Route brief · CHI → HKG
Chicago → Hong Kong
$967
−14% vs typical
seasonal median $1,120 · difference $153
Nov 4 – Nov 11 · 7 nights
Turkish Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,014–$1,122
- Board rank
- Stronger than 35%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHKGHong KongVertical, humid and relentless — and the cheapest place in Asia to catch a connecting fare somewhere else.Best windowOct–DecAirportsHong Kong (HKG)All routes into Hong KongWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for CHI → HKG. Best time to be there: Oct–Dec.
Fares bottom out in November around $967 and peak in September near $1,152 — a $185 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 20 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $967 for 12,532 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Hong Kong, this fare ranks 13th — 2.2× the $437 we hold from London. For context, the middle fare among the 32 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago is $863.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,103 then versus $1,122 now, across 4 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 $967, on Nov 4.
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 Nov · around $967
14% below the $1,120 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Chicago → Hong Kong · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Hong Kong (HKG)
- Flight time
- ~20 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~12,532 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,120 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec
CHI → HKG, answered.
Is $967 a good price for Chicago to Hong Kong?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,120 round-trip and this fare is 14% under it, about $153. 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 Chicago to Hong Kong?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Hong Kong are Oct–Dec — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Hong Kong?
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, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago to Hong Kong?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish Airlines. 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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