San José (SJO) to Panama City (PTY): 335 miles (539 km) great-circle, about 1h 10m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $300 round-trip on Avianca, nonstop, departing June 11, 2026.
$300 round-trip, Avianca AV322, departing 2026-06-11 at 12:40, returning 2026-07-23. The recorded itinerary left on a Thursday, returning on a Thursday 42 nights later; the fare was observed 47 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $300, it ranked 7th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from SJO (median $412). That is 89.6 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: San Salvador (405 mi) at $261 and San Andres (246 mi) at $444.
Avianca had the cheapest fare on 5 of 30 SJO routes. It is the 28th longest of the 30 routes we track from SJO.
Of 6 departure airports with a fare to Panama City, San José (SJO) ranked 1st at $300. Lowest: $300 from San José (SJO); highest: $792 from Havana (HAV); 4 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Avianca (2), Copa (2), Aeromexico (1) and airline Q4 (1).
The reverse, Panama City (PTY) to San José (SJO), was $288 round-trip on Copa, nonstop, departing May 29, 2026. Panama City to San José flights.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones America/Costa_Rica, America/Panama; flight time is our estimate.