Lima to San Salvador

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Lima to San Salvador. From €272.72, fastest 7h 39m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Lima to San Salvador runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:16 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €303.99 and €338.80, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 7h 39m over 3,255 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked September 14, 2026Priced for October 5, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

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

Typical fares

€303.99 to €338.80

  • 190%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Lima

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
  • 5Services per day
  • 20%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €557.69Tue15
  2. about €568.90Wed16
  3. about €697.52Thu17
  4. about €536.45Fri18
  5. about €533.50Sat19
  6. about €524.06Sun20
  7. about €486.30Mon21
  8. about €338.80Tue22
  9. about €379.51Wed23
  10. about €419.04Thu24
  11. about €512.85Fri25
  12. about €410.78Sat26
  13. about €449.13Sun27
  14. about €370.07Mon28
  15. about €303.99Tue29
  16. about €295.73Wed30
  17. about €409.60Thu1
  18. about €337.03Fri2
  19. about €352.37Sat3
  20. about €308.71Sun4
  21. about €272.72Mon5

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 San Salvador. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in San Salvador for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Estación SITRAMSS Salvador del Mundo and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Lima to San Salvador

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

  1. €355.3290 days
  2. €240.2760 days
  3. €335.2645 days
  4. €256.2030 days
  5. €272.7221 days
  6. €370.0714 days
  7. €486.307 days
  8. €697.523 days
  9. €557.691 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €240.27.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 190 percent. The most expensive point is €697.52, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€697.52€240.271371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Lima to San Salvador 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

3,255 km

3,160 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs north-west.

Who lives at each end

7,737,002525,990

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

How we know

Observed

Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.

The route

LimaLimaSan SalvadorSan Salvador
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

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

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 3,255 km against 3,160 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 Cali, Guayaquil, Quito, San José. The gap between arriving and leaving is 55 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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.

The fare from SAL into San Salvador 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 San Salvador

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

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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

Baggage storage near Estación SITRAMSS Salvador del Mundo

Most of the points near Estación SITRAMSS Salvador del Mundo open before the first train and close after the last one.

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Questions about Lima to San Salvador

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 it take to get from Lima to San Salvador?

The fastest journey from Lima to San Salvador takes 7h 39m door to door, of which 5h is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 8h 3m, 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 Lima to San Salvador?

The cheapest fare from Lima to San Salvador is €272.72, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €467.42. 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 Lima to San Salvador?

The cheapest way from Lima to San Salvador is by flight, at €338.80 for one passenger on October 5, 2026. That journey takes 8h 10m 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 Lima to San Salvador?

Fares from Lima to San Salvador bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €240.27. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 190 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Lima to San Salvador?

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Lima to San Salvador, at €338.80. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 14, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Lima to San Salvador?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Lima to San Salvador, at €233.78 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 service from Lima to San Salvador?

1 operators sell services from Lima to San Salvador across 1 mode: Avianca El Salvador. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from Lima to San Salvador?

20 percent of the services we sell from Lima to San Salvador are direct. The rest connect at Cali, Guayaquil, Quito, San José, with about 55 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 Lima to San Salvador use?

Services from Lima to San Salvador by flight leave from Lima LIM and arrive at San Salvador SAL. 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 Lima to San Salvador?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Lima to San Salvador 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.

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

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 Lima to San Salvador on September 14, 2026: 3255 km of route against 3160 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €272.72, and 7h 39m 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 San Salvador is somebody else's catalog.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of San Salvador and across El Salvador

Day trips that leave San Salvador in the morning and cover a good part of El Salvador by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Lima reaches 63 places in 21 countries on services we hold, over distances from 169 to 10,526 km. San Salvador reaches 35 places in 14 countries, from 178 to 8,649 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Lima

  • 63Places you can leave for
  • 21Countries
  • 33Operators

Arriving in San Salvador

Leaving San Salvador

  • 35Places you can leave for
  • 14Countries
  • 15Operators

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