San Diego to Puerto Vallarta flight

Flights from San Diego to Puerto Vallarta start at €141.15 and take 6h 12m at their fastest.

San DiegoSan DiegoPuerto VallartaPuerto Vallarta
View of the coast of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico as our snorkel excursion boat heads to our snorkel site off the coast of the Marietas Islands. A rigid inflatable boat (sometimes referred to as a "Zodiac") can be seen carrying another group of tourists exploring the area's sights.

The Flights from San Diego to Puerto Vallarta starts at €141.15 and takes 6h 12m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,844 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked September 19, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6h 12mDoor to door
  • 3h 2mMoving
  • €219.62 to €445.59From
  • 06:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 453.6 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.

€219.62 to €445.59 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 €445.59Sun20
  2. about €325.23Mon21
  3. about €322.28Tue22
  4. about €258.56Wed23
  5. about €404.88Thu24
  6. about €366.53Fri25
  7. about €407.83Sat26
  8. about €244.40Sun27
  9. about €230.83Mon28
  10. about €221.39Tue29
  11. about €262.69Wed30
  12. about €270.36Thu1
  13. about €272.13Fri2
  14. about €219.62Sat3

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 October 6, 2026

Cheapest€141.15
  1. Alaska Airlines AA422706:303h 2m10:32San Diego SANPuerto Vallarta PVR

Door to door 6h 12mCO2 453.6 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Alaska Airlines€141.155h 56m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Alaska Airlines

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

A hotel room

A room in Puerto Vallarta for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Terminal de Autobuses de Puerto Vallarta and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book San Diego to Puerto Vallarta

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

  1. €230.7990 days
  2. €151.0460 days
  3. €134.6645 days
  4. €125.2230 days
  5. €211.9521 days
  6. €219.6214 days
  7. €353.997 days
  8. €322.283 days
  9. €445.591 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €125.22.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 256 percent. The most expensive point is €445.59, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €244.40Sun
  2. €230.83Mon
  3. €221.39Tue
  4. €258.56Wed
  5. €270.36Thu
  6. €267.64Fri
  7. €219.62Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

San Diego

Air
  • SAN

Puerto Vallarta

Air
  • PVR
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
25% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 75% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,844 km against 1,791 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 Phoenix, Mexico City, Los Angeles. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 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 San Diego 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 San Diego to Puerto Vallarta

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 San Diego to Puerto Vallarta take?

The Flight from San Diego to Puerto Vallarta takes 6h 12m door to door, of which 3h 2m is spent moving. The route runs 1,844 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 San Diego to Puerto Vallarta cost?

The Flight from San Diego to Puerto Vallarta starts at €141.15 for one passenger, as of September 19, 2026. A typical fare is €203.69. 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 San Diego to Puerto Vallarta?

1 operators run the Flight from San Diego to Puerto Vallarta: 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 San Diego to Puerto Vallarta use?

The Flight from San Diego to Puerto Vallarta leaves from San Diego SAN and arrives at Puerto Vallarta PVR. 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 San Diego to Puerto Vallarta?

Fares for the Flight from San Diego to Puerto Vallarta bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €125.22. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 256 percent, measured on September 19, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Flight from San Diego to Puerto Vallarta produces about 453.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1844 km, which works out at roughly 246 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 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 San Diego to Puerto Vallarta on September 19, 2026: 1844 km of route against 1791 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €141.15, and 6h 12m 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 PVR into Puerto Vallarta is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Puerto Vallarta

Settled in advance, so the ride into Puerto Vallarta costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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