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Cheapest return fare
708 €
Typical prices: 659 €-948 €
Air Canada
Mon 19.10.Thu 29.10.
FRA - SJO • 2 stops
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710 €
Typical prices: 711 €-1.035 €
Lufthansa
Thu 24.9.Tue 6.10.
FRA - SJO • Direct
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Cheap Flights from Frankfurt am Main to San José

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights from Frankfurt am Main to San José that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent return flight deals from Frankfurt am Main to San José

Mon, 19. Oct - Thu, 29. Oct
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9:55 - 22:00
FRA
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SJO
44h 05m
2 stops
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7:45 - 6:40
SJO
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FRA
15h 55m
1 stop
708 €Air Canada
Mon, 19. Oct - Fri, 30. Oct
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9:55 - 22:00
FRA
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SJO
44h 05m
2 stops
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7:45 - 11:10
SJO
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FRA
20h 25m
1 stop
708 €Air Canada
Thu, 24. Sep - Tue, 6. Oct
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21:10 - 14:05
FRA
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SJO
24h 55m
2 stops
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19:25 - 14:45
SJO
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FRA
11h 20mdirect
709 €Multiple Airlines
Thu, 24. Sep - Tue, 6. Oct
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13:35 - 17:35
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SJO
12h 00mdirect
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19:25 - 14:45
SJO
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FRA
11h 20mdirect
710 €Lufthansa
Wed, 9. Sep - Fri, 25. Sep
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9:45 - 17:00
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SJO
15h 15m
1 stop
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19:05 - 22:05
SJO
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FRA
19h 00m
1 stop
710 €Air France
Wed, 30. Sep - Wed, 14. Oct
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10:40 - 11:54
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SJO
33h 14m
1 stop
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19:05 - 22:00
SJO
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FRA
18h 55m
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710 €KLM
Thu, 10. Sep - Fri, 25. Sep
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7:00 - 16:20
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SJO
17h 20m
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19:05 - 22:00
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18h 55m
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711 €KLM
Tue, 5. Jan - Sat, 30. Jan
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9:45 - 0:40
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SJO
21h 55m
1 stop
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9:20 - 13:00
SJO
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FRA
20h 40m
2 stops
712 €Multiple Airlines
Wed, 4. Nov - Fri, 20. Nov
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7:20 - 14:55
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SJO
14h 35m
1 stop
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21:00 - 14:35
SJO
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FRA
10h 35mdirect
713 €Lufthansa
Tue, 25. Aug - Tue, 29. Sep
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7:05 - 16:20
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SJO
17h 15m
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18:25 - 22:05
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19h 40m
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719 €Air France
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Frankfurt am Main to San José flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Frankfurt am Main to San José to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

How much is a return flight from Frankfurt am Main to San José?

This analysis is based on the cheapest return trip price found on KAYAK in the last 12 months by searching for a flight from Frankfurt am Main to San José departing in August.

Flight prices are below average for this route right now.

Flights to San José from Frankfurt am Main usually cost between 774 € and 1.157 € in August.
The lowest price found in the past 5 days was 709 € on Air Canada (21. Aug–29. Sept).

What is the cheapest Frankfurt am Main to San José flight route?

Data is based on round-trip flight searches on KAYAK over the past month.

The cheapest return flight from Frankfurt am Main to San José costs 691 € on the route between Frankfurt am Main Airport (FRA) and San José (SJO). It is also the most popular route.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Frankfurt am Main to San José?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Frankfurt am Main to San José clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

When flying from Frankfurt am Main to San José, you should consider leaving on a Friday and avoid Saturdays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Frankfurt am Main, you’ll find the best rates on Wednesdays and the most expensive ones on Saturdays.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Frankfurt am Main to San José?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Frankfurt am Main to San José, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from Frankfurt am Main to San José is September, where tickets cost 746 € (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and July, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is 1.111 € and 1.095 € respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Frankfurt am Main to San José?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Frankfurt am Main to San José, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Frankfurt am Main to San José, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 16% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 26 weeks before departure.

Good to know - Cheap tickets from Frankfurt am Main to San José

Cheapest flight

410 €
Flight from Frankfurt-Hahn to San José

When to book flights from Frankfurt am Main to San José

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Frankfurt am Main to San José based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking flights from Frankfurt am Main to San José

  • How many flights are there between Frankfurt am Main and San José per day?

    There is a maximum of 1 direct flight a day that takes off from Frankfurt am Main and lands in San José, with an average flight time of 12h 00m. The most common departure time is 13:00 and most flights take off in the afternoon. Each week, there are 3 flights.

  • What is the cheapest flight from Frankfurt am Main to San José?

    In the last 5 days, the lowest price for a flight from Frankfurt am Main to San José was 410 € for a one-way ticket and 709 € for a return.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Frankfurt am Main to San José?

    On your way to San José, you’ll fly out from one of these Frankfurt am Main airports: Frankfurt am Main or Frankfurt-Hahn. You’ll be landing at San José Juan Santamaria Intl.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Frankfurt am Main to San José?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Frankfurt am Main to San José?

    oneworld, SkyTeam, and Star Alliance are the airline alliances operating flights between Frankfurt am Main and San José, with oneworld being the most commonly used for this route.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Frankfurt am Main to San José?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Frankfurt am Main to San José.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Frankfurt am Main to San José?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to San José from Frankfurt am Main is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Frankfurt am Main to San José?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional return ticket. You could then fly to San José with an airline and back to Frankfurt am Main with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Frankfurt am Main to San José?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to San José from Frankfurt am Main up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Prefer to fly direct from Frankfurt am Main to San José Juan Santamaria Intl?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Frankfurt am Main to San José Juan Santamaria Intl.
Find which airlines fly direct from Frankfurt am Main to San José Juan Santamaria Intl Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Frankfurt am Main to San José Juan Santamaria Intl

Tuesday

Lufthansa

Lufthansa

Thursday

Lufthansa

Lufthansa

Saturday

Lufthansa

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Direct returns

San José Juan Santamaria Intl to Frankfurt am Main

Tuesday

Lufthansa

Lufthansa

Thursday

Lufthansa

Lufthansa

Saturday

Lufthansa

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying from Frankfurt am Main to San José

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Frankfurt am Main to San José. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Frankfurt am Main to San José? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
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KLMOverall score based on 1551 reviews
8,4Crew
7,8Boarding
7,2Entertainment
7,3Food
7,7Comfort
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Delay and had to run between flight to get my connection due to this delay but besides that the overall experience was ok. I arrived with just an hour of delay.

8,0 ExcellentKevin, Nov 2025
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Delay and had to run between flight to get my connection due to this delay but besides that the overall experience was ok. I arrived with just an hour of delay.

The baggage drop-off in Stuttgart is bad: after online check-in you cannot use the automated baggage drop off as indicated on the website. You can use the terminals but have to cue to 1 of three open and slowly working counters to drop the bags. took about 45 minutes wait time.

Cabin crew professional, polite and friendly, boarding was seemless, but come on KLM surely you can do better than a pack of cheesy biscuits as an inflight snack

Good flight with KLM, friendly staff. Food was good, had much worse on other airlines. Selection of drinks also good enough for us. Entertainment was also good. The economy seats are ok and that’s it. For a 12 hour flight I think a little more comfort in the economy seats in pitch and softness would be highly appreciated by the customers and can makte the difference.

Flight left a few minutes late, but that's it. I wish the seats could be wider and recline more.

Good experience, just i couldn’t connect me to the wifi

Put some new and several options for entertainment. Do not be rude to customers and avoid serving them an extra coke or something. We paid 1200 GBP for a return flight.. A noisy, crowded, rude and uncomfortable flight.

Booked connecting flights with KlM. My serving flight was the furthest part of the airport. On arrival in Zurich. My two cases arrived but only one carry on belong to my son. His three suitcase didn't arrive. After enquiring we discovered they were still in Amsterdam. We landed at 11.12. We eventually left the airport just after one.

The food was ok. The crew seemed like they were cranky. I had one guy get mad at me for passing in between the storage area to get to the other toilet. I can understand if it's not allowed but reprimanding me like I'm a student saying "This is the last time!" was not appropriate. During my meal time, there was a French family around me. No problems there but when we usually have meals, they are supposed to put their chair in the upright position. These people did not do it and the steward did not tell them to raise their seat in the upright position. However, I was told to do so! So, me and another person next to me had to eat with the monitor almost touching our faces. Furthermore, a lady in front of me was putting her feet up and preventing another elder passenger from putting her seat back. To make it worse, she was continuously hitting her back into her seat, shaking my monitor while I was watching a movie. A crew member did speak to her about it but then she accused me of pushing her seat forward! The crew member gave me a death stare and told me to stop pushing the seat forward. I did not even touch her seat at all, if I did, she would know it. Her boyfriend also stood up and tried to push her seat even further past the maximum decline to no avail. None of these people were reprimanded but the steward, some bald guy, was extremely friendly with them and did not even try to instruct them to do anything until it was time to land. I resisted the urge to really argue with them because I would have obviously been seen as the aggressor (I have no idea why). I hardly said anything on this flight except "more wine please" and "sorry" if I bumped into someone accidentally. Overall, it was an annoying flight and I had to resist the urge to yell at the steward and the people he was overly friendly with. The happiest moment of this flight was leaving it.

Seats actually fit a human! Snack options were a bit lame but that’s ok

The flight crew was exceptionally friendly and helpful. Also the seats were comfortable and roomier than many other airlines.

They lost my bag and I still have not received it

I don’t like that an equipment change caused my seat to change from 23A to 44A. The boarding was also delayed. The crew were excellent, however and very attentive. The food was not bad.

A disaster. Air France is a real joke. They overcharge us customers for absolutely nothing. Service was very poor, food was mediocre, entertainment non existent, etc. We paid thousands of dollars for our business class tickets and then we were told in Paris we could not access its lounge. Really Air France ? Congratulations on irritating your customers to the sky high level and ensuring we will do everything in our power to discourage others to travel with you.

Forty five minutes late for departure. Staff were pleasant. Food was adequate but not outstanding. Entertainment system was very good, as it usually is on Air France.

The line at boarding was not well organized and managed

Sky priority means you get to use the KLM business Lounge.

their gluten free lactose meal is the best, I have never been satisfied with my flight meals. I definitely enjoyed my flight and the chair is very spacious for economy. I'm so glad Delta is my flight way back to NY.

My seat was so uncomfortable, and the headrest was broken. Very very disappointing for the price I paid.

I paid extra for a seat with more leg room but they changed the plane and found myself in an ordinary seat. This is expensive at 50€

United was excellent. We had very good experience flying the carrier. Certainly. We will opt to fly them for sure. Lufthansa is out.

There was a little turbulence taking off and landing but mostly it was too late for me to make my connecting flight to Greensboro. Everything else was excellent.

For my wife to be seated with our two children they put them in the last row on the plane where the seats don’t recline very much. The seats in front of them reclined fully which is basically in the lap of the last row which made it difficult to eat, move or watch the entertainment provided.

The seats were very nice in premium economy. The service was good. The flight was slightly bumpy. Would have appreciated more updates from the pilots.

The economy seat was much less comfortable for an international flight in terms of recline and moving space when food tray is expanded. Per entertainment, it would be amazing if I could connect my Bluetooth headset or ear phones to the entertainment screen. Or provide in-flight wifi to connect directly from my own device.

Meals were poor and service rendered on return flight was mediocre as compared to the flight we took to Germany earlier where the attendants were more attentive, energetic, and mindful of passengers' needs. Thumbs up to crew of UA 58. Thumbs down to UA 59..

The crew was generally professional. Though one of the crew members seemed to be easily annoyed, the others were fine and helpful. The green olives and almonds snack was really good. A great idea, and nice balance of tastes.

Would've been great if Lufthansa union cockpit pilots didn't strike for 2 days and caused a chaos to my returning plans to USA, and then after rebooking a flight 2 days later tge plane departed 35 min later. So I did not have a good experience.

My experience on this United Airlines flight was highly uncomfortable, primarily due to two issues: Cabin Temperature: The temperature on the Boeing 737 MAX 8 was unacceptably high, feeling consistently around 80 degrees throughout the flight. This made sleeping impossible and significantly detracted from the experience. Seating Arrangement: Being stuck in a middle seat for a six-and-a-half-hour overnight flight compounded the discomfort. Moving forward, I will always purchase a seat assignment to avoid this situation.

I had very little time to change planes originally in Denver after my flight from Omaha. I had an hour and a half layover in Denver originally and my flight leaving Omaha was delayed an hour because they had to change a tire, which I can understand. When I reached Denver my other flight was late, fortunately, but I still had only 10 minutes to run about a mile through the airport to get to my flight. Again, fortunately, I am a healthy 71-year-old and was able to accomplish this feat. However, the stress was more than necessary to bear.

Flight was delayed twice which made our arrival extremely late (actually into next day). Not an easy travel. But when we requested assistance for boarding we were really impressed with how they helped us! Strongly praise their assistance.

every single person involved showed their joy, working in the airline industry - it created a very pleasant atmosphere for everyone

For boarding, after family with youngsters, you should have 65 and over. Whatever rules, enforce them. It’s frustrating for those who respect them to see aggressive people rush to the gate out of turn…

A snack would have been nice instead of having to buy food.

The plane was new. Should give more options on food.

No food other than a tiny snack. The flight is too long for not having a more substantial food option, other than buying the overprices and mostly non-plant-based options from the menu.

It was a refreshing experience from the past few times I have travelled with Air Canada.

rerouted on red eye. arrived 9 hours late with no luggage. still missing after 3 days. up to 45 day to deal with it. SHAME

The crew is super friendly and helpful , boarding was quick and easy , the prices are too high for a an airline that doesn’t provide complementary meals or snacks for long flights

The flight crew was nice and courteous. The food was terrible. There are no in-flight entertainment services, the plane is outdated and dilapidated, and the flight is delayed. Both from Newark and Montreal. Too bad.

There was no entertainment or food service (short flight). The flight was delayed more than an hour.

Horrible airport ever. We stood in the security check line for more than an hour. It was past boarding time and we were still waiting in line for the security check. With 2 children and a medically ill person we had a very stressful transit.

Cancelled - booked on train; and then flights started running! I spent 5 hours with 2 changes on train while flights started and is 50 min

Lufthansa has a bag policy unique to Lufthansa. We all had a small carry on and a backpack (personal item) that we carried with us through multiple other connecting flights, no problem. With Lufthansa we were charged 80 euros each for the carry on at the gate, for this one flight. When asked they said they made an announcement… problem being that we had just arrived to the gate from a connecting flight and didn’t hear an announcement. While we were standing at the counter paying the ridiculous fee several other people were stopped, while countless others boarded with the same type of luggage and were not stopped. Crazy. Good news though, when we got on the plane half of the overhead bins were empty! After an already horrible experience the lady at the counter was also terrible, so that helped round things out.

We missed our connecting flight in Frankfurt do to security and all hell ensued then.we got rebooked to Washington got there round 10 am ish didn't find out till 630 we were rerouted to United!! Then we started getting updates

Boarding arrangement at Frankfurt was terribly managed with no proper guidance and the flight was parked far away from the gate. In flight entertainment device (touch screen) was not working at all throughout the flight. And on top of all this two of the checked in bags were found to be missing when we landed at Chennai. All this mismanagement at a very high fare of about $2300 per ticket is unacceptable.

Water in bottle and a piece of chocolate were given. We did have movies to watch.

Too tight connection. Lufthansa staff pulled 12 of us out of passport control that had tight connections and took us about 1/3 mile AWAY from our gates and put us in another slow, long line. Needless to say all of us missed our flights and the Customer “Service” staff was rude and not helpful at all. Was rebooked from a direct flight to one w a 6hr layover. Asked about an other option that was on my app and was told to book it myself online (which would be $300 extra pp!!). Got rebooked again w a tight connection which was also missed. Rebooked into middle seats that didn’t recline for 9 hr flight!! No compensation (and we paid for seats!) Ended up taking 26hrs to get home from Europe to North Carolina! No longer a fan of Lufthansa—2nd time having these kind of issues w them!

Good but I don’t received my bags yet is been 5days still no update

Boarding was slow to begin. Economy board should be accomplished from rear of plane to front, as the entrance doors are front of plane. This would eliminate waiting and passenger congestion on the plane. Meals were good however crew will not check if you want meal if sleeping, should be like Emirates and give seat tags wake for meals or do not disturb. Entertainment ok but screen headphone/jacks were distorted - took 3 sets of headphones to get working properly. Flight crew was amazing, exceptionally nice, professional, best Lufthansa crew I have experienced.

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