Austin to San Diego flight

Flights from Austin to San Diego start at €140.56 and take 6h at their fastest.

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The Flights from Austin to San Diego starts at €140.56 and takes 6h door to door, run by 2 operators over 1,915 km, with around 12 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 16 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6hDoor to door
  • 2h 50mMoving
  • €190.12 to €446.18From
  • 06:23 to 18:39First and last departure
  • 12Per day
  • 471.1 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 6 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€190.12 to €446.18 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €446.18Thu17
  2. about €341.75Fri18
  3. about €373.02Sat19
  4. about €265.64Sun20
  5. about €229.65Mon21
  6. about €224.93Tue22
  7. about €242.63Wed23
  8. about €241.45Thu24
  9. about €227.88Fri25
  10. about €253.25Sat26
  11. about €223.75Sun27
  12. about €201.92Mon28
  13. about €190.12Tue29
  14. about €204.28Wed30

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 6 October 2026

Cheapest€140.56
  1. Southwest Airlines SA391806:232h 58m07:21Austin AUSSan Diego SAN

Door to door 6h 8mCO2 471.1 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Fastest€188.94
  1. Southwest Airlines SA943410:102h 50m11:00Austin AUSSan Diego SAN

Door to door 6hCO2 471.1 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFrom
SkyWest€162.98
Southwest Airlines€140.56
  • SkyWest
  • Southwest Airlines

The flight gets you into San Diego. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in San Diego for the night the flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book Austin to San Diego

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €147.0590 days
  2. €135.8460 days
  3. €173.0145 days
  4. €161.2130 days
  5. €154.7221 days
  6. €204.2814 days
  7. €242.637 days
  8. €373.023 days
  9. €446.181 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €135.84.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 228 percent. The dearest point is €446.18, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €223.75Sun
  2. €201.92Mon
  3. €190.12Tue
  4. €204.28Wed
  5. €241.45Thu
  6. €227.88Fri
  7. €253.25Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Austin

Air
  • AUS

San Diego

Air
  • SAN
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
67% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 33% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,915 km against 1,859 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at San Bernardino, El Paso, Phoenix, Albuquerque. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Austin at 06:23 and the last at 18:39, across 12 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Austin to San Diego

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Austin to San Diego take?

The Flight from Austin to San Diego takes 6h door to door, of which 2h 50m is spent moving. The route runs 1,915 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Austin to San Diego cost?

The Flight from Austin to San Diego starts at €140.56 for one passenger, as of 16 September 2026. A typical fare is €181.86. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Austin to San Diego?

2 operators run the Flight from Austin to San Diego: SkyWest, Southwest Airlines. Between them they file around 12 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Austin to San Diego use?

The Flight from Austin to San Diego leaves from Austin AUS and arrives at San Diego SAN. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Austin to San Diego?

Fares for the Flight from Austin to San Diego bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €135.84. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 228 percent, measured on 16 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Austin to San Diego produce?

The Flight from Austin to San Diego produces about 471.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1915 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Austin to San Diego on 16 September 2026: 1915 km of route against 1859 km in a straight line, 12 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €140.56, and 6h door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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