San Francisco → Delhi flights

SFO–Delhi fares cluster near $359, but some days spike to $546

Key takeaways

• Median fare was $359 across all 30 sampled days
• A quarter of days priced at or below $346, close to the observed low of $340
• But a quarter of days hit $484 or more, up to a high of $546
• Spread of 61% between low and high — this route swings a lot, so timing matters
• Data covers 30 of the last 30 days, a full and reliable sample

30-day price trend

See full numbers and stats on the SFO → DEL price history page.

The full picture

Over the last 30 days, every day in the window had a cached fare for SFO–Delhi, giving us a solid read on pricing behavior. The median sat at $359, but the range was wide: fares as low as $340 and as high as $546, a 61% spread from bottom to top. That's a meaningful gap for a single route, suggesting fare availability or seasonality is shifting substantially day to day rather than holding steady.

The quartile breakdown reinforces this. A quarter of sampled days priced at $346 or below — just above the observed floor — while the top quarter jumped to $484 or more. That means the middle half of fares (p25 to p75) stretched from $346 to $484, a fairly broad band itself. If you're pricing this route and see something in the $340–$360 range, that's solidly in line with the cheapest quartile of what we've tracked. Anything north of $480 is in the expensive tier by comparison.

We don't have carrier-level detail or clean day-of-week signals in this dataset, so we can't say which airline dominates or whether midweek departures run cheaper here — that would be speculation. What the data does support is a general strategy: treat anything near $340–$360 as a good fare worth booking, and treat quotes above $480 as a sign to wait or check alternate dates. The caveat is that with a 61% spread and no visibility into why certain days spike, some of that high end could reflect holiday travel, premium cabin fares mixed into the cache, or last-minute pricing — we can't isolate the cause from this data alone.

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