Route brief · AUH → HKT
Abu Dhabi → Phuket
$335
−29% vs typical
seasonal median $470 · difference $135
Sep 6 – Oct 21 · 45 nights
Air India Express1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $438–$537
- Board rank
- Stronger than 77%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHKTPhuketThailand’s busiest beach island — crowded where the road goes, empty where the boat does.Best windowNov–MarAirportsPhuket (HKT)All routes into PhuketWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Sep is the cheapest for AUH → HKT. Best time to be there: Nov–Mar.
Fares bottom out in September around $335 and peak in May near $907 — a $572 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8.5 hours outbound, on a 45-night trip — ticketed under Air India Express, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $335 for 5,012 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Phuket, this fare ranks 3rd — 36% above the $247 from Seoul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of Abu Dhabi, where the middle fare is $396.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 15 · $299 (34% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 22% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $499 then versus $391 now, across 5 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 $299, on Sep 15.
September 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $335
29% below the $470 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Abu Dhabi → Phuket · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zayed International (AUH) ↔ Phuket (HKT)
- Flight time
- ~8.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,012 km each way
- Typical price
- $470 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air India Express
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
AUH → HKT, answered.
Is $335 a good price for Abu Dhabi to Phuket?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $470 round-trip. At $335 you're 29% below that, saving about $135, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Abu Dhabi to Phuket?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Phuket are Nov–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AUH → Phuket?
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 7 months of cached fares, Sep 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 Phuket?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air India Express. 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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