$123 Find Cheap Flights from San Jose to Houston

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These are the airlines KAYAK users have selected most often from within our search results in flight searches from San Jose to Houston, as well as popular online travel agencies
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Cheapest round-trip
$273
Typical prices: $504-$289
Southwest
Tue 9/29Thu 10/1
SJC - HOU • Non-stop
Cheapest non-stop
$311
Typical prices: $429-$367
Southwest
Tue 8/25Sat 8/29
SJC - HOU • Non-stop
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Cheap Flights from San Jose to Houston (SJC-HOU)

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

Tue, Sep 29 - Thu, Oct 1
Southwest Logo
8:55 am - 2:40 pm
SJC
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HOU
3h 45mnonstop
Southwest Logo
8:10 am - 10:10 am
HOU
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SJC
4h 00mnonstop
$273Southwest
Tue, Aug 25 - Sat, Aug 29
Southwest Logo
9:35 am - 4:50 pm
SJC
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HOU
5h 15m
1 stop
Southwest Logo
8:10 am - 10:05 am
HOU
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SJC
3h 55mnonstop
$278Southwest
Tue, Aug 25 - Sat, Aug 29
Southwest Logo
9:35 am - 4:50 pm
SJC
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HOU
5h 15m
1 stop
Southwest Logo
8:25 am - 12:40 pm
HOU
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SJC
6h 15m
1 stop
$288Southwest
Tue, Sep 22 - Wed, Sep 23
Frontier Logo
9:03 pm - 11:26 am
SJC
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IAH
12h 23m
1 stop
Frontier Logo
9:59 pm - 8:13 am
IAH
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SJC
12h 14m
1 stop
$290Frontier
Tue, Aug 25 - Sat, Aug 29
Delta Logo
12:40 pm - 11:52 pm
SJC
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IAH
9h 12m
1 stop
Delta Logo
7:20 am - 10:43 am
IAH
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SJC
5h 23m
1 stop
$292Delta
Tue, Aug 25 - Sat, Aug 29
Southwest Logo
9:35 am - 4:50 pm
SJC
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HOU
5h 15m
1 stop
Southwest Logo
10:30 am - 3:10 pm
HOU
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SJC
6h 40m
2 stops
$293Southwest
Tue, Sep 29 - Thu, Oct 1
American Airlines Logo
2:36 pm - 10:30 pm
SJC
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IAH
5h 54m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
5:00 am - 10:53 am
IAH
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SJC
7h 53m
1 stop
$294American Airlines
Tue, Aug 25 - Sat, Aug 29
Delta Logo
9:51 am - 6:02 pm
SJC
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IAH
6h 11m
1 stop
Delta Logo
7:30 am - 4:09 pm
IAH
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SJC
10h 39m
2 stops
$297Delta
Mon, Jul 27 - Tue, Aug 4
Frontier Logo
2:12 pm - 12:22 pm
SJC
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IAH
20h 10m
1 stop
Frontier Logo
8:43 pm - 7:28 pm
IAH
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SJC
48h 45m
2 stops
$300Frontier
Wed, Aug 5 - Sat, Aug 8
United Airlines Logo
1:10 pm - 7:05 pm
SJC
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IAH
3h 55mnonstop
United Airlines Logo
6:30 am - 1:24 pm
IAH
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SJC
8h 54m
1 stop
$319United Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for San Jose to Houston flights

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

How much is a round-trip flight from San Jose, California to Houston?

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 Jose, California to Houston departing in September.

What is the cheapest San Jose to Houston flight route?

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

The absolute cheapest return flight from San Jose to Houston costs $283 on the route between San Jose (SJC) and Houston George Bush Intcntl Airport (IAH). However, over the past month, flights between San Jose (SJC) and Houston Hobby Airport (HOU) were, on average, 11% cheaper than other San Jose-Houston routes. The most popular route is between San Jose (SJC) and Houston George Bush Intcntl Airport (IAH).

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from San Jose to Houston?

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

If you are looking for a flight deal from San Jose to Houston, look for departures on Saturdays and avoid leaving on a Monday, as it's usually the priciest day. When flying back from Houston, Tuesday is the cheapest day to fly and Monday is the most expensive.

What is the cheapest month to fly from San Jose to Houston?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from San Jose to Houston, 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 Jose to Houston is September, where tickets cost $79 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are February and May, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $325 and $315 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from San Jose to Houston?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from San Jose to Houston, 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 Jose to Houston, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 57% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 23 weeks before departure.

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Expert advice for your flight from San Jose to Houston

 
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John Walton

John Walton

Expert on IAH

Independent aviation journalist John Walton took his first flight at eight weeks old and hasn’t stopped travelling since. A world-renowned expert in airlines and the passenger experience, he writes in depth on aviation, is a resident expert on travel in Japan and France, and offers a uniquely queer perspective on travelling the world.

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Bill Fink

Expert on SJC

Bill is an award-winning travel writer with extensive credits covering airlines and the aviation industry for publications including AARP, AFAR, The Points Guy and Yahoo. Based in Portland, Oregon, Bill has traveled to more than 75 countries - and been late for his flight in most of them. He once achieved top-level frequent flier status for all of American, Delta and United Airlines during a single year.

Yulia Denisyuk

Yulia Denisyuk

Expert on HOU

Yulia is a freelance journalist who’s dispatched from 90+ countries. Her work focuses on cultures, adventure trips and air travel, appearing in NatGeo, NYT, CNTraveler, and more. For past assignments, she’s stayed with nomads in Mongolia and learned the art of Imigongo in Rwanda. She’s based in Chicago; in winter she often questions that decision.

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Cheapest flight$123
Flight from San Jose to Houston George Bush Airport

When to book flights from San Jose to Houston

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from San Jose to Houston based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
Estimated round-trip price
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FAQs for booking flights from San Jose to Houston

  • What is the cheapest flight from San Jose to Houston?

    In the last 5 days, the lowest price for a flight from San Jose to Houston was $119 for a one-way ticket and $273 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between San Jose and Houston?

    A passport is required to fly from San Jose to Houston.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from San Jose to Houston?

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

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from San Jose to Houston?

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

  • What is the most popular layover when flying to Houston from San Jose?

    Las Vegas is the most popular layover city among KAYAK users traveling from San Jose to Houston.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from San Jose to Houston?

    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 Jose to Houston.

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

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

    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 Houston with an airline and back to San Jose with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from San Jose to Houston?

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

Prefer to fly direct from San Jose to Houston?

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

Direct departures

San Jose to Houston

Monday

Southwest,United Airlines

Southwest,United Airlines

Tuesday

Southwest,United Airlines

Southwest,United Airlines

Wednesday

Southwest,United Airlines

Southwest,United Airlines

Thursday

Southwest,United Airlines

Southwest,United Airlines

Friday

Southwest,United Airlines

Southwest,United Airlines

Saturday

Southwest,United Airlines

Southwest,United Airlines

Sunday

Southwest,United Airlines

Southwest,United Airlines

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Direct returns

Houston to San Jose

Monday

Southwest,United Airlines

Southwest,United Airlines

Tuesday

Southwest,United Airlines

Southwest,United Airlines

Wednesday

Southwest,United Airlines

Southwest,United Airlines

Thursday

Southwest,United Airlines

Southwest,United Airlines

Friday

Southwest,United Airlines

Southwest,United Airlines

Saturday

Southwest,United Airlines

Southwest,United Airlines

Sunday

Southwest,United Airlines

Southwest,United Airlines

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from San Jose to Houston

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Jose to Houston. 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 Jose to Houston? 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
SouthwestOverall score based on 4235 reviews
7.0Food
8.0Comfort
7.5Entertainment
8.1Boarding
8.6Crew
Airline reviews

One major problem that was very unprofessional and uncalled for. Plane landed and we had to wait 20 minutes to get off the plane since they were waiting for someone to come to the gate to drive the jetway. Southwest couldn't have someone available and waiting for the plane to land? Is there only one person in Hobby airport who knows to drive the jetway? Was he at lunch? In the bar? Uncomfortable and uncalled for!

4.0 OkayAnonymous, May 2026
MSY - HOU
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One major problem that was very unprofessional and uncalled for. Plane landed and we had to wait 20 minutes to get off the plane since they were waiting for someone to come to the gate to drive the jetway. Southwest couldn't have someone available and waiting for the plane to land? Is there only one person in Hobby airport who knows to drive the jetway? Was he at lunch? In the bar? Uncomfortable and uncalled for!

Delayed flight, lack of information, boarding process is a mess as is the carryon luggage causing issues when leaving the plane….just a poor experience.

Southwest is kind of a slum airline. It’s gotten more expensive over the years for less and less service. I am a Southwest Chase Visa card holder and was forced to choose a seat in the 26th row in the middle seat. However my wife who is a rewards member but doesn’t hold a card or anything else, gets randomly assigned a normally paid seat in row 6! How does that work?

The seat was not comfortable. 1D. My back was sore all night and the next day.

One of the best airlines for fast boarding, on time arrivals, and top notch service!

I elected to pay for the upgrades and found very little difference

The new seating arrangement is so over priced for what you get.

The problem with the seat assignments is that there were a lot of rows in the front that were empty but my row at the back was full. Just not so pleasant.

Good but I prefer choose your own seat. With the new assigned seats they should board from the back I see no advantage to this new boarding. Just like every other airline

Snacks are always pretzels. Why can't you also offer peanuts ?

Be on time? When not on time a circling for over an hour offer more than 1 bag of chips to the passengers? It was a 7 hour flight by the time we got done.

Flight delayed four separate times. I’m now one hour hours late to landing.

Checkin was good, fllight ws good. Onlly complaint is lack of foot on 6 hour flight from Seattle to Boston. Snacks were flimsy - chips and cookies. could have offered something more substantial for such a long flight. I know you can buy food in airport but for the price you pay for a ticket, they should step up for the passengers.

Long story short, it was one of the better flight experiences I've had in some time when compared with other airlines.

While they turned off most cabin lights to allow people to sleep, I was bothered by how bright the side lights still were. It was still quite bright for me in a window seat, when I wish I could have slept!

Generally on time departures and arrivals, clean planes, sky miles membership provides great benefits (complimentary upgrades, etc).

N Everything was perfect from boarding to assistance to baggage in Tampa

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

Fast, lovely scenery, great info on the Delta flight screen about landmarks we were flying over. Great landing!

Long flight but comfortable and not freezing as I have experienced on Hawaiian flights to the islands. They gave us blankets just in case. Nice touch.

The pilot had to extend the flight time from san antonio to Houston to burn off fuel. This caused a lot of unnecessary stress since we had a tight connection to Aruba. And with no other flights going to Aruba we were worried about spending a night in Houston. We had to to run to our connection because of the flight crews mistake. Not happy.

The flight was delayed, they didn’t even have water for the toilets or for drinks

Even through the flight was delayed due to storms near IAH The flight was great! The crew was so hospitable and professional

The flight had a delay but I made it to my connection. Flight was smooth overall

No screens or meal options. Freezing cold. Dirty seats. Left late.

Overall flight was ok. Flight attendant was receptive to assisting passengers with tight connections.

This was the first flight in the morning. We boarded fine. The cabin door was closed and we were ready to go. We were notified by the Captain that ATC issued and ground stop for 40 minutes. So, without even pushing back from the gate, we were already 40 minutes late. We actually were released to push-back and taxi at 30 minutes. But, some passengers had tight connections and were not going to make their connections. Some passengers asked about the delay and the effect on the connections and were told by the cabin attendant that all flights will be delayed and so they should be OK. However, that was not true. My connecting flight was on time and I arrived at IAH with 21 minutes to make my connection. I did and I'm happy about that, but the flight crew should not have given assurances to the passengers who might have missed their connections.

Boarding was again a "free for all". We were boarding group 4, and almost the entire plane was able to board before us. It's a shame that someone who follows the rules, gets the short end of the stick. Not fair.

Fine. The issues I had were associated with luggage being delayed from Turkey to Tanzania

We purchase first class seats for the first time for multiples of standard economy ticket. There was no access to the club lounge and no priority boarding. The meal and the service once on the plane were superior and the seat was nicer, but not worth the price difference. I will be happy to seat in economy and spend the difference on more travel.

Awfully rude American worker at door when we started boarding flight. Then, walk into a blazing hot airplane with no air conditioning until twenty minutes into the flight. Free entertainment was non existent! My husband, along with the fellow passenger in our row, and I could not get entertainment to work, no WIFI! Really?? Been flying American a long time. Was very disappointed.

Leave on time. We waited on the plane for hour hours and it was hot and smelly

I’ve got 31F seat and window seat . My 2 co passengers was AA crew members and they were very rude attitude and when I was going to use bathroom their gestures was very different and awkward and the guy beside me completely occupied the hand rest and I was really uncomfortable

The gate experience at LAX was abysmal (same for the arrival experience two days prior). Despite the LAX -> SAT schedule of two flights daily, our departure gate was at a smaller hub that we had to be bussed to from Terminal 4. Fortunately, I arrived at LAX extra early and had time to spare, but if I had not known, I might have missed my flight. I looked at the LAX airport map in the AA app and there was no indication of the additional boarding process. Lastly the gate area we were bussed to was crowded with limited food and beverage options. On flight, the fight attendant was hospitable and attentive, the flight was smooth, and AA's free (and working) wifi for AA members were all on the positive side.

The flight back to Dallas was delayed, which has happened to me several times with American Airlines. There was no announcement, no update sent out, no compensation offered for the inconvenience.

As always, most AA flights that we fly are almost ALWAYS delayed and that too multiple times. Very frustrating

Boarding was smooth and seamless and the flight was without incident.

Food is what you expect on a plane. Nothing gluten free. But that is expected. Drinks, apple juice, was fine. Seat, what I expected. Fine.

The flight took off an hour late which made the connection concerning

The flight from Dallas to Tokyo was not on Japan Airlines. It was on American Airlines. Very disappointed that we did not fly on Japan Airlines. Will not be using you liars again. I’ll just book direct from the airline next time. Wish you could make this right and has us fly on Japan Air when heading back home to the US.

They didn’t offer a water, even after I asked

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.

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.

baggage clamed had to wait over a hour and half for all people on my flight it was terrible

My flight was canceled I was promised a reginf still not received.

The confirmation # CK8GNW and my name was not recognized/in Frontier system. I was able to check in on Frintier app so i went to the Frontier ticket agent, at time they told me that my name/ confirmation did not show up as a purchased ticket. I had to purchase a new ticket that cost $289.00 one way.

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.

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