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Cheap Flights from San José to Zurich (SJO-ZRH)

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

Fri, Oct 10 - Wed, Oct 29
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7:25 pm - 10:30 pmSJO-ZRH
19h 05m1 stop
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9:00 am - 5:10 pmZRH-SJO
15h 10m1 stop
Thu, Sep 4 - Wed, Sep 17
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1:35 pm - 4:45 pmSJO-ZRH
19h 10m2 stops
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11:20 am - 5:10 pmZRH-SJO
13h 50m1 stop
Tue, Oct 14 - Tue, Oct 28
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1:13 pm - 4:45 pmSJO-ZRH
19h 32m2 stops
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2:15 pm - 5:10 pmZRH-SJO
33h 55m1 stop
$808KLM
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Fri, Oct 10 - Tue, Oct 28
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7:25 pm - 10:25 pmSJO-ZRH
19h 00m2 stops
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7:10 pm - 5:10 pmZRH-SJO
29h 00m1 stop
$812KLM
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Thu, Oct 16 - Thu, Oct 23
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7:25 pm - 10:30 pmSJO-ZRH
19h 05m1 stop
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7:45 am - 5:10 pmZRH-SJO
17h 25m1 stop
$825Air France
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Wed, Oct 15 - Sat, Nov 1
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7:25 pm - 9:15 pmSJO-ZRH
17h 50m1 stop
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6:50 pm - 5:55 pmZRH-SJO
30h 05m1 stop
$827Air France
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Fri, Sep 26 - Fri, Oct 10
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8:00 am - 10:10 amSJO-ZRH
18h 10m1 stop
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12:40 pm - 8:25 pmZRH-SJO
15h 45m1 stop
$846Air Canada
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Fri, Oct 10 - Mon, Nov 3
Air Canada Logo
8:00 am - 6:10 amSJO-ZRH
38h 10m2 stops
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12:45 pm - 10:25 pmZRH-SJO
40h 40m2 stops
$852Air Canada
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Fri, Sep 26 - Fri, Oct 10
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3:25 pm - 10:35 amSJO-ZRH
11h 10mnonstop
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9:35 am - 1:45 pmZRH-SJO
12h 10mnonstop
$917SWISS
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Fri, Jul 4 - Fri, Sep 12
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3:25 pm - 10:35 amSJO-ZRH
11h 10mnonstop
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9:35 am - 1:45 pmZRH-SJO
12h 10mnonstop
$918SWISS
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Expert advice for your flight from San José to Zurich

 
Snippets provided in this section are AI-generated based on a summarization of KAYAK-commissioned articles. The articles are presented as-is, for general informational purposes only, and may not be up-to-date. The opinions contained in the articles are original to the author and reflect their authentic experience, which may vary significantly from the experience of others.
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SJO

SJO offers free WiFi and 75 self-check-in kiosks, making it easy to navigate. Arrive early as security lines can vary.

Read more about SJOby Mark Chesnut
ZRH

ZRH's train station connects to Zurich Hauptbahnhof in 15 minutes, with trains every 10 minutes, ensuring quick city access.

Read more about ZRHby Emily Zemler
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Emily Zemler

Emily is a freelance writer and book author based in London covering entertainment and travel. Her work has appeared in Los Angeles Times, Observer, and Conde Nast Traveler She has ventured to more than 40 countries and all seven continents, always in search of a great art museum. She has written extensively about hotels, luxury travel, and aviation.

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Mark Chesnut is a travel writer and public speaker with more than 30 years of experience. The 2019 winner of the NLGJA Excellence in Travel Writing Award, Mark is the author of the book “Prepare for Departure” and has covered air travel for multiple top consumer and trade media outlets.

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KAYAK's insights & trends for San José to Zurich flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from San José to Zurich 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 José to Zurich?

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

Your flight ticket price will generally be cheaper if you fly to Zurich on a Thursday and more expensive on a Tuesday. On your return trip to San José, you should consider flying back on a Friday, and avoid Wednesdays for better deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from San José to Zurich?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from San José to Zurich, 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 José to Zurich is November, where tickets cost $805 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and August, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $1,152 and $1,096 respectively.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from San José to Zurich?

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 $1,094, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

How far in advance should I book a flight from San José to Zurich?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from San José to Zurich, 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 José to Zurich, you should book around 5 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 8 weeks before departure.

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Low seasonMarch
High seasonDecember
Cheapest flight$522
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 5% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 11% increase in price.
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When to book flights from San José to Zurich

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from San José to Zurich 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 José to Zurich

  • What is the cheapest flight from San José to Zurich?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from San José to Zurich was $522 for a one-way ticket and $781 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between San José and Zurich?

    A passport is required to fly from San José to Zurich.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from San José to Zurich?

    On your way to Zurich, you’ll fly out from San José Juan Santamaria Intl. You’ll be landing at Zurich.

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from San José to Zurich?

    Lufthansa, Iberia, and KLM offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the San José to Zurich flight route.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from San José to Zurich?

    The Airbus A340-300 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the San José to Zurich flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from San José to Zurich?

    Star Alliance is the only airline alliance operating flights between San José and Zurich.

  • On which days can I fly direct from San José to Zurich?

    You can catch a nonstop flight from San José to Zurich on on Friday.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from San José to Zurich, KLM or SWISS?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from San José to Zurich are KLM and SWISS. With an average price for the route of $982 and an overall rating of 7.8, KLM is the most popular choice. SWISS is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $1,024 and an overall rating of 7.5.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from San José to Zurich?

    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 José to Zurich.

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

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

    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 Zurich with an airline and back to San José with another airline. Booking your flights between San José and ZRH 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 José to Zurich?

    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 Zurich from San José 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 José to Zurich

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $760 or less one-way and $916 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from San José to Zurich?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from San José Juan Santamaria Intl to Zurich.
Find which airlines fly direct from San José Juan Santamaria Intl Airport to Zurich Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

San José Juan Santamaria Intl to Zurich

Friday

Edelweiss Air, Lufthansa, SWISS

Edelweiss Air, Lufthansa, +1 more

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Direct returns

Zurich to San José Juan Santamaria Intl

Wednesday

Edelweiss Air, Lufthansa, SWISS

Edelweiss Air, Lufthansa, +1 more

Friday

Edelweiss Air, Lufthansa, SWISS

Edelweiss Air, Lufthansa, +1 more

Sunday

Edelweiss Air, Lufthansa, SWISS

Edelweiss Air, Lufthansa, +1 more

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from San José to Zurich

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San José to Zurich. 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 José to Zurich? 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.
7.8
KLMOverall score based on 1363 reviews
7.7Comfort
8.4Crew
7.1Entertainment
7.2Food
7.8Boarding
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Klm start boarding while somw air issue in the plan

8.0 ExcellentA, Jun 2025AMS - YYZ
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The service was great. However the lounge only gets passing grade

Cabin crew professional, polite and friendly, boarding was seemless, but come on KLM surely you can do better than a pack of cheesy biscuits as an inflight snack

This portion of the flight was through Indigo. A local carrier. So all economy seating. No real service some refreshments for purchase standard economy stuff.

Transfer at Amsterdam airport is very convenient and the airport is easy to navigate. Boarding was also quick and easy. Cabin crew were excellent and the meals were good, although lacking in options.

Overall very positive. Boarding was quick and organized. Cabin was clean and seats were reasonably comfortable. Cabin crew was excellent and the meals provided were also of good quality

This fight left ahead of time which meant it arrived early which was great. Staff were very professional, but as with all these Short hop Flights the food was a disappointing snack There was no entertainment on this flight, but I did not expect any

They only had vegetarian food left on the flight which I wasn’t happy about. I didn’t get any food to eat at all.

Overall very poor. Flight was disorganised, staff were rude and this is my second experience with KLM that I've had baggage go missing. It feels like, if you are an economy customer, KLM staff do not show you any care. I shall never fly with KLM again. Worst airline in Europe

Great boarding, great short flight but no entertainment whatsoever and no wifi. Prepare to disembark by a staircase.

Wasted a lot of time trying to find the CDG lounge - it was not next to the connecting flight gate like the Air France staff said.

My experience was good overall, the quality of the food really decreased! There used to be a choice between meat and fish now it’s between chicken and pasta! In the choices of entertainment meditation has been added which is very good. Soft chair workout to improve blood circulation and avoid phlebitis should be added.

The only reason the overall rating wasn't "excellent" was due to problems in claiming luggage. The bags are delivered to the main area (Cinta 35) for domestic passengers, but to a DIFFERENT ROOM for international arrivees. After waiting 30 minutes, someone (who didn't appear to be from Air France or the airport) told us to go to another area. There we found our bags, which appeared to have been awaiting us for a while. We had to go through a bag check before leaving the airport. If we had been alerted to this possibility, or better yet, been to go directly to Cinta 34, we could have eliminated quite a bit of waiting.

I wish that the meal included a vegetable or even a salad instead of couscous! Why serve chicken with rice AND couscous? Service was good overall though a bit lacking in friendliness. Usually on air france I've been offered a glass of champagne before dinner, wine with dinner, and a digestif after dinner. We were only offered wine this time!

It was not Air France but Air Europa. But confusion over our checked luggage. Whether it was checked all the way to Tenerife or not. It was not. Had to line up again in Departures. At least our Sky Priority was honoured. Flight was fine.

My wife and I had a row to ourselves after moving seats. There were no TVs and you had to buy food. So we did nothing but had a quick nap. Flight was fine.

The male attended that served are section was a snob. He did not answer my call light when my wine spilled all over the floor. I did not push it again or drew his attention to it. He just ignored the call light when he came to give us our meal, serving the people behind us first. I did not push it again or drew his attention to it to see his reaction. It was so obvious that he was ignoring us. We were in premium economy!

Georgian Airways check in staff initially denied us, because they thought passengers required transit visas to transfer on connecting flights. This required 70 minutes for them to call multiple people to confirm how transfers worked. They did not apologize once accepting our check in. Onboard, the four hour flight gave stale bread with spam slices as lunch. The only included drinks were still or sparkling water.

I did not get my baggage at my final destination..poor coordination with connecting flights with partner airlines (Saudi airways). Also the food was very mediocre.

Not a good one this time. The absence of internet without any information/notification ahead was really the unacceptable part. Also this new A350-900 has a serious legroom challenge for economy seats. It’s more like a medium-haul flight legroom configuration.

The food was good. Most the staff was pleasant. The flight would be drastically improved with WiFi on a long international flight.

The whole experience was positive. Crew very friendly and helpful. Very greedy with pre-seat allocation. Web site too complicated

Each flight we took was late with little or no updates or information.

Swiss airline do not allow online check-in before 24 hrs, this is very inconvenient to us. I tried many ways such as booking code(6 numbers) or 13 booking numbers , neither of them work, Lufthansa is better which allow us to check in even before 30 hrs, so we can assign our seats( not many people want spend extra money to assign seats on top of airfare which is already spent.)

Clean, efficient and quick response time when we missed our connecting flight.

When I needed to get my bag off of the plane so that I could take a train because the connection was 4 hours later, they took 2 hours to take my bag off making me take the train and miss my flight simultaneously. The seat size on the plane is too small for an average aged woman let alone a middle-aged man. It's unacceptable and I will not fly Boeing again.

The flight was generally good but was delayed departure meant a very late arrival for a connecting flight.

The cushion of the seats are old and very thin. The food can be more tasty or come with salt packages

The biggest let down was with booking experience through Kayak. I booked a flight with checked bags on Kayak. Right away I got a message from travel agency that the flight is not confirmed and to call them. I called them and they said the flight I have booked is no longer available with the price I have booked it for and I can book it with about $100 more. I already had other options I could book with cheaper price so I asked them to cancel my booking. Then they said I can have the ticket with the same price but a date change which was not working for me as I had to be there for a seminar. So again I said no then they said they will cover the charges and confirm my flight. When comes time for check-in I see I have no checked bag option which means the travel agency deceived me saying I can have my booking as I had booked it. And at that point I ended up paying $155 for my checked bag going back and forth. I am extremely angry and unhappy with this experience

PLEASE DONT TAKE FORCEFULLY(SIZE APPROPRIATE) CARRY ONS FROM PASSENGERS WHO FOR SOME REASON NEED TO KEEP IT

It was a good flight- but it is not clear to me why AC suggests to come to the airport 4 hours (!) before the flight. Even the locals said that’s a bit of an exaggeration. We were there 2 hours before as usual and that was more than enough.

Flight delay, cancellation rescheduling and misdirected luggage which created some stress. It all worked out in the end.

on time quick service but food so so and seats very small. no leg room. I think passengers should not be bringing so large carry on suitcases and should have free check in. Then boarding and unloading would be faster

Mixed experienced. Nice staff. Spacious 787 better than cramped Airbus, though my seat was broken. The bad: Way overpriced ticket and charged for food despite 6 hr flight.

The service was really good the crew also very good , the comfort excellent!

Flight was delayed 24 hours, then delayed again first was mechanical and second was weather.

Smooth on time flight with standard AC service. As usual food options awful. Wish airlines could offer better quality food services

Check-in, Boarding and Flight were fine however I unfortunately chose the only seat in the plane without a window (15A) and when I asked to move up to row 13 that was empty, I was denied because they call it a preferred seat. The only difference I could see was maybe an inch or two more legroom. I think once the door is closed and all passengers are aboard they should be able to accommodate a reasonable request to move even if to a seat they tried and failed to sell for more money. And a few flights now, I find that Air Canada’s Infotainment system has a 100 channels with nothing on. No movies still in theaters nor any that are not already streaming for free.

Delay after delay.......they are awful Delayed because of cold wx really!!!!! We live in Canada

One leg of the flight arrived late which necessitated a rebooking on the next leg. Although there were no major weather events in play, best choice offered was a 7 hour wait in the Vancouver airport for a 4 hour totally packed red eye flight to Ottawa. No opportunities to return earlier via other major hubs like Toronto or Montreal. Felt very much like national routes were no longer well supported. Adding insult to injury, entertainment system for my seat was out of order. Thought I might use wi-fi, but discovered it would cost $10 per hour! Paid a lot for the flight as it was over the holiday period. Probably won't be doing that again.

we had a flight confirmed then we were called and told we didn't have a flight. I will never use Kayak for a flight again.

Food was terrible, tasteless. I ordered ovo lacto special menu in business class and got vegan tasteless food instead. Really disappointing.

From boarding, to attention in flight, I couldn’t fault it.

I had an issue with the name on my ticket vs my passport name. I was very upset that the Iberia ticket clerk had no authorization to help me and I was left to fix it. It took 19 calls of persons promising to accomplish and not doing anything before I reached someone who helped me in 10 minutes. Two of them even hung up on me. I missed my original flight because of this. Terrible customer service.

My carry-on bag was taken from me when I boarded. It was checked through to London at no charge. It took a big of shuffling, but I was glad not to need to mind it until baggage claim.

Flight delayed Service could be better Iberia staff are not really friendly

The crew on AA international flights in my experience are generally lazy, rude, and inefficient. These guys did not disappoint.

Flight from Costa Rica to Madrid was excellent. Good food and service. The flight from Madrid to Brussels was very poor . No food , no entertainment, no usb … Total package was quite expensive so you should give same service on the second flight

The cabin crew were great very helpful and accommodating. We had a fellow passenger throw up next to us. The flight crew did an amazing job cleaning up and reseating us. We did question as to if he should have been let on the flight as his condition was likely self imposed.

online check-in was horrible and didn't work either way

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