Route brief · CHI → ROM
Chicago → Rome
$410
−23% vs typical
seasonal median $530 · difference $120
Feb 15 '27 – Feb 19 '27 · 4 nights
United1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $439–$752
- Board rank
- Stronger than 63%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefROMRomeTwenty-eight centuries of showing off. Shoulder-season fares make the Colosseum a weekend idea.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsFiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)All routes into RomeWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Feb is the cheapest for CHI → ROM. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in February around $410 and peak in September near $818 — a $408 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $410 for 7,741 km each way, that works out to about $26 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 15 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rome, this fare ranks 2nd — 15% above the $356 from Miami. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago, where the middle fare is $630.
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $737 then versus $753 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 $467, on Nov 23.
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 Feb · around $410
23% below the $530 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Chicago → Rome · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)
- Flight time
- ~10 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,741 km each way
- Typical price
- $530 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
CHI → ROM, answered.
Is $410 a good price for Chicago to Rome?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $530 round-trip. At $410 you're 23% below that, saving about $120, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Chicago to Rome?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Feb comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Rome are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Rome?
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, Feb 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 Rome?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under United. 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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