Route brief · AUH → SEL
Abu Dhabi → Seoul
$635
−10% vs typical
seasonal median $705 · difference $70
Oct 18 – Oct 25 · 7 nights
Air India Express2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $640–$706
- Board rank
- Stronger than 20%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSELSeoulPalaces wedged between skyscrapers, barbecue smoke at midnight, cafés that outnumber people.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsIncheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP)All routes into SeoulWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for AUH → SEL. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $635 and peak in December near $779 — a $144 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Air India Express, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $635 for 6,904 km each way, that works out to about $46 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 14 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Seoul, this fare ranks 11th — 2.4× the $264 we hold from Jakarta. For context, the middle fare among the 27 routes of similar length we watch out of Abu Dhabi is $493.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $735 then versus $693 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 $606, on Sep 1.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 18 of 122 days priced, from 55 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Oct · around $635
10% below the $705 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Abu Dhabi → Seoul · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zayed International (AUH) ↔ Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP)
- Flight time
- ~14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,904 km each way
- Typical price
- $705 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air India Express
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
AUH → SEL, answered.
Is $635 a good price for Abu Dhabi to Seoul?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $705 round-trip and this fare is 10% under it, about $70. 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 Seoul?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Seoul are Apr–May · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AUH → Seoul?
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 Seoul?
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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