San Francisco → Vancouver flights

SFO–Vancouver fares swing wide — $141 median, but $85 is possible

Key takeaways

• $141 median fare across the sample window, but that's just the midpoint of a wide range
• Bottom quartile fares sit at $92 or below, suggesting real savings are available for flexible flyers
• Top quartile fares climb to $188, meaning roughly 1 in 4 observed fares cost twice the cheap end
• 121% spread between low and high — this route shows unusually high price volatility
• Only 12 days sampled, so this snapshot is a thin, early read rather than a stable pattern

30-day price trend

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

The full picture

The data shows a $141 median fare for SFO–Vancouver, but that single number hides a lot of movement: prices in our sample ranged from $85 to $188, a spread of 121%. That's a wide gap for a short regional hop, and it tells us this route doesn't have a stable 'typical' price — travelers booking at different moments could pay nearly double for the same route depending on timing and availability.

With only 12 daily snapshots collected, we can't confidently map out a booking horizon curve — there isn't enough history yet to say prices reliably soften at a particular number of weeks out. What we can say is that the bottom quartile of fares ($92 and under) shows that sub-$100 tickets do appear in the data with some regularity, not as rare outliers. If your travel dates are flexible, that's the range worth watching for and comparing against.

We don't have enough visibility into carrier mix or specific departure days in this dataset to say anything credible about which airline or weekday tends to be cheaper — any claim along those lines would be speculation, not something grounded in what we observed. The honest takeaway: this is a volatile, thin-sample route where the median is a reasonable anchor, but the real range you might encounter is anywhere from the mid-$80s to the high-$180s. Treat the $141 figure as a ballpark, not a target, and keep checking fares if your dates allow some flexibility — with a spread this large, patience has a real chance of paying off.

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