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Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima. From €132.89, fastest 5h 41m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima runs about 3 times a day, with the first departure around 06:16 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €132.89 and €178.91, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 5h 41m over 1,667 km, on services run by 2 operators across 1 mode.

Checked 20 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 2 operators and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares · Priced for 5 October 2026

€132.89 to €178.91

  • 165%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Santa Cruz de la Sierra

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:16First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 3Services per day
  • 67%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €300.45Mon21
  2. about €301.63Tue22
  3. about €236.73Wed23
  4. about €293.96Thu24
  5. about €296.32Fri25
  6. about €255.02Sat26
  7. about €219.03Sun27
  8. about €203.69Mon28
  9. about €178.91Tue29
  10. about €194.25Wed30
  11. about €234.96Thu1
  12. about €240.27Fri2
  13. about €220.21Sat3
  14. about €184.22Sun4
  15. about €132.89Mon5
  16. about €150.59Tue6
  17. about €168.88Wed7
  18. about €178.32Thu8
  19. about €163.57Fri9
  20. about €160.03Sat10
  21. about €163.57Sun11

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.

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

A hotel room

A room in Lima for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from San Juan de Dios and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima

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

  1. €190.7190 days
  2. €158.2660 days
  3. €113.4245 days
  4. €134.6630 days
  5. €163.5721 days
  6. €184.2214 days
  7. €219.037 days
  8. €236.733 days
  9. €300.451 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €113.42.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 165 percent. The dearest point is €300.45, 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.
€300.45€113.42137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 45 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

1 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.

The shape of it

1,667 km

1,618 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs west.

Who lives at each end

1,831,4347,737,002

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

0/2

2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.

The route

Santa Cruz de la SierraSanta Cruz de la SierraLimaLima
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

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 1,667 km against 1,618 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 La Paz. The gap between arriving and leaving is 75 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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.

Lima is large, and the road in from LIM can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Lima

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

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near San Juan de Dios

Most of the points near San Juan de Dios open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima

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 it take to get from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima?

The fastest journey from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima takes 5h 41m door to door, of which 2h 46m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 5h 51m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima?

The cheapest fare from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima is €132.89, as of 20 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €225.52. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima?

The cheapest way from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima is by flight, at €132.89 for one passenger on 5 October 2026. That journey takes 5h 56m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima?

Fares from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €113.42. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 165 percent, measured on 20 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima?

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima, at €178.91. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 20 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima, at €106.93 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs services from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima?

No operator record names Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima directly. Avianca El Salvador, LAN Peru publish service areas covering both ends and may serve it, so we list them as possible operators rather than confirmed ones.

Is there a direct service from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima?

67 percent of the services we sell from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima are direct. The rest connect at La Paz, with about 75 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima use?

Services from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima by flight leave from Santa Cruz de la Sierra VVI and arrive at Lima LIM. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima?

0 of the 2 operators we sell from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

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, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Lima on 20 September 2026: 1667 km of route against 1618 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €132.89, and 5h 41m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Lima is somebody else's catalogue.

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The two ends, compared

Santa Cruz de la Sierra reaches 17 places in 9 countries on services we hold, over distances from 50 to 8,918 km. Lima reaches 63 places in 21 countries, from 169 to 10,526 km.

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