Direct Flights from San Juan to Richmond
Richmond · Virginia
Nonstop service from SJU to RIC on JetBlue. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
33 cities have a nonstop to Richmond, San Juan among them.
How long to go to Richmond for, from San Juan
3h 30m in the air, 1,485 miles. A two-night trip loses most of two days to travel; three or four nights is where this one starts to make sense.
The schedule narrows it further. This route does not fly daily, so assuming the return runs the same days, your trip is 2, 3, 4 or 5 nights — or a full week. Worth checking before you book time off.
About Richmond
Richmond is the capital of Virginia. Richmond has a population of 227,000 (2020) and the adjacent counties of Henrico and Chesterfield combine to create a local population of more than 1.3 million people.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Richmond
- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- Kings Dominion is an amusement park in Doswell, Virginia, United States, twenty miles (30 km) north of Richmond and 75 miles (120 km) south of Washington, D.C.
- The Virginia Holocaust Museum (VHM) is a public history museum located in Richmond, Virginia, United States, dedicated to interpreting the history of the Holocaust through survivor testimony, artifacts, and educational p…
- The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Richmond, Virginia, is a Catholic cathedral that is the seat of the Diocese of Richmond.
- The United States Army Ordnance Training Support Facility is a military museum with artifacts that are used to train and educate logistics soldiers. It re-located to Fort Lee, outside Petersburg, Virginia in 2009.
- Metro Richmond Zoo is a privately owned, for-profit zoo in Chesterfield County, Virginia. It is located in the central Virginia area, off of U.S. Route 360, about 20 miles southwest of Richmond.
- The James Monroe Tomb is the burial place of U.S. President James Monroe in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, United States.
- Cactus Hill is an archaeological site in southeastern Virginia, United States, located on sand dunes above the Nottoway River about 45 miles south of Richmond.
- The Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia, was the first installation on Monument Avenue in 1890, and would ultimately be the last Confederate monument removed from the site.
- The American Civil War Museum is a multi-site museum in the Greater Richmond Region of central Virginia, dedicated to the history of the American Civil War.
- The Jefferson Davis Memorial was a memorial for Jefferson Davis (1808–1889), president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865, installed along Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, in the United States.
- The Poe Museum or the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, is a museum located in the Shockoe Bottom neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States, dedicated to American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Richmond weather, compared with San Juan
17° cooler than San Juan on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Richmond 48°F · San Juan 83°F · 35° colder
- April
- Richmond 71°F · San Juan 86°F · 15° colder
- July
- Richmond 90°F · San Juan 89°F · much the same
- October
- Richmond 71°F · San Juan 89°F · 17° colder
Richmond also swings harder through the year than San Juan does — 42° between its coldest and warmest months against 6°.
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Richmond
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Richmond is April–May and September–November, when daytime highs are a comfortable 61–82°F.
- How long to stay
- Richmond rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Kings Dominion, and Virginia Holocaust Museum and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from San Juan to Richmond?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from San Juan (SJU) to Richmond (RIC) on JetBlue.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from San Juan to Richmond?
- JetBlue flies nonstop between San Juan (SJU) and Richmond (RIC).
- How far is Richmond from San Juan?
- Richmond is about 1,485 miles from San Juan by air.
- How many days can I spend in Richmond flying from San Juan?
- Because this route doesn't operate daily, your trip is effectively 2, 3, 4 or 5 nights — or a full week — assuming the return flies the same days as the outbound.
- What is there to do in Richmond?
- Popular things to do include Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Kings Dominion, Virginia Holocaust Museum, Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (Richmond, Virginia), and more.
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