At the cruise speed this site models for 2,426 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 36m.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
SJC San Jose to MTY Monterrey
Norman Y Mineta, the United States, to General Mariano Escobedo, Mexico. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 2,426 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 36m
- Door to door
- 10h 21m
What SJC to MTY looks like
The SJC to MTY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
San Jose SJC to Monterrey MTY is a medium haul sector of 2,426 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
San Jose SJC is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 193.3 departures a day. Monterrey MTY has 64 destinations and 159.4 departures a day.
Monterrey runs 2 hours ahead of San Jose in January and one hour ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on SJC to MTY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SJC to MTY | 0.14 | 1 | none held |
| MTY to SJC | 0 | 0 | none held |
No operating carrier is recorded on the nonstop, which is why the connecting routings below are the plan for SJC to MTY rather than the fallback.
The return leg MTY to SJC carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At about once a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 1 departure a week on SJC to MTY, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 3h 36m block time on SJC to MTY. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to SJC | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At SJC before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| SJC to MTY in the air, estimated | 216 min | 8h 06m |
| Formalities at MTY | 90 min | 9h 36m |
| Delivery run in Monterrey | 45 min | 10h 21m |
| Door to door | 621 min | 10h 21m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for SJC to MTY is 10h 21m.
A courier who leaves San Jose at 09:00 local is on the ground in Monterrey at about 14:36 local and at the door by 16:51 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Monterrey, the last useful departure from San Jose is around 10:09 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 15 of them join SJC to MTY.
| Connecting at | SJC to hub, flights a day | Hub to MTY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenix PHX | 7.57 | 0.86 | 2,429 | 5h 22m |
| San Francisco SFO | 1.43 | 1.29 | 2,523 | 5h 29m |
| Las Vegas LAS | 13.29 | 1.43 | 2,452 | 5h 45m |
| Los Angeles LAX | 14.86 | 0.71 | 2,476 | 5h 46m |
| Guadalajara GDL | 1.86 | 11.57 | 3,265 | 6h 18m |
| Dallas DFW | 3.43 | 7.29 | 3,155 | 6h 32m |
15 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Phoenix PHX, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a week.
Through PHX the routing covers 2,429 km against the 2,426 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 22m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 46m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, San Francisco SFO at 5h 29m and Las Vegas LAS at 5h 45m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves San Jose, Oakland OAK is 47 km away by great circle and carries 89 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan San Jose to Monterrey yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for SJC to MTY in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The SJC airport entry
- The MTY airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Mexico
- The written lane, Amsterdam to Monterrey
- The written lane, Detroit to Monterrey
- The written lane, Frankfurt to Monterrey
- The route calculator
More pairs through SJC and MTY: Atlanta to Monterrey, Mexico City to Monterrey, Guadalajara to Monterrey, San Francisco to Monterrey, Mexico City to Monterrey, Chicago to Monterrey, Tijuana to Monterrey, Monterrey to Queretaro.