Route brief · CHI → EDI
Chicago → Edinburgh
$870
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 11 – Sep 14 · 3 nights
Icelandair2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefEDIEdinburghA volcanic crag with a castle on it, a medieval old town below, and the Highlands within a morning.Best windowMay–SepAirportsEdinburgh (EDI)All routes into EdinburghWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Edinburgh: May–Sep. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 11.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under Icelandair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $870 for 5,960 km each way, that works out to about $73 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Edinburgh, this fare ranks 4th — 2.4× the $357 we hold from Dubai. For context, the middle fare among the 23 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago is $592. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 17% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,012 then versus $836 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 $517, on Oct 9.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Edinburgh (EDI)
- Flight time
- ~11.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,960 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Icelandair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
CHI → EDI, answered.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Edinburgh?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago to Edinburgh?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Icelandair. 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 August 30). 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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