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$383 Find cheap flights from South Korea to San Diego

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Flights to San Diego - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends for flights to San Diego to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest day to fly to San Diego?

The average price of all flights to San Diego clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to San Diego is Monday where tickets can be as cheap as $1,031. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Wednesday, where prices are $1,866 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly to San Diego?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights to San Diego, 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 to San Diego is May, where tickets cost $891 on average for one-way flights. On the other hand, the most expensive months are August and July, where the average cost of tickets from South Korea is $2,359 and $1,828 respectively. For return trips, the best month to travel is September with an average price of $1,025.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to San Diego?

The average price for all flights to San Diego depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.
The cheapest time of day to fly to San Diego is generally in the evening, when flights cost $1,073 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to San Diego is generally at night, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $1,553.

How far in advance should I book a flight to San Diego?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights to San Diego, 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, you should book around 0 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 86 days before departure.

How long is the flight to San Diego?

The duration of your flight to San Diego depends on your departure and arrival airports. Obviously any flights that include a layover will also be longer. The most popular routes to San Diego on KAYAK are from Incheon, which takes 14h 44m, Seoul, which takes 19h 15m, and Busan, which takes 24h 38m.

How many direct flights to San Diego are there each day?

There are around 337 direct flights from within South Korea to San Diego every day. Most flights depart in the morning, with 8:00 am the most common departure time and 50% of flights departing in the morning.

How many direct flights to San Diego are there each week?

Each week there are around 2,356 direct flights from within South Korea to San Diego. The most common day for departures is Sunday, with 17% of flights taking off on this day.

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April

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February

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Flight from Incheon to San Diego

FAQs - booking San Diego flights

  • How far is San Diego from central San Diego?

    Central San Diego is 3 miles away from San Diego.

  • What is the name of San Diego’s airport?

    When flying to San Diego, you'll arrive at San Diego (SAN). The airport is also known as Lindbergh Field, San Diego, or San Diego Intl.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights to San Diego?

    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 to San Diego.

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

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to San Diego is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights to San Diego?

    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 San Diego 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 to San Diego?

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

  • Which airline offers the most flights to San Diego?

    Of the 12 airlines that fly to San Diego, Southwest offers the most flights, with around 681 per week, followed by Alaska Airlines with 509 flights per week.

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Prefer to fly non-stop to San Diego?

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Nonstop departures

South Korea to San Diego

Monday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +56 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +57 more

Tuesday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +57 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +58 more

Wednesday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +57 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +58 more

Thursday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +56 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +57 more

Friday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +57 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +58 more

Saturday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +55 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +56 more

Sunday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +56 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +57 more

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Nonstop returns

San Diego to South Korea

Monday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +56 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +57 more

Tuesday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +57 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +58 more

Wednesday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +57 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +58 more

Thursday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +56 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +57 more

Friday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +57 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +58 more

Saturday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +55 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +56 more

Sunday

ANA, Aer Lingus, Aeromexico, +56 more

ANA, Aer Lingus, +57 more

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Top 4 airlines serving from South Korea to San Diego

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to San Diego. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from South Korea to San Diego. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with to San Diego? 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.
8.5
Korean AirOverall score based on 1188 reviews
8.3comfort
8.2food
8.8crew
8.2entertainment
8.6boarding
Airline reviews

The flight crews were extremely professional helpful and courteous. Departure and arrival times were accurate. No delay. Thanks

10.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Apr 2024ICN - SGN
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The flight crews were extremely professional helpful and courteous. Departure and arrival times were accurate. No delay. Thanks

Not very comfortable seated in the back plane due to turbulence

Everything about Korean air is great, hands down! Will always prefer this airline from other carriers.

Ford not that great the seat not to big for leg room like other airline

Crew was ok, but some passengers were a bit rude. Again, all outlets were not working, only the really slow charging usb plug on the entertainment system. Entertainment system was also bugged, some features just crash, the touch screen wasn't working and when trying to watch a movie the onscreen display kept flashing off and on making it very difficult to watch.

New plane. Perfect gluten free meal Very flawless procedures from check-in to the landing. Taking off on time and landing even earlier and the luggages are already there after shortest arrival report.

It was ok. Not good and not a bad experience

not too bad but not too great either. Service on all airlines declined ever since covid. Your Delta Stewardess are not that friendly at all. :-(

I like your stewardess, they are nice. However, your food could have been better and wheres your dessert? You do not offer beer or scotch. I do not drink alcohol biut my husband can have one or two, he has to ask if he can have one. during dinner or lunch, it should be offerred. Also, you do not have the most famous drinks ginger ale

Not accommodating ground staff On board slow service Crew members not very friendly

Staff was excellent. Food could use more variety. -More vegetable options. Menu didn't have juice or soda listed. -The croissants were outstanding!

Asian Vegitarian food was test less No Salt or pepper served Need to improve with Chef who can caters for Peaple from India I am sure Chef knows different varieties of food Indian People like

The flight attendant, where kind of rude, there where hiding for almost 3 hours, without doing rounds to see if people needed water or pickup the water cups, the toilets were full of water cups, because they never come back to pick them up.

Amazing service and fabulous syaff. Loved the jumbo jet too, comfortable.

The entertainment screens are dated and needs to be changed to new screens. Then when we got home, I found out 2 of our luggage’s were damaged (huge) and some items stolen.

I had the most wonderful experience from CEB bag drop through deplaning. The staff, the aircraft, food, and cabin crew were all amazing. I want to give a kudos to Marky from Mactan Cebu's Asiana airport staff for his exceptional customer service and assistance.

JetBlue's check-in was great, but there was an in-flight attendant who was very rude and unkind. I didn't realize that the bathrooms were already locked 30 mins prior to landing and needed to use the restroom. Instead of politely asking me to return, she rudely told me, 'NO, bathrooms are locked! Go back to your seat!' The JetBlue flight was more than an hour delay, which made me almost miss my connecting flight with Asiana. I understand the reasoning, but the action they took to get a hold of maintenance was time consuming. It took them more than 30 mins to get a hold of maintenance and for maintenance to get started. The Asiana flight and crew were wonderful, in general. They waited for us who were delayed from the previous flight before they took off and were very kind to take my checked baggage's info. Seats were a little uncomfortable for such long flight, but service and flight attendants were great! However, my 3 checked baggages are missing! They're lost somewhere in the transition. I'm writing this review 3 days after my arrival to the Philippines, and my 3 checked baggages, where my wedding dress is, are all still missing! I and the CEB airport crew have sent multiple emails to both JetBlue and Asiana, and neither has responded to any of our emails. Although, I was able to get in contact with JetBlue's Interline Department who confirmed that the bags were turned over to Asiana without confirmation details.

Airfare was ok . Food not good , seat ok but not comfortable. Lay over too long , crew was ok Overall just ok

The crew was amazing and really nice. The OS on the entertainment system could use an update, though. It felt old and outdated but had anything you'd need to keep busy. I usually never use it anyways, but that did stand out.

2 things that really tanked our experience with this trip with Asiana Airline (which used to be among my favorite airlines): 1) The "random" security screening at the boarding gate is crazily thorough (which is completely redundant to the security screening before we went through the security checkpoint before getting into the gate area), and the water was acquired inside of the gate area (from a lounge operated by the Inchon airport). We were asked to take out *EVERY* single items from the carry-on luggage and open up every comtainers / bags / packages to inspect. To add to it, there were two inspection workers there (one seemed to be a trainee and the other seemed to be a trainer), and the trainer worker held a very unfriendly / arrogant attitude towards us. As the youngest member (a minor) of my family was being "screened", the rest of my family wanted to make sure that no inappropriate actions would happen to her. That trainer worker yelled at us and attempted to use rude body language (waving her hands) and facial expression to ask us to stay away. 2) The luggage handling at the destination was really *REALLY* bad. Among my 25+ years of travel experiences, I'm going to have to say that this was the worst luggage experience where we didn't lose our luggage. Our flight was scheduled to land 12:45pm, and landed around 1pm. 15mins delay in landing is absolutely normal. Deplane process took a bit longer than usual flight (we waited for around 20mins, after arriving at the gate, before people were able to actually leave the plane). However, the luggage took another *2 HOURS* to arrive at the baggage claim carousel. This is insane. What's worse is, due to the delay in luggage, the flurry of passengers from our flight collided with 3 other incoming flights. The US border / custom line was like the longest Disneyland attraction line winding through the entire arrival hall and around all the baggage claim carousels (like at least a thousand people). I've never seen anything like that at SeaTec airport (US border control), period. The luggage claim experience really tanked our trust and overall impression for Asiana Airline's Seattle airport ground operational effectiveness and efficiency. This has to change in order for them to remain relevant / in-business with increased competitions from Korean Air and other Asia-based airlines.

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

Had a broken tray in business class. Crew just shrugged it off.

I didn’t like that I could not select my seat and was assigned a seat when I checked in at LAX

Great experience overall. Check in at Austin was congested as they only have about 6 check in kiosks, one was broken, and there was a lot of Spring Break travelers.

I was sitting at comfort +. One of the Asian male crew was so loud when he delivered service. When he asked questions or what food you need, he was shouting. He must be a prison guard before going Delta.

Bag drop off was slow and annoying. Only 2 agents at the entire delta desk, and no one directing traffic for what line to be in, many confused people slowed down the process. Boarding was fine. Seats in Delta comfort plus were fine. Snacks were great! Definitely a bonus. The entertainment system was awful — old, slow, not responsive, and completely unable to play games due to some kind of error. But on the other hand, thank you to Delta for the free WiFi. That made it better.

Everything was very good other than I had selected a specific seat when I booked the flight and they changed it once I checked-in the day before my flight. I was still in first class but lost my aisle seat for a window seat. Being tall, the aisle offers more comfort so I always select an aisle seat.

Flight diverted in SD. Later take off in Seattle by 1.3hrs

Space and comfort was good. Staff could have been more helpful and friendly.

Crew was not friendly when I went to request a seat change.

So so. Terrible aircraft choice for that leg of the flight.

Our seat tv didn’t work All the rest was perfect

delay several times and wait extra long to board. no entertainment service because there are problem for some rows. always encounter some delays for the last flight of the day.

On time every leg of the journey and exceptional staff at counter, gate, and on board. I haven’t travelled in US for a long time and was genuinely surprised how pleasant this was.

Meals were adequate but could be better. Lots of movies, podcasts, tv shows. We really enjoyed using our personal headsets highly recommended. 15 hrs flight great to travel at night.

This was a Lufthansa flight. Disappointing main meal. Very rough over Canada and arrival at FRA. IFE was almost unusable.

Too many fees (but that seems to apply to all airlines nowadays)

the plane was old. the wifi didn’t work. the entertainment was boring and dated. the charging ports were impossible to find. i was mostly ignored by flight attendants that had no problem speaking to the man beside me. i got two drinks the entire time i was on the plane.

Quit making seats narrower and narrower. The guy beside me spilled over in to my seat.

The service was non existent . Crew did very little didn’t even answer call button . Premium economy in this long haul was the worst I have ever experienced . Never again flying with them .

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Recent round-trip flight deals

 
These are the cheapest round-trip flights to San Diego found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
10/2Wed
1 stopAmerican Airlines
20h 03mICN-SAN
10/10Thu
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
34h 30mSAN-ICN
$914
10/2Wed
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
20h 05mICN-SAN
10/10Thu
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
34h 30mSAN-ICN
$938
10/11Fri
1 stopDelta
34h 51mICN-SAN
10/14Mon
1 stopDelta
34h 50mSAN-ICN
$966
10/11Fri
1 stopUnited Airlines
14h 59mICN-SAN
10/14Mon
2 stopsUnited Airlines
20h 25mSAN-ICN
$1,010
10/11Fri
1 stopUnited Airlines
22h 59mICN-SAN
10/14Mon
2 stopsUnited Airlines
23h 35mSAN-ICN
$1,011
10/11Fri
1 stopKorean Air
17h 29mICN-SAN
10/17Thu
1 stopKorean Air
17h 25mSAN-ICN
$1,037
9/10Tue
1 stopKorean Air
14h 44mICN-SAN
9/18Wed
1 stopKorean Air
17h 25mSAN-ICN
$1,038
6/24Mon
1 stopDelta
33h 15mICN-SAN
7/12Fri
1 stopDelta
17h 10mSAN-ICN
$1,145
5/13Mon
1 stopAsiana Airlines
19h 01mICN-SAN
5/21Tue
1 stopAsiana Airlines
19h 15mSAN-ICN
$1,208
5/13Mon
1 stopAsiana Airlines
19h 01mICN-SAN
5/22Wed
1 stopAsiana Airlines
25h 55mSAN-ICN
$1,281

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best deals for one-way flights to San Diego found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
5/8Wed
2 stops
22h 13mICN-SAN
$383
6/4Tue
2 stops
42h 59mICN-SAN
$389
5/8Wed
3 stops
30h 50mICN-SAN
$398
6/4Tue
3 stops
40h 31mPUS-SAN
$399
6/4Tue
3 stops
42h 14mICN-SAN
$399
5/8Wed
1 stopAmerican Airlines
22h 19mICN-SAN
$472
5/7Tue
1 stopKorean Air
14h 39mICN-SAN
$752
7/19Fri
2 stopsUnited Airlines
30h 37mICN-SAN
$908
7/19Fri
1 stopAsiana Airlines
19h 14mICN-SAN
$1,014
7/19Fri
1 stopAsiana Airlines
19h 12mICN-SAN
$1,017

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Last minute flights to San Diego

Last minute flight, train and bus deals

 
These last-minute flight deals are the cheapest flights found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours for flights to San Diego that are departing in the next 10 days.
4/29Mon
multi-stopKorean Air
14h 38mICN-SAN
5/3Fri
multi-stopKorean Air
17h 10mSAN-ICN
$1,039
4/29Mon
multi-stopKorean Air
14h 38mICN-SAN
5/9Thu
multi-stopKorean Air
17h 05mSAN-ICN
$1,264
4/29Mon
multi-stop
29h 19mICN-SAN
5/3Fri
multi-stop
18h 05mSAN-ICN
$1,273
4/29Mon
multi-stop
25h 46mICN-SAN
5/9Thu
multi-stop
41h 05mSAN-ICN
$1,383
5/1Wed
multi-stop
38h 44mICN-SAN
6/11Tue
multi-stop
37h 32mSAN-ICN
$1,459
4/28Sun
multi-stopAsiana Airlines
19h 01mICN-SAN
5/4Sat
multi-stopAsiana Airlines
19h 15mSAN-ICN
$1,461
4/27Sat
multi-stopAsiana Airlines
19h 12mICN-SAN
5/1Wed
multi-stopAsiana Airlines
30h 00mSAN-ICN
$1,463
4/29Mon
multi-stopANA
23h 02mICN-SAN
5/9Thu
multi-stopANA
29h 55mSAN-ICN
$2,089
4/27Sat
multi-stopANA
22h 45mICN-SAN
5/1Wed
multi-stopANA
23h 50mSAN-ICN
$2,157
4/29Mon
multi-stopUnited Airlines
19h 27mICN-SAN
5/4Sat
multi-stopUnited Airlines
19h 02mSAN-ICN
$3,574

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