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Cheap Flights from San Diego to New Jersey

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
New York
New York1 stop$272
Philadelphia
Philadelphia1 stop$411
New York
New York1 stop$272
Philadelphia
Philadelphia1 stop$411

Book Cheap San Diego to New Jersey Plane Tickets

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

Mon, Jan 11 - Tue, Jan 12
JetBlue Logo
9:40 pm - 12:00 pm
SAN
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JFK
11h 20m
1 stop
JetBlue Logo
4:30 pm - 7:55 pm
JFK
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SAN
6h 25mnonstop
$272JetBlue
Tue, Dec 8 - Wed, Dec 9
JetBlue Logo
8:45 pm - 5:05 am
SAN
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JFK
5h 20mnonstop
JetBlue Logo
8:05 am - 11:23 am
JFK
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SAN
6h 18mnonstop
$292JetBlue
Sat, Sep 5 - Tue, Sep 15
Frontier Logo
4:36 pm - 10:00 pm
SAN
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LGA
26h 24m
1 stop
Frontier Logo
8:29 pm - 12:53 pm
LGA
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SAN
19h 24m
2 stops
$301Frontier
Sat, Sep 5 - Fri, Sep 11
Frontier Logo
4:36 pm - 10:00 pm
SAN
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LGA
26h 24m
1 stop
Frontier Logo
8:29 pm - 8:18 am
LGA
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SAN
14h 49m
1 stop
$307Frontier
Wed, Oct 14 - Sun, Oct 18
Multiple Airlines Logo
2:22 pm - 10:59 pm
SAN
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JFK
5h 37mnonstop
Multiple Airlines Logo
6:25 am - 9:17 am
JFK
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SAN
5h 52mnonstop
$307Multiple Airlines
Thu, Aug 20 - Wed, Aug 26
Multiple Airlines Logo
2:20 pm - 10:59 pm
SAN
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JFK
5h 39mnonstop
Multiple Airlines Logo
3:59 pm - 7:06 pm
JFK
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SAN
6h 07mnonstop
$307Multiple Airlines
Fri, Sep 11 - Fri, Sep 25
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 3:40 pm
SAN
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JFK
5h 40mnonstop
Alaska Airlines Logo
9:55 am - 5:36 pm
JFK
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SAN
10h 41m
1 stop
$311Alaska Airlines
Fri, Sep 11 - Fri, Sep 25
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 3:40 pm
SAN
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JFK
5h 40mnonstop
Alaska Airlines Logo
4:29 pm - 7:35 pm
JFK
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SAN
6h 06mnonstop
$312Alaska Airlines
Thu, Aug 20 - Thu, Aug 27
Delta Logo
9:59 pm - 6:27 am
SAN
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JFK
5h 28mnonstop
Delta Logo
8:29 pm - 11:43 pm
JFK
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SAN
6h 14mnonstop
$317Delta
Fri, Oct 30 - Thu, Nov 12
Delta Logo
1:15 pm - 9:56 pm
SAN
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JFK
5h 41mnonstop
Delta Logo
5:20 pm - 8:32 pm
JFK
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SAN
6h 12mnonstop
$317Delta
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for San Diego to New Jersey flights

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

How much is a round-trip flight from San Diego to New Jersey?

This analysis is based on the cheapest round-trip price found on KAYAK in the last 12 months by searching for a flight from San Diego to New Jersey departing in September.

Flight prices are below average for this route right now.

Flights to New Jersey from San Diego usually cost between $320 and $544 in September.
The lowest price found in the past 5 days was $316 on Multiple Airlines (Sep 21-Sep 23).

What is the cheapest San Diego to New Jersey flight route?

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

The cheapest ticket to New Jersey from San Diego found in the last 5 days was to New York, at $297 round-trip. The most popular route is from San Diego (SAN) to Newark Airport (EWR), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 5 days was $297.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to New Jersey?

The average price for all round-trip flights from San Diego to New Jersey depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

The cheapest time of day to fly to New Jersey is generally in the evening, when round-trip flights cost $256 on average. Morning departures are around 78% more expensive than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to New Jersey is generally in the morning, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $456.

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

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.

Yes, flying with a layover may cost you more time, but you can also save money on the route, with a 2 stops layover the cheapest option at $299 on average.

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

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

If your flying dates are flexible, you should consider flying to New Jersey on a Thursday, 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 New Jersey. For your return ticket, we recommend flying on a Tuesday and avoiding Sundays for the best deals.

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

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 New Jersey, 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 New Jersey, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 54% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 14 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low season

January

Cheapest flight

$129
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 11% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 10% increase in price.
Flight from San Diego to Philadelphia

FAQs - booking New Jersey flights

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

    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 New Jersey.

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

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

    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 San Diego to New Jersey 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 San Diego to New Jersey?

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

Top tips for finding cheap flights to New Jersey

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from San Diego to the following destinations at these prices or less: Newark $214 one-way - $402 round-trip; New York $196 one-way - $338 round-trip; Philadelphia $324 one-way - $481 round-trip

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from San Diego to New Jersey

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Diego to New Jersey. 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.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from San Diego to New Jersey? 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
Alaska AirlinesOverall score based on 12731 reviews
7.8Comfort
8.5Crew
7.0Food
8.1Boarding
7.0Entertainment
Airline reviews

The flight was very late departing the gate, for unknown reasons.

8.0 ExcellentPaul, Jul 2026
SAN - SFO
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The flight was very late departing the gate, for unknown reasons.

Now that Spirit is not around Alaska took over the title of cheap and worse airlines with high prices for garbage cheap planes. Seats recline the entire 2”. What’s the purpose? Just make the stationary. Crew is on steroids. Food is like McDonald’s happy meal. Only happy in the name rest is garbage

Loved being about to check my carry on for free then getting to board earlier ( Group c rather than F) Crew was very nice and accommodating. Enjoyed the beverage and pretzels - I'll fly Alaska again if given the opportunity

Only issue is that when you board last they make you check your carry on due to lack of space. Did not care for that.

A little delay but nice flight, nice team. Thank you.

For 5 hour flight, only one tiny bag of pretzels and 2 small cookies were served. We flew threw 2 meal times, breakfast and lunch.

Flight itself was great! Snacks are never really good; in this case, the "butter braids" and Biscotti cookie were both hard. The attendants' were good. We felt we found a good deal on the cost. The check-in process was very smooth: Alaskan Airlines always does a good job. Boarding was pretty timely, too. We fly Alaskan whenever possible and will continue to do so.

The space for legs in coach is better than other Airlines you can even cross your legs!!

I really like Alaska airline, it's my favorite airline❤️

There was no onboard entertainment for a flight that was more than 5 hours

Very good flight. Crew was great. No issues and we even arrived early.

Loved the crew! Sucks that we went from 1 hour and 8 minute layover to a 3 hour layover. But weather sucks like that.

Delayed flight (1hour) plus a long layover after an overnight flight with no backup plane available.

Crew was excellent. Comfort seats not as nice as other kinds of planes.

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.

Delta flight was great from the check in all the way to arrival. However, I had a very bad experience. I requested a wheelchair and the wheelchair employee that went to pick me up from the plane in Boston to bring me to the baggage claims told me I have to pay him. I was under the impression that it was a free service and I usually give tips but the person forced me to pay and since I said no because I was upset with his demand when my daughter walked in to pick me up he demanded payment from my daughter who paid him thinking maybe now it is a charged service.

There was a loud squeaky sound the whole time we were flying.

The landing was bad and the hostess came two times and i was sleeping but when she served the person that nexts to me I woke up and she didn’t even asked me if I need any drink or snacks two times!!!!

Waited 3 hours on a plane to de-ice due to manpower issues. Waited another hour and a half once we landed because of a gate issue. Missed my connections. Created. A total of 13 hours of delay.

Like most domestic flights in the US, you are basically on your own with this airline when it comes to food, so be sure to purchase meals and drinks ahead of time or expect to arrive starving and dehydrated (like I was).

The Kayak confirmation number did not work for checking in the day before. I checked in at 8.30 using my ticket number. When I arrived at the airport, I was informed that the flight was overbooked, and since I had checked in late, I did not have a seat. The Next flight was not until ten PM. I called my wife, who had been taking care of our kids all weekend, and she was upset, calling me a liar and telling me to stay in SD. It turned my weekend getaway into a nightmare! I blame the Kayak website and will not book flights using your app in the future.

comfortable but the food is horrible. I have flown Hawaiian several times now and no matter what they say the food is its the same squashed bread with melted goop inside. Tastes fake and isnt what they represent, its quite nasty. What happend to real food? And there is NO entertainment!! so not sure why they are asking for a review on that.

3 hour wait on customer service after flight was cancelled. Was bumped to a flight where I wouldnt have gotten to my destination for another 2 days. Had to fully refund flight and book a new one the following morning. Paid twice the amount for the flight than I had originally booked. Very disappointed I was not offered any sort of discount or points for all of the frustration, in fact the airline profited twice as much off of me by cancelling my flight and and changing my entire trip.

I accidentally made this purchase and they wouldn’t refund me even though I called immediately to cancel it.

The flight was delayed and they didn’t have a pilot for the flight. Seemed very unorganized and took way longer than expected.

The worst flight experience I've ever had. Our flight was delayed 14 whole hours because the flight crew never showed up. We had to wait in a two hour line to get our new boarding passes, we were told we had no other option but to fly at 10pm (we didn't depart until 11:45pm). Everyone had to contact their hotels and car rental places, workplaces, etc. since we lost an entire day's worth of travel. The crew showed up at 10:15, which was past the time we were supposed to board. They were laughing and being completely smug when they boarded, and they took another hour to board us onto our flight. The flight crew never came to check in on us, we were quickly given one drink and sandwich and they turned off the lights and were negligent the rest of the trip. My mom asked three attendants for a seat belt extender, they never brought one. I was dehydrated and never received another drink. They were very rude and unfriendly, we had been up since 4am the morning of our flight and didn't land in our destination until 2am the next day (5am local time). This was unacceptable service and treatment, these flights are not cheap and we were inconvenienced out of an entire day of travel. This was 100% avoidable and was the fault of Hawaiian Airlines, and their crews inability to show up to work on time.

I was unable to get a check im and get a boarding pass. I tried at the desk of the flight operator Alaska, was told to go to Hawaiian and almost had to go back to Alaskan. In the end inwas told to go thru security and directly to the gate without checking in. It would have been more helpful to have the details rather than walking all over the terminals trying to check in.

We were delayed at the SD gate for close to an hour before we were allowed to depart for SJ. Reason given was inadequate ground crew to move the plane from the gate.

Your crew shortage delayed departure by an hour resulting in us missing an event we had scheduled for that afternoon outside of Fresno.

Despite two calls as well as a chat on the website, Alaska would not add my TSA number to my reservation. The flight was switched from Hawaiian to Alaska which caused them to mess this up in the first place

Service was professional and quick. Premium economy seat was comfortable given the class

The staff was extremely helpful and friendly at all times! They went above and beyond to get us into an earlier flight in San Diego to make our connection in SFO possible, because our original flight did actually not make it! I did so much appreciate the UA team and how they made this possible. We also didn’t have seats together on the long flight to Singapore, but they found us seats together last moment with no additional cost! Nobody sat next to us, so that we were able to sleep! Thanks to UA for improving their service and Underpricer for booking this trip! Please be careful: 1,5 hrs for transfer in San Francisco might not be enough time in the future

Over 2.5 hour maintenance delay on first morning flight with no acknowledgement, compensation or even gesture of good will. Aircraft had overnighted at airport so issue should have been addressed prior to boarding. Over 3.5 hours before first slow and deliberate beverage service.

Complimentary light meal would be appreciated. But great flight crew service on all legs

The food was terrible this time. Otherwise pleasant, quiet, on-time.

I was in first class. The outlets at my seat did not work. The plane was shabby and run down. I had prepurchsed a day subscription for internet that was not redeemable. I had to repurchase the internet for my flight and then it didn’t work anyway. Quite disappointed in what was supposed to be the launch of a great vacation.

As usual, United scheduling is completely misleading. A 54-minute layover at O’Hare is too short to make a lot of connections, especially since the flight landed “on time” but had to wait on the taxiway 15 minutes for a gate to open up. Then it takes another 10 minutes to exit the plane before one can run to another concourse to catch a connecting flight.

Flight was ok. Unfortunately it was a Boeing 737, which is a cramped / tight airplane. I prefer the Airbus as they are a more comfortable flight experience.

We were traveling as a family of 5 and they refused to seat us together. There were entire rows open, and my 13 year old daughter had to sit alone. Ridiculous!

Do not like the feeling of being in the basic economy. Everyone should feel good no matter what.

Well, true to American Airlines, both of my flights were delayed. But it’s a good thing that American is so consistently incompetent because if the first flight was delayed in the second flight was on time then I might’ve had a problem..

Was not able to do a online check-in because the American Airlines system doesn't store our visa or other passport information, allowing us to have a trouble-free check-in. We were forced to have to check-in at the counter which Changes are upgrade status given that we were not able to check in much earlier.

The entertainment package was vast and the selections were very current. Keep updating it was great.

The seat was so hard my tailbone was aching The crew was kind of a b**** because I made a joke that I didn't care if they close the door I total c*** when she was trying to f****** act like she was mad at me because I said that The flight was bumpy. Sure you didnt have control over that.

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

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

Had to wait on pilot and crew to depart and had to wait to arrive at the gate because they only had 2 crews working. Delays, delays....Planes just keep getting smaller and tighter and they nickle and dime for everything. When will an airline actually wake up and make flying more enjoyable?

I paid for what I got which was cheap, I brought my own entertainment. I knew what to expect, so I could be prepared. If you’re flying economy, check in early like me. I have no problems with my flight, was on time, staff were friendly, and overall good experience.

Multiple maintenance delays and the missed and rebooked connection changed gates at least 6 times including one which had us walking 20 minutes to another terminal and then back again. Seated our family of three in different middle seats throughout the plane and then there was an empty seat next to me. Very long travel day which I would have never agreed to if I knew the itinerary would be changed at 5 am, 2 hours before takeoff.

Not too impressed with them to be honest. They had forgotten my gf meal, despite the fact that the app had notified me that it was sorted. Apparently there is a ‘glitch’ in the system, according to one of the stewardesses, and has been for a while. Also the legroom in economy is way too small (and I’m a slight person) and are very uncomfortable. An extra Internal flight I booked via the app, had not even given me the option to order a meal, so was unaware of that and left without food on a 9 hr. flight !! Don’t think I’ll use AA again after this.

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