Route brief · CHI → WAW
Chicago → Warsaw
$438
−37% vs typical
seasonal median $690 · difference $252
Oct 5 – Oct 19 · 14 nights
Turkish Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $506–$778
- Board rank
- Stronger than 86%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefWAWWarsawRebuilt from nothing and unsentimental about it — cheap, green, and far more interesting than its reputation.Best windowMay–SepAirportsChopin (WAW) · Modlin (WMI)All routes into WarsawWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for CHI → WAW. Best time to be there: May–Sep.
Fares bottom out in October around $438 and peak in March near $783 — a $345 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $438 for 7,511 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 15 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Warsaw, this fare ranks 2nd — 28% above the $342 from New York. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 34 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago, where the middle fare is $630.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 17% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $685 then versus $800 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 $415, on Sep 14.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 10 of 93 days priced, from 29 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $438
37% below the $690 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Chicago → Warsaw · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Chopin (WAW) · Modlin (WMI)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,511 km each way
- Typical price
- $690 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
CHI → WAW, answered.
Is $438 a good price for Chicago to Warsaw?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $690 round-trip. At $438 you're 37% below that, saving about $252, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Chicago to Warsaw?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Warsaw are May–Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Warsaw?
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 5 months of cached fares, Oct 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 Warsaw?
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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