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$107 Find Cheap Flights from San Francisco to Cincinnati

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Cheapest round-trip
$210
Overall average: $351
Frontier
Tue 5/19Tue 5/26
SFO - CVG • 1 stop
Cheapest non-stop
$329
Breeze Airways
Sun 5/10Tue 5/19
SFO - CVG • Non-stop
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Tue, Thu, Sun
You can fly direct with Breeze Airways. Average duration is 0
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Cheapest • Avg $178 (round-trip)
Shortest trip • 6h 21m (one-way)
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Cheap Flights from San Francisco to Cincinnati (SFO-CVG)

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

Tue, May 19 - Tue, May 26
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10:15 pm - 11:41 am
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10h 26m
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9:30 pm - 10:41 am
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SFO
16h 11m
1 stop
$210Frontier
Tue, May 19 - Thu, May 28
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10:15 pm - 11:41 am
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10h 26m
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12:12 pm - 7:34 pm
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10h 22m
1 stop
$215Frontier
Mon, May 11 - Wed, May 20
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6:00 am - 12:00 pm
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27h 00m
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9:30 pm - 10:41 am
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16h 11m
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$217Frontier
Mon, Apr 27 - Mon, May 4
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6:00 am - 8:24 pm
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CVG
11h 24m
1 stop
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8:38 pm - 10:41 am
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SFO
17h 03m
1 stop
$220Frontier
Tue, Mar 31 - Tue, Apr 7
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9:04 pm - 2:22 pm
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CVG
14h 18m
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7:20 am - 8:05 pm
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15h 45m
1 stop
$226Frontier
Tue, May 19 - Fri, May 29
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10:15 pm - 11:41 am
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CVG
10h 26m
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9:30 pm - 10:41 am
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16h 11m
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$230Frontier
Thu, May 7 - Sun, May 10
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10:40 pm - 7:35 pm
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17h 55m
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12:55 pm - 11:42 am
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25h 47m
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$231Frontier
Mon, May 11 - Wed, May 13
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10:15 pm - 11:04 am
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CVG
9h 49m
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12:46 pm - 7:34 pm
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9h 48m
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$235Frontier
Mon, May 11 - Wed, May 13
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10:15 pm - 11:04 am
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9h 49m
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12:46 pm - 7:34 pm
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9h 48m
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$241Frontier
Sat, May 9 - Tue, May 12
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10:15 pm - 11:04 am
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9h 49m
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12:55 pm - 11:42 am
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25h 47m
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$245Frontier
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KAYAK's insights & trends for San Francisco to Cincinnati flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from San Francisco 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 Francisco to Cincinnati?

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

For San Francisco to Cincinnati, Wednesday is the cheapest day to fly on average and Thursday is the most expensive. Flying from Cincinnati back to San Francisco, the best deals are generally found on Monday, with Sunday being the most expensive.

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from San Francisco 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 Francisco to Cincinnati is August, where tickets cost $345 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are February and November, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $556 and $556 respectively.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from San Francisco 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 $435, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

How far in advance should I book a flight from San Francisco 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 Francisco 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 Francisco to Cincinnati, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 31% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 17 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonFebruary
Cheapest flight$107
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 29% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 19% lower on average.
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When to book flights from San Francisco to Cincinnati

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

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

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from San Francisco to Cincinnati was $107 for a one-way ticket and $210 for a round-trip.

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

    Even though you are not required to have a passport, keep in mind that an official ID is needed to board the airplane.

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

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

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from San Francisco to Cincinnati?

    Star Alliance, SkyTeam, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between San Francisco and Cincinnati, with Star Alliance being the most commonly used for this route.

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

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from San Francisco to Cincinnati are Breeze Airways and Southwest. With an average price for the route of $351 and an overall rating of 8.1, Breeze Airways is the most popular choice. Southwest is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $463 and an overall rating of 8.0.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from San Francisco 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 Francisco to Cincinnati.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Cincinnati from San Francisco 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 Francisco 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 Francisco with another airline. Booking your flights between San Francisco 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 Francisco 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 Francisco 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 Francisco to Cincinnati

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $167 or less one-way and $261 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from San Francisco to Cincinnati?

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

Direct departures

San Francisco to Cincinnati Cinci./N. Kentucky

Tuesday

Breeze Airways

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Thursday

Breeze Airways

Breeze Airways

Sunday

Breeze Airways

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Direct returns

Cincinnati Cinci./N. Kentucky to San Francisco

Tuesday

Breeze Airways

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Thursday

Breeze Airways

Breeze Airways

Sunday

Breeze Airways

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from San Francisco to Cincinnati

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Francisco 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 271 reviews
8.2Comfort
6.6Food
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6.6Entertainment
8.7Crew
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Our flight was delayed 7 hours. Due to a change in equipment we were downgraded from "Nicest" to "Nicer," even having to pay for a soft drink. Disappointing. To Breeze's credit that issued a $100 flight credit. A refund would have been more appreciated.

6.0 GoodJames, Feb 2026
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Our flight was delayed 7 hours. Due to a change in equipment we were downgraded from "Nicest" to "Nicer," even having to pay for a soft drink. Disappointing. To Breeze's credit that issued a $100 flight credit. A refund would have been more appreciated.

Lost my luggage and terrible experience with customer service trying to track it down

10 hour delay with minimal updates. Couldn’t leave terminal and then ended up on redeye with a dirty broken plane. It is literally impossible to reach customer service via gate agent, app, phone, text or email.

I thought that I had pre-purchased carry-on luggage and was surprised when I tried to check in that I did not have it.

Flight departure was 90 min delayed, and the boarding experience was confused, stressful, and generally poor. Additionally, the wifi on the plane was malfunctioning for all but the final 15 min of the flight into ILM.

Great experience and In love flying in and out of Provo airport

You get what you pay for. It’s like a bus but flying. No frills, no snacks. Leg room was fine, boarding was good.

Overall good. Plenty of legroom and fairly comfortable seats. No issues with capacity and the overhead been even though most people brought several carry-ons on. I don’t think Breeze really enforces the pay for a carry-on rule.

Surprised at how much I enjoyed Breeze. Paid for the Nicer upgrade which made it closer in price to a flag ship carrier but with more comfortable seats and much more leg room. Crew was polite and since we brought our food no loss there. Would make the point that the ‘have to pay for a carry-on is BS’. Most people did not and had several. Still was plenty of room in the overheads.

Comfortable seating, adequate space available, nice to have USB port, polite crew.

My flight was canceled on Sunday. Rebooking took three hours. Had to pay for accommodations another night. New flight was delayed for 5 hours, all that was sent was a 12 dollar food voucher, which doesn’t tell you how to use it. Then when we landed we had to sit on the plane for an hour before we could get off.

I was in first class and literally the men behind me were so aggressively loud I moved myself to economy. This has become so common on Delta - people using audio without headphones, and men on 12am / late night flights drinking and yelling to talk to each other which prevents anyone around them from resting. Pretty crazy to have to move from first to economy (poorer service, less comfort...). Wild wild. Looking into other airlines.

Flight was delayed by 3-hours and their fix was… complimentary pretzels.

Boarding and crew were fantastic, but I paid for a window seat with no window. Seat 11D on a CRJ-900 apparently does not have a window. Lesson learned.

The crew, and fellow passengers, were super gracious and kind. There seemed to be plenty of bin space even though the plane was full. It’s nice to get a glass of wine with dinner in Premiere seating, and there was a lot of food.

Everything I mentioned earlier - the airbus was more comfortable indeed and the experience was further enhanced.

The gate agent was most helpful in getting me on to fly standby. I greatly appreciate it.

The plane was an older model, so it wasn’t as comfortable as others. The flight attendants were not helpful during onboarding. It was a full flight so there was chaos finding space for baggage.

Awesome! On time flight, early arrival, and a complimentary upgrade!

Delta One is extraordinary. I fly business when somebody hires me. I just wonder why there is such a chasm between business class and the insanely inhumane and nonsensical coach. The seats are not large enough to fit even my tiny wife. We fly 10% of what we did because we don’t want to pay 5-10 k but for $400 it’s unbearable. It seems like the accountants took over and made stupid decisions. Screw in 20 extra seats and make it so unbearable that people fly 90% less. Just put the damn price up and put some proper chairs in. But business, yay.

Seats are uncomfortable. This has been a trend in the industry for decades. Trying to fit more seats on each plane to increase profits at the expense of the passenger.

Staff were good. My seat was in need of repair, but for a short flight was not problematic. Usual basic snack and drink setup that you'll find on any US carrier. Over, a decent, basic flight.

Flight delayed for more than 16 hrs and no effort was spent to provide an alternate

it was a very short flight so my expectations were low.

Very disappointing given gate agent behavior. Filed a formal complaint with United.

Terrible. No customer service, no food, no drinks on a 6 hour premier economy booking.

The flight crew where really good. Better then the crew from BNE to SFO

left on time, reasonable boarding process arrived early luggage came out quickly

Pushed back only to get deplaned due to a tire damaged by ground crew. They did at least go pretty fast. The bathrooms should be banned under the Geneva convention. No room to even sit straight on the toilet. The under-seat entertainment units block what little leg room there is.

United airlines has the best customer experience from booking to arrival. I always fly United airlines. The mileage program is excellent

Not good. One of my luggage is missing. And until now they can’t find it

My 9:50AM flight was delayed to 3:40PM "due to incoming aircraft delay". No aircraft is "delayed" that long. Found out once we did board (after several changes in times) that the aircraft had a maintenance issue and we had to wait for another aircraft. Just tell us that. The aircraft we did get was old and the seats need to be updated. I have been traveling for several weeks with AA and you should refresh your entertainment content as frequent flyers have gone through most of your new content. I have Celiac and a shellfish allergy and continue to have struggles with meals on business and first class flights. Please keep this in mind. Sorry - was a long travel day yesterday and a bit cranky this morning with my experience comments. Still an AA fan.

The business steward was absolutely amazing! Smiles and kindness! Wish all AA flights are like this one!

Delay after delay with little communication then AA lost my luggage and at airport would not assist just said scan this QR code to track your luggage and submit a claim. However QR code provided did not work so have to go back to airport

After changing the departure gate 5 times making us mo e from one side of the airport to the other and then back the flight was delayed nearly 2 hours. The male flight attendant had a bad attitude with the guest being condescending, disrespectful with people who were already on edge.

Dloght delayed by 2.5 hrs . Common theme in my last four american floghts

American continues to decline in their customer service and its beyond disappointing.

They are rarely on time! Very hard to plan your travels when flights or connections keep getting delayed.

My seat was assigned last row behind restrooms No legroom’s I’m very Pettit Still was not comfortable Food choice was excellent

Delayed initially because they couldn’t print the flight details. Poor instruction on delay. When I got on the plane the flight attendant argued with me about whether my carry on would fit (it did, although she didn’t acknowledge that). No greeting (other than arguing with me) getting on or off the plane.

Remind customers of the need to have passport or new ID for boarding.

The flight never took off and we spent 7 hours at the airport

It was ok. It was expensive to check 2 bags ($75.00 per bag), and then it took a long time to wait for shuttle to take us from one terminal to the terminal where the plane was taking off at LAX. And all of this for a flight where we had to pay for any food or drink that was not water.

Flight got delayed for 5 hours no good explanation was offered ;(

When I wanted to check in 3 hours prior to boarding time, the employees mentioned “a little over an hour delay” so I waited for an hour then I went to go look for food in the terminal and most people from that flight were in the same area looking for food. Finally I decided after food to check to see if it’s anytime closer and now it’s 2 mins until boarding closes?! What are you kidding me? I didn’t receive anything via sms about boarding now nor via email or on the intercom. I luckily made it through, barely, and then there’s no room for my carry on mind you I’m in the very first row so I had to place my purse in one further row back and my carry on sections down. Not sure who pays for better seats to get your stuff placed all over the plane but that was the worst experience I’ve ever had flying with anyone.

This airline sucks. They offer low rates then charge you for everything, the app does not work well, the seats are the most uncomfortable. Maintenance issues on the flight, and you still have to sit through their credit card commercials. People are nice enough but does not make up for overall poor experience.

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….

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