Mexico City to Zihuatanejo flight

Flights from Mexico City to Zihuatanejo start at €32.00 and take 4h at their fastest.

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The Flights from Mexico City to Zihuatanejo starts at €32.00 and takes 4h door to door, run by 3 operators over 333 km, with around 15 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 6 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4hDoor to door
  • 50mMoving
  • €39.08 to €63.86From
  • 06:24 to 19:36First and last departure
  • 15Per day
  • 69.6 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.

€39.08 to €63.86 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. 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 €63.86Mon21
  2. about €55.01Tue22
  3. about €58.55Wed23
  4. about €62.68Thu24
  5. about €61.50Fri25
  6. about €56.78Sat26
  7. about €53.83Sun27
  8. about €40.26Mon28
  9. about €39.08Tue29
  10. about €40.85Wed30
  11. about €49.11Thu1
  12. about €45.57Fri2
  13. about €47.93Sat3
  14. about €43.21Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 6 October 2026

Cheapest€32.00
  1. Volaris V697116:2051m17:11Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport MEXIxtapa-Zihuatanejo International Airport ZIH

Door to door 4h 1mCO2 69.6 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Fastest€34.95
  1. AeroMéxico AM353512:4650m13:36Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport MEXIxtapa-Zihuatanejo International Airport ZIH

Door to door 4hCO2 69.6 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
AeroMéxico€34.36
VivaAerobús€33.77
Volaris€32.00
  • AeroMéxico
  • VivaAerobús
  • Volaris

The flight gets you into Zihuatanejo. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Zihuatanejo for the night the flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book Mexico City to Zihuatanejo

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

  1. €40.8590 days
  2. €34.9560 days
  3. €31.4145 days
  4. €31.4130 days
  5. €37.9021 days
  6. €43.2114 days
  7. €53.837 days
  8. €58.553 days
  9. €63.861 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €31.41.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 103 percent. The dearest point is €63.86, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 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. €43.21Sun
  2. €40.26Mon
  3. €39.08Tue
  4. €40.85Wed
  5. €49.11Thu
  6. €45.57Fri
  7. €47.93Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Mexico City

Air
  • MEX
  • NLU

Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo

Air
  • ZIH
The journey

What the journey looks like

How far it really runs
The route covers 333 km against 324 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Mexico City at 06:24 and the last at 19:36, across 15 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Mexico City to Zihuatanejo

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 Mexico City to Zihuatanejo take?

The Flight from Mexico City to Zihuatanejo takes 4h door to door, of which 50m is spent moving. The route runs 333 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 Mexico City to Zihuatanejo cost?

The Flight from Mexico City to Zihuatanejo starts at €32.00 for one passenger, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare is €34.95. 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 Mexico City to Zihuatanejo?

3 operators run the Flight from Mexico City to Zihuatanejo: AeroMéxico, VivaAerobús, Volaris. Between them they file around 15 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 Mexico City to Zihuatanejo use?

The Flight from Mexico City to Zihuatanejo leaves from Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport MEX and arrives at Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo International Airport ZIH. 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 Mexico City to Zihuatanejo?

Fares for the Flight from Mexico City to Zihuatanejo bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €31.41. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 103 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Mexico City to Zihuatanejo produce?

The Flight from Mexico City to Zihuatanejo produces about 69.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 333 km, which works out at roughly 209 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.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Mexico City to Zihuatanejo on 20 September 2026: 333 km of route against 324 km in a straight line, 15 services a day, 3 operators a cheapest fare of €32.00, and 4h door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

The fare from ZIH into Zihuatanejo is set by whoever drives it.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Zihuatanejo

Settled in advance, so the ride into Zihuatanejo costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

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