RareNonstop · 5h
CHI to SJUPuerto Rico
San Juan
$162
usually $340
−52%
Most monthly lows $287–$340. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · CHI → MUC
Chicago to Munich
Best fare, round trip
$760
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Mon 2 Nov
- Return
- Mon 9 Nov
- Stay
- 7 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 10h
- Airline
SAS
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
GermanyMunichBeer halls and baroque, with the Alps close enough to be a day trip and Oktoberfest pricing to match.Best windowMay–Jun · SepAirportsFranz Josef Strauss (MUC)Every route into MunichFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under SAS, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $760 for 7,263 km each way, that works out to about $52 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Munich, this fare ranks 9th — 1.8× the $420 we hold from New York. For context, the middle fare among the 34 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago is $730. We have 1 month 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Munich: May–Jun · Sep.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% lower than when tracking began on 15 Aug — $947 then versus $807 now, across 11 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 $678, on 6 Nov.
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.
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Franz Josef Strauss (MUC)
- Flight time
- ≈10 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈7,263 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- SAS
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep
Good to know
CHI → MUC, answered.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Munich?
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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago to Munich?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under SAS. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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