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$118 Find cheap flights from San Diego to Rochester, New York

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Cheap flight deals from San Diego to Rochester (SAN-ROC)

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from San Diego to Rochester 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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10:15 pm - 11:28 amSAN-ROC
10h 13m1 stop
6:00 am - 11:28 amROC-SAN
8h 28m1 stop
$237American Airlines
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Tue, Sep 10 - Tue, Sep 24
10:15 pm - 11:28 amSAN-ROC
10h 13m1 stop
7:47 am - 2:01 pmROC-SAN
9h 14m2 stops
$242American Airlines
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Tue, Sep 10 - Tue, Sep 24
10:29 pm - 9:57 amSAN-ROC
8h 28m1 stop
5:47 pm - 11:29 pmROC-SAN
8h 42m1 stop
$284United Airlines
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Sat, Jun 29 - Fri, Jul 5
6:55 am - 5:34 pmSAN-ROC
7h 39m1 stop
6:10 pm - 10:32 pmROC-SAN
7h 22m1 stop
$296Delta
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Wed, Aug 14 - Tue, Aug 20
9:24 pm - 9:45 amSAN-ROC
9h 21m1 stop
6:30 am - 11:33 amROC-SAN
8h 03m1 stop
$338United Airlines
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Fri, Aug 16 - Tue, Aug 20
12:40 pm - 9:40 amSAN-ROC
18h 00m1 stop
9:54 am - 3:32 pmROC-SAN
32h 38m3 stops
Thu, Jul 18 - Tue, Jul 23
8:26 am - 10:25 amSAN-ROC
22h 59m3 stops
9:54 am - 3:32 pmROC-SAN
32h 38m3 stops
$369Spirit Airlines
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Thu, Jul 18 - Tue, Jul 23
9:25 am - 8:40 pmSAN-ROC
32h 15m2 stops
5:03 pm - 11:55 pmROC-SAN
33h 52m2 stops
$381Spirit Airlines
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Wed, Jun 19 - Mon, Jun 24
12:40 pm - 9:40 amSAN-ROC
18h 00m1 stop
9:54 am - 7:37 amROC-SAN
24h 43m2 stops
Thu, Jul 18 - Tue, Jul 23
10:30 pm - 11:01 amSAN-ROC
9h 31m1 stop
6:00 am - 11:06 amROC-SAN
8h 06m1 stop
$411Delta
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Tue, Jul 16 - Tue, Jul 30

Flights from San Diego to Rochester - Travel Insights & Trends

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

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from San Diego to Rochester?

The average price of all flights from San Diego to Rochester, New York clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
When flying from San Diego to Rochester, you should consider leaving on a Tuesday and avoid Sundays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to San Diego, you’ll find the best rates on Tuesdays and the most expensive ones on Sundays.

What is the cheapest month to fly from San Diego to Rochester, New York?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from San Diego to Rochester, New York, 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 San Diego to Rochester, New York is January, where tickets cost $341 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and April, where the average cost of tickets is $762 and $594 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from San Diego to Rochester, New York?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from San Diego to Rochester, New York, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.
To get a below average price on the flight from San Diego to Rochester, New York, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 36 days before departure.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from San Diego to Rochester?

The cheapest price for the route for each airline clicked by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours.
In the last 72 hours, the best return deals on flights connecting San Diego to Rochester were found on American Airlines ($237) and United Airlines ($284). Spirit Airlines proposed the cheapest one-way flight at $118.

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Low season

January

High season

August

Cheapest flight

$118
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 31% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 16% lower on average.
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When to book flights from San Diego to Rochester

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from San Diego to Rochester 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 San Diego to Rochester

  • What is the cheapest flight from San Diego to Rochester, New York?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from San Diego to Rochester, New York was $118 for a one-way ticket and $237 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between San Diego and Rochester?

    Even though you are not required to have a passport, keep in mind that an official ID is needed to board the airplane.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from San Diego to Rochester?

    San Diego and Rochester are both served by 1 main airport. You will leave San Diego from San Diego and will be arriving at Rochester Greater Rochester Intl.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from San Diego to Rochester?

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

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from San Diego to Rochester?

    oneworld, Star Alliance, and SkyTeam are the airline alliances operating flights between San Diego and Rochester, with SkyTeam being the most commonly used for this route.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from San Diego to Rochester, Delta or United Airlines?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from San Diego to Rochester are Delta and United Airlines. With an average price for the route of $435 and an overall rating of 8.0, Delta is the most popular choice. United Airlines is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $495 and an overall rating of 7.4.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from San Diego to Rochester?

    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 San Diego to Rochester.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from San Diego to Rochester?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Rochester from San Diego 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 San Diego to Rochester?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Rochester with an airline and back to San Diego with another airline. Booking your flights between San Diego and ROC can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

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

    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 Rochester from San Diego up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top 4 airlines serving from San Diego to Rochester

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Diego to Rochester. 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.
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8.0
DeltaOverall score based on 10457 reviews
7.4Food
8.0Entertainment
8.2Boarding
8.6Crew
7.9Comfort
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Our flight to Zurich was delayed by almost 3 hours, so we missed our next flight. There was no indication it would be delayed this much. We were told the gate had changed and then it apparently took over 2 hours to load the "catering" on the plane. We were not compensated in any way for the trouble.

2.0 MediocreLisa, May 2024AUS - JFK
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Our flight to Zurich was delayed by almost 3 hours, so we missed our next flight. There was no indication it would be delayed this much. We were told the gate had changed and then it apparently took over 2 hours to load the "catering" on the plane. We were not compensated in any way for the trouble.

The 1st class male crew member was very pleasant - the short female with round glasses , maybe in 50’s had no personality- never spoke when delivering my food, drink, & never smiled the whole trip! In fact looked annoyed when the boarding proses was happening- I would never hire this woman - unfriendly . Have never dealt with a crew member like her-

A regional sized plane was used for a cross country flight with no overhead bin space. I had to "pink check" my laptop and my medications. I was NOT pleased!!!!

Best airline! Always friendly and welcoming. Skyclub was great and loved the fast free wifi on board. I also love that you can pre-order your meal on the app!

The gate area was incredibly short staffed, with one representative manning 4-5 flights, which caused a 3 hr delay in boarding even though the plane was all ready to leave. Other flights also were delayed because of this. The flight crew was awesome and I feel bad for the only gate worker on call, but Delta needs to hire more employees.

There was a loud squeaky sound the whole time we were flying.

It was a crowded flight. They did the best they could.

Boarding was great. The flight landed early. It took the crew over an hour and a half to bring out drinks. I paid to upgrade my seat to Comfort+ only to be near a crying/screaming baby who was seldom quiet. Noise-cancelling earbuds didn’t even help. Waste of money to upgrade.

Boarding was a sh!t show. JFK BOARDING was awful. The agent called three sections at a time Clogging the area then yelling at people to not block the walk way. How are you going to call delta one , premium select and comfort plus at once and the yell at highest paying passengers. Need to do a lot better and the flight attendants in the galley need to understand that their voices travel. They were talking about others and everyone in the cabin heard them

The main person that was coordinating everything was a short white/light skin Spanish man and he was very rude. It honestly made me feel like it was everyone’s First day at work. His announcements were very not reasonable and they did not make sense. The stewardess on the flight that made the announcements she didn’t even know what she was talking about she sounded inebriated. There were no snacks or drinks on our flight there wasn’t even much turbulence. This flight was not enjoyable nor was it what a Delta flight should be and just this past week I flew with Delta 3 times.

Overall fine but both ways for this trip was delayed.

Flight was delayed by almost 5 hours. Suitcase was not loaded despite the flight being near empty (my colleagues’ suitcases did reach JFK, unlike mine). Had to argue on phone to get JetBlue to deliver the case to my hotel. Never again

Great. Loved that there was WiFi on flight to keep in touch and excellent service of beverages and snacks.

great flight. Pilot was communicative, flight attendants were excellent. Really nice experience except my tv didn’t work.

Overall, the flight was better than the flight I took to go to Florida, which had a bunch of problems. The crew is really nice and the plane was new so it had a small problem when we were on the runway, but the flight itself was great. They even made some time back up, which is always a good thing.

Everything was good except for deplaning in NY. Took way too long!!

Jet Blue keeps getting iit wrong. 4 hour mechanical delay followed by terrible boarding experience. This is my third horrific jet blue flight in 2024. I am going to try to avoid this loser in the sky

no wifi and the aircraft was very old with tiny 4” screens.

After we landed, we were held on the plane for 30 minutes. There was no one at the gate once we landed and we forced to sit on a plan that had already over an hour delayed.

Flawless trip. Pilot came out and introduced himself, welcomed everyone, made a light joke to put everyone at ease. Arrived quite early.

There was no screens on board AND the WiFi didn’t work. My seat was broken and couldn’t recline so I couldn’t even sleep. The flight attendants didn’t offer anything to make it more comfortable. It was such an old cramped plane, when the person in front of me reclined I couldn’t even open my tray table. All the United ads talk about guaranteeing everyone gets a screen!

On time take off…US cabins look tired and need of refresh!

I paid $380 for my one-way ticket from California to Minnesota. The fair did not include online check-in. I received instructions from their app to check in at a kiosk. At the kiosk, the boarding pass would not print until an actual person came to verify that I had a personal item and not a carry-on item, On the plane, the person next to me was drunk and allowed to continue to order alcohol. United is garbage I’d rather fly spirit.

Do not like the feeling of being in the basic economy. Everyone should feel good no matter what.

Terrible! The plane was old and you are required to connect your own device to their Wi-Fi rather than have entertainment options in the back of the seat in front of you. The Wi-Fi went out during the flight and there was only one plug for the devices every two seats. Three out of five surrounding my family did not work. The seats and spaces under them were so small I could not fit my backpack, which I’ve always brought on flights and fit before no problem. The crew were unpleasant and patronizing.

Due to one crew member not showing up to work, our flight was significantly delayed causing us to miss our connecting flight in Houston to Mississippi causing us to be delayed by more than 6 hours and missing our event all together. Very disappointing. All because ONE crew member called in sick. United did grant us a $15 meal voucher, which was a small but appreciated concession that I wasn’t able to use because I ordered my lunch and paid for it before applying the concession, and the staff said it was too late to use it. Ugh! We also had a TWO delay coming back from Mississippi, but that was on American Airlines and it was due to weather, so not their fault. Anyway, not at all impressed with United’s handling of our flight and the HUGE disappointment of missing our important family event for our 90 year old mother. All that money and all that stress and emotions for nothing. Having to wait the hour to bring an employee from LAX seemed like something that should not have happened. Why don’t you have a local back-up? Santa Ana is not a little airport in a rural area.

Crew was great and did their best to make us comfortable and captain came out at the beginning to announce why the flight was delayed, weather situation up ahead, and kept us updated throughout the flight.

United WiFi is consistently unusable (it can take 10 mins to load a single web page). If you need Wifi to do work, be prepared to lose half a day of productivity.

Awful. I got stuck next to a person carrying a dog and behind someone with a dog. People need to board these dogs downstairs. The cabin is crowded enough with your pets

Packed in like sardines, very uncomfortable. Sitting the aisle my shoulder was rammed into numerous times by rushing flight attendants. Also flight was very cold.

Worst experience flying American Airlines. I fly with them often, so I was super disappointed in the service I received at gate 30 in LGA on May 24, mid-day. The flight was delayed twice. I was patiently waiting in the American Airlines lounge when I received the notice on my app that the plane was boarding 45 minutes before its newly re-scheduled take off of 4 pm (from the orginal 1:45 pm then 3:00 pm). It took me 5 min to travel from the lounge to the gate and when I arrived there at 3:20 flight gate attendant told me the flight had closed and that they announced for passengers multiple times. I showed them the notification on my app and they were really rude and unempathetic. The person who rescheduled my flight at customer service wasn't any happier but was at least helpful in getting me on the next flight.

Was lucky to have a employee at the AA checkin counter that had compassion and understood they ordeal that we went through with our original flight being diverted, needing to stay in the aircraft and then flying to the original destination; adding hours to the trip and forcing us to miss our connection and our rebooked connection. She was able to get up on standby on the highest priority on the next flight to the closest airport we need to be at and it all worked out despite being many hours late.

I like the boarding process, it was fast. The seat doesn’t have a TV for a long flight and food wasn’t served, just snacks.

Horrible - they lied to me about baggage & boarding, even though I specifically spoke to their agents the day before my flight about my issue. When I showed up they did not let me board and stranded me at my airport until I bought a new flight with money I did not have to spend.

Not being able to purchase my check in baggage online was a negative.

Comfort of seats, ease of boarding. Food selection could be better

I arrived to the airport 2 hours before my American Airlines flight was scheduled to take off. I have TSA pre-check. The airport was crazy packed when I arrived. After momentarily standing in the pre-check line, the TSA agent said that I am not pre-check. Of course I said that I am because I entered my KTN number on all my traveling sites and programs. I had to get out of line and go back to the AA counter to discover that American Airlines did not add my KTN to my boarding pass. I had to call TSA to find out my number, then have AA enter it onto my boarding pass. The emblem would not load onto my boarding pass. By this time, I decided to use my Clear in order to get through TSA but the line was ridiculous long. By the time I made through TSA, I missed my 11:08am flight and was re-booked for the 5:30pm. This is after the AA employee told me I should have gotten to the airport early. AA use to be a dependable airline not I use them only if I have too.

Horrible people at the gate, they force me to check in my carry on, even thought no one behind me has to do it. I had to get out of the airport in NY to get my bag and go thru security again on my way to Honk Kong. The worst part is the employee threatened me with loosing the flights if don’t comply.

Cut off carry ons, had to check, got on and there was plenty of bin space. Disappointing.

One of the worst flights I have ever taken Delayed over an hour without communication from the crew; very scary Entertainment not working Crew NASTY cabin cold

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from San Diego to Rochester found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
9/9Mon
3 stopsSpirit Airlines
30h 56mSAN-ROC
$118
8/6Tue
1 stopAmerican Airlines
9h 50mSAN-ROC
$119
11/2Sat
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
9h 08mSAN-ROC
$124
8/31Sat
1 stopUnited Airlines
9h 14mSAN-ROC
$148
8/31Sat
1 stopUnited Airlines
9h 14mSAN-ROC
$150
6/12Wed
1 stopDelta
7h 59mSAN-ROC
$156
11/24Sun
1 stopAmerican Airlines
9h 03mSAN-ROC
$159
11/2Sat
1 stopAmerican Airlines
7h 02mSAN-ROC
$168
6/13Thu
1 stopDelta
7h 37mSAN-ROC
$267
6/6Thu
1 stop
18h 00mSAN-ROC
$292

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Last minute flights from San Diego to Rochester

Last minute flight, train and bus deals

 
These last-minute flight deals are the cheapest flights found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours for flights from San Diego to Rochester that are departing in the next 10 days.
5/31Fri
multi-stopDelta
9h 41mSAN-ROC
6/13Thu
multi-stopDelta
8h 05mROC-SAN
$527
5/31Fri
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
8h 05mSAN-ROC
6/13Thu
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
10h 10mROC-SAN
$531
5/31Fri
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
9h 29mSAN-ROC
6/13Thu
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
10h 10mROC-SAN
$537
5/31Fri
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
9h 43mSAN-ROC
6/1Sat
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
10h 21mROC-SAN
$615
5/31Fri
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
9h 01mSAN-ROC
6/1Sat
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
7h 55mROC-SAN
$622
5/31Fri
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
9h 39mSAN-ROC
6/1Sat
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
10h 52mROC-SAN
$628
5/31Fri
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
9h 43mSAN-ROC
6/2Sun
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
9h 58mROC-SAN
$677
5/31Fri
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
10h 47mSAN-ROC
6/2Sun
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
10h 21mROC-SAN
$684
5/31Fri
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
10h 47mSAN-ROC
6/2Sun
multi-stopAmerican Airlines
9h 32mROC-SAN
$750
5/31Fri
multi-stop
24h 23mSAN-ROC
6/2Sun
multi-stop
29h 45mROC-SAN
$904

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San Diego - Rochester Flights

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San Diego (SAN)United States

Destination:

Rochester (ROC)United States

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