Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo flight

Flights from Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo start at €191.30 and take 7h 1m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo starts at €191.30 and takes 7h 1m door to door, run by 1 operator over 2,540 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

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

  • 7h 1mDoor to door
  • 3h 51mMoving
  • €272.13 to €549.43From
  • 06:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 530.9 kgCO2

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

€272.13 to €549.43 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 €515.21Mon21
  2. about €423.76Tue22
  3. about €432.61Wed23
  4. about €549.43Thu24
  5. about €465.06Fri25
  6. about €539.99Sat26
  7. about €413.73Sun27
  8. about €314.61Mon28
  9. about €289.24Tue29
  10. about €309.30Wed30
  11. about €368.89Thu1
  12. about €348.83Fri2
  13. about €298.68Sat3
  14. about €272.13Sun4

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

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 6, 2026

Cheapest€191.30
  1. Alaska Airlines AA398006:303h 51m11:21Los Angeles International Airport LAXIxtapa-Zihuatanejo International Airport ZIH

Door to door 7h 1mCO2 530.9 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Alaska Airlines€191.306h 49m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Alaska Airlines

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 Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo

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

  1. €280.3990 days
  2. €272.7260 days
  3. €178.3245 days
  4. €190.1230 days
  5. €253.8421 days
  6. €272.1314 days
  7. €413.737 days
  8. €432.613 days
  9. €515.211 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €178.32.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 189 percent. The most expensive point is €515.21, 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. €272.13Sun
  2. €314.61Mon
  3. €289.24Tue
  4. €309.30Wed
  5. €368.89Thu
  6. €348.83Fri
  7. €298.68Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Los Angeles

Air
  • LAX

Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo

Air
  • ZIH
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 2,540 km against 2,466 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 Mexico City, Phoenix. The gap between arriving and leaving is 53 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Los Angeles at 06:30 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo take?

The Flight from Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo takes 7h 1m door to door, of which 3h 51m is spent moving. The route runs 2,540 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 Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo cost?

The Flight from Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo starts at €191.30 for one passenger, as of September 20, 2026. A typical fare is €255.61. 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 Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo?

1 operators run the Flight from Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo: Alaska Airlines. Between them they file around 3 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 Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo use?

The Flight from Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo leaves from Los Angeles International Airport LAX 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 Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo?

Fares for the Flight from Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €178.32. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 189 percent, measured on September 20, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo produce?

The Flight from Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo produces about 530.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2540 km, which works out at roughly 209 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, 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 The operators listed publish a service area covering both places. That evidences the corridor rather than a named service.

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 labeled 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 Los Angeles to Zihuatanejo on September 20, 2026: 2540 km of route against 2466 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €191.30, and 7h 1m 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 stand 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 cab stand says.

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