Find flights
Deals
Insights
When to book
FAQs & Tips
Airlines

SFO - REC

$807 Find cheap flights from San Francisco to Recife

This is the cheapest round-trip flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight from San Francisco to Recife departing on 9/24. Fares are subject to change and may not be available on all flights or dates of travel. Click the price to replicate the search for this deal.
1 adult
0 bags
Sat 5/25
Sat 6/1

Search hundreds of travel sites at once for deals on flights to Recife

 
These are the airlines KAYAK users have selected most often from within our search results in flight searches from San Francisco to Recife, as well as popular online travel agencies
These are the airlines KAYAK users have selected most often from within our search results in flight searches from San Francisco to Recife, as well as popular online travel agencies
In the last 7 days travelers have searched 44,979,812 times on KAYAK, and here is why:

Save 22% or moreCompare multiple travel sites with one search.

Track pricesNot ready to book? Create a price alert for when prices drop.

Filter your dealsChoose cabin class, free Wi-Fi and more.

Bundle and saveSave money when you bundle your flight + hotel.

Cheap flight deals from San Francisco to Recife (SFO-REC)

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from San Francisco to Recife 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 and deals for you by selecting your travel dates.
Choose your dates
5:45 pm - 10:35 amSFO-REC
36h 50m2 stops
6:20 pm - 4:47 pmREC-SFO
26h 27m2 stops
$807Delta
Find Deal
Tue, Sep 24 - Tue, Oct 8
6:10 am - 10:35 amSFO-REC
24h 25m2 stops
3:00 am - 11:26 pmREC-SFO
24h 26m2 stops
$814LATAM Airlines
Find Deal
Wed, May 15 - Tue, Jun 18
12:19 am - 11:45 amSFO-REC
31h 26m2 stops
12:30 pm - 5:51 pmREC-SFO
33h 21m2 stops
$865American Airlines
Find Deal
Sun, May 12 - Mon, Jun 17
7:06 am - 11:45 amSFO-REC
24h 39m3 stops
12:30 pm - 12:18 pmREC-SFO
27h 48m3 stops
$868American Airlines
Find Deal
Mon, May 13 - Mon, Jun 17
1:43 pm - 2:05 amSFO-REC
32h 22m2 stops
3:00 am - 10:59 pmREC-SFO
23h 59m2 stops
Tue, May 14 - Sun, Jun 23
9:05 am - 5:35 pmSFO-REC
28h 30m2 stops
6:20 pm - 12:01 pmREC-SFO
21h 41m2 stops
$1,035
Find Deal
Tue, May 14 - Mon, Jun 24
1:10 pm - 4:20 pmSFO-REC
23h 10m2 stops
12:40 pm - 9:50 amREC-SFO
25h 10m2 stops
$1,239United Airlines
Find Deal
Tue, Sep 24 - Wed, Oct 9
1:10 am - 4:20 pmSFO-REC
35h 10m2 stops
12:40 pm - 9:47 amREC-SFO
25h 07m2 stops
$1,529United Airlines
Find Deal
Wed, Jun 5 - Sat, Aug 17
3:35 pm - 11:50 amSFO-REC
40h 15m2 stops
9:10 am - 11:49 amREC-SFO
30h 39m1 stop
$1,600Azul
Find Deal
Wed, May 15 - Wed, Jun 19
10:50 pm - 5:40 amSFO-REC
26h 50m1 stop
10:00 am - 11:58 amREC-SFO
29h 58m1 stop
$1,708Azul
Find Deal
Mon, Jun 17 - Sat, Jul 6

Flights from San Francisco to Recife - Travel Insights & Trends

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

The average price of all flights from San Francisco to Recife clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
When flying from San Francisco to Recife, you should consider leaving on a Sunday and avoid Saturdays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to San Francisco, you’ll find the best rates on Mondays and the most expensive ones on Saturdays.

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

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from San Francisco to Recife, 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 Recife is January, where tickets cost $748 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and July, where the average cost of tickets is $1,593 and $1,199 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from San Francisco to Recife?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from San Francisco to Recife, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.
To get a below average price on the flight from San Francisco to Recife, you should book around 1 day before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 2 days before departure.

Good to know

Low season

September

High season

July

Cheapest flight

$807
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 8% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 29% increase in price.
Flight from San Francisco to Recife

When to book flights from San Francisco to Recife

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from San Francisco to Recife based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
Estimated round-trip price
KAYAK looks at all historical flight data for each date to provide a predicted price for one-way trips or round-trips with a duration up to 40 days. While we try to provide actual minimum prices for each date, some prices are predictions and actual prices may differ.

FAQs for booking flights from San Francisco to Recife

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

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from San Francisco to Recife was $807 for a round-trip ticket.

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

    Yes

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from San Francisco to Recife?

    On your way to Recife, you’ll fly out from San Francisco. You’ll be landing at Recife Guararapes Intl.

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

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

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

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

  • Which is the best airline for flights from San Francisco to Recife, Azul or Delta?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from San Francisco to Recife are Azul and Delta. With an average price for the route of $1,782 and an overall rating of 8.1, Azul is the most popular choice. Delta is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $1,188 and an overall rating of 8.0.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from San Francisco to Recife?

    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 Recife.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Recife 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 Recife?

    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 Recife with an airline and back to San Francisco with another airline. Booking your flights between San Francisco and REC 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 Recife?

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

See more FAQs

Top 5 airlines serving from San Francisco to Recife

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Francisco to Recife. 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 Francisco to Recife? 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.
8.1
AzulOverall score based on 976 reviews
8.1boarding
8.7crew
8.0comfort
7.3food
7.7entertainment
Airline reviews

Tight and not so comfortable business class seats . Crew below average. Very formal, no smiles, and kind of confused when serving meals. AZUL used to be much better on all above subjects. That's is what monopoly does to its customers.

6.0 GoodIsrael, Apr 2024VCP - FLL
Read more about Azul reviews

Tight and not so comfortable business class seats . Crew below average. Very formal, no smiles, and kind of confused when serving meals. AZUL used to be much better on all above subjects. That's is what monopoly does to its customers.

When you buy your ticket, there is a message for a free cabin luggage and a bag. While boarding, they push you to dispatch you hand luggage. When you enter in the plane, you realize that the place to accommodate the hand luggage is empty. In the arriving, you take a long time waiting for your hand luggage which should fly in the cabin.

No entertainment available on this flight. Only crackers and juice were served too.

Pontualidade continua sendo o ponto forte da Azul. Quando ela não desmarca o vôo, é claro. Na ida foi tudo bonitinho: tv, wi-fi... Na volta eqtos não funcionavam. Importante é chegar bem.

Por cinco minutos (55 min antes da decolagem) fui impedido de entregar a bagagem pois o check-in estava "finalizado ". Tive que ir de Viracopos para Congonhas. Após embarcar aguardamos por mais de uma hora de atraso para decolar, ao inves de chegar às 9h, cheguei às 16h no RJ, perdendo o evento que era às 15h.

Não teve viagem alguma, a 123 milhas faliu e eu desisti da viagem.

Um vôo de mais de 4 horas e não tem nada de entretenimento

I was surprised that someone of the crew can speak French, my mother tongue

All the service was very good. The only thing was that the flight was delayed. We didn't miss the connection, but other passangers were about to.

We only had 1hr connecting in Ft Lauderdale. Kayak should not have allowed this short a connection time, as FLL requires a change of terminal (exit the airport and get on a bus), so we missed our connecting flight home to San Diego.

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

I didn’t not like that I could not select my seat and ended up with the worse seat.

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!!!!

Plane was late because of a mechanical malfunction and the food listed as available was not. Flight attendants seem over worked and under paid. They just done seem happy. And that can be seen in their faces.

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.

Great, on time departure, friendly and accommodating crew, great leg room, Smith flight

Plane was turned around due to fog half way into the flight, Delta did not properly direct passengers to stay on same flight and instead failed to properly rebook on Alaska

Honestly, I didn’t expect that I will experience this long time wait during the check in. There was only one person who was taking care of the passengers for the economy class and it took us to wait about one hour to do our check i. As a result we barely get to the airplane as the gate was at the end of the airport. That is totally not professional where one crue is working at the registration desk with economy and 3-4 crues are helping for the business class.

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).

You need to be a hacker to get the (Free) WiFi

Everything was as you would expect in coach - fine. Flight was close to on time.

No air in the middle rows. Had a hard time breathing. Was dying of heat.

Horrific checkin procedure with neither Delta nor Latam figuring out how to check me in. 4 hrs on customer support with both and both airlines pointing to each other who should do checking. I was not checked in until morning of flight, which for international flight is concerning.

It was a good experience, the flight was a little too long & the food was ok

the flight from Boston to Curitiba was on time actually 30 minutes earlier. latam was not able to unload the luggage for custom checkup in Sao Paulo ii took two and half hours . i missed the flight to Curitiba spend the night in hotel and then flying in the morning to Curitiba

Tough flight with turbulence… I was told by a fellow passenger that it is common. Nonetheless, very stressful. Cordial staff.

Very unprofessional staff in the checking and boarding. There was no space for my carry-on bag, which is understandable for a full flight. However, the rudeness in answering my questions about my bag were unnecessary. Shaming and threatening a passenger to be left behind was something I had never experienced (I am 57 years old and a Skymiles member) before. At a minimum, the boarding staff (Krystal Mejia and her manager Dee) should undergo further training on cultural sensitivity and professional skills on speaking with passengers. Krystal, just because I have dark hair and “look Latina” does not mean I can speak Spanish. Your assumption and threatening words until the very ending of my boarding (door of the airplane) were not only unnecessary and stressful but something that a passenger should not experience before boarding.

The flight was overbooked and the solution gave was unrespctful. I arrived 4 hour in advance in the airport and only after 2hous was possible suggest a different ticket with another company LATAM, I have accepted, but when I was checking in at LATAM the tickets was issued without luggage, what it is absurd since I have bought my tickets including it since the beginning. Due to the timing for the next flight was not possible return to Avianca to claim due to the distance between Both companies Avianca and Latam since were located in different terminals. I have insiste to the crew of Latam to call Avianca to solve it, but they could help they were alleging that only paying a thousand pesos Mexicans ($1,000 MXN) to dispatch my luggage would be accepted and I have no money at all. So I had to beg for others passagens, it was an humiliating to exchange luggage with who was platinum in order to return back the luggage in the connection airport in Brazil (GRU). I have no clue that a judicial process would be taken from my side due the lots of stress in sequence by the non professional treatment with a passenger that was just following everything said by Avianca.. Long hours of waiting until next flight and only arrive at final destine in 6hs later..

The flight from PDX to New York was cancelled, and I got rebooked one day later. Because of this I missed a meeting at my final destination, EZE. I now need to stay longer in Argentina, and was told the tariff difference was $780 plus $150 penalty! I am not using my return ticket, and have purchased a one way ticket EZE-PDX for $606 with another airline. SHAMEFUL

Cons: "The flight was full and all seats were taken. It means it was impossible to maintain the required and necessary social distancing."

Hated every minute of it. This flight should have only taken 1.5hrs but was delayed over 10hours. Now I am being told I cannot be compensated or refunded my ticket price or extra leg room, which I purchased but did not receive, because the airline is throwing the blame on the 3rd party I purchased tickets through and 3rd party putting the blame on airline. No one wants to help. They received their money and that's all they care about. Im going on 3 days of still trying to get to my final destination, had to cancel car rental, car insurance and hotel. Currently staying in airport until hotels open up. Thank you Lufthansa, Kayak, Underpricer and United for making this trip the worst ever.

Crew was great and did their best to make us comfortable and captain came out at the beginning to announce why the flight was delayed, weather situation up ahead, and kept us updated throughout the flight.

United WiFi is consistently unusable (it can take 10 mins to load a single web page). If you need Wifi to do work, be prepared to lose half a day of productivity.

Awful. I got stuck next to a person carrying a dog and behind someone with a dog. People need to board these dogs downstairs. The cabin is crowded enough with your pets

Packed in like sardines, very uncomfortable. Sitting the aisle my shoulder was rammed into numerous times by rushing flight attendants. Also flight was very cold.

Beverage and food services are excellent. We enjoy paying the extra for economy plus for the 3 inches more leg room to be exact.

Flight was delayed by 3 hours. The pilot made up 1 hour during the flight, but that made the wait at the airport 5 hours once you factor getting there 2 hours early.

Airline did not explain reasons why flight was delayed two hours. Explanations were badly needed and rarely provided. Problem seemed to clearly be the airline’s fault and not the fault of the weather or airport.

Very uncomfortable seats and seat backs, and I am only 5’9”. Delayed due to crew issues, spent a long time with no ventilation. Teeny overhead bins. Wifi worked well. Arrived safely.

I was delighted that we were able to get on the 4:40 pm flight rather than our original booking at 6:55 pm!! Other than that, the flight was comfortable and landed early😊

The experience was great and much better than the flight going out. of course I was in first class but the service was excellent

Comfort of seats, ease of boarding. Food selection could be better

Food options were limited which is absolutely embarrassing for a Flight of this size The staff did not come around as much and I am not accustomed to such poor service from American Airlines Drinks I believe were limited to soda and water

Crew were attentive and friendly. Flight was smooth and early! I enjoyed the less crowded plane. Thank you!

We are gluten free, there were not any available complimentary gluten free options.

No meal on a cross country flight? SFO-MiA is pretty much the definition of a coast to coast flight. No meal provided. Sky high wi-fi rates too. Stop nickel and diming your customers.

The staff was unprofessional and didn’t communicate very well. The boarding process was very disheveled, potentially due to a power outage the previous day but there was no contingency plan to properly get passengers boarded the following day. Once boarded the aircraft stayed on the tarmac for over 45 minutes due to high winds. The communication was sporadic but an announcement was finally made an additional 30 minutes later that the flight was cancelled but we couldn’t get off the plane. Prior to deplaning one of the gate agents came on the plane and made an announcement for everyone to pickup their checked bags and take a card to rebook a new reservation because they didn’t have adequate staff. Flights were missed, passengers went to different airports and there was little to no assistance from AA.

You cancelled my flight by email then made it very difficult to get in contact with you. Then put me in a flight with a long layover in Mexico returning to the wrong airport in uk. Mind blowing my stressful. I missed see my grand dad because of you.

Apart from the delay due to unforeseen circumstances. The leg from sjc to dfw was fine. It was the leg from dfw to orf that we encountered issues mainly due to the flight attendant crew not being friendly. We had two small children and we needed some assistance to warm up milk so the baby would sleep. The crew just didn’t get it and made things very difficult. One made a remark that the baby’s dirty diaper smell was a “gift” to the plane in a rude way. Normally I’d brush that off as a funny comment if the rest of the trip the attendants were helpful or understanding of the difficulty we faced. But that wasn’t the case. We were met with rudeness on the second leg. Whereas on the first leg the crew were so nice and helpful.

This was not the BA business class it used to be. Mediocre food, attendants seemed stretched thin. All the little luxuries that used to make BA business fun were missing. Flight delayed and the explanation given was they forgot to pick up crew - I hope I misheard! Transfer in LHR “sticky” - we thought we had way too much time at 3hours but it was needed. Next time will try different route.

San Francisco - Recife Flights

Departure:

San Francisco (SFO)United States

Destination:

Recife (REC)Brazil

Return flight deals:

Recife - San Francisco

Cabin classes:

Browse destinations: