$517 - Flights to Frankfurt Germany from San Francisco

Frankfurt continues to be the consistently cheapest place to fly into Europe these days from San Francisco. For most days in August and September, roundtrip flights between Frankfurt and San Francisco are going for $517, which is about what flights to Frankfurt have cost for the last four months.

The cheapest flights to Frankfurt are usually on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and flight time is about 16 hours each way.

Frankfurt itself isn’t a big tourist draw, but it has one of the biggest train stations in Germany, if not THE biggest, and is located in the center of Germany, so it can be the perfect jump off point to Berlin, Munich, Zurich, Interlocken, Prague, Vienna, Paris, Brussels, or Amsterdam.

For people looking to travel to any of these cities, it will be cheaper to just fly into Frankfurt and then take the train.

Here’s more information on traveling from Frankfurt by train.