$129 Find Cheap Flights from San Jose to The Big Island

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Cheap Flights from San Jose to The Big Island

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Kailua-Kona
Kailua-Konanonstop$287
Hilo
Hilo1 stop$431
Kailua-Kona
Kailua-Konanonstop$287
Hilo
Hilo1 stop$431

Book Cheap San Jose to The Big Island 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 The Big Island 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 for you by selecting your travel dates on KAYAK.

Recent round-trip flight deals from San Jose to The Big Island

Mon, May 18 - Fri, May 22
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 9:26 am
SJC
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KOA
5h 26mnonstop
Alaska Airlines Logo
3:40 pm - 11:56 pm
KOA
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SJC
5h 16mnonstop
$287Alaska Airlines
Sun, May 17 - Mon, May 18
Delta Logo
11:41 am - 7:20 pm
SJC
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KOA
10h 39m
1 stop
Delta Logo
8:50 pm - 11:05 am
KOA
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SJC
11h 15m
1 stop
$306Delta
Mon, May 25 - Fri, May 29
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 9:26 am
SJC
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KOA
5h 26mnonstop
Alaska Airlines Logo
3:40 pm - 11:56 pm
KOA
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SJC
5h 16mnonstop
$307Alaska Airlines
Wed, May 27 - Tue, Jun 2
Delta Logo
7:36 am - 5:37 pm
SJC
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KOA
13h 01m
1 stop
Delta Logo
8:50 pm - 2:09 pm
KOA
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SJC
14h 19m
1 stop
$310Delta
Sun, May 24 - Wed, May 27
Delta Logo
11:41 am - 7:20 pm
SJC
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KOA
10h 39m
1 stop
Delta Logo
8:50 pm - 12:48 pm
KOA
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SJC
12h 58m
2 stops
$312Delta
Wed, May 27 - Wed, Jun 3
Delta Logo
7:36 am - 5:37 pm
SJC
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KOA
13h 01m
1 stop
Delta Logo
8:50 pm - 4:09 pm
KOA
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SJC
16h 19m
2 stops
$316Delta
Fri, May 29 - Fri, Jun 5
Alaska Airlines Logo
7:00 am - 9:26 am
SJC
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KOA
5h 26mnonstop
Alaska Airlines Logo
3:40 pm - 11:56 pm
KOA
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SJC
5h 16mnonstop
$317Alaska Airlines
Mon, May 25 - Fri, May 29
Delta Logo
11:41 am - 7:20 pm
SJC
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KOA
10h 39m
1 stop
Delta Logo
8:50 pm - 2:11 pm
KOA
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SJC
14h 21m
1 stop
$326Delta
Sun, May 10 - Wed, May 13
Southwest Logo
3:10 pm - 9:45 pm
SJC
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ITO
9h 35m
1 stop
Southwest Logo
6:00 am - 4:25 pm
ITO
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SJC
7h 25m
1 stop
$457Southwest
Sun, May 10 - Wed, May 13
Southwest Logo
6:30 am - 2:30 pm
SJC
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ITO
11h 00m
2 stops
Southwest Logo
6:00 am - 4:25 pm
ITO
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SJC
7h 25m
1 stop
$467Southwest
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for San Jose to The Big Island flights

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

What is the cheapest San Jose to The Big Island flight route?

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

The cheapest ticket to The Big Island from San Jose found in the last 72 hours was to Kailua-Kona, at $306 round-trip. The most popular route is from San Jose (SJC) to Kailua-Kona (KOA), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $306.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to The Big Island?

The average price for all round-trip flights from San Jose to The Big Island depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

The cheapest time of day to fly to The Big Island is generally in the afternoon, when round-trip flights cost $378 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to The Big Island is generally in the morning, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $484.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from San Jose to The Big Island?

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 $484, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

What is the cheapest month to fly from San Jose to The Big Island?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from San Jose to The Big Island, 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 The Big Island is October, when tickets cost $129 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and January, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $343 and $287 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from San Jose to The Big Island?

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

Your flight ticket price will generally be cheaper if you fly to The Big Island on a Monday and more expensive on a Sunday. On your return trip to San Jose, you should consider flying back on a Thursday, and avoid Fridays for better deals.

How far in advance should I book a flight from San Jose to The Big Island?

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 The Big Island, 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 The Big Island, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 23% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 11 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flight$129
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 15% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 10% increase in price.
Flight from San Jose to Kailua-Kona

FAQs - booking The Big Island flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from San Jose to The Big Island?

    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 The Big Island.

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

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

    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 from San Jose to The Big Island with an airline and back with another airline.

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

    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 The Big Island up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Reviews of the top 4 airlines serving from San Jose to The Big Island

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Jose to The Big Island. 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 The Big Island? 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
SouthwestOverall score based on 4314 reviews
8.6Crew
8.1Boarding
8.0Comfort
7.5Entertainment
7.0Food
Airline reviews

The entire experience from boarding to landing was amazing! The crew were very friendly. Will definitely be back.

10.0 Excellentlarry, Apr 2026
LGB - PHX
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The entire experience from boarding to landing was amazing! The crew were very friendly. Will definitely be back.

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.

Comfortable. Easy. No problems. Just wish they had gf options for snacks.

The crew was very kind and made going to Hawaii relaxing and fun to look forward to! Thank you Southwest for a pleasant flight!

Terrible. Even though there’s assigned seating now, they are still the slowest boarding airline of anyone.

It was good from LAX to Phoenix, But the connection in Phoenix to Tulsa was not that great. The staff on both flights were great. The choice of free entertainment was ok nothing to brag about. The 45 min delay because of some electrical issue wasn't great from Phoenix to Tulsa. We sat there with hardly any air, The seat I had was between windows so the side of the plane pushed in on you. My being a bigger man it then made the seating area uncomfortable. The seats on the plane had no power to connect to recharge your phone or anything. I would recommend that they should look into a slot or clamp to hold your phone to enjoy while watching the entertainment choices hands-free. Also make it possible to raise the inner seat by the window be able to raise the arm rest up to make more room for larger people to set more comfortably. I would also say other then that stop price gouging the airfare or nickel and diming everything. Not fair for people having to fly for emergencies and be paying for higher prices due to the season or holidays. Your making your money either way and the cost of flying is still going to be the same regardless if there's 100 people or 200 people.

Southwest was greaat! The most expensive but the least upsetting for those we were flying to see.

Boarding was easy. The seats are small and fairly uncomfortable

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

Boarding was easy and quick. Staff was very friendly. Service of snacks and drinks by staff was outstanding.

No complimentary snacks or food. Had to buy drinks and food.

Our flight when we finally got rerouted to a different destination than we were going was fine. But 2 days was taken out of our vacation because our flit was cancelled. We understand mechanical problems and of course don’t want to be on a plane that has mechanical problems.Wish there had been another solution.

in-flight wifi was not working well. also the cabin temperature was a bit hot.

The bathroom trash container under the sink fell out and was like that long before my flight. The plane smelled of canned fish and floor was Deteriorating

I behave had better flights this one was old and poor

I wasn’t able to check in prior to arriving at the airport, I was told by the agent I may not get a seat on the plane as others were waiting for seats, I sat there for 2 hours before being assigned a seat, very stressful. The plane was delayed. Overall not a great travel experience for a 44 minute flight.

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

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

I didn’t order food so can’t really say how it was. Overall, it was a great experience.

Crew was nice, meal was good. Entertainment had to be rebooted 3 times and still did not work. Turns out there was residue on screen, it needed to be cleaned to prevent the touchscreen buttons from continuously activating. I had entertainment for the last 45 minutes of a 5 hour 45 minute flight. Really unacceptable for first class. Flight attendent indicated your cleaning solution creates this problem. Seems as if this is widely known, you should be using a different product or cleaning better. Really really disappointing which simply added to the wi fi on your planes with reliably never ever works.

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.

I took seat 15A in anticipation of window seat, there is no window.

Flight late, the waited for a long time for “personal” to arrive at gate to dock the plane in Rochester. So annoying. This flight was expected, why aren’t personel available for the jet bridge?

My recent experience was excellent on Delta! I flew with Delta Comfort and I was really comfortable in my seat. I enjoyed the in-flight service. The flight attendants were so friendly and hospitable. I love the snack on the flight as well. This was my first time flying on Delta and I will definitely consider flying with them again.

Fabulous if you have a portable wheelchair. They can store it in the galley and you can just walk out with it. Really nice and the flat seats are just incredible, very nice. iPads for movies, also pretty nice,

No charging outlets worked. Other than collecting trash attendants didn’t come around. No one could hear flight attendants announcements during the flight. Seat pads were horrible. Sitting on a board for 5 hours. What happened to Hawaiian airlines comfort, hospitality, and extras? Our pilots did an excellent job trying to minimize turbulence and incredible job in landing in windy conditions.

comfortable but the food is horrible. I have flown Hawaiian several times now and no matter what they say the food is its the same squashed bread with melted goop inside. Tastes fake and isnt what they represent, its quite nasty. What happend to real food? And there is NO entertainment!! so not sure why they are asking for a review on that.

I was very, very cold and a stranger loaned me her sweater next to me. I didn’t wanna buy a blanket just for a four hour trip when I did not need the pillow or the earphones. I don’t mind purchasing a blanket, but I only needed that not all of it accessories. Cold air pretty much blew the entire trip. Two people in front of me both bought the blanket packages. Maybe that’s the idea. The crew was exceptionally nice and passed through multiple times.. the restrooms were very clean and usually accessible.

3 hour wait on customer service after flight was cancelled. Was bumped to a flight where I wouldnt have gotten to my destination for another 2 days. Had to fully refund flight and book a new one the following morning. Paid twice the amount for the flight than I had originally booked. Very disappointed I was not offered any sort of discount or points for all of the frustration, in fact the airline profited twice as much off of me by cancelling my flight and and changing my entire trip.

What an amazing flight. I haven’t experienced this level of service in a flight in years. This will be the only way to fly to Hawaii for me in the future.

Everything was great except having to check in at Alaska. That was a surprise and took extra time and effort. Should have been explained somewhere maybe on the HA electronic ticket.

I could not believe that on a 5 hour plus flight we were not given a complimentary meal . That should be illegal. Or it would be nice to be informed beforehand that a complimentary meal would not be provided. The wording in the email I got about pre ordering food was phrased in a way that made the food seem like it would be free. Very misleading! Also during boarding we were informed there would be empty seats we could move to if we wanted, all we had to do was wait for an announcement, however an announcement was never made. Then when we tried to change seats ourselves we were singled out over the loud speaker and told we could not move without asking. Then the flight was about to take off , so we didn’t have time to ask . Then we were told we could not move to the exit row because you had to pay for those seats, but we were not told where we could move. Also no one was in the exit rows so , if something happened no one would be there to assist the passengers. Also people should be allowed to move there if the airline wasn’t able to sell them. One passenger asked if he could pay for the upgrade and the flight attendant said she did not have the capability to charge for the seat on her mobile device, so the airline ended up losing possible income anyways . So why not let people move there during flight if you have no way to charge them? Then the landing was bumpy and awful and many passengers complained out loud when we landed .

The flight was great! The flight attendants were friendly and attentive. I would definitely fly Hawaiian Aurlines again!

You have to buy the ear buds and they only offers little cup of water twice.

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