Route brief · AUH → KIX
Abu Dhabi → Osaka
$883
−9% vs typical
seasonal median $975 · difference $92
Oct 24 – Oct 31 · 7 nights
IndiGo2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $917–$975
- Board rank
- Stronger than 17%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefKIXOsakaJapan with the volume up — street food, blunt humour, and Kyoto and Nara both under an hour by train.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsKansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)All routes into OsakaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for AUH → KIX. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in October around $883 and peak in March near $1,127 — a $244 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under IndiGo, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $883 for 7,707 km each way, that works out to about $57 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 20 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Osaka, this fare ranks 12th — 1.8× the $498 we hold from San Francisco. For context, the middle fare among the 18 routes of similar length we watch out of Abu Dhabi is $520.
The 8 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $924 then versus $937 now, across 7 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $771, on Sep 14.
- Tue, Sep 1$776
- Sun, Oct 4$917
- Sat, Oct 10$915
- Sun, Oct 11$938
- Mon, Oct 12$954
- Fri, Oct 16$947
- Sat, Oct 17$935
- Wed, Nov 4$975
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Oct · around $883
9% below the $975 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Abu Dhabi → Osaka · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zayed International (AUH) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ~12 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,707 km each way
- Typical price
- $975 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- IndiGo
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
AUH → KIX, answered.
Is $883 a good price for Abu Dhabi to Osaka?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $975 round-trip and this fare is 9% under it, about $92. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Abu Dhabi to Osaka?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Osaka are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AUH → Osaka?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 4 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Abu Dhabi to Osaka?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under IndiGo. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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