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Newark → San Diego flights

Median fare New York to SAN is $171, with a tight 15% spread; limited data suggests booking window matters less than usual here.

EWR–SAN fares cluster near $171 — little room to game timing

Key takeaways

Median fare sits at $171, with observed prices ranging only from $149 to $171
Spread of 15% is on the low end — this route isn't showing wild day-to-day swings
Bottom quartile ($149) equals the absolute low, meaning even the cheapest fares seen aren't far off the norm
Only 5 snapshots collected — too thin to call this a reliable pattern yet
No dominant carrier visible in the data, so airline-specific pricing behavior can't be assessed

30-day price trend

EWR → SAN · cheapest cached fare per day · last 13 days · ↓ 8%

$149 low$171 high

See full numbers and stats on the EWR → SAN price history page.

The full picture

The fares we've tracked for New York (EWR) to San Diego (SAN) are notably tight: a $149–$171 range with a median of $171 and a spread of just 15%. That compression tells us this route isn't prone to the dramatic price swings you'd chase with careful timing — whatever you pay is likely to land close to $171 regardless of when within our sample window you looked.

We can't respond to this dataset with the usual booking-horizon advice, because our window covers only 5 daily snapshots. That's too small a sample to say with confidence whether prices soften further out or spike closer to departure. What we can say is that the bottom quartile ($149) and the absolute low ($149) are the same number — suggesting the cheapest fares we've seen aren't outliers, just the low end of a narrow band.

We also don't have visibility into a dominant carrier for this route, so we can't speak to airline-specific fare patterns or whether one carrier is driving the low end versus the high end. Given the tight spread, the practical takeaway is modest: expect to pay somewhere close to $171, with limited upside from waiting or hunting for a particular day. The honest caveat here is the sample size — 5 snapshots is a thin slice of data, and this pattern could shift meaningfully as more days get added. Treat this as an early read, not a settled verdict.

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AI-authored from this route's 30-day price index. Article last regenerated Oct 3, 2026. Fares shift continuously — confirm at booking.