San Salvador to Medellín flight

Flights from San Salvador to Medellín start at €152.36 and take 5h 48m at their fastest.

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The Flights from San Salvador to Medellín starts at €152.36 and takes 5h 48m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,756 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

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

  • 5h 48mDoor to door
  • 2h 38mMoving
  • €165.34 to €328.77From
  • 06:52 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 432.0 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 5, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€165.34 to €328.77 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 €328.77Mon21
  2. about €260.92Tue22
  3. about €221.39Wed23
  4. about €291.60Thu24
  5. about €316.97Fri25
  6. about €275.08Sat26
  7. about €205.46Sun27
  8. about €198.97Mon28
  9. about €181.86Tue29
  10. about €183.63Wed30
  11. about €244.99Thu1
  12. about €194.84Fri2
  13. about €209.00Sat3
  14. about €165.34Sun4

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 5, 2026

Cheapest€152.36
  1. Copa Airlines CA504907:301h 57m10:27San Salvador SALTocumen PTY
  2. Copa Airlines CA585011:251h 7m12:32Tocumen PTYMedellín MDE

Changes at Tocumen, with 58 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 12mCO2 433.5 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€174.78
  1. Avianca - Aerovias Nacionales de Colombia AA301406:522h 38m10:30San Salvador SALMedellín MDE

Door to door 5h 48mCO2 432.0 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
Avianca - Aerovias Nacionales de Colombia€165.935h 48m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Avianca - Aerovias Nacionales de Colombia

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

A hotel room

A room in Medellín for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Universidad de Medellín 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 Salvador to Medellín

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

  1. €213.1390 days
  2. €157.6760 days
  3. €128.1745 days
  4. €121.0930 days
  5. €170.6521 days
  6. €165.3414 days
  7. €205.467 days
  8. €221.393 days
  9. €328.771 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €121.09.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 172 percent. The most expensive point is €328.77, 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. €170.65Sun
  2. €198.97Mon
  3. €181.86Tue
  4. €183.63Wed
  5. €244.99Thu
  6. €194.84Fri
  7. €209.00Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

San Salvador

Air
  • SAL

Medellín

Air
  • MDE
  • EOH
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,756 km against 1,704 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 Tocumen, Cali, San José, Bogotá. The gap between arriving and leaving is 58 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 Salvador at 06:52 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about San Salvador to Medellín

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 Salvador to Medellín take?

The Flight from San Salvador to Medellín takes 5h 48m door to door, of which 2h 38m is spent moving. The route runs 1,756 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 Salvador to Medellín cost?

The Flight from San Salvador to Medellín starts at €152.36 for one passenger, as of September 20, 2026. A typical fare is €184.22. 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 Salvador to Medellín?

1 operators run the Flight from San Salvador to Medellín: Avianca - Aerovias Nacionales de Colombia. Between them they file around 5 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 Salvador to Medellín use?

The Flight from San Salvador to Medellín leaves from San Salvador SAL and arrives at Medellín MDE. 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 Salvador to Medellín?

Fares for the Flight from San Salvador to Medellín bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €121.09. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 172 percent, measured on September 20, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from San Salvador to Medellín produce?

The Flight from San Salvador to Medellín produces about 432.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1756 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 Salvador to Medellín on September 20, 2026: 1756 km of route against 1704 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €152.36, and 5h 48m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

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

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A car waiting when you land in Medellín

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

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