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San Salvador to Lima

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from San Salvador to Lima. From €285.70, fastest 7h 40m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

San Salvador to Lima runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:13 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €285.70 and €303.99, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 7h 40m over 3,255 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked September 15, 2026Priced for October 6, 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

€285.70 to €303.99

  • 118%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving San Salvador

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.

  • 06:13First 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 €560.05Wed16
  2. about €701.65Thu17
  3. about €590.14Fri18
  4. about €519.34Sat19
  5. about €513.44Sun20
  6. about €447.36Mon21
  7. about €347.65Tue22
  8. about €389.54Wed23
  9. about €500.46Thu24
  10. about €436.15Fri25
  11. about €410.78Sat26
  12. about €431.43Sun27
  13. about €377.15Mon28
  14. about €303.99Tue29
  15. about €309.30Wed30
  16. about €358.27Thu1
  17. about €352.37Fri2
  18. about €351.19Sat3
  19. about €316.97Sun4
  20. about €294.55Mon5
  21. about €285.70Tue6

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 San Salvador to Lima

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

  1. €298.6890 days
  2. €288.0660 days
  3. €310.4845 days
  4. €270.9530 days
  5. €285.7021 days
  6. €303.9914 days
  7. €347.657 days
  8. €590.143 days
  9. €560.051 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €270.95.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 118 percent. The most expensive point is €590.14, 3 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.
€590.14€270.951371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to San Salvador to Lima and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

1 hours ahead on arrival. The clock moves even though you do not.

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 south-east.

Who lives at each end

525,9907,737,002

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

San SalvadorSan SalvadorLimaLima
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 Guayaquil, Quito, San José, Cali. The gap between arriving and leaving is 50 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 stand 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 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 San Juan de Dios

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

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Questions about San Salvador to Lima

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 San Salvador to Lima?

The fastest journey from San Salvador to Lima takes 7h 40m door to door, of which 4h 42m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 7h 59m, 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 San Salvador to Lima?

The cheapest fare from San Salvador to Lima is €285.70, as of September 15, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €433.20. 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 San Salvador to Lima?

The cheapest way from San Salvador to Lima is by flight, at €303.99 for one passenger on October 6, 2026. That journey takes 7h 52m 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 San Salvador to Lima?

Fares from San Salvador to Lima bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €270.95. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 118 percent, measured on September 15, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

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

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from San Salvador to Lima, at €303.99. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 15, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for San Salvador to Lima?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from San Salvador to Lima, at €231.42 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 San Salvador to Lima?

1 operators sell services from San Salvador to Lima 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 San Salvador to Lima?

20 percent of the services we sell from San Salvador to Lima are direct. The rest connect at Guayaquil, Quito, San José, Cali, with about 50 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 San Salvador to Lima use?

Services from San Salvador to Lima by flight leave from San Salvador SAL 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 San Salvador to Lima?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from San Salvador 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.

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 San Salvador to Lima on September 15, 2026: 3255 km of route against 3160 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €285.70, and 7h 40m 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 catalog.

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Day trips that leave Lima in the morning and cover a good part of Peru by evening.

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The two ends, compared

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

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  • 14Countries
  • 15Operators

Arriving in Lima

Leaving Lima

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  • 21Countries
  • 33Operators

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