$136 Find Cheap Flights from San Jose to Central America

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Cheap Flights from San Jose to Central America

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
San Salvador
San Salvador1 stop$431
San José
San José2 stops$308
Guatemala City
Guatemala City1 stop$327
Panama City
Panama City2 stops$438
Liberia
Liberia2 stops$425
Managua
Managua2 stops$592
San Pedro Sula
San Pedro Sula1 stop$1,026
Coxen Hole
Coxen Hole2 stops$680
David
David2 stops$1,031
San Salvador
San Salvador1 stop$431
San José
San José2 stops$308
Guatemala City
Guatemala City1 stop$327
Panama City
Panama City2 stops$438
Liberia
Liberia2 stops$425
Managua
Managua2 stops$592
San Pedro Sula
San Pedro Sula1 stop$1,026
Coxen Hole
Coxen Hole2 stops$680
David
David2 stops$1,031

Book Cheap San Jose to Central America Plane Tickets

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

Wed, Jan 21 - Wed, Jan 28
United Airlines Logo
4:00 pm - 12:56 pm
SJC
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SJO
18h 56m2 stops
United Airlines Logo
6:30 am - 8:56 pm
SJO
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SJC
16h 26m2 stops
$308United Airlines
Mon, Feb 2 - Sun, Feb 8
American Airlines Logo
2:32 pm - 12:43 pm
SJC
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SJO
20h 11m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
7:09 am - 8:59 pm
SJO
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SJC
15h 50m1 stop
$325American Airlines
Sun, Mar 1 - Wed, Mar 4
Multiple Airlines Logo
6:42 pm - 8:30 pm
SJC
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GUA
23h 48m1 stop
Multiple Airlines Logo
3:45 pm - 9:39 am
GUA
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SJC
19h 54m2 stops
$327Multiple Airlines
Thu, Jan 29 - Thu, Feb 5
Multiple Airlines Logo
4:06 pm - 8:30 pm
SJC
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GUA
26h 24m1 stop
Multiple Airlines Logo
2:11 pm - 8:40 am
GUA
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SJC
20h 29m2 stops
$335Multiple Airlines
Sat, Jan 24 - Fri, Jan 30
Multiple Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 11:43 pm
SJC
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SJO
15h 43m1 stop
Multiple Airlines Logo
6:38 am - 10:49 pm
SJO
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SJC
18h 11m2 stops
$337Multiple Airlines
Thu, Jan 22 - Fri, Jan 30
Southwest Logo
6:50 am - 7:30 pm
SJC
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SJO
10h 40m1 stop
Southwest Logo
9:40 am - 9:05 pm
SJO
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SJC
13h 25m2 stops
$391Southwest
Wed, Apr 15 - Sat, May 9
Delta Logo
10:30 pm - 12:00 pm
SJC
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LIR
12h 30m1 stop
Delta Logo
1:25 pm - 8:15 am
LIR
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SJC
19h 50m2 stops
$450Delta
Wed, Jan 28 - Wed, Feb 4
Alaska Airlines Logo
11:00 am - 6:01 pm
SJC
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LIR
29h 01m2 stops
Alaska Airlines Logo
11:20 am - 9:48 am
LIR
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SJC
24h 28m2 stops
$451Alaska Airlines
Sat, Jan 31 - Fri, Feb 13
Alaska Airlines Logo
1:59 pm - 6:01 pm
SJC
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LIR
50h 02m2 stops
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:08 pm - 7:25 pm
LIR
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SJC
26h 17m2 stops
$459Alaska Airlines
Sat, Apr 18 - Thu, Apr 30
Delta Logo
10:30 pm - 11:14 am
SJC
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BZE
11h 44m1 stop
Delta Logo
12:35 pm - 9:15 pm
BZE
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SJC
9h 40m1 stop
$474Delta
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KAYAK's insights & trends for San Jose to Central America flights

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

Which airlines fly non-stop between San Jose and Central America?

Airline and price data is aggregated from results in KAYAK’s search results from the last 2 weeks for round-trip flights from San Jose to Central America.

There are 6 airlines that fly nonstop from San Jose to Central America. They are: American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Avianca, Southwest, Delta and United Airlines. The cheapest price of all airlines flying this route was found with Delta at $133 for a round-trip flight to Guatemala City (GUA). On average, Delta offers the best prices for nonstop flights between San Jose and Central America.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from San Jose to Central America?

The cheapest round-trip price for the route for each airline clicked by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours.

In the past 3 days, the cheapest round-trip tickets from San Jose to Central America were found on Southwest ($391) and United Airlines ($398).

Good to know

Low seasonOctober
Cheapest flight$136
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 11% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 17% lower on average.
Flight from San Jose to San José

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  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from San Jose to Central America?

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    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 Jose to Central America up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Central America?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to Central America is generally at night, when round-trip flights cost $562 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Central America is generally in the afternoon, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $814.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from San Jose to Central America

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from San Jose to Central America? 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.
8.0
Alaska AirlinesOverall score based on 11461 reviews
7.8Comfort
8.5Crew
8.1Boarding
7.0Entertainment
7.1Food
Airline reviews

See previous. It was the flight from Honolulu to Kapalua that was cancelled.

8.0 ExcellentEvie, Dec 2025
SAN - HNL
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See previous. It was the flight from Honolulu to Kapalua that was cancelled.

The flight attendants were excellent and I was in the back of the plane. Much much better than recent JetBlue experiences on that route and better than Delta on that route.

I’m not sure there is anything that can be improved, even the cost was fantastic.

Poor. They should have given me a row with more room and instead they put me in a middle seat with two strangers next to me

They were so kind to us! The entire staff were so good to us when we had our service dog join our trip and we couldn't be more grateful!

Larger seats and more room would elevate the experience. Otherwise, it was good!

Flight crew and flight were good. But it departed two hours late.

They changed our flight from a one stop 3 hour layover to a non-stop. Saved us hours and got us there sooner.

The ground crew did not supply drink or snacks during the layover in SFO. So there weren't many options. Otherwise, it was all great.

The check in Process was a bit slow. The flight was smooth and comfortable,

The boarding and seat assignment system no longer works for me, but I know it is being replaced. Otherwise, I am good with the overall experience.

The lead steward kept singing about "San Francisco" and hotel California---more annoying than humorous....needs work. Flight was smooth and on time.

San Diego airport is brand new, spacious, airy and very smooth checkin at SW baggage drop.

Crew could have been friendlier, maybe I'm spoiled by SW crews. In flight wifi was good. Would be nice to have more food offerings on a 4 plus hour flight

Ever since Southwest starting charging for bags, passengers don't want to pay to check their bags, so the gate agents have to beg people to check their roller bags now because there's "not enough space". This was a terrible business move by Southwest.

Sacrament staff are always polite and helpful. Airport is easy to maneuver and boarding is straightforward.

As always, the entire Southwest experience was wonderful, from online booking to flight to baggage retrieval. Very grateful.

The weather could have been better. There was a 40 minute ATC delay in SFO because of marine fog and a micro cell storm delayed landing and take-off at Nashville. The gate was changed 5 minutes from boarding from gate B3 to gate C23 at Nashville airport.

The cabin was quiet for the redeye flight. The area was clean. The staff was great. The 787 Max was in good condition. Drawbacks were that the seat widths were tight for some passengers. The seat padding was at best average and for a long flight uncomfortable.

Delayed flight. Nicest crew member was a SW pilot flying seated next to me who kindly move to seat the final passenger. Flight extra delayed. My cup of refreshment of ginger ale was so packed with ice it was literally 2 sips.

No lunch on a x-country flight scheduled for 10:50 am departure, arrived 5+ hrs later. That requires a black box label before you pay for the tickets. Worst, when I checked in online, it's specifically said that lunch was served on his flight for economy Plus passengers.

Our flight from SFO to MSP was right on time on 11/15/2025. No delays. As we approached MSP at about 8 pm, we circled in the air until 8:40 pm so I don't call that efficient for MSP. I think the captain should announce the delay and why. (as if we all don't know that we are just circling around the area, slowing down, speeding up, slowing down.) Thank you. Marilyn Fischer

Staff were friendly and happy. Delta could make sure passengers that don't have the app know of changes. Without Kayak I would not have known about the change of gate or the delay. Kayak was faster to notify me.

The flight used a B767 with a very old interior from before 2014. The entertainment system did not work at all during the flight despite attempts to reset the system. It was like they flew this route just to be competitive.

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

Flight delayed for two and half hours and then canceled altogether due to mechanical issues. No mechanic onsite to fix so had to send one from LAX.

My husband upgraded our seats and I don't know if it was due to the type of planet was or if they didn't upgrade our seats. We were supposed to be in I believe comfort seats and they were just as tight as any other seat- no leg room and we are very tall people but at least it wasn't extremely cold. My husband did put in a complaint about our seating because he paid extra and if we would have known that the space and the tightness would have been the same, we just would have gotten the emergency row emergency row seats that we normally get. We love Delta but both our flights coming home we're not good. Oh I forgot to mention that on our flight to Hawaii our luggage wheels got broke and we had to purse new luggage on vacation then we never had this problem so we didn't know protocol and reported it after we got home only for them to tell is we only had 24hrs to report the damage. Not sure what was going on with Delta this vacation trip.

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

It was a great flight and the stewards and stewardess were all kind and accommodating!! The seats were comfortable and entertainment screen excellent!

There are 4 flights in consecutive gates with about the same departure time. Two flights were boarding at the same time. One was delayed or boarding would be happening at the same time. I am not sure what Delta and LAX need to do to have a better layout at the end of Terminal 2

from SFO-> FRA flight, AVML meal was significantly less compared to regular meal, especially no Desert, no Bread, no sides.

This was an older airplane. The cabin was constantly warm to hot throughout the 10 hour flight and there were no vents to personalize air flow. Also since it was an older plane, the material and comfort of the chairs were very uncomfortable. I left my flight with major soreness on my tailbone.

Older aircraft, no meal, only food was for purchase. Not impressed United.

Not pleasant trip cross country when the entertainment and WiFi system not working. No entertainment for entirety of route. Staff was rather nonchalant in that they dismissed the problem due to age of plane. It would have been nice to know this up front so I could have come prepared to read or download movies before boarding Coincidentally or not, there was a similar issue with the entertainment system on my previous flight I took on my fist leg of the trip. There are no seat TVs, so you must rely on the app when it works. United can do better. Also, what use it it to pay for boarding group 2 when half of the passengers are in the same line as you?

My experience on this United Airlines flight was highly uncomfortable, primarily due to two issues: Cabin Temperature: The temperature on the Boeing 737 MAX 8 was unacceptably high, feeling consistently around 80 degrees throughout the flight. This made sleeping impossible and significantly detracted from the experience. Seating Arrangement: Being stuck in a middle seat for a six-and-a-half-hour overnight flight compounded the discomfort. Moving forward, I will always purchase a seat assignment to avoid this situation.

Premium Plus is a really good idea for longer flights

Same as last comment. Food sucks. Quality. Not surprising most people have no clue about nourishment Clearly

The flight attendants were great, I joked with one I can’t remember her name, a blond, really sweet. I thought it was run well very professional. This was great i survived Spirit, I know for which I speak.

We were in business class. the angled seats in that class do not have a real window view & the placement of the controls are bad. But we knew that. But the food options were mediocre. The taste was fine, but the size was for a child. It’s just really feels like United is skimping on everything. Even when we were in the Polaris lounge they did not have diet sodas. They said they were out no Coke zero no Diet Coke, etc. I do not think the portion of nuts they serve on the plane could get any smaller. Really a minimal service and offer for what you’re paying for in business.

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.

Horrible. Both legs of my flight were delayed more than 6 hours. No compensation, no screens on the plane, and the plane was not clean.

The flight was smooth, the pilot kept us informed about delays and we arrived more of less on time

The flight was flawless and we even arrived between 20 and 25 minutes early!

Always seated jammed in rear of aircraft Admirals Club food at DFW terminal D was absolute worst food experience and I pay $600/year to eat this dried out junk

Mostly good. Flight was crowded but Airline personnel were very friendly & accommodating. It would be good to have savory snacks rather than just sweet Biscoff cookies.

It was a red eye flight, so no meals were provided, but it was fine with snacks. The seats felt cramped and almost too narrow.

Very crowded flight but what can you expect these days?? Crew was accommodating.

The seats in economy were appeared to be quite thin and lack sufficient cushioning to be comfortable. Perhaps it was my seating position but the plane seemed notably load.

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.

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