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What a trip to Santa Fe costs

A week in Santa Fe for eight people works out around $8,120 before flights — $208 a night for a place sleeping four, scaled for the group, plus $75 per adult per day for food. From Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles and Phoenix it is cheaper for a family of four to drive than to fly.

The oldest state capital in the United States, known for its adobe architecture, the art galleries along Canyon Road, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

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What a week costs

Lodging and food only. Seven nights, whole-property rental, all fees in.

Group	Lodging	Food	Total	Per person
4 people	$1,460	$2,100	$3,560	$889
8 people	$3,920	$4,200	$8,120	$1,010
12 people	$5,360	$6,300	$11,700	$972

Note the per-person column does not simply fall. A place sleeping four is the efficient unit; going to eight means changing property class, which costs more than double. Past eight it improves again — each additional person adds roughly half what they did over the first jump. The expensive step is condo to house, not the people you put in it.

How Santa Fe compares

Santa FeCities median of 7All destinations median of 40

Nightly lodging for a property sleeping four, month by month. Medians are taken across the seeded destinations in each group, so they are the middle of that group rather than any one place.

Averaged across the year, Santa Fe runs $194 a night for a property that sleeps four. That is 36% below the median for all 40 destinations in the library ($305), making it the 3rd cheapest of 40 destinations. Against its own kind it is 5% below the typical city ($203), the 3rd cheapest of 7 cities.

Cities are generally cheapest in June, but the low here falls in January.
The same week costs $383 more in March than in January on lodging alone, before anyone has bought a flight.
It is at its most expensive in March and cheapest in January — the opposite of the library as a whole, which peaks in July. Advice about avoiding summer prices is the wrong way round here.
Driving beats four seats from Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles and Phoenix. The longest of those is Chicago — 1,193 road miles and 19.3h each way, and only $47 cheaper than four seats — thin enough that most groups would fly anyway.
The cheapest seven nights of the year fall in January, at $1,073 for the whole property — $1,456 for the same week in March.
The sharpest single step is between October and November: moving the same week across that line changes the lodging bill by $225.
The closest thing to it on price is Door County, WI, a lake town: $8,514 for a week for eight against $8,119 here, 5% apart — the same money for a completely different trip.

When to go

Santa Fe is at its most expensive in March and cheapest in January — a 36% swing on the same property.

Month	Per night, sleeps 4
January	$153
February	$153
March	$208
April	$208
May	$208
June	$208
July	$208
August	$208
September	$208
October	$208
November	$176
December	$176

Getting there

The two halves are not priced the same way, which is the whole point: a seat costs per person, a car costs the same whatever the headcount.

	Flying		Driving
From	Round tripper person	Each wayhours	Round tripper car	Each wayhours	Cheaperfor four
Atlanta	$480	5.4h	$2,085	22.2h3 days	flying
Chicago	$465	5.1h	$1,813	19.3h2 days	driving
Dallas	$418	4.0h	$961	10.6h2 days	driving
Denver	$396	3.4h	$550	6.5h	driving
Los Angeles	$433	4.3h	$1,221	13.2h2 days	driving
New York	$529	8.3h	$2,982	31.6h4 days	flying
Seattle	$474	5.3h	$1,970	21.0h3 days	flying
Phoenix	$402	3.6h	$662	7.6h	driving

Drives over ten hours are shown in days as well: nobody drives that in one go. The nights on the road are not counted here, so a long drive is cheaper on this page than it would be in life. All fares are modeled from distance — no published average covers this airport. Driving uses the IRS standard mileage rate, which includes running costs, not just fuel.

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Where these numbers come from

Lodging is indexed from the US federal per-diem schedule (GSA) for this county, calibrated against real rental listings. Food uses this location's own federal meal tier. Fares come from the DOT Consumer Airfare Report where that airport pair is published, and from a model fitted to 2,073 real DOT fares otherwise. Everything here is an estimate for planning, not a quote — check real prices before booking.