Route brief · AMS → SGN
Amsterdam → Ho Chi Minh City
$579
−20% vs typical
seasonal median $725 · difference $146
Sep 27 – Oct 11 · 14 nights
China Eastern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $665–$863
- Board rank
- Stronger than 55%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSGNHo Chi Minh CityFaster and richer than Hanoi, and the usual door to the Mekong Delta and the southern coast.Best windowDec–MarAirportsTan Son Nhat (SGN)All routes into Ho Chi Minh CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Sep is the cheapest for AMS → SGN. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in September around $579 and peak in January near $895 — a $316 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 15.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $579 for 9,837 km each way, that works out to about $29 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 19 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Ho Chi Minh City, this fare ranks 3rd — 16% above the $498 from Stockholm. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of Amsterdam, where the middle fare is $729.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 24% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $947 then versus $716 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 $650, on Nov 2.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 12 of 93 days priced, from 23 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $579
20% below the $725 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Amsterdam → Ho Chi Minh City · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schiphol (AMS) ↔ Tan Son Nhat (SGN)
- Flight time
- ~15.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,837 km each way
- Typical price
- $725 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
AMS → SGN, answered.
Is $579 a good price for Amsterdam to Ho Chi Minh City?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $725 round-trip. At $579 you're 20% below that, saving about $146, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Amsterdam to Ho Chi Minh City?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Ho Chi Minh City are Dec–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AMS → Ho Chi Minh City?
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 Amsterdam to Ho Chi Minh City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Eastern. 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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