom could be with her young boys. I’m never giving this airline my money again.

It was a short flight so no food or entertainment….

Cancelled and declined to find alternatives Earlier flight is 2 days later Sent the cancellation notification very late, wish I knew earlier would have stayed to watch the Miami open final game Very disappointing service

Frontier had yet another flight cancellation. Have never made a complete round trip with this airline without at least one leg getting cancelled. Miserable flights - dirty, uncomfortable planes that apparently always have issues since I've had multiple delays and cancellations with them.

Flight was delayed 3 times, would have been nice to have received text message instead of email notifications. Frontier app wasn’t even updated accordingly, no gate number disclosed. No agent at front desk of gate to inform of delay. Very confused and left if the dark

They changed the timing , first delayed by 4 hours then went back to 40 mins late, we had to run back to airport to not miss our flight. This is ridiculous

No frills for sure. No gate announcements about flight delay, not even water to drink on the flight.

The check in process was a mess for no reason. I spent an hour waiting in line trying to get them to print my boarding pass and as a result I missed my flight.

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