Route brief · CPH → KIX
Copenhagen → Osaka
$855
−20% vs typical
seasonal median $1,065 · difference $210
Sep 5 – Sep 11 · 6 nights
Vietnam Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $958–$1,066
- Board rank
- Stronger than 55%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefKIXOsakaJapan with the volume up — street food, blunt humour, and Kyoto and Nara both under an hour by train.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsKansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)All routes into OsakaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Sep is the cheapest for CPH → KIX. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in September around $855 and peak in December near $1,206 — a $351 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 17 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Vietnam Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $855 for 8,621 km each way, that works out to about $50 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 26 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Osaka, this fare ranks 14th — 1.7× the $498 we hold from San Francisco. For context, the middle fare among the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of Copenhagen is $778.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 17% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $951 then versus $1,109 now, across 3 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 $593, on Nov 30.
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 Sep · around $855
20% below the $1,065 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Copenhagen → Osaka · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Kastrup (CPH) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ~17 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,621 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,065 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Vietnam Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
CPH → KIX, answered.
Is $855 a good price for Copenhagen to Osaka?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,065 round-trip. At $855 you're 20% below that, saving about $210, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Copenhagen to Osaka?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Osaka are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book CPH → Osaka?
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, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Copenhagen to Osaka?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Vietnam 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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