San José (SJO) to Houston (HOU): 1,534 miles (2,469 km) great-circle, about 3h 35m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $375 round-trip on Spirit, with 1 stop, departing June 14, 2026.
$375 round-trip, Spirit NK338, departing 2026-06-14 at 13:00, returning 2026-08-09. The recorded itinerary left on a Sunday, returning on a Sunday 56 nights later; the fare was observed 50 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $375, it ranked 14th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from SJO (median $412). That is 24.4 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), above the SJO median of 21.6 cents across 29 round-trip routes.
Routes from SJO of similar length: Lima (1,597 mi) at $305 and Orlando (1,295 mi) at $231.
Spirit had the cheapest fare on 4 of 30 SJO routes. It is the 17th longest of the 30 routes we track from SJO.
Of 25 departure airports with a fare to Houston, San José (SJO) ranked 23rd at $375. Lowest: $102 from Denver (DEN); highest: $535 from Santo Domingo (SDQ); 13 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Frontier (15), Spirit (4), Arajet (1), JetBlue (1), Southwest (1) and United Airlines (1), plus 2 more.
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Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones America/Costa_Rica, America/Chicago; flight time is our estimate.